Week Four

5 Proportion drawings

Practicing Picasso's heads using two different approaches - Meet Berta and Serge!

The final product - "Serge"
made with black marker and pastels

This was my favourite class - it was easy to get into the "zone" and colour with the pastels.  The class flew by.  I still have this art piece hung up in my room and probably will for years to come!

Week Three

cover page

Scribble Game
Red marker was initial scribble - purple marker to finish making an "acrobat doing a sommersault"

Scribble Drawing

Negative Space Drawing

Shape Drawing

Texture Drawing

Contour Drawing (attempted to not lift marker)

BLIND Contour Drawing based on toy dog (very difficult!)

I ended up making this art piece for our class dog, Mia.  I was having a "puppy sleepover" that night (Jess had to work), so I turned this into a book for her and actually read it before bedtime.  (She didn't do a good listening job).  It was a fun activity, especially trying to do the blind one!  I can see kids liking this one :)

Week Two

Line Painting
Made with only three paint colours - red, blue, green - and mixing in white

I like the details of this one in particular!

This was another one of my favourite activities but it didn't start out that way.  I didn't like the art we were given to imitate.  I didn't find our form of art very inspirational and I wasn't sure what kind of lines I could pick out from it.  But somehow, the creativity juices still flowed and I fell in love with the finished product (which is why I used it for the banner on my blog!)

Week One

How's Your Heart Today?
made with chalk

This is an activity I would definitely use in the classroom, no matter what age group.  It's very therapeutic and relaxing.  The reflection part also helped me to get my thoughts onto paper.