Art Start

10 Lessons the Arts Teach

2012-01-13T09:42:00.000-08:00

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

2011-09-22T15:49:00.000-07:00

Art Safari Class at Old Poway Park

Poway,CA – Get ready for an Art Safari! The City of Poway is now registering children ages 7-12 for Art Start's "Art Safari" with artist Susan Bainbridge. Classes will be held on Mondays from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. October 3 through November 14 (no class October 31) at Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Rd.

Young artists will create art based on the exotic animals, designs, and landscapes of Africa and explore a variety of media, including oil pastels, markers, watercolor and clay. The class will use a step-by step method to start them off on a successful art making experience. Class size will be small to allow individual attention for each student. Fees are $70 for Poway residents plus a $20 materials fee.

To register your child or for more information please visit the Poway website at: www.poway.org or www.artstart1.com.

Wrapping up the 5th week of Poway Art Camps

2011-08-12T22:11:00.000-07:00

It was a challenging week. Thomas was visiting from Korea and knew very little English. Most of the time he had no idea what I was saying. By Friday he had everyone laughing as he made up names for his classmates. I am really sad that I didn't get photos of everyone's finished masks and silk paintings! Cameron shot a lot of photos of the kids weaving beads while in between projects:

Gabriella and Yukino

Nina and Grace

Art camp assistant Sydney and Thomas

Bisque fired clay projects ready to be painted

Audrey and Julia


Yukino

Thomas

Camila and Cameron

Grace and Audrey

Nina

Masks drying and ready to be embellished

Vanessa's robot dog swallowed a carrot! Thomas fished it out while Madison looks on.

Oliver rocking his tie dyed shirt!

Torrey's tie dye

The full day campers playing "Mother May I?" in the park

Thomas waiting for his turn

Horses pass through the park!

Turns out one rider was Sierra from my camp 2 weeks ago! Notice her awesome tie dyed shirt.

5th week of Art Start Art Camp in Poway

2011-08-11T21:15:00.000-07:00

Julia watercoloring

Nina's and Thomas' silk designs

Nina studies the manikin

Thomas tests out the resists for silk painting

Julia applies the resist to her silk

Cameron's design

Yukino and her castle

Gabriella

Oliver

Madison

Camila and Cameron

Brooke

More from week 4, full day camp

2011-08-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

Annie made a celebrity wallet

Francesca planned in advance and prepared the red hair and crown for her Queen of Hearts mask. Annie's mask has a day and night theme.

Sammy, Francesca and Annie rock their tie-dye!

Francesca's paper wallet features photos of her friends

An amazing beautiful passion flower brought into class by Sammy's mother.

4th week of Art Camps

2011-08-04T22:03:00.000-07:00

Paige and Katie

Hana and her fish drawing

Francesca and Jessica make a mask on Ryan's face

Annie's Bambi

Bobby drawing Winnie the Pooh

Samantha and one of the many dogs she drew

Working on a cat

Diana's favorite fairy

Helen and her horse

Ashlyn's Minnie Mouse

Katie

Jessica helps Samantha make an origami box

Ryan

Francesca and Annie


The afternoon camp made duct tape purses

Art Camp - week 3

2011-07-30T12:59:00.000-07:00

Kyle, Blake and Ryan working in their drawings

Sierra concentrating

Ben, Blake, Sierra and Katherine

Ben and Blake starting their mosaics


Max and his mosaic

Brooke lost in her thoughts

Josh's amazing homework: "design your home of the future"

Ben

Kyle and Katherine

Blake

Katherine and Ryan

Yasmeen

Hailey

Matthew

Good friends Trevor and Lauren

Katherine

Nicole and her fire dog mask

Lauren' and her matching cat mask and drawing

Aiden with her cat mask and tie dyed shirt

Hailey and her favorite drawing

Josh - ninja with gas mask

Chloe

Blake, Ben and Ryan playing games in the park

Drawings inspired by Oaxacan animals

2011-07-25T18:01:00.000-07:00

Trevor, Lauren, Kyle, Blair and Ben create patterns....lots of patterns!

Ryan, Yasmeen, Hailey and Katherine drawing from observation and imagination.

Afternoon group of Art Campers

2011-07-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

Campers Bailey, Kaila, Emily, Julia, Isabella and Sarah and some of their creations.

Showing off the beaded snake Julia (2nd from left) made trying for a world's record. It was more than 13 feet on our last day!

2nd week at Art Start Art Camp

2011-07-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

Julia and Isabella collaged their sketchbooks

Bailey, Isabella and Julia wishing Emily a happy birthday!

Impromptu birthday balloons

Ashley

Joshua

Art Start assistant Sarah supervising snack time with Isabella

Lucy, Ashley and Maya

Antam

Lauren and Lucy weaving beads

Annika

Sarah helping Sarah with origami

Maya

Lauren

Kaila

Friends Jason, Samuel and Brandon

Sarah grouting her mosaic

First week of Art Start Art Camp in Poway

2011-07-14T22:38:00.000-07:00

Keely and her creations

Gabby making a wallet

Louie's Wallet

Ava and her birds

Keely and Daniella chilling in the big trees

Christina's pastel drawing

Finishing off the day making beaded animals

So sad.... these tree limbs are scheduled to be cut down by tomorrow!

Caroline's mosaic

Keely and Daniella

Camila

Pastel art airing out after being sprayed with fixative

Daniella and Camila tie-dying

Ava, Rachel and Daniel

Quinn

Cade, Jacob, Collin and Matthew

Finding a corner for origami

Project planning

2011-06-25T09:06:00.000-07:00

It is so much fun creating samples of projects for art camp such as this mosaic frame which the full day campers will be making!

Visit Art Start's Facebook page

2011-06-25T08:57:00.000-07:00

Be sure to visit Art Start's Facebook page! We invite you to "like" us if you enjoy receiving occasional posts with Art Start student pictures, and for updates on Art Start classes for kids. Our summer camp enrollment is well underway. Don't let your child spend a summer without boatloads of creativity. Enroll now.

Art Start Summer Art Camps coming soon!

2011-05-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

Sign up is underway for the Art Start Summer Art Camps which start July 11. Register online at www.Poway.org. More info can be found at the Art Start web site.

Last day of Art Camp

2011-04-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

Today all the campers painted their clay projects and masks. It was such a busy time that I wasn't able to get photos! The ones that stayed for the afternoon printed their tie dyed shirts with the designs they created earlier in the week and chilled making shrink art.

Jean and Ellie's shirts

McKenzie making shrink art

McKenzie's shirt

Brooke and Jasmine attach jump rings to their shrink art while Elie looks on.

Watercolor and more!

2011-04-07T22:43:00.000-07:00

In today's class the kids watercolored their parakeets, inspired by a painting by Kaylor Nuth. They seemed to find the process relaxing and enjoyed letting the water disperse and mix their colors!

Keira creates color blends

Sophia and her painting

Cousins Caitlin and Hannah

Later the full day campers made duct tape wallets:

Ian

Brooke and her wallet

Caitlin, Hannah, Maddy and McKenzie look at their photos on this blog.

Printmaking at Art Camp

2011-04-05T19:31:00.000-07:00

This week I introduced my afternoon class to an easy method of creating "plates" for printmaking, using tagboard. In the past, I've had kids use lino-cutters on rubber blocks....much more professional, but no matter how much you stress safety techniques, someone always gets hurt. Today, they pulled their prints. They really enjoyed the printing process and were thrilled to see the results of their efforts.

Maddy, Caitlin and Ellie ink their 'plates"

Maddy and Caitlin

Jean's "Nerd Love"

Spring Break Art Camp

2011-04-04T20:41:00.000-07:00

First day of camp. What an awesome group of kids! To get them comfortable drawing in their new sketchbooks, we started off with a directed lesson on fish, using molas for inspiration. They also made clay tiles and sculptures. Look at them concentrating!

Brynlee

Lexi

Hannah

Clay Class

2011-03-28T20:44:00.000-07:00

My group of Christian homeschoolers made clay crosses since Easter is coming up. I'll show their finished projects in a couple of weeks after they've been painted and fired. Here is what they did with their leftover pieces:


	Thomas made an owl from his scraps

Thomas's owl

Madison and Tabitha playing around with their leftover clay

Art Start Spring Break Art Camps

2011-03-05T12:55:00.000-08:00

Sign ups begin March 8 for Spring Break Art Camps in Poway from April 4 - 8!

Click here for more information.

Drawing from Observation

2011-02-12T11:20:00.000-08:00

This week, my home school students drew a still life from observation. I encouraged them to look for shadows and highlights.

Alana

Thomas and Emily fold tiny paper stars

Novalee

Katherine

Katherine's final project

Drawing forms

2011-02-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

Joelle

Ethan

Benjamin

Today my students learned about using shading to create the illusion of form in a drawing. They were introduced to charcoal and conté crayons. We set up a still life with a strong side light to help them observe the shadows.... really hard for the younger ones to see!

Continuing the Oaxacan Animal theme...

2011-01-31T13:16:00.000-08:00

I carted my Oaxacan carvings into my classes again, hoping it would inspire my students to get really creative. We used Sculpey clay to create little animals.

Oaxacan Animals

2011-01-22T22:31:00.000-08:00

My collection of Oaxacan animal carvings is a great subject to work from. Students can easily draw their shapes and then get super creative in creating patterns on them!

Novalee

Brie and Novalee

Emily

Alana

Ben

A detail of Madison's supercharged gecko!

Tabitha drew them all!

Helena and Madison

Thomas

Madison, Helena and Emily

Joelle

Benjamin

Finishing up their watercolor paintings

2010-11-22T19:55:00.000-08:00

My students painted in their cathedral designs. They learned about color gradations (always something I push!) and mixing. I loved hearing them talk about how fun and relaxing painting is!

James

Micaiah

Travis

Katie

Jonathan

Daniel

Fall classes at CFS Co-op

2010-11-05T12:55:00.000-07:00

Classes are underway with this group of Poway homeschoolers. I was inspired by the Nova program "Building the Great Cathedrals" so I planned my lesson around it. I had the kids design their own cathedrals. Here they are transferring their designs to a sheet of watercolor paper.

Daniel

Katherine

Poway Art Camps

2010-08-18T21:09:00.000-07:00

The afternoon sessions of art camp provide a great opportunity for students to delve into projects and experiment with new media. Here they have been sketching in Old Poway Park and are transferring their designs to a canvas which they will paint.

Francesca

Art Camp week 2

2010-07-23T21:43:00.000-07:00

A fun week. One of my long ago students was my assistant.

Art Camps week 1

2010-07-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

Art camps are off to a great start! Quite a few returning artists this week. It is wonderful to see these kids growing up and mastering things they struggled with when so young!

Unfortunately, I left my camera over night in our classroom and someone swiped it along with all my pictures from the 1st week of camp! Silly me.... I never even considered that possibility.

I was able to get a few on our last day using my cell phone. Sorry about the quality, it's not a smart phone!

Brooke and her recycled bottle cap snake.

Erica's first canvas painting.

Erin's mask

Keely sporting the shirt she tie dyed and her mask.

Art Start Art Camps

2010-04-21T15:37:00.000-07:00

Summer camps sign up is now underway!

Information about Art Start Art Camps in Poway can be found online here and about my "Design and Mixed Media" Camp at Scripps Ranch Swim and Racquet Club here. Be sure to look to scroll down to see photos from last summer's camps. They are so much fun!

Spring Break Art Camp

2010-04-03T10:32:00.000-07:00

Spring Break Art Camp starts on Monday!

Here's what I've planned:
draw in sketchbooks (provided),
make clay plates,
masks,
tie-dye shirts,
paint a fauve style painting in acrylics on canvas,
Draw, draw DRAW!

CFS Art Classes

2010-02-11T22:14:00.000-08:00

Here are some of this year's students and their projects:

McKenna

Joel

Tim

Shannon and Micah

Art Start upcoming classes

2010-01-05T13:40:00.000-08:00

New classes coming up at Old Poway Park in Poway:

It's All About Color

Perk up your dull winter days creating art with dramatic color! Young artists will explore color theory and apply it to supercharged projects in a variety of media: water color, markers, clay, and pastels. Artist Susan Bainbridge will set each student off to a brilliant start using directed drawing techniques. Class size will be small to allow individual attention for each student.

Classes meet each Monday February 22 to March 29
Art Start I for ages 5-6 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Art Start II for ages 7-14 from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m.
To register and for more info, visit Poway's web site here.

Coming April 5-9 - Art Start Spring Break Art Camp!

Origami!

2009-12-04T22:39:00.000-08:00

In my classes I like to introduce students to origami. A documentary, Between the Folds, will be airing on PBS Dec. 8 showing the recent, incredible expansion of origami as an art form. Some of it can be seen on YouTube. I strongly encourage my students and families to see this. The constructions folded from a single sheet of paper will blow you away!

Fish, fish and more fish!

2009-11-10T20:20:00.000-08:00

While the clay pots made the previous week were drying, this week's class drew underwater scenes using markers. I encouraged then to look for and add details from their photo references.

Jonathan really succeeded in creating a sense of depth in his drawing.

Alyssa and Emma

Abby and Esther worked as a team.

Matthew accepted a lot of challenges in this, like drawing that gnarly football fish!

Andrew... he hid since he ALWAYS has to make a super goofy face for the camera.

Meaghan concentrates on getting that coral just right!

Drew developed lots of textural patterns.

Finished birds

2009-11-01T21:19:00.000-08:00

Stuart, Morgan and Ethan with their finished bird designs.

Fall classes underway

2009-10-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

I just started teaching three Poway CFS homeschool classes. This week's lesson dealt with color - using graduated color blends in color pencil to enliven an artwork. We drew birds as a jumping off point. They really got into it!

Daniel

Joel

Monica

Morgan

Joel

Jonathan

Emma

Stuart

Matthew

Ben

Ethan

Travis

Art Camp - WK 6

2009-08-15T23:01:00.001-07:00

(l-r, front) Laurissa, Sydney, Rachel, Courtney, Gena, Annie, Ava
(back row) Thomas, Ashley, Samantha, Kendall, Kathryn, Alex, Zach, Joshua and Kathryn.

Trying to look like smart artists!

Kendall, Sydney and Rachel

Alex, Ava, Gena and Annie.

Thomas and Joshua

Laurissa and Kathryn

Samantha and Courtney

Rachel and Ashley

Art Camp - WK 6 Full Day Group

2009-08-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

This week's afternoon class was fairly small. In between the projects I had planned, the kids obsessed on origami.

Kathryn showed us how to fold these modular origami stars.

Laurissa's origami made a nice ring!

Zach was addicted to making the water balloons (ok., who am I fooling? They were water BOMBS!)

Kathryn took the challenge and made several dinosaurs.

Zach models a mask.

Laurissa starts a dinosaur.

Alex and his mosaic flower pot.

Art Camp - WK 5

2009-08-09T17:07:00.000-07:00

Here's another slideshow from this past week's art camp at Old Poway Park. What a great group of artists! If you click on a photo, it will take you to my Flickr site where you can see enlargements if you wish. Leave comments, please!

Art Camp - WK 4

2009-08-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

A whole new set of kids with a couple of returning ones! These photos are all on my Flickr site. You can run the slideshow and click on any photo to see it enlarged. Leave a comment so I know you were here!

Art Camps - Week 3

2009-07-26T14:53:00.000-07:00

So many fabulous artists in my camps! I feel privileged to guide these kids. I put the materials out there with a bit of instruction... it's amazing to see what they come up with!

Art Camps - Week 2 - Tie dye!

2009-07-18T18:38:00.000-07:00

Nicole and Tessa

Katy and Lauren

Christina and Jessica

Tessa and Lindsey - BFF?

Becca, Lindsey, Tessa, Tatum, Ashleigh, Jonathan and Nick (friends from school!)

The class takes a break from painting. (L-R) Tessa, Lauren, Lexi, Kaley, Melanie, Katy, Lauren, Jessica, Becca, Christina, Bobby, Jonathan, Nicole, Lindsey, Nick, Steven, Isabella and Tatum....I wonder where Ashleigh was!

Art Camps - Week 2 - Watercolor project

2009-07-18T18:09:00.000-07:00

Tessa

Katy and Lauren A.

Bobby, Lindsey and Steven

Lauren, Jessica and Kaley

Lauren A.

Melanie, Lexi, Isabella and Tatum

Nicole

Jessica

Art Camps - Week 2

2009-07-18T17:28:00.000-07:00

Jonathan worked hard to perfect his Odie drawing skills

Nathan helps Nick work out some Origami.

Steven

Becca and Lexi

Ashleigh and Tatum collaged their sketchbook covers

Melanie

Art Camp - WK 1 - afternoon class's last day

2009-07-12T14:47:00.000-07:00

The afternoon class grouted their mosaics. What do you do when you have a bucket full of leftover grout? This is where imaginations and creativity took over. These girls made fairy homes and hid them about the park. The trees provided many great spaces for this! I can't wait to see if any are still there next week.

Francesca's mosaic frame

(L-R) Claire, Emily and Sarah with Francesca on fence behind.

(L-R) Emily, Sarah, Emmy and Lily

I think Lily made this for fairy campfires.

Katie's fairy house with yard.

Francesca's royal fairy homes.

(L-R in back) Emmy, Emily,Sarah, Caroline (L-R in front) Francesca, Katie, Lily and Claire

Art Camp -WK 1 - Last Day

2009-07-12T14:33:00.001-07:00

Caprice, Hannah, 'Kenzie' and Brooke - friends made in art camp!

Snack time. The teenaged boy is Nathan, my assistant. He was a student several years ago.

Francesca paints her clay sun

'Kenzie' and Hannah. Kenzie came all the way from Florida to art camp!

Pascal working on his mask

Art Camp -WK 1 - Tie Dye

2009-07-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Amazingly, kids still like tie-dying so we do this in every art camp.

Keely, Nicole and Aiden (with the snake he beaded)

Katie -some how she got this to match her hair!

Delaney

Art Camp -WK 1 - Silk Painting

2009-07-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the finished silk paintings. Don't these kids look really proud of their creations?

Mackenzie

Delaney

Hannah and Brooke

Pascal

Caprice

Art Camp -WK 1 - Silk Painting

2009-07-10T13:48:00.000-07:00

Here the students are tracing their designs onto silk using a resist:

(L-R) Caroline, Sarah, Claire, Lily, Emily and Emmy

(L-R) Delaney, Francesca, and Maddie

Pascal

Art Camps - Week 1

2009-07-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

First week of art camp! We started off with clay and drawing in sketchbooks.

Claire

Caroline, Sarah, Francesca and Lily experiment with clay

Summer Art Camps 2009!

2009-04-20T21:57:00.000-07:00

Click to enlarge

The City of Poway has started registration for the Art Start Art Camps! You can register online here. If you have a creative child in the north San Diego area, check this out! Here's a link to photos from a past art camp.

Spring Break Art Camp - last day

2009-04-10T19:22:00.001-07:00

Today the students finished their masks and painted their ceramics. Brooke and Daniela are trimming the edges of their masks:

Summer painting her mask:

Brooke painting hers:

And Austin with his:
Daniela and her Dad showing off the shirts she tie-dyed.

The kids were all such eager and capable artists. It was a wonderful week!

Spring Break Art Camp

2009-04-07T20:59:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I offered an art camp during Spring Break. Now I remember why.... LOW enrollment! This week I taught an exceptionally small group esp. since one of the kids ended up sick and had to drop out. The kids were genuinely glad to be there and thanked me all day long for every little thing I showed them, so it was a great week for me!

Here Austin and Daniela are casting Summer's face:
We also drew camels, inspired by some embroidered ones from India. The focus was on pattern which the kids created using changeable markers:

Last class at Old Poway Park

2009-03-24T23:30:00.001-07:00

This week, the Poway class finished up their Pop art paintings using oil sticks.

Their suns were fired and ready to be taken home:

The class then worked from photo references. Their challenge was to combine 2-3 references into one drawing. They all did great with this! Some ended up on the floor:

above: Bria, Rachel, Saisha, Brandon and Ginjireh

Clay Classes

2009-03-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

Lauren, Joseph and Hannah work on clay suns

"Yay! Clay!" That's what the kids say when they hear we are going to do a clay project. Here they are makings suns from slabs that they've rolled. An important technique they learn in this lesson is how to attach additions to a piece and secure it so it doesn't fall off. After a bisque firing, the suns are painted with glazes and then fired again.

Art Start "It's All About Color" class in Poway

2009-03-02T14:59:00.000-08:00

Ginjireh and Eden make creatures

I had designed this lesson with this color class in mind....the students created color splotches using just the 3 primary colors. It's definitely a "process" oriented experience. The kids have so much fun squishing the paint together and discovering what new colors they come up with. Here you see them crafting aliens and creatures with their splotches.

Watercolor Churches

2009-02-21T20:18:00.000-08:00

above: Abigail, Theo, Daniel, Kelton, Canyon, Sarah and Alicia. Paintings by Sarah Wester and Daniel Pierce.

This week, the CFS classes finished watercoloring the churches they designed in the previous weeks. They learned how to use a wet-in-wet watercolor technique as well as how to apply a graded wash.

Architecture!

2009-02-05T19:41:00.000-08:00

above: Sarah & Kaitlyn, Lauren, Levi & Caleb

This is my favorite lesson! My students always come up with beautiful and unique designs.

Today we looked at a selection of cathedrals and churches from around the world: Chartres, Sagrada Familia, St. Basil's Cathedral in Russia, CA missions, and more. I threw the Taj Mahal in as well since it is a superb example of inspired architecture.

We talked about the various architectural components that distinguish these buildings from those that we see in Poway. Many features used in these buildings were influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The kids then went to work designing churches and then transferred their designs to a large sheet of watercolor paper. To be continued!

Creatures!!

2009-01-29T19:35:00.001-08:00

Today's lesson centered on creativity. This is a group of Christian homeschoolers so I asked them to reflect on God's amazing creativity in the construction of our universe. The kids viewed their paint splotches from last week, cut them out and reassembled them into imaginary creatures.

Above: Kate, Kristin, Priscilla, Kelton and Canyon with their other worldy creatures.

BUNNIES! A bunch of baby bunnies were visiting the CFS campus today. Sooooo CUTE!

FAREWELL JOSH! Josh will be leaving to go to school in Japan. Good luck, we'd love to have a field trip to come visit you!

Elements of Art: Color

2009-01-23T14:24:00.001-08:00

From top: Rachel, Kelton, Calab, Sarah, art by Hannah W., Sarah W. and Kate.

Class started with a discussion of color and how it comes from light and pigment. We studied the color wheel, learning about primary, secondary,intermediate and complementary colors. I was determined to get some concepts into them so we went on to discuss triadic, analogous and monochromatic color harmonies and looked at examples of these in contemporary and historic paintings.

After that, we explored color mixing in a simple, yet extremely fun, activity using just primary colors. This generated a lot of excitement as the kids discovered pictures in their creations. I can't wait to see what they do with these "splotches" next week!

New Classes!

2009-01-16T20:09:00.000-08:00

This week I started new classes for the CFS homeschool group.

Parents, here you can see what we did in class and what some of the concepts discussed were.

Our lesson was inspired by Mola embroideries made by the Kuna Indians of the San Blas islands near Panama. Much of the discussion was about sewing because many of my students didn't know what that was! I guess it's a dying craft.... I'll have to offer a sewing project sometime.

The assignment was to observe the different stitches and patterns used to decorate the Mola samples and to then then create an animal design decorated in a similar fashion using oil pastels rather than thread.

Caleb

Abigail

Benjamin

Nathan

Kaitlyn and Kate

Art Start Safari!

2008-11-06T20:33:00.000-08:00

In Fall 2008, I offered Art Safari at Old Poway Park. We had so much fun! It was a great group of kids. Here are a few photos from our adventure:

We made African inspired masks from clay:

We painted Adrinka designs actually using mud and also drew elephants and lions. Here are some of the kids at work on their lions:

Scenes from Art Start Art Camp 2008

2008-08-21T14:46:00.000-07:00

Full day campers have an opportunity to independently work on what interests them. Here, Kendra is turning the mask cast from her face into Bambi - her latest obsession! She also tries her hand at drawing forms using oil sticks. Super messy!

Art Camp - printmaking!

2008-08-20T14:18:00.000-07:00

Campers in Poway's Art Start Art Camp cut blocks and printed multiples. Sorry about the blurry photos!

2008-08-12T23:49:00.000-07:00

My students love watercolor! Here they have designed castles and are practicing their wet in wet technique.

Birthday Party

2008-04-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

This was a fun project for a birthday party!