FOIL FIGURE SCULPTURE

We can  begin with a few live gesture drawings, about 30 seconds each, to warm up and get posing ideas, then we create the sculptures using about a foot of aluminum foil. I also run through some famous figural sculptures by Giacometti, Degas, and Henry Moore on the whiteboard projector to get in the sculpting spirit! and some important sculptures by our famous artist in Vigo Francisco Leiro

Start the scrunching slowly, to keep from tearing the foil, and then once it's starting to take shape, you can refine te pose. If a limb gets torn off, it is easily repaired at the end with the hot glue gun. 

Next, we trace the figure on the mat board base and shade it in. I attach them myself with a spot of hot glue.

Let´s have a look to the hand out on Teachers Pay Teachers to try it out

STILL LIFE

 A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

Still life with parrot and fruit by Frida Kahlo

Still life with  coconuts and melons by Frida Kahlo

Viva la vida by Frida Kahlo

Still life with watermelons by Frida Kahlo 

WINTER BIRCH TREES PROJECT

This birch tree art project uses tape to block off the tree shapes, and watercolor paint and salt to make the textured midnight sky.

MATERIALS

• Watercolor paper
• Painter’s tape
• Scissors
• Liquid watercolor paint
• Salt
• Acrylic paint, white

STEPS

1.-Tape a border and trees.  

 

 2.-Paint a blue wash and sprinkle salt. Let dry.

 

3.-Carefully remove tape.

 

 4.-Paint blue stripes, shadows. Add white snow.

 

That's all. Now it's your turn.

 

 

 

LEARN TO COLOR LIKE VAN GOGH

 

We are trying  this Van Gogh for kids Art Project by imitating his “Wheat Field with Crows” painting with some soft crayons. 

Van Gogh was famous for painting in a really super thick manner, which gave him lots of texture. 

You can get a similar look just by making a ”sketchy“ drawing with soft crayons.

This project is a simplification of Van Gogh’s original composition, but it uses a similar palette. He was a master of color, and you can’t go wrong by following his choices.

MATERIALS

• Van Gogh Wheatfield PDF Tutorial
• Drawing paper
• Soft crayons

DIRECTIONS

1. Draw the horizon line, road, moon in pencil.

2. Color with yellow, brown and blue crayons.

3. Draw squiggly grass lines with an orange crayon.

4. Draw sketchy road lines with a rust crayon.

5. Add darker blue crayon to sky. Circle moon with white.

6. Add a few more grass lines with a darker orange crayon.

7. Use black crayons to draw large and small flying crows.

WINTER TIME

 

You start to make  the background on your block. 

Then you  add snowflakes and swirls and dots with a white crayon and then paint with blue watercolor. 

 

Then you use oil pastels to draw a circle inside each of your snow balls. 

You use our fingers to smudge around the edges to give it a more 3d quality. 

 

Next, you cut your circles out and glue the biggest to the background.

 

 

You finish adding the details of the carrot nose, stick arms, and the scarf! Can’t wait to see all the personalities emerge!

 

 

ZENTANGLE AUTUMN LEAF

First, it’s helpful to familiarize yourself with all of the elements of art, that's why let's read this poem by M.C. Gillis

The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create be images beautiful drawing structured patterns.

Explore this video  to learn more about the benefits and beauty of the Zentangle Method and our nourishing world-wide Zentangle community.

 

So how do you get started? First, practice different line designs on a plain white paper. We folded the paper into some sections to introduce zigzags, stripes, dots, wave, spirals... After practicing the designs, I let students create some of their own patterns and designs. 

 

And now it's time to create your own Zentangle Autumn Leaf.

Click on this link to download a leaf pdf

https://www.woojr.com/leaf-template-printables/maple-leaf-shape/

BEHIND MY MASK, A SUPER KID SELF-PORTRAIT !

 I always seem to start out school year with a selfie so I was bummed when I thought of the idea of my students drawing themselves with their best facial feature hidden. 

And that's where the idea of this surprise drawing came from. Here's a video by Cassie Stephens 

You simply are going to use  paper, permanent marker, coloring markers and crayons

 

 THese can  be the results

Thanks to https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com

 

for this great idea!!!