I know spring is not here yet, but the warmer weather certainly has me thinking about spring flowers. We also haven’t done a life drawing project in a while. So, this week we started drawing flowers from life and painted colorful papers. Next week, we will add pieces of the painted paper to create a […]
For the last two weeks, my 3rd-5th grade classes worked on oil pastel birds. My inspiration for this project came from an acrylic painting class I took from Alison O’Donoghue. Alison’s technique involves many layers of acrylic paint on a wood panel and hours of work, which doesn’t work for this age group. However, I […]
This week I read Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (by Carol Diggory Shields, illustrated by Scott Nash) to the K-2nd grade group. It’s a fun, rhyming book about dinosaurs having a party. The bright illustrations of dancing dinosaurs provided our inspiration. We drew our dinosaurs with crayons and painted them with liquid watercolor. We […]
Today is President Lincoln’s birthday. So this week we have been creating Lincoln inspired projects. We began by reading Abe Lincoln’s Dream by Lane Smith. In this story, a little girl leads Abe Lincoln’s ghost on a tour, showing him how things have changed since he was alive. Along the way, they share a few […]
We had a crazy, busy week making Gelli plate prints. Gelli plates make it possible to make mono prints without a press. It is a lot of fun and can produce some very sophisticated results. The hardest part is understanding how the layers work. You have to think ahead because you are blocking out colors […]
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