ART DAY 2012

ART DAY was held on Aug 4. We had 10 students with ages rangeing from 19 to 6 and we all had a creativly good time. The food kept coming too. No low calorie stuff for Art Day!  Acrylic painting on canvas board. Bleach writing on black T-shirts and the best projects of the day, I thought, the Caulk Outline Murals. Here is a sample.

Doodle Bird

If you like to doodle, don't sell yourself short. Some amazing drawing come out of doodles. Even your signature is a doodle in a way. The way you express yourself.
    Today I was collecting signatures at work for some ID cards and observed how these young guys not only wrote their names but how they expressed themselves as they were writing.  Some wrote fast, some slow and methodical, some with a curl at the end, some with a long straight slash. I wondered what they would do with a brush and some paint.  I hope in this day and age of computer generated everything, we never get tired of the doodle.

A New Kind of Cubism

This Art is from a dream I had. I will show you how it goes together as I do it.

    The idea is to have different pictures or portraits on each side of a block of cubes. Then place them down on a surface and spaced apart far enough so you can look at it from every angle and still see the many pictures from the different vantage points, at least somewhat see them. Here is my first experiment.  MORE TO COME

Checkboard Collage Art

 This is what Art Day is all about. Take and unusual painting surface, find interesting images, mediums, and  textures put on your creativity hat and play with imagination. You don’t even have to know where you are going when you start, just start and see where your adventure takes you. You can always paint over it and start in another direction. Don’t be shy.

    I found some checker boards that did not fold in the center at a junk store. They were a $1 a board and cheaper than any canvas with a nice black fabric finish. I covered it with gesso and grabbed a couple images from old magazines. Then added paint and some other photocopied graphics and some handlettering.  I like the result.

    This was an ArtDay project for the older kids and here are some of their creations. Marvelous!!

Grandma Kathy

New and Fun Activities Coming Soon!!

Getting ready to start Grandma's Art Day for the summer!!

Drawing lessons? Puppets? Folding paper games? All sounds like good ideas and all are coming to Grandmas Art Day starting this Sunday. How about GRAPHIC PORTRAITS like this!

Glitter Shoes from Guest Mom

It's all the rage! Glitter shoes for kids. My friend Lisa shopped for glittery embellished shoes for her granddaughter Bodhi. She found them everywhere but the price was "out of this world!" Why buy when you can make! She bought some plain white shoes, dyed them purple and gave them to her friend Tammy who really glammed them up. Tammy used fabric paint in tubes, some glitter and some plain. She sprinkled colored glitter over some areas of paint before it dried. Then added some little hearts to match and there you have it. For the final touch, some ribbon shoelaces. Try it yourself and do your own thing. Try swirls, dots, zig-zags or stripes. Neon colors are big right now. Each pair will be different.

I know Bodhi will just love these.

Pipe Cleaner Hand Puppet

Or you can call it the "Almost Naked Hand Puppet". You can even fool the dog with this one. It's so simple a Cave-Crafter can do it. OK, OK, all kidding aside this is a simple kid project with fun results. Materials are 2 pipe cleaners (any color), two white buttons (3/4"), two black buttons (about 1/4" or so), fast tack glue, and a few pony beads to go into the hair.

First take two pipe cleaners bend in the middle and wrap around your middle finger (not tight). Twist at the top to make a ring around your finger. Glue the two black beads inside the white beads. Position the black beads off to the side then let them dry. Loop both sets of pipe cleaners into a curve to form eye sockets for buttons. Glue buttons into curves, making curves tight to hold eye in place. Twist sets of pipe cleaners together again. With ends that are left, spread out and bend a little to form hair. Push pony beads onto 4 hair strands. Try on your Hand Puppet and have fun.