Learning House Basics

Snoopy Fun

Yay for Snoopy!

Finished Projects

Finally, some of our Club House Artists finished their Warm/Cool fall tree drawings. These were created with oil pastels, watercolors, and acrylic paint. I love the texture they created in each square. It was a great touch to their drawings.

Positive and Negative Space

The Club House Artists did an exercise with positive and negative space using cut paper and paint. This project was a great example on how negative spaces can create a positive image.

Primary colors

The Club House Artists were given the task of drawing a cube and coloring it only using primary colors.

Some Mario fun with cylinders.

Warm Vs. Cool Continued

One class is using Oil Pastels for their warm vs. cool and the other is using marker. The Club House Artists are learning more about the power of warm and cool colors used against each other. Here's the start of their fall tree illustrations.

 Homework assignment:  Using found objects to make a color wheel.

Homework Drawings

Here are some homework assignments turned in. . .

Techniques

The Club House Artists learned about two painting techniques this week. Glue resist and salt. They first drew their pumpkins and then traced their drawings with glue. We let that dry and then painted watercolors. They learned how salt on wet watercolors can add texture to their painting and also create neat effects in the paint.

Here's a homework assignment that came before this project. Notice the difference.

Plan D

Plan D: Create a new pot to paint. Color Scheme: Split Complimentary

Plan B & C

Ok, here was Plan B

Plan, glue pieces like a mosaic onto the clay pot. It kinda worked, but not that great looking.

So we went with back up Plan C

Plan, just paint the clay pots to look like the mugs they tried to create.

The color scheme was Split Complimentary. Next week, we'll finish our clay pots.

Update: Here's the finished clay pot project:

All Cracked Up

Club House Artists, I'm sorry to report that our super cute creative mugs are cracking. Therefore, don't worry about the homework assignment. We'll figure out a game plan during class. Pottery is what it is, sometimes it turns out great and solid and sometimes it cracks. It's definitely hard when you fall in love with the piece you just created but that's when you have to start over and fall in love again. 

Face Mugs

We started a two week pottery project and the Club House Artists were ecstatic. You wouldn't think they'd ever touched playdoh, except this time we were using clay. I'm guessing it was a totally different experience for them. They loved it. This week we designed our mugs and next week we will paint them in a split complimentary color scheme.

Warm Vs. Cool

The Club House Artists learned about warm colors and cool colors. The assignment was to use warm colors for the tea cup and saucer and cool colors for the background. Or they could do the opposite. Once they started coloring their focus on the color schemes was lost for some. But the drawings turned out great anyways. Here are a few.

Color Challenge

The second homework assignment was to find a coloring page and use a complimentary color scheme to color it. Here are some of the solutions to the problem.