Heart Art

A Valentine's Day art lesson inspired by Jim Dine, a pop artist.  

    

Water color resist technique: 

 Color hearts on watercolor paper with crayon and then wash with one shade of watercolor paint.  Let dry.  

Then add a few strokes of rubber cement randomly across the page.  

After the rubber cement dries, add a second layer of paint.  The rubber cement prevents the second watercolor from absorbing to the paper.  

Now the first shade of paint shows through as if the paint were peeling or like graffiti on a cement wall.  Very cool.   

Valentine Heart Painting

For detailed instructions on how to do this art project, go to:  

http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2006/06/valentine-heart-painting.html

Holiday Art

I teach art to second and fifth graders once a month at Silverdale Elementary (Audrey's and Sam's school).  Each month I present a print by a famous artist, teach a little about the artist, and then we make an art project mimicking techniques used by that artist. December's projects were particularly fun.  

  

This is Sam's nutcracker in metallic marker and colored pencil on black construction paper.  I gave each of the kids rectangular templates for the torso and head of the nutcracker and then showed them the various shapes to use in drawing a nutcracker.  

The kids were so proud of their work.  I was really impressed with how well they turned out!  

Audrey's class did multi-media collages for Christmas.  I brought in live poinsettias for a model and gave them paint, white/black paper, glitter, glue, and gold wrapping paper.  They created the flower petals using a petal-shaped sponge on white paper.    Both of these ideas came from web sites:  Deep Space Sparkle and Art Projects for Kids.  I highly recommend both of these websites.  

Art Camp

On Monday we turned the deck into an artist workshop for all of the kids to create pirate ships.