Clay Class

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

Drawing forms

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...

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

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

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

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

CFS Art Classes

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

McKenna

Joel

Tim

Shannon and Micah

Fish, fish and more fish!

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

Stuart, Morgan and Ethan with their finished bird designs.

Fall classes underway

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