tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88234699088873689082024-03-05T14:56:31.017-08:00Sm'ArtiesA group of Homeschoolers learning art from a non-artist.K-Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117653505364031423noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823469908887368908.post-54007596032740099762011-12-04T05:03:00.000-08:002011-12-04T05:03:00.437-08:00Pencil sketchSnapshots done up in "pencil sketch" at picnik.com, for use in a previous project.<br />
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<a href="http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/coloring_page.php?id=209">Variety of mandala coloring pages, mostly simple enough for elementary coloring skills</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.coloringcastle.com/mandala_coloring_pages.html">Intricate mandala coloring pages</a> <br />
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I gave out some mandalas as coloring pages, but we also created out own mandalas. <br />
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<a href="http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-draw-a-mandala.html">How to draw a mandala</a> <br />
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Their assignment included the stipulation that they create as many layers of design as their ages in years. So, as a minimum, our 4th graders had to have 9 layers of design; our teenager had to have 13 circles.<br />
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We used polar graph paper to keep our circles circular. Some students chose a theme to pursue; others chose the theme of 'pretty designs.'<br />
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<a href="http://www.printablepaper.net/category/polar_graph">printable polar graph paper</a><br />
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I think most children enjoy optical illusions. These lines flow over the hands, creating the optical illusion of fluid encountering and flowing over a hand.<br />
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She of the <a href="http://k-sue-smarties.blogspot.com/2011/04/copycat.html">50 cats with creative names</a> also names all her trees: <br />
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Along with a forest of great variety.<br />
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...and the next week they brought their assigned homework - draw more trees!<br />
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Earlier in the fall, I took head-and-shoulder snapshots of each Sm'Artie. At home, I loaded the pictures onto picnik.com and edited them to give a black-and-white pencil sketch effect. <br />
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We traced the portraits onto graph paper, and then colored the squares. <br />
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The rules: no realistic colors (hair can be green and purple; it cannot be brown), use 2 consistent colors on each big section. <br />
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...and discovering the occasional beautiful insect.<br />
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And when the field work was done, it was time to play!<br />
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The day before Sm'Arties , Earthgirl and I took a little hike on the nature trail that adjoins our property, collecting ferns and mosses for the mini-co-op to study. Science Geek did her thing, looking at vascular and nonvascular plants, then it was time for art.<br />
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We made a fern print using an ink pad, a fern rubbing using a crayon with the fern, vein side up, held under the paper, a pencil sketch, and a "magnifying glass" pencil sketch. <br />
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And we get new notebooks!<br />
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Black and silver Sharpies, and permission to doodle - a pretty good first class, don't you agree?<br />
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<em><blockquote>Note: I wrote up this post 2 months ago, mid-summer, but didn't load in the pictures until now. The children loved the way this bookmark turned out. I'm using my tester bookmark in our workbook for Story of the World, Volume 3.<br />
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Her voice in the message sounded kind of desperate. She even ended the message with, "Please, please. please, please call me." That's 4 pleases. Well, you can't say no when someone asks you with 4 pleases - and those are just the last four.<br />
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See, that week was second week of Gymnastics camp. We only planned to attend one day of this camp, and I only planned crafts for one day.<br />
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But Monday afternoon, our dear friend and camp-organizing coach learned that the mom doing crafts on Tuesday had an unexpected schedule conflict arise. And Coach called and said, "please, please, please, please..."<br />
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So I looked around and said, "Hmmm...Mod Podge, file folders, non-bleeding tissue paper squares, ribbons...BOOKMARKS!"<br />
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Now I know that we can pick up a handful of bookmarks for free every time we walk into the library, but still, it's fun to make one, isn't it?<br />
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This is a recycling craft, too - bonus! Our background was used manila file folders. So when one of the children said, "My folder says "Orange County DEP," I could say, "It used to be a file folder for Orange County Department of Environmental Protection, but now we are recycling it!" That idea was a hit. <br />
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I had them trace the general shape of a bookmark onto their rectangle of paper. Then we tore the tissue paper into shreds.<br />
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Sm'Arties won't start meeting for a couple of weeks, but I am excited to start pulling together art projects for the first few weeks! Thank you, generous artists and teachers who share your creativity online - you are coming through for me again!K-Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117653505364031423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823469908887368908.post-83197518792146544002011-08-17T14:07:00.000-07:002011-08-17T14:07:39.088-07:00Introducing Poundcake Kitty<span id="goog_1554162586"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1554162587"></span>Remember Poundcake Cat, my favorite of the <a href="http://k-sue-smarties.blogspot.com/2011/04/copycat.html">page full of copycat kitty drawings</a>?<br />
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Well, a kitty has adopted us. He is our front porch kitty. He has found himself a home. And he is Poundcake.<br />
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No, not real dye, SPRAY tie dye! Did you think I was going to get involved in<a href="http://k-sue-smarties.blogspot.com/search/label/Tie%20dye"> rinsing and wringing out almost 50 T-shirts again in 98 degree heat</a>? NO WAY!!!!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The purple and blue are our favorites. Even with coupons for Hobby, Lobby, Joann's, and Michael's, this is a more expensive craft, so I tried to get by with just enough. Just enough, however, is not enough. Next time I will buy several extra cans and save the receipts in hopes of returning a few. As it is, I will be getting some more cans and taking them to regular Gymnstics team practice, because we ran out of paint during the last group. <em>Learn from my mistake!</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I painted bugs on rocks last spring with the Sm'Arties, and at the time filed away the idea for Gymnastics camp. <br />
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To make the process flow quickly, all the rocks arrived with little faces - eyes and a mouth. The perfectly round eyes come from a dab of white paint applied with a pencil eraser. The black eyeballs are dots from the handle end of a skinny paintbrush. I drew the little mouths, some happy, some squiggly. Each child picked a rock and got to work.<br />
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I only brought about 3 regular and 2 skinny brushes so I could keep control of the groups. <br />
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- Pick your rock, write your name in Sharpie on the bottom. Both names, please! - we have 3 Hannahs and 3 Graces.<br />
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- When it is your turn, paint the little half-circles for wings in a solid color. DON"T DECORATE IT YET! <br />
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- Get back in line. Hold your rock.<br />
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- When you get to the front of the line, your rock will be dry enough to paint some decorations - spots, stripes, etc.<br />
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My campers ranged in age from 3 to 13 years. There were over 45 campers, divided into 5 groups. Group 4, the 12 boys, were a riot. The challenge for me is to discover what kind of crafts are not unreasonable in expense, work in the timeframe, hopefully dry by 1 p.m., and can be made doable for preschoolers and highschoolers; boys and girls. <br />
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For Day 1 (and Day 4!) I took a page from Earthgirl's 6th birthday party, a 70s shendig, and brought a spool of leather thong rope and a big container of pony beads. Simplicity itself!<br />
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They were a hit with girls and boys. <br />
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How to: Fold paper in half length-wise. Using the fold as the bottom line, write your name, your friend's name, or your Alias in <span style="font-size: large;">GREAT BIG</span> cursive letters in Sharpie or marker. Getting the writing <span style="font-size: large;">BIG ENOUGH </span>is the hardest part.<br />
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The original instructions I read suggested you not add any letter tails (g, y, etc.), but sometimes adding the opposing tails gives some cool results.<br />
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Trace the name so that it is mirror image to the first name. If the paper is thin enough and the writing dark enough, you can trace through, but if necessary, you can refold the paper the opposite way, trace name # 2 on the backside, then unfold and trace on the front. Turn you paper upright and...ta-da! An alien appears.<br />
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Trace him/her in Sharpie or dark marker, find his features, and embellish and color away! Scare you friends! Or make them laugh!<br />
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Many folds! We need 8 triangles showing.<br />
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Writing the words to fill up the space. This means the middle letters are the largest letters in the word.<br />
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Write each word 8 times. If you are brave, you can use Sharpies right from the start.<br />
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Almost done - smooth it out.<br />
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But frogs like bright colors :)<br />
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The last few art lessons of the year all rotated around letters and names. I had meant to do an ambitious lesson set on the Florida Highwaymen, but did not feel ready to do those artists justice, and kept pushing the lessons back...another...week. Finally I conceded that the Highwaymen must wait for next year. <br />
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We had fun illuminating letters though, alienating names, and putting words into boxes.<br />
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Most of the Sm'Arties have already studied the Middle Ages and seen examples of illuminated letters, but time has gone by, the students are older, their art skills are more developed, and it was a great time to look back a few centuries to the time when every book was a work of art.<br />
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I showed the Sm'Arties samples of illuminated letters, gave them squares of cream-colored cardstock, and let them create.<br />
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Their themes and interpretations surprised me!<br />
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When they were done, I mounted the squares on slightly larger squares of dark leathery-look scrapbook paper for a bit more of a finished look.<br />
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The posts are almost completed...really...just a few more days...maybe next week...K-Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117653505364031423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823469908887368908.post-13471804813762008192011-04-20T15:15:00.000-07:002011-04-20T16:17:38.534-07:00CopycatRecently I discovered <a href="http://www.juliamarshall.com.au/frame.htm">Artist/Illustrator Julia Marshall</a> through a little head- up from <a href="http://www.suzyssitcom.com/2011/04/in-spotlightjulia-marshall.html">Suzy's Sitcom</a>. Her whimsical cats and dogs are just the thing to capture the attention of our Sm'Arties. On a recent dreary Tuesday, there was sunshine inside as the Sm'Arties went about imitating Ms. Marshall's style.<br />
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I like Pound Cake Cat.<br />
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Last Sm'Artie day was a rainy rainy day. Though we had planned to paint guinea pigs on rocks, it seemed a better idea to do something that did not involve adding more wetness to the day.<br />
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