8.03.2010

Art Camp for kids 1 (stenciling)

This summer I have taught a couple weeks of kids' Art Camp at the Art Center.
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.
So the kids made their own repetitions by stenciling, either "fish in the sea," or "birds in a tree." Here are some of the kids' masterpieces! Continued in the above posts! Thanks so much for visiting!

7.09.2010

good ol' paint

It was so nice to see you again, Messy Paint Palette!
I spent some time working with real paint! (I have been working entirely with pencil and computer for a while).
I made some textures on tissue paper, and more, for I am about to teach 6-8 year-olds at the Art Center... (more on that to come...)

6.28.2010

You might be a budding artist if you...

You might be a budding artist if you play with your food. This was fun. Yes I did it, not my child. :)

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

Song bird Tshirts

Made a t-shirt for a little buddy of mine who is a song bird.
one of my daughters wanted one and I had her color it herself. a fun project!

4.14.2010

Life Cycle in Felt

Made a life cycle set: the egg on a leaf, the caterpillar (using my centipede), the chrysalis, and the butterfly!
(view my frog life cycle here)

4.08.2010

First Felt-ustration: Farm

I've always wanted to make an illustration using felt. I completed one for my nephew's nursery! His room has a John Deere Baby theme.
It was fun!

Hallway Pattern

I've planned on making this pattern on my hallway walls and finally did it!
A couple years ago I scoured Lowes for stencils and/or stamps that I had in mind and these were the only two I liked. Didn't know how I would end up using one or both. Figured out that they nested into each other a bit.
Viola! Ambitious is a better word than crazy. (finally got baseboard too, yippee!)

Felt Critters continued

made some more: a chipmunk, requested to go with the squirrel :)
and chicks for the girls' Easter baskets (those are dangly thread legs haha)

2.27.2010

Felt Critters

I've gotten on a felt kick.
Here's some critters I've been making to satisfy my creative bone!
(Yes, it has one hundred legs.) See my daughter's related centipede project here