Thought I'd Share-Kickstarter.com

Hi everyone,

I came across this site through a co-worker who has a girlfriend trying to start up a bathing suit company.

So what does this have to do with art you ask?

Well, while I was checking out the link that was shared with me, I came across a variety of projects based on art.    The site is called 'kickstarter' and basically is an online forum where people starting up their own companies (or in the case of art, trying to fund their own projects) can post a video and information about their plans and can receive donations to fund it. Many of the art projects I came across were really quite amazing and inspiring and it was amazing to see the ingenuity and collaboration between artists and their great ideas.  Thought I'd share with all of you...It may be something you yourself are interested in doing, would like to contribute to, or would just like to check out.  If you're a collage high school level educator maybe it could be something you have your students do as a year long community type project....Just throwing it out there. 

www.kickstarter.com

Slice of Your Life-Inspirational Video

I'm thinking of doing a 1 day mini project with my kids based on this video.  The message behind it is SO important and it's something I try to instill in my students on a daily basis.  Check it out, you'll love it!

Recent bulletin boards and display cases

These are the last boards/cases of the year! Yay!!!

100 Followers and counting...Yay!

 To celebrate my reaching one hundred followers I've decided to list 100 popular artists that are taught in elementary art.   Here they are in no particular order: 

Antoni Gaudi                      

Keith Haring                      

 Henri Matisse                   

 Andy Goldsworthy                         

 Gustav Klimt

Laurel Birch                                          

 Pablo Picasso                      

Franz Mark    

Christo & Jean Claude                                    

Amadeo Modigliani    

                                    

 Wayne Thiebaud    

 Romare Bearden                               

 Jeff Koons                            

Wassily Kandinsky                          Grant Wood

Thomas Cole                                                    

 Jackson Pollock                 

 Milton Avery                                      

Jasper Johns                                             

 Joan Miro    

                         

Rene Magritte                                   

Mary Cassatt                                          

Jean Debuffet  

Edgar Degas

Edvard Munch

Eduard Manet

Henri de Toulouse Lauturec

James Rizzi

Hundertwasser

Berthe Morisot   

                               

Diego Rivera                                                 

 Auguste Rodin                  

 Rembrandt Von Rijn                       

Louis Comfort Tiffany    

Rosina Watchmeister

Charles Demuth

Leo Sewell

Wolfe Kahn

Kimmy Cantrell

George Rodrique

Dr. Seuss

Alberto Giacometti

Henry Moore

Frank Gehry

Chuck Close

Takashi Murakami

Lois Malliou Jones

Romare Bearden

Carly Hardy

Charley Harper     

Jon Scieszka

Karla Gerard

T.R. Makc

Grandma Moses                 

 Franz Marc                           

Georges Braque                                                

Victor Vasarely

Yayoi Kusama                                    

Robert Rauschenburg   

 I.M. Pei (architect)                          

 Keith Haring

Gustav Klimt

George Braque

Katsushika Hokusai

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Dale Chihuly

Aaron Douglas

Faith Ringgold

Piet Mondrian

Henri Rousseau

Audrey flack

Frank Stella

Salvador Dalu

Paul Cezanne

Jasper Johns

Vincent van Gogh

Do Ho Su

Louise Nevelson

Romero Britto

Peter Max        

Yayoi Kusama

Fred Babb

Rube Goldberg

Giuseppe Arcimboldo  

Robert Delaunay

Georgia O'Keeffe

Jacob Lawrence

Janet Fish

Natasha Westcoat

Banksy

Georges Seurat

Andre Derain

Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo

Kara Walker

Judy Chicago

David Wiesner

Josef Albers

Diego Rivera  

Claude Monet      

Do you have any other artists you particularly like to teach in your classroom?  If so post them below! 

  

 

 

5th grade Amate Bark Painting

Last year the other art teacher in our school did this lesson with a 3rd grade class using neon paint.  After the lesson was complete I noticed that a lot of the details got lost because of how small the students drew their designs.  The paint just wasn't the appropriate medium for such tiny detailed images and so this year I decided to bump the project up to 5th grade and and instead of paint use neon chalk pastels.

  I gave each table a reference packet of sheets with birds, various flora, lizards, and designs to use as inspiration.  Students tore the edges of the paper to give it a hand-made look and then drew compositions based on a few images I showed them in a Powerpoint.  They then outlined their drawing in Sharpie and then colored everything in.  I gave them Q-tips to blend the tiny areas of their paper and warned them of over-blending the chalks (making the color dull).  Overall they did a great job and there is just something very striking about neon colors on brown paper mounted on black.  These are pretty large too, about 14x18" so they are quite striking!