Self Portraits Piccaso style

We watched this cute little video about Picasso and then painted our own self portraits with a Picasso flair.

Can you see the 2 different profiles? We learned about framing the face, seeing our faces from the front and the sides. Using bold colors to make our portraits more abstract and creative. As well as filling the frame with lots of geometric shape and dimension.

Hotrod is such a distraction but we love him so. 

He loves to paw at everyone's water jars and get a drink now and then. 

Ask your students if they can express an emotion in their painting? What colors express anger, joy, laughter, happiness, fear? They will enjoy this project. There was a lot of laughs today. Our faces look funny and that is FUN!~

Miniature Paintings

I had some unused curtain rod rings so we used them as mini frames and the students created miniature paintings. This might be a fun project to do at home and use your unused curtain rings and spell out your families last name or something. Let me know if you guys do anything with this! I think it's adorable!

Typography

Students learned about typography. New vocabulary word. They were encouraged to stretch and play with their names and create something unique and graphically strong.

Self Portraits

Self Portraits...with minimal instruction...

We'll learn all semester and then do another self portrait and compare the two. 

Can't wait to see the before and afters.

But these are pretty darn amazing in and of themselves. 

Good job...!

First Day - Younger Class

Today we learned about mixing colors.

We made Color Wheels

Primary Colors: Red, Blue and Yellow

Secondary Colors: Orange, Green and Purple

Then we used those colors and made the awesome 

Name paintings. Erik said it looked like 

stained glass paintings.

ERIK

SAVANNAH

CHRISTIAN

Angel and Bella made fast friends with Savannah!

Savannah was the only girl today. :( 

Hey, but Angel and Bella are girls too!

Christ's Haven -Last Day of Summer Art Camp

This is another fun version of circle paintings... 2-3 students gather around and paint around a center circle as it gets bigger and bigger. Then you connect the circles together with dots. The idea came from artist and teacher Hiep Nguyen....

About Circle Paintings

Circle painting is a collaborative art making process that aims to promots social interaction and creative expression. The concept was originally conceived and created by artist/teacher Hiep Nguyen eight years ago when he realized that making art should not be the privilege of the few but it is the birthright for all people. The first circle painting was created when he invited neighborhood children and their family members to paint in his studio. Since then, Hiep has led many circle painting projects for different organizations, schools, and communities around the world. For more about Circle Paintings, please click here.

The little girl who painted this is only 6 years old!

I sketched the drawing on the canvas and she painted in the colors.

Reflecting on the scripture... "The Word of God stands forever."

~This students painted this vibrant flower.

We finished the summer with inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky.

Starting with a 2' X 3' canvas we divided the canvas

evenly into 4"X4" squares and then let each student paint in their

own circle design. When we were done we all had fun picking

out our favorite squares. You never get tired of looking at this! It is awesome!