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."

ARTAPALOOZA - What art teachers did!

I just happened across this blog post about a 2-day art event that art teachers put together. It sounds like a lot of fun and something that we can work towards.

Any thoughts on this? Any event coordinators and/or wannabe party planners out there in our LJM community who might be able to volunteer to help put something like this together for next year? It would be amazing and would definitely bring some much needed publicity to the importance of art in our schools.

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Read more about it on Adventures of an Art Teacher blog.