“Light in August” 1947 In a recent museum class I taught – we explored the world of the gray scale and the work of Willem de Kooning. We looked at several examples of de Kooning's work and identified the values lightest to darkest (the gray...
As a part of our weather unit, we made watercolor pinwheels. Pinwheels are so easy to make and so beautiful to see in the wind. There are several methods of attaching the pinwheel – the method of I am sharing is from my colleague, Mrs. Flynn. It works! What...
This is a project that Kelsey Howard created this summer at art camp. It was amazing and the children loved it. I had to video tape it and share it with you. I wanted to bring a Kandinsky project — little did I know that Kelsey had a deep understanding of his...
It is the fourth day of school tomorrow and I am crazy busy! So I am posting more photos from summer art camp. These turned out so lovely in person. The iphone photos do not do them justice! I had the children draw with sharpies, paint and then sprinkle salt on...
Another cute idea from Ms. Aubree. I wanted to have the children watercolor a small art piece for the front of their sketch pads. In the morning class I had the children make abstract shapes with a sharpie and then watercolor. Not bad – they turned out very...
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