Interested in Art and Craft classes with Ms. Michelle this Fall?

Fall Classes anyone? 
    No classes in August, but I'm thinking about holding one 2 hour class for ages 4-8 starting the end of September on Saturdays! Fall is my favorite season and I love to share Fall Themed projects with my students!! 
Let me know so I can contact you in September after the kiddos have settled into their new routine! 
Here are some pics from summer classes the last couple of weeks! Weeks one - two............

OCEAN WEEK- Monday and Tuesday

MONDAY- 3-D FISH

 After discussing how pastel and water paint work together in a process called WAX RESIST, we looked at a couple of fish from the GREAT CORAL REEF to see what designs and colors they are. 

To our surprise, the DIFFERENT shapes, colors, and designs are endless!   

 While the 3-D FISH dried outside, we also used the same information about the Coral Reef and decided to place a small Coral Reef into a FISH BOWL. We colored the small stuff with pastel SOLIDLY, and left the rest to be painted in using Tempera Water Paint. We were so busy that I didn't get the change to take any photos of the completed 3-D FISH!!! 




TUESDAY-FABULOUS FISH  


    With some help from Ms. Michelle, everyone outlined the basic shapes of an oval body, triangle tale and fins, and can't forget the "fishy kissy lips!!  Next, they painted in their fish remembering to "dip and wipe" the bristles so there would be no unwanted drips!  

 

 "SKINNY BRUSH outlines and BIG ONE fills in"! 

 Wow that paint sure dries fast in the blazing hot sun!! 
Next, GADGETs were dipped into paint and printed onto the solid painted fish body in a Fabulous Fish design.  

 OMG! Smurfs? Time to wash up! 

THURSDAY- continued FABULOUS FISH and NEON FISH SCULPTURE

Returning friends from Tuesday will finish designing their Fabulous Fish and create a Neon Clay Sculpture!!!  

Thursday only friends will create a Neon Clay Sculpture!! 

FRIDAY- DEEP WATER NEON FISH DRAWING AND PAINTING 

Animal Week continues....Friday July 13th, 2012

Using only the Primary Colors we used paint brushes to apply watercolor paint very gently to the pre-watered surface. The effect is like fireworks as the paint and water mix. Also, the Primary colors mix together wonderfully! 

 While the watercolor experiment dried in the sun we worked in 3-D to form animals using MODEL MAGIC CLAY.


We practiced some 3-D forms first, ball, coil. etc. 

 Jimmy's awesome penguin!!! 

 Tommy's favorite animal the chameleon using his favorite color GREEN!!!  

During a well needed snack I read A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni. 
Finally, Ms. Michelle drew a chameleon on the back of our watercolor paper and we cut them out with a little bit of help. Next, the chameleons and glued  to a black piece of paper to make the color pop!!!

 Another wonderful piece of artwork by all:

                           Pretty Chameleon Sarah!! 

Thursday July 12th, 2012

As a continuation from ANIMAL WEEK everyone got the taste of Abstract Spanish artist Joan Miro.

We looked at Ladders Across the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire. 

First students viewed and discussed the artwork

 painting done by Miro. Using pencil drawn  

Basic Shapes, along with 

imaginary ideas, an animal of their own was created. 

Next, pastel was used to color in only the smaller shapes

 and leaving the large shapes to be filled in with tempera

 water paints.  This process is called Wax Resist! The 

wax in the pastel and the water added to the Tempera 

Cakes resist one another. I tell the kids that the water 

and the pastel "don't like one another".   

Sean creating a Miro style animal using pastels. 

Matthew uses one of his favorite animals a whale and adds on colorful stripes. 

William draws rectangles for his cat's lets using pastel.

Alex is filling in the shapes of her bird like animal with pastel.  


Time to show off:

                                   

                 Love those big and small shapes Alex! 

                             

                              Cool whale Matthew! 

                          Wonderful Kitty William! 

And the love of nature continues as Matthew shapes his rock and dirt sculpture?  

 After class Sean finally shows off his project.  Love your flying bird like animal Sean! 

Art Classes by Ms. Michelle - Week #3 ( July 16th,17th,19th,20th)

Students will venture into the Ocean to create many pieces of artwork including the Paintings below: 

 Ages 4-8 (Afternoon Class)

Ages 8-12 (Morning Class) 

Students at this age will be using following the Ocean Theme at first to create a painting over the 2 1/2 hours class. 

My goal is to go over basic drawing skills and painting skills at first and work with the students to see where their interests are for the remaining part of the week.