February 29, 2012

Life-size body art! - tissue paper collage with kids

This was a kid request for our art class project. I love this clean, body art concept! The kids get to experiment with their cutting, glueing, & tracing skills (oh, and "stay still" skill). 

All you need is:
A Body
A Large Paper
A Tracing Device 
Colorful Tissue Paper
Glue
Scissors

(ages 3 -6 years old)


Positioning bodies... tracing body outlines...


...cutting, glueing, collaging...





...and here are our brightly colored bodies!









February 23, 2012

Color and Shape - Acrylic Paint - Winter Art Class

(6 years old)
 (3 years old)

(6 years old)

Oranges, key limes, bananas and tomatoes for shape and color composition and recognition. 

Acrylic paint + black paper = 
bright colors!

February 21, 2012

Picasso Head - oil pastels -Winter Art Class

For little kid art class, we created our own silly distorted 
Picasso Heads
with oil pastels on white paper!

These are collaborative drawings, each child took turns drawing a feature with a different colors for each drawing.

(Ages 3 - 6 years)







Hilariously curious and scary!


Make your own Picasso Head online here



February 17, 2012

TEASER... Presidents' Day kid art project

I know, I know, it's not very difficult to guess who this is...

Here are pieces of the 1st grader art project. 


So far so good... Hopefully in a week, we can put it all together!

February 10, 2012

ArtPalooza week- day 5 - Simple Batiking {tutorial} - on canvas


I wanted to create artwork to hang in my kids' brightly-colored bathroom...

Once again, I used Elmer's Clear Glue and acrylic paint (technique adapted from the pinkandgreenmama) instead of the traditional batik mediums, with dye and wax (although I would love to learn how!)
(this image is not for sale)
I adapted the image from the amazing janefosterblog.blogspot.com  

Batik on Canvas Tutorial:
Please visit my Simple Batiking-Shirt Design Tutorial for kids & more details.





 Items Needed:
  • Elmer's Clear Glue
  • canvas or desired material
  • acrylic paint 
  • paint brushes
  • pencil
  • cardboard

Simple Instructions:
  • Draw your design with pencil on the canvas.
  • Then outline your design with glue. (Unlike the cotton t-shirt fabric, the glue will not naturally soak through the thick canvas. I had to penetrate the glue into the fabric so that it didn't bubble on top the surface.)
  • Let dry overnight.
                                      
 Paint over the glue with cardboard behind canvas...
 Let the paint thoroughly dry overnight...
 In the sink, soak in warm water for at least 30+ minutes, gently rub away the glue.

Completely dry and ready to hang! 
This can be adapted for any age! Super easy and fun.

Ideas for display: 
  • Make into a pillow cover.
  • Sew onto a shirt.
  • Sew onto the front of a bag.
  • Stretch onto a wood frame, around the edges, and staple canvas to the back.
  • Sew to the inside of a shadow box frame.
  • Paint a sturdy wood board and and adhere with Mod Podge.
  • Tack artwork onto the wall.
Okay, seriously, I'm out of ideas! I had so much fun creating this, I hope you try your own "simple batik" project also! 
So many possibilities!




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February 09, 2012

ArtPalooza week- day 4 - Simple Batiking {tutorial} - shirt design

Instead of using the traditional batiking mediums with wax and dye, we are using acrylic paint & glue- super easy, little mess! I adapted this project from pinkandgreenmama.

Here's another fun art project that my amazing art student "K" (14 yrs) painted on a T-shirt. 
Visit my Simple Batiking {tutorial}- On Canvas post for more artwork.

She likes birdies(understatement)!

Simple Batik on shirts {Tutorial}:

      Items Needed:
  • Elmer's Clear Glue
  • shirt or desired material
  • acrylic or t-shirt paint 
  • paint brushes
  • pencil
  • cardboard
  • wide tape


  •  Tape the front of your shirt to a large piece of cardboard so the paint doesn't bleed through to the other side-  helps to stay in one place when you're drawing on it.
  • Draw with pencil your design and then outline with the clear glue (cotton will soak in the glue).
  • Let dry overnight.



  •  Paint on top of the glue, if you don't want to miss any areas- it will wash away later. The pencil will wash off also.


  •  Take the shirt off of the cardboard and soak with warm water in the sink for 30+ minutes. Gently rub away the glue. 

Vuala... Hi Birdie!  
.......................................................................................................................

Another BIRDIE SHIRT...
 pencil & glue...
 dry time...
 amazing design & colors...
 soak in water...
Beautiful shirt!
Super easy and looks amazing.

Make your own!



February 08, 2012

Heart You! (heart garland)

 So, I'll be honest, I'm not really into hearts... just love. But once a year we make decorations with hearts. We even make and eat heart cookies, I know, it should be year-round, right? Nope (red & pink-not my colors when used together)

I gave our 6 year-old son red/pink paper, glue and scissors and said, 
"make something hearty to hang up"

And he did... I love what he created-heart garland-and hung it above the door.




LOVE


February 02, 2012

ArtPalooza week- day 3 - TREE BRANCH & BIRD Hanging Mobile (Tutorial)

The Sparkly-Funky Hanging Bird Mobile
by "K"


This is one of my favorite projects that my fun young art student K. (14 years old) has created. We start with initial project ideas, and then she just explodes with additional creative ideas...


Tutorial : Here is how she did it...



Making the birds (squawk!) :
  • water color
  • water color paper
  • pencil (for drawing birds/objects)
  • felt tip pen (outlining)
  • glitter paper (adhere to make double sided shapes for birds)
  • 527 glue (adhere glitter paper together & birds onto glitter paper)
  • X-Acto knife (cut out birds and glue onto glitter paper to silhouette)
  • (optional) clear adhesive/contact paper (protect bird drawings)


Making the twisty wire branch thingy : 
  • wire
  • pliers (to help with twisting)
  • (optional) spray paint (silver, gold, black, brown-sometimes the wire isn't that pretty)
  • green glitter paper (for leaves)
  • scissors
  • 527 glue
  • string/thread (attaching birds to branch & branch to ceiling)
  • thumb tacks (hang from ceiling)

Start by forming your base length and thickness of desired branch and then twist around it and create loops and get creative! 

(Sorry, I don't know the thickness of the wire, it was extra I had from another project. Any sturdy wire will work. You can see from the photos how thick ours is.) 



K. is adhering the glitter paper leaves to wire with 527 glue 
(hot glue just doesn't cut it)

Add string for hanging!

  


hanging with tacks...





Meet the BIRDS!...












Isn't she amazing? Love the birds!