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

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

Art Camp - WK 6

(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 Camps - Week 3

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 - Watercolor project

Tessa

Katy and Lauren A.

Bobby, Lindsey and Steven

Lauren, Jessica and Kaley

Lauren A.

Melanie, Lexi, Isabella and Tatum

Nicole

Jessica