Tag Archive 'paint'

Jan 10 2012


say hello to my little friend

Filed under my stuff

If you have talked to me for any length of time, you know that I push into all sorts of areas of art exploration. I recently went to the craft store and purchased my latest creation, of course he was just a blank keychain at the time, but after painting and adding some touches with [...]

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Dec 17 2011


Kanji

On Thursday, we explored the techniques of Kanji. Kanji is more of an eastern form of calligraphy. It’s origins are from Japan. We traded our calligraphy pens for paintbrushes today, and traded our ink for some paint. We decided to use green paint as it seemed seasonally appropriate. The students had their choice of painting [...]

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May 15 2011


sculpture update

Filed under accelerated,sculpture

It’s crunch time for our sculptures in the accelerated classes. The bodies need to be finished and clothed, and those heads!  The decision was made to use cotton balls and glue and a little paint to make them complete.  I’m sure more updates will follow in the days to come. Enjoy these photos: Just look [...]

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May 04 2011


more K masks

Filed under kindergarten

Here are some more cool shots of Kindergarten mask painting. Are you excited about summer? It’s coming!

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May 01 2011


kinder masks details

Filed under kindergarten

While most educators say that making masks with Kindergarten isn’t possible, we now have more proof that it is possible. I’ve got to get some pictures of the actual mask-making process. Those are really cool. After the base coat was added, we used a variety of acrylics. Both the watery ones and the pasty types [...]

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Mar 18 2011


aquarium background

Filed under aquarium,Grade 1 thru 3

Now that we are done drawing our main set of things to go into our aquarium, we will then work on our background. The background for our fishtank could easily be done with a piece of light blue construction paper, but if we really want this to be a proper “mixed media” project then we [...]

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