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The holidays can be very stressful in the '70s or '80s or whatever.

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Work in progress. #collage #makesomething #yearofthespark

First layers. #collage. #makesomething

If you’re looking for picture books exploring friendships of massive proportions, then these two latest delights are for you. Perfect for melting any sized heart!  Blue Whale Blues, Peter Carnavas (author, illus.), New Frontier Publishing, 2015.   On first glance, I noticed something different about Peter Carnavas‘ most recent creation compared to his previous works. […]

These adorable muddy pig paintings were created by preschool art masters!

We learned all about pigs and then created these ‘muddy’ collage paintings. They turned out SO cute!

Muddy Pig by Elizabeth, age 4

Pig by Margaret, age 3

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Happy Illustration Friday, fellow creators!

We’re ready to announce this week’s topic, but first please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Jessica Roux, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of NATURE (you can get a print here). Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!

You can see a gallery of ALL the entries here.

And of course, you can now participate in this week’s topic:

GROW

Here’s how:

Step 1: Illustrate your interpretation of the current week’s topic (always viewable on the homepage).

Step 2: Post your image onto your blog / flickr / facebook, etc.

Step 3: Come back to Illustration Friday and submit your illustration (see big “Submit your illustration” button on the homepage).

Step 4: Your illustration will then be added to the public Gallery where it will be viewable along with everyone else’s from the IF community!

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HAPPY ILLUSTRATING!

In class this week we created bakery art, learned about the profession of Baker and the yummy creations they make. Our Scribble Kids created collage portraits of Bakers holding their wares.

First we learned all about proportion and how to correctly place features when drawing the face. The students were to place their eyes half-way down the face, with the eyebrows slightly above them. It’s amazing what placement can do to make things look more realistic! We also added a ‘connecting shape’ to our circle faces to create the jaw.

Then we added chef hats and bodies for our characters. The kids had great fun creating textured eyebrows. I was surprised there were no mustaches in this class.

After gluing the head and shoulders down on 12×18″ paper, we added arms to the characters. Then there was a hand drawing demo that was challenging for some children, but they will get it with practice! Finally we added plates with hand drawn delicious baked goods.

Here are our final artworks!

Baker by Sophie, age 7

Baker by Connor, age 6

Baker by Lexi, age 5

Baker by Owen, age 9

Baker by Ruby, age 8

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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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Submitted by Sabine Remy for the Illustration Friday topic TREASURE.

Kids art India class

We learned about the history, culture and art of India today and had a lot of fun!

Our main project today was recreating the ‘painted elephant festival’ of Jaipur, India. Here are some cool examples of painted elephants from the festival:

We created 3-dimensional paper sculptures with collage elements and decorated them with colored pencil ‘paint.’

Here are some of our final creations:

Elephant by Katie, age 7

Katie with her elephant

Elephant 1

Elephant 2

Elephant 3

Elephant by Sean, age 5

We also enjoyed a traditional Indian snack recipe, with mixed reviews! (It used a lot of spices the children were not familiar with, plus it was vegetables). I did not include the tofu or the peanuts in our recipe.

Corn Chaat

Corn, tofu, onion, tomato, carrot, coriander, lemon juice, salt, pepper

Prep time

5 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

15 mins

A quick salad snack made with corn, indian cottage cheese and raw veggies

Author: Swasthi

Recipe type: Snack

Cuisine: Indian

Yield: 2

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

·         1 cup of corn kernels (boiled)

·         10 paneer or tofu cubes

·         ½ small onion finely chopped

·         ½ small tomato finely chopped

·         ½ carrot grated

·         1 green chili (optional, skip for kids)

·         Few coriander leaves / cilantro chopped

·         Chat masala powder as needed

·         Amchur if needed (your chat masala will already have amchur, so add only if needed) or lemon juice

·         Salt as needed

·         Pepper powder if needed

Instructions

1.   Wash corn under running water. If using corn on the cob, soak them in salted water for sometime. Any pesticide residue will just get rinsed well. Boil the corn cobs or corn kernels in a large bowl filled with water. If using cobs, remove the kernels after boiling. Drain water completely. If you are using tender corn, you can alternately steam the corn to retain nutrients.

2.   Cut paneer to small chunks. Tawa fry paneer in just one tsp ghee.

3.   Add all the ingredients and toss well and serve corn chaat immediately while hot. If desired you can top it with crunchy roasted peanuts.

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Amazing ohio kids art – folk art chickens!

Oh how I’ve looked forward to this class.. I am very easily amused and I think chickens are one of the weirdest, coolest animals. Did you know chickens are related to dinosaurs?! True story. For proof, click here. 

I think they look alike, don’t you?

In class today we learned about folk art and viewed some farm related examples of North American folk art, including sculpture and quilts. We sketched chickens in 3 different ways:

Anime chicken by Thatcher. WOW.

Then we chose our favorite chicken sketch and drew the design on large construction paper. We used oil pastels and baby oil to blend bright colors together.

Finally, we collage-d paper squares around our chickens to create a final folk art ‘quilt.’ Here are our final images!

Chicken Quilt by Maura, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Rowin, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Ingrid, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Dexter, age 10

Chicken Quilt by Thatcher, age 7

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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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Alexis Anne Mackenzie is a collage artist, who was born in Michigan and is now based in San-Francisco.  Her work has appeared in many publications including: Zeit Magazin, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The New York Times.  Alexis Anne Mackenzie’s work has been exhibited internationally including shows in L.A and Poland.  I’m personally a big fan of collage artists/ illustrators and I think these images have a really original and quirky feel to them, which are very inspiring.

To find out more visit her Facebook and website.

posted by Jessica Holden

Natsko Seki collages lively, saturated scenes of urban life from her own drawings and photographs. Begging to be explored, each illustration is populated with human activity and contains clues left by a moment in time that—if only yesterday—is now lost. Iconic architecture stands as a grandiose reminder that Seki’s people are living in the shadows of history and are unknowing participants in the writing of their city’s centuries. Seki’s interest in architecture, fashion, and contemporary urban life has landed her commissions with Transport for London, Royal Historic Palaces, The Guardian, Bloomsbury, and Hermès. In 2013, Louis Vuitton published a book of Seki’s London illustrations as part of their travel books collection. Seki grew up in Tokyo and studied illustration in Brighton, UK. She now lives in London.

A look into Natsko Seki’s process | Online Portfolio

 Brainstorming included:

• Bookmarks.
• Writing my name and contact info on the back and then using them for business cards.
• Turning them into price tags for when I do make some real jewelry and am ready to sell it.
• Same for my other artistic endeavors: pottery, wall art, etc.
• Gift tags for birthday or other presents.
• Mini-collages for an art journal.
• Add-ons to larger collage pieces.

So even though I missed the hop (wah) I certainly was inspired by MiShel Designs. Thank you, Shel—looking forward to your next post. Everybody hop on over there ASAP! 

Tip of the Day: Life doesn’t always go as planned, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on the essence of your original intention. For me, I truly wanted to participate in my first blog hop, and I was disappointed not to get there. On the other hand, by playing along as best I could, I got some new ideas for future projects while taking a much-needed break. A real pearl in the oyster, if you ask me!