I am so excited to reveal my new illustration for this year's Christmas card.
12.22.2010
11.30.2010
New Print
11.13.2010
Bed Canopy
Giving my now-4-year-old's room a makeover into a Tinkerbell room, I made one of those bed canopy things.
From top to bottom, the things sewn onto a wire coat hanger circle are: an old tutu, a dress-up skirt, an old sheer dance costume, and longer pieces of new tulle fabric. I came across Tinkerbell ribbon, and I already had the embellishing flowers.
9.14.2010
9.13.2010
Art Camp for Kids 4 (tissue collage)
The last project we did in my week of teaching art camp was based on Eric Carle's work:
Carle works with tissue paper; he paints strokes on it. So to begin, we played with tissue paper, creating third colors by overlapping two. (below)
Then the kids planned to make either of my examples--a caterpillar or a ladybug. (or bee, butterfly or firefly)
After drawing their bug with pencil, they painted what colors they needed, painted onto tissue paper:
The next day they cut the pieces from the painted tissue papers that were now dry. And they assembled their bugs!:
In this particular Carle book (below), he has a lot of lettering as well, which is what inspired the letter cut-outs and stories that we added.
One of the best parts of the week is the reception for parents on the last day! Here is one picture of all their projects displayed!
Thank you so much for visiting! Continued in next posts!
Art Camp for Kids 3 (fingerprint art)
Another project in my week of teaching Art Camp was based on this book above by Ed Emberley. We made our fingerprints and thumbprints into drawings, using stamp pad ink. After practicing dragons and lions, (below),
we then made people with our fingerprints, (like this from the book)--
I had the kids make the fingerprint people be themselves, doing a hobby they like. Then they pasted their fingerprint self onto a chosen setting photo:
Art Camp for Kids 2 (found object collage)
At my week teaching art camp we also made collage from found objects!
Two artists we looked at together were: G. Brian Karas (below),
8.03.2010
Art Camp for kids 1 (stenciling)
Above is one picture of all their projects displayed at the end of one week!
Below you can see some things we did together. I had come up with some great projects! The first of which was inspired by this book: Swimmy by Leo Lionni...
In Swimmy, Lionni made schools of fish by repetition of stamps, as below.
7.09.2010
good ol' paint
6.28.2010
5.18.2010
Life Cycle in Felt 2
I made another life cycle set with felt. I already had made a frog, which is a puppet... The first portion of the cycle, the frog eggs, are a bundle of beads on felt leaves. Then tadpole, then tadpole with back legs, young frog with tail stump, then adult.
(view my butterfly life cycle here)
5.05.2010
4.14.2010
Life Cycle in Felt
4.08.2010
First Felt-ustration: Farm
Hallway Pattern
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