Art For All

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Pete the Cat and a Sea Turtle (July 10th, 2012)

Today we pretended to design illustrations for a new book inspired by Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School by Eric Litwin, Illustrations by James Dean.
Here is the video we watched during snack:

Camryn drew a cat using basic shapes in pencil. Next, she outlined the cat with a thin brush of any color paint and a thick brush to fill it in!

Alex drew a sea turtle using basic shapes in pencil. Next, she outlined the sea turtle with a thin brush of any color paint and a thick brush to fill it in!

Caitlin and Addison Painted their pre-drawn cats and used a Big brush to paint it in.

While our cats dried, it was time to create the details.....
I asked the girls, "What is it about our cats/sea turtle that makes them "Cool" like Pete? " They said; "Sneakers for sure!"
And a lot of other stuff too!

The Cats and 1 Sea Turtle Deput:

Cameyn with Addison's Cat (How did that happen?)

Addison with Addison's Cat (That's better!)

Alex with her "Sea Turtle"

Caitlin and her Silly Cat

The girls all did a terrific job!! :) Ms. Michelle

First we drew a cat using basic shapes in pencil. Next, we outlined it with a thin brush of any color paint!

Next, we used the thicker brush to fill in the outlines of our cats.

While our cats dried, it was time to create the details.....
I asked them, "What is it about our cats that makes them "Cool" like Pete? " They said; "Sneakers for sure!"
And a lot of other stuff too!

Art Class by Ms. Michelle Week #1 ( July 2nd-6th )

Friday was a complete blast!! All 8 girls, yes girls, including Caitlin who is 4, had a great time! My 7 year old son Sean was there but not has a student he was my helper! He kept our puppy Buddy upstairs and happy.

Starting off the afternoon, each girl painted a moon using warm colors. While the moons dried in the blazing sun, everyone continued on to the night sky filling their paper with moving cool color lines of metallic and regular tempera paint. During snack we listened to Starry Night at Destination Modern Art, a site from the MOMA: http://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/destination.html .

We discussed the calmness of the lines of the town in the Middle ground and the motion of the lines of the sky in the background. Using construction paper, we created parts of our own town. Finally everything was glued together just in time to go home!! Thank you to everyone, I really enjoyed having your children as art students this week!

Sorry I missed taking pictures of G and F as they left!

Here is my Flier for some information:

Friday, July 6, 2012

Art Class by Ms. Michelle (Week #1) July 2nd-6th

Monday we looked at a video of Eric Carle reading his most famous book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Here is the link: http://eric-carle.com/ec_reads_vhc.html

After the video introduction, we looked closely at how Eric Carle creates his own paper for his collage work he uses as the illustrations of his books. Next, students created their own texture and printed paper using layers of paint and gadgets. This was the first day of class so I didn't take a lot of pictures! During snack I read The Lonely Firefly and continued to notice the awesome textures used for different objects such as clothing, fur of animals etc. He also uses uses different types of line to create his
illustration such as in the Fireworks:

Caitlin's Texture Painting and Gadget Print

Tuesday the paper was used to create our own Firefly Collages. Scraps were used to make a "Little Owl Lost" Collage.

Caitlin's Firefly Collage (with help)

Alex's Fourth of July Firefly" Collage

Paper Scraps

Alex's "Little Owl Lost" Collage

Caitlin adding water to her collage?

Thursday during snack time I read, Getting to Know the World's Most Greatest Artists, VAN GOGH, by Mike Venezia, we looked at Starry Night by and discovered Quiet and Loud lines he used in his quick brush strokes of the two main parts of the landscape and sky.

Kids in action: