Francisco's Farm UK Art Ed. Activities

Francisco's Farm 2010! Go UK Art Ed. Department! We had a blast making paper hats, lightening bugs and pinwheels!

Fabric Soft Sculptures

I was really impressed with our fabric soft sculptures class! We had sharks, cats, cupcakes, aliens, ugly dolls and more!! Everyone was SO creative and motivated! We did a straight stitch with the seams inside and/or out. We were inspired by Claes Oldenburg and it was Awesome!!

Soft Sculptures

The Art Alive classes went by way too fast at JCPL! We all had such a great time! For the last class we did soft sculptures inspired by Claes Oldenburg. The K-5 class decorated fish stencils on white paper with oil pastels and watercolor, tissue paper and mosaic construction paper designs. We had dolphins, horses, portraits, fishies and LOTS of fun!!

Printmaking K-5

We did printmaking with the K-5 class at JCPL!! I went to Home Depot and got a bunch of for rent and yard sale signs and we used the back of those. We spread washable printing ink with brayers on the back of the signs and then used popsicle sticks to draw our picture. We then pressed paper onto the image and when lifted up....wallah!! The kids had a lot of fun with this and the signs were really easy to wash right off and do another picture!

Coil Pots

4th and 5th graders had a blast making these coil pots and even more fun painting and adding the dots with all kinds of colored glaze! Thank you Q-tips for all your many uses!

Ceramics Snowmen

Kindergarten kids made these little snowmen!! They are SO cute!! Everytime I see these pics I smile!!!

Wassily Kandinsky

We made mini-Kandinsky's with oil pastels and watercolors. I made a power-point of some Kandinsky images and we played "I Spy" where the kids picked out a line and then had to describe it to me and I had to find it. We had a lot of fun with this!

Soft Pastel Landscapes

Such fantastic landscapes and seascapes! We added a pumice glaze to our paper and then we sketched out our landscapes! They all turned out SO amazing! We all had colorful fingers at the end of it! However, it was a nice colorful change from the black and white charcoal hand drawings. We all had a lot of fun!!

Black and White Charcoal Hand Drawings

Each student had the opportunity to direct other students' hand placements and take a picture of it! From their pictures, they drew the hands with black and white charcoal pencils. The students really hated this assignment, but at the end, they were really glad they did it! We started the lesson as a hand sketch journal assignment with different colored pencils for the bones, the muscles and then the shading of the hands on tracing paper, then tried out these methods with the charcoal.

Color Wheels

The high school students really pushed themselves on this one! The flip transfer color wheels turned out amazing! We used watercolor paint on these, but I would suggest acrylic, just so the colors are more vibrant.