Easy Batik Project!!

During the week of spring break 2013 at the Arts Center, students created many african safari themed art projects! My classes created a group project that visualized the grasslands food chain (photo above). Students also learned how to batik using elmers glue and watered down acrylic paints!! See photos below for more detailed instructions for this project and try it at home!

Master Painters Class Spring 2013

 In this painting class students learn about different painters from history and create their own paintings
using techniques inspired by the artists. The following paintings were inspired by Henri Matisse. Students used bright colors and heavy brush strokes and even added bits of colored paper to enhance paintings!

MUD: Pottery Wheel Throwing Class for Kids!

 MUD Workshop! In this 8 week class students learned the fundamentals of wheel throwing and made their own mugs, bowls, lidded vessels, even teapots! Session 2 of Mud starts Tuesday, March 5th from 4-5:30pm at the Corvallis Arts Center, there is still room! Register here! 

Here are some photos from the winter session of MUD class!

 The basics: How to make a pot on the pottery wheel with photo demonstrations by young potter Zeke! 

 Step 1: lightly dampen the surface of the bat (board attached to wheel by metal pins). You don't want a puddle of water, just some moisture to get the clay to stick!

Lincoln Elementary Residency

 This winter and spring of 2013 I am a resident art teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in South Corvallis. I am visiting 4th and 5th graders in 3 classrooms every other week for a total of 12 classes. Each class I will do different art projects with the students ranging from drawing and painting to clay! The idea is to expose students to different art media, teach them basic fundamentals and techniques, and encourage their artistic self-expression! I wanted to share some of the projects here!

 OPPOSITES ATTRACT! In this lesson, the students learned about primary and secondary colors, Mixing colors on a palette and complimentary colors. Students created landscapes that utilized complimentary colors in order to make their paintings "pop".

Shadow Art!

 This winter I taught shadow drawing in my creative studio class as part of an interactive group project in experimental art! The project was very well received and students learned about contour lines!

Spring 2012 Classes at The Arts Center! An Overview...

 ...And what great classes they were! I wanted to share some of the fun projects my classes created this Spring!

Liberty Elementary Residency

In April, 2012 I was artist in residence at Liberty Elementary school in Albany, OR. During this residency I led the Kindergarten through second graders in a bug themed clay project and the third through fifth graders in an famous artist inspired painting project. Below are some brief descriptions of each grade's project as well as some pictures. What fantastic art these kids created!!

(My car filled with tiles ready to be fired)

Kindergarten: The kindergarteners made clay caterpillar and butterfly tiles!