Art Lessons

I buy a lot of my art supplies from Blick and I was just on their site and saw that they have a section for educators with a listing of a LOT of art projects in many different categories ranging from Art History, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and more. They are also grouped by age ranges. I saw a lot of ideas that would be great for us to do here at school as a workshop. What are some that interest you? Take a look and post your favorite one here. Maybe we can make it happen!

See the art projects @ Blick

Jon Burgerman Amazing Doodler!

This UK artist does a lot of neat stuff! I found him at the Sharpie Uncapped site and searched for him on Youtube. He's got a lot of videos of him making art. I like the idea of having a large wall of glass (I'm not exactly sure what he's drawing on in the video, but it looks like a mirror glass) and having kids make their art right on it. Dry erase markers would totally work and being that the canvas is glass, the art can be seen from both sides and kids can even make art on both sides of the glass canvas and see how their artwork combines with the person's on the other side. Enjoy! If you want to see more of his videos, just go to youtube and search 'Jon Burgerman'.

Sharpie UK at London Fashion Weekend

Everyone loves Sharpies! Even though a Sharpie in the unsupervised hands of small children has the potential to have frightening results, Sharpies are THE mark maker when it comes to drawing and doodling on canvas! Here's a great idea that just came through the Sharpie Blog. Read all about how a booth stocked with blank canvas tote bags, lots of Sharpies and the creatively hungry makes for a great time!

Sharpie UK at London Fashion Weekend

Printmaking with styrofoam

from: artteacheradventures.blogspot.com

Yesterday I made a post about Art-In-Tents Artapalooza. I left a comment on the Adventures of an Art Teacher blog and Katie, the art teacher blogger, was kind enough to reply.

My comment was a question asking how the prints (shown in the photo from her site) were done. Continue reading for her how-to. I think this would make a great make and take or ART Attack project!
She replied:
"I'm not sure if the high school Art teachers ordered Styrofoam or exactly where they got it. I remember doing the project when I was in 5th grade- my teacher got some styrofoam trays (the kind used for meat) from the grocery store. We drew designs into them with pencil. The pencil makes enough of an impression that the line will show when it's printed. They told the students to just make designs with lines and shapes since they had very limited time and those were the more successful prints. Of course, it could be done with any sort of image as long as the artist keeps in mind that it will print in reverse. After the design was done, they just inked the plate using a brayer and made three prints so they could pick the best one."

Draw and Foldover - interactive group drawing

Do you remember being a kid and taking a blank piece of paper, folding it into thirds (or fourths) and then taking turns with your friends drawing on the different sections - one person draws the head, then passes it on to the next person who draws the body, then to the next person who draws the legs and so on? No one gets to see what the previous person has drawn and when everyone has had their turn, you open up the paper and do the reveal...

Quick Draw: Poses

I found this idea on the Campaign for Drawing site. Neat idea that we can also do, maybe in one of the Art Workshops?

Poses
20-second poses, pupils using black paper and chalk. After each drawing, children moved three places and drew again on someone else’s drawing in a different coloured chalk. Gallery time prompted discussion about the experience and the drawings. Pupils returned to their original drawing and had to change it into something else. What could they see coming from the drawing? Drawings were held aloft so that pupils could share.

Art Workshops - Greenlight!

A green light has been given to do ART Workshops! The details are very sketchy right now (pardon the pun) because it's still in the brainstorming stage...so if you are interested in being a part of this, contact us and we'll be so happy to have you on board!

Feel free to leave a comment with your ideas below. (Just click on the word 'comments' for the form.)

Send us your ideas on what kind of workshops you'd like to see, how you might be able to help, etc. Thanks!