Congratulations to 3 Little Scribblers this week at our doughnut art class. They used our ages 3+ training scissors for the first time, cut out circles (a challenge for newbies) and frosted them with purple homemade puffy paint and sprinkles. Nice work, girls!
Little Scribbler Doughnut
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By: Elizabeth Varadan,
on 5/1/2015
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| This is Maddy (to your right). She was the perfect Imogene! |
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| And this is her father, Steve Johnson, who made the trailer |
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| Friends and neighbors |
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| Fellow teachers and writers \ |
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| JaNay and Rosi, fellow writers. JaNay wrote the fantastic PB, Imani's Moon. Between them, Julie, with whom I used to teach. Next to Rosi, Bob, from a former group. In front, one of my art students, Miranda. |
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| Nancy, David, & Naomi were in a former writing group. Nancy is in one of my current groups. She wrote All We Left Behind, which I'm reviewing next week. Naomi's book, Landfalls, is coming out in August. |
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| Then there were my super cool teacher friends from Elder Creek, where I used to teach. |
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| Next to Rosi, another writing group member, Paddy, and her two boys. Super-teacher Julie at the right. |
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| In pink, our fabulous house-sitter, Dana. She's going to have a little boy, soon. Next to her, in maroon, Bethany, a school librarian who's had kind things to say about Imogene. |
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| The Erica (tallest) and Vanessa are wonderful artists in my art class. Sofia is still too young, but I hope she'll join in the future |
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| Even my dentist came! (green shirt). That was so kind of him. And Kari (wearing cap; hubby Bill by her side) organized my school visit to Matsuyama Elementary School, April 17. That was another wonderful event. The kids were super! |
By Marymaking
I got my jungle jaguar inspiration from Mary Making. She created her own jungle jaguar using paper collage and colored pencils. I love the mixed media approach, but we didn’t have time for watercolors to dry today.
I decided to go a step further and teach the kids how to create a foreground, middle and background using collage elements. But first, we created our jaguar close-ups with a guided drawing that explored blending and shading. So proud of how much the kids absorbed!
Maura’s jaguar drawing
Next the kids cut out their jaguars, and I gave them big construction paper to create their ‘background’ rain forest.
We used oil pastels and colored pencils to draw our jungle scene. Then we added the ‘middle ground’ or the middle of our scene, by collaging paper leaves and water. Finally we added the ‘foreground’ of our pictures, and glued our super-big jaguars and leaves in front.
The kids used their imaginations with the rain forest scenery, but we also had reference images for inspiration!
Dexter’s jungle jaguars are fighting!
By Thatcher, age 7
By Maura, age 6
By Dexter, age 10
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By: Elizabeth Varadan,
on 4/14/2015
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| Danielle, Edgar & their father |
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| Claire (center), mother & grandm. |
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| Karla with sib & friend |
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| Yaritza (right, w. mother & sibs. |
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| Antonio (2nd fr. left) w. parents & sibs. |
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| Kailee (right), mother & sis |
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| Maya (in red), Ella ( in pink), parents |
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| Brennan and mother |
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| Angeline (center), parents, sibs, and grandmother |
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| Savannah (center), mother (right), and Emily (left) |
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| Miranda and mother |
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| Madison (2nd from left) and mother (next to her), grandmother & sib. |
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| Kiley and mother |
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| Ian (left), sis, and father. (Older sis, Kate, artist, was absent) |
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| Erica (in red), Vanessa (in front of her), mother (right) grandmother (left) and youngest sister. |
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| Kiley (left), Emma, (middle), and Madison (right) |
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| Alyssa and father |
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| Reina (right) sisters and mother |
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| And that's it -- for another year. |
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| I hope you enjoyed meeting them and seeing their work. |
By: admin,
on 2/8/2010
I’ve been having a lot of fun with these mini canvases lately. Here’s one I did with my class at Jerry’s Artarama. These things are great.
Our theme for the last class was Under the Sea (I thought it would be fun to do a snail). We used acrylic paint, sharpie markers, acrylic gel medium, sand and glitter.
It’s a great little project. Super fun and super affordable…and I’m hooked. Here how it works. First we sketch our drawing onto the mini-canvas (the one shown here is 4″X5″ and goes for about 3 bucks). The next step is to paint in the image using acrylic paint. Once you’ve finished that it’s time to add some texture.
I added clear gel medium to the bottom of this little canvas. Everywhere where I wanted the to be sand I covered with gel. The trick is to really lay it on thick. Once I had it coated I took some beach sand and sprinkled it over the top of the canvas. Then I shook it over a garbage can. Anywhere there was gel the sand stuck everywhere else it shook off.
My students did the same thing. Some of them used sand, some used glitter, some used both. The gel starts out a translucent white but dries clear so its easy to see what you’re doing. Once everything is dried we outlined our characters using a sharpie permanent marker. They all looked fantastic.
You can really get creative with a project like this. I highly recommend it for kids 5 and up. Just one word of caution. Acrylic paint and sharpie marker does not wash out of clothing so make sure you wear something old or cover up with a smock. Good luck can’t wait to see what you come up with.
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