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.

Mario Fun

Just a little Mario fun since we finished early on the color wheel.

Color Harmony

I was glad the Club House Artists took the homework challenge of creating a found object color wheel. Check out some of their solutions.

Since they completed their color wheels we began a session on Color Harmony. They learned about complimentary colors, triads, split complimentary, and analogous color schemes.

The drawings were a bit rushed, but they were going for a split complimentary drawings.

The Start of the Color Wheel

The Club House Artists are starting a session on the color wheel. We are planning on using the wheel for many future projects so we've also laminated them. They reviewed primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors. Oh, there's homework now as well.

Can you believe the color wheel above was colored by a 5 yr old?

Post-it Note Art Competition

Summer Camp

During the month of June the club house artists are taking a break from pencil drawings and are experimenting with inks, paints, and crafts. Week one we played with creating custom stamps from sheets of styrofoam and stamping our tshirts. Week two we played with sharpie markers as a tye dye agent. Week three will be marbling techniques. Weeks four and five have yet to be determined. Come on out and have fun with us this summer!

Pretty cool, huh?