Just a little pre-Friday pick me up...

"A Key Suspect"

Wayne Thiebaud Paintings

I was looking through  "Wayne Thiebaud : A Paintings Reprospective" and I found some great paintings. I think he's one of my new favorite painters. 

I love these "farmscapes"

Wayne Thiebaud in his studio

Cityscapes....

Mural Paintin'...

Onto the other side of our mural...

3rd graders painting

Me with some great 4th graders.

Teacher Helpers! 

We finally finished it. I happened to get knocked out by a sinus infection by the end of this project and I'm so glad I have such a great team of teachers who helped finish this! It was a long road...haha....but we finished the mural front and back. Hooray!

Title:  We're on a road to...."somewhere".... (that's for all you Talking Heads fans out there...) 

Earth Day Every Day!

Images and videos for the 2013-2014 Art Truck Poster Contest....


Captain Planet
"A Mission to Save Earth"
41 minutes

"A Hero for Earth"

Short video about Going Green....

Song about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Jack Johnson's Song about the 3 R's:

In progress posters: 

More photos coming soon of finished posters...

Royal Self-Portraits with Kindergarten

Day One: We review shapes and lines. First we draw our crown. I made these crown templates for the kids who want to use them...but they can take the art challenge and draw themselves if they choose. 

Next we walk through the steps of drawing a face one at a time at the demo. I draw on my paper, they watch and then go echo on their paper. It keeps everything in order! 

The look pretty great! Next they outline with black oil pastel and then the next art class we paint with tempera cakes. 

Day Two: Painting our Royal Faces

I briefly discuss skin tones...we dive into skin tones in 1st grade..so this is a just a pre-cursor to that conversation. 

We are using tempera cakes...which are so messy!! But it's the easiest thing to use for all the color choices they need. 

Here is the "GLITTER STATION"...am I crazy? Yes. 

I instruct them to draw some lines with glue on the crown only. Several kids must not have heard me saying a thousand times, CROWN ONLY....because the second I turn around there's glue everywhere! But hey, it's kindergarten....so ya know. 

After they draw their glue lines, I sprinkle on loads of glitter and shake it off onto that black piece of paper that has been folded to create a crease. That crease is important! After you shake it off, you can just funnel the glitter back into the container...

***Thanks to Patty @ deepspacesparkle for this lesson. This is my second year using this fun lesson. Here's the link: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/11/16/royal-kinder-portraits/