Directions: I drew the dove & photocopied it onto card stock. I looked up every symbol for Peace in the world & drew them on a chalkboard. (At an art store, I purchased boxes of white only oil pastel) This project was done at our Jewish Temple in Birmingham. I had every class come to…
Category: drawing/coloring
playing with photographs
So many ways to make photographs art projects. This is our lion. He lives among the Calla lilies beside our grapes. His name is Levon~from my favorite Sir Elton John’s song… He was a treasure. He is cement & these animals can cost a gazillion dollars. He was $25 at a Home Goods store. The…
my art studio in action
Soon…i have to wait just a little while longer for children to come & make magic happen. make art. fill the studio with their work. best of all…bring me laughter.
a new sketch book
my favorite holiday is Rosh Hashanah~a new year & i love that Yom Kippur gives me a chance for a clean slate. an empty canvas. a new sketch book. this year is going to be wonderful for me…in a few more weeks i will be able to walk without pain. I’ve been down with broken…
art project for very young children
These colleges where made by children ages 3-5. I started with yellow construction paper, I dropped green paint at the top of the paper & gave them a painting tool, similar to a comb & asked them to comb the paint down, I then asked them to flip the paper upside down. I had cut…
Yellow & Blue make Green
art for 2-3 year olds. I used white card stock. Dropped blue paint on one side of the paper, yellow on the other & told the wee ones to use their fingers & see if they can find green. I bought the foam stickers at the dollar tree & picked out all the green animals….
Art is Magic…
This was an idea I had for of the days of Creation. Sun & Moon. I have it wrong however, because the Moon is female & the Sun is male…forgive me. I started with the Sun, we used a coffee can top as the template for the circle. We used black oil pastel for the…
Little girl sits on art & her feet turn blue
Her arches display a heart. My daughter with the black eye, blue feet in her peach dress, riding her goldfish. Summer at its most vivid.
tin foil & sharpie Hamsa
This hamsa was cut from matt board, painted with acrylic, then I cut out tinfoil after coloring it. The star was cut out using a cookie cutter. I added the “diamonds” with glue. For the wire to hang…I beaded the string leaving quite a bit empty so that I could twist together, then bead into…
Painting dragons
I found the Hobbit map on the internet & I copied it onto card stock. The dragon–I drew it onto thick card stock & painted it with nail polish. This is a very smelly art project & one I would only recommend for adults, due the nail polish smell. The end result will have people…
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