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We had the fiercest artists around today at Peninsula Art Academy!

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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Hello There:

I'm enjoying a cool and slightly misty morning. Because it will be short-lived, as it will be in the 90's by early afternoon, I savor every moment of relief from the desert heat. A stroll through my garden is always an uplifting way to start my day.

Over the weekend, we were blessed with the flavor of our first home-grown Nectarines~



We planted several fruit trees in our yard last Spring and the Nectarine tree was full of gorgeous pink blossoms at the time:



It's an exciting moment when you pick your first ripe piece of fruit from a tree that you planted yourself. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not as though we had over-flowing baskets of glistening goodness. I think we actually had about 15 Nectarines altogether. BUT....the last few on the tree, the few that still needed a day or two until they reached their peak, were discovered by a feathered visitor:



And...this is the culprit:



A gorgeous male Oriole. He has a mate and a couple of youngsters. They nested on my neighbors hill and came to our yard for food. I gladly put up an Oriole feeder and they happily accepted, but as soon as they discovered the ripe fruit, they quickly came to the conclusion that the fruit was the more delicious choice!! I'm okay with that. We picked and ate the best of the bunch and the Orioles staked their claim on the rest. They have entertained us each evening for several months, and we are always delighted to see the flash of orange feathers twittering about in our back yard garden. They have earned their keep and I am more than happy to share my bounty with them.

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I'm sure you know by now that I like birds. I like birds of all types and I often use them in my collages. Yesterday, I listed 2 collage prints in My Etsy Shop. Here's one of them:

"Riding The Crow" ACEO Collage Print



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Also...for anyone who may be interested in electronics ~ such as digital cameras, here's a link to our internet mall with today's special offer at allaroundthemall.blogspot.com

Until Tomorrow:
Kim
Garden Painter Art