Frame Foto

My yearbook staffers wanted to do a photo with a frame, so this is what we came up with.  I have two boys, so they held the frame and the girls posed in the background.  Notice the tape sculpture foot dangling in the picture almost kicking Niki in the head.  Nice.

November

 Got this art project from deepspacesparkle.com, printed leaves with white tempera paint on black paper and then sponged fall colored paint around the leaves.  These look beautiful and display very well.

 Kinders learn about Paul Cezanne and his still life pictures and create this still life with apple, pear and an orange.  We highlight the fruit with chalk and add shadows with charcoal.

 Black glue and oil pastel leaves.  Kids have fun rubbing in the oil pastels.

Preppy Kinders are working on lines, pattern and shapes.  Happy November.

October, almost November

 Been learning a little more about the Mona Lisa.  Do you know that she came to the U.S. in 1963 for three months?  This is the only time the Mona Lisa has been on our soil.  The French Minister of Cultural Affairs accompanied her and she was displayed in the White House guarded around the clock by U.S. Marines, and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  After she visited the U.S., she went to Japan for a special exhibit and then back to the Louvre where she was encased in a special bulletproof glass case that was a gift from Japan for the loan of the painting. 

 In other news.  I have been recycling, and making bookmarks to give away for great behavior in art class.  The kids love them. 

A project from summer art camp.  draw several shapes on a large piece of colored construction paper.  paint those shapes using bright colors.  add lines and patterns inside and outside of the shapes with black and white paint.  Keep going until u have filled up the space. 

September

 Been busy in September, made carmel apples with Emma's friends, yumm! 

 Put this tree up in my classroom.  Saw a cute one on Pinterest, and had to have one of my own. 

 We had a monkey visit the artroom so we went over the rules for monkeys in art class, by the way, the rules apply for students too....FYI

 Started these farm landscapes using a little bit of perspective, and my tractor is a John Deer.

 More monkeys, for the older kids, they practiced symmetry.

and, from last year, I put up their portraits again, so they can see how they have grown over the summer....

Food Art

Ymmm! English Muffin Pizza

Fall

With the start of school comes the fall season and fall decor, which I love almost as much as Christmas. Got the Fall decor boxes down from the rafters, and enjoyed putting them up, especially in the entry way.

Some metal decorations, the ghost is a candle....Made this room freshener into a formaldehyde poison bottle....Got the crows out and added them here and there around the house. My mom gave me this pumpkin a couple of years ago, I love the white with the black writing, give thanks....

Been keeping my eye out for lanterns lately. I think they are really cool and good to have incase of a black out......

These are some of my favorite decorations. The cat is missing a wisker, but he's still cute and the candle is one of those battery operated ones.

and.... a put together a cone for a door hanger, with a crow of course.

Got this off another blog, I can't remember where, but I loved it of course, cuz it's so true. Had a rough week a couple of weeks ago and then transitioning from being off to having to go to work and meetings and such, gave me a bad attitude. Then school started Weds. and I got to be creative once again with my students, who I missed over the summer. And, art made everything awesome. I'm in the creative groove again. Brainstorming some ideas about art lessons and projects for M.C. Escher. Anyone have any great ideas out there?