Skulls

In Messy Art:

We did a Dia de los Muertos craft this week. We used Creatology sticky back foam sheets. You draw your picture out in pen. Then you go over it again and press hard with the pen to leave an indent in the foam.  

I then showed the kids how to apply the paint lightly (non-diluted tempera), holding the brush almost parallel to the foam sheet so as not to get too much paint in the groves of the drawing. This is good for teaching kids how to control the paint brush and about brush strokes.

Then we decorated with sequence, glitter, feathers and pompoms.

  

I like the one on the right... not sure what he's supposed to be but he's waving at you. 

straw art

In Messy Art this week we painted with straws

For some reason, this picture just doesn't want to be right side up

I really like the way this one came out. He painted it on top of paper towels and got some of the texture from the towels in there.

We just mixed some water with tempera paint, giving it the consistency of milk. Then you take a straw, dip it in the paint, and put your finger over the other end of the straw. This creates a pipette effect. Then you drop the paint collected in the straw tip onto the paper and blow. I love to watch the kids get so lost in the process. They really did with this one. We listened to Getz and Gilberto while we painted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2xOgQi_H_A

Kids art

We added a story to our Messy Art last night... Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag. Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats! We made a cat tree

The cat tree consists of an oak branch found on the ground. I decorated it with some gold glitter. It is stuck in a bucket of sand and then decorated with cats.

Last Saturday night was Art Walk and Paint for Fun at Larry Joe Miller Studio One. 

Kathy and I with paint brush and glass of wine

Amy and Livi