I am back. I know completely MIA for a while, but I needed to live life in real time and focus on my family. And today's projects are created by my family and students I work with.
So, I figured out my uploading issues, and want to share what we have been up to.
Part way through the school year I decided I needed to spend more time creating art with my kids. I decided that about every six weeks we would take a week off from our normal school work and spend a week creating and learning about different art styles. This kids LOVED it. This week I want to share our first official ART WEEK.
On the first day of Art Week we created self portrait collages. This was perfect for using up my scrapbooking scraps and the kids really loved the results. I found the idea at Better Homes and Garden.
Olivia created the portrait above. The girls each drew an outline of how they felt their face is shaped and then started gluing torn pieces of scrap paper in the correct color hues of their skin, hair and eyes. They then did the same for a shirt.
Next. we cut out the final portrait and using dimensional squares adhered the portrait to some patterned background paper.
This was a great project to kick off Art Week, because everyone felt super successful.
It took some patience, but because we had an entire day to work on it the kids didn't feel any pressure and ejoyed the creativity.
Tomorrow I will show you some of the mini art pieces we made.
Nice to see you back.
Love the kids artwork
Posted by: Margaret Burton | December 05, 2011 at 02:58 PM