I thought it would be cool to see the before & later the after. A crazy media for painting the koi…The bottom shows how I taught the girls the lines when drawing the fish. I told them to ink- I had not done that yet, so I inked one scale & used what media?
May 17, 2013
my big kids koi art project-incomplete
May 14, 2013
and all I had was my iPhone
I, being the perfect daughter (dripping sarcasm, i write), visited with my mother (i am blessed) on Mother’s day. No camera, only iPhone (Ggrrr). I should know by now that I should never go home…(oops) to my parent’s house, without my (damn) camera. My mom made this piece of art (that I left behind 
when I went home). My mom never stops making art (never, ever). Her love of glass, paper & rocks are all over the house (gosh, its like a museum). Every nook & cranny filled bronze, wax, beads, and glass (every media known to man, really, if there is one they forgot, I would love to know it.). I will go back to my parent’s house to take pictures of all of the art. I will share & show how art is in my blood & bones. (and I thank God for it)
http://www.louisrosenthalmuseum.org
He is my Great Grandfather.
May 9, 2013
Wednesday Afternoon art class
All my classes are three children or less. I find that the smaller the class the more I can get to know & understand their individual skills. Most of the kids come to me after school & they begin art using the logical side of their brain. They press too hard with pencils…its wonderful to watch their frustration disappear when I say, “you’ve got your school brain on, lets switch to the art side” The pencil lines begin to lighten, curves begin to come without effort. The tension in their necks & backs relax. I LOVE IT!!!
Anyway, this class finished their project fifteen minutes early, so I french braided their hair by request & begging.
The arms around one another is a beautiful thing to see.
May 2, 2013
I had to share art today
The artist is four years old. I made a stencil using a Club Cracker box & we traced it together. All the white pieces are card stock, so its easy for little fingers to handle. This was a hard project because they had to really listen to where their body parts went.
This little dino makes me laugh, so I had to iPhoto him to keep him forever.
May 2, 2013
Two of Thursday’s artists showed up with science…of a sort
Each had tweezers & a bag of gummy bugs. When they got a bug out of the bag using the tweezers & squeezed the tweezers a light would shine
…making it appear as though the bug was glowing. Yummy! Gosh, they are so cute, I would eat the up. The boys, not the bugs. 
May 2, 2013
This artist’s sketchbook has my studio’s logo
At the beginning of class we learn to draw one thing, usually an animal. The hardest thing about learning to draw is learning where to start & that when you start- to learn to see where the lines are off & how to correct them. These are things that people/kids assume they are supposed to know already.
April 30, 2013
Tuesday Afternoon private art classes
The girls are doing an easy & fun project because the last one they did took almost two months. The elephants will be cut out & put on black card stock. You can see my daughters on the black paper, in the first picture
April 28, 2013
Look what my art students gave to me
I didn’t want go to teach this morning, but I know once I get there, the kids always change my mood for the better. I had Kindergarten first-22 kids. We were talking about good deeds & one of the children said he wanted to make a painting & give it to me as his good deed. The kids all started doing it. I had a few that had written Ms. Amy & then changed their minds because their art was so great.
This project was drawn with oil pastels & then covered with bleeding tissue paper, dabbed with water.
I am going to have these hung up in my art studio so that I’ll remember how blessed my life is.
April 24, 2013
Hydrangeas, I can’t wait!
These are in Leaf & Petal so they have not bloomed naturally here yet. But mine have teeny tiny buds. My favorite time of year! We have about 15 Hydrangea’s around our house, all but one planted by us. The blossoms go in the ground one color & come up another color. I can’t wait to see what I get.
April 22, 2013
my ART class made these cards
Our Temple has Mitzvah Day every year, its a day when we help someone in need in our community. Our children & adults who wish to help all gather together lately its been working on appearance of the city, we do landscaping or weed pulling. This year we are going to visit the elderly in the Birmingham area, and deliver these cards.
The kids delivered up some stunning work. Proud me 
If you are interested in how the kids made them, let me know
