tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502472553200567042024-02-20T18:28:49.549-05:00There's a Dragon in my Art RoomPhylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.comBlogger841125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-51780628748256388282021-11-09T00:00:00.001-05:002021-11-09T00:00:52.057-05:00It's Been a While<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNojKNCeLLp5BBWpjKwB0krd2st6_JgEr_UxBxX1uH6MJFoNh9ULl7CGnlJFla_OQEeCf842SLtXzWQHSUD1x9-QNPKfRkrSMaC5B6ml3lS07ovd2C4zvPD8Kge5VjJW_S4vX6cu0clgOR/s4896/DSC00344.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNojKNCeLLp5BBWpjKwB0krd2st6_JgEr_UxBxX1uH6MJFoNh9ULl7CGnlJFla_OQEeCf842SLtXzWQHSUD1x9-QNPKfRkrSMaC5B6ml3lS07ovd2C4zvPD8Kge5VjJW_S4vX6cu0clgOR/w320-h240/DSC00344.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Hey readers, it's been close to two years since I've posted on the blog, mostly due to the fact that my business, DragonWing Arts, where I taught an after-school art class for elementary kids, has been on an indefinite hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. I teach the class in a small classroom in a Jewish Temple where I am a member, and the Temple's current regulations for gatherings in the building, due to the infection rate in the local community, require social distancing, negative Covid tests, temperature/health checks, and of course masks. With the small classroom space, social distancing would make it impossible to fit a group of more than a couple of kids in a class. And anyhow, I am not prepared to check temperatures or require Covid tests for my students. I'm hoping that maybe, after the new year, with kids now eligible for vaccination, that the regulations will ease and I'll be able to re-start my business in some way and then of course have some new art projects to share here on the blog! <p></p><p> In the meantime, I've had to make one change to the blog. In the past week, I've gotten hundreds of emails informing me that people have been trying to access some Google docs (lesson handouts and PowerPoint presentations and such) that I had provided links to on a blog page called "Document Weblinks". While I'm flattered (and surprised!) that so many people are still using my blog as a resource and are finding stuff that is valuable to them, it has caused a problem. Some sort of Google change/update made all the document links invalid, and in order to get these docs to the people requesting them, it appeared I'd have had to individually respond to all their document requests with the updated links, and frankly, I'm not willing to do that, just to give away content, that I developed, for free. So instead I've taken the easy way out and removed the page with the documents. Maybe I'll replace it again down the road, but currently I just don't have the time or will to individually deal with all these document requests. So if you're one of the people who wanted one of these docs, I apologize, but... so it goes... </p><p>So why is there a pic of a kayak and a peaceful lake on the top of this blog post? No reason at all, except that's what I was doing on this beautiful November day, and I thought maybe the photo would intrigue you enough to entice you to read this post! <br /></p>Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-82414279904363215342020-01-07T23:19:00.002-05:002020-01-07T23:19:20.400-05:00DragonWing Arts Students 'Discover' Treasure!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our theme for the fall DragonWing Arts session was Discover! My five students (two 3rd graders, one 4th grader, one 5th grader, and one 6th grader) did three projects - the first was the creation of a treasure map.<br />
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And the second was a papier-mache project. (I'll tell you about the third project later.) I asked the kids what they'd like to build with papier-mache - perhaps a newly 'discovered' creature, a box of buried treasure, something from outer space, a discovery under the microscope or deep in the sea, etc. My five students unanimously said "We want to make TREASURE CHESTS!" So we did.<br />
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We began by constructing the boxes and their curved covers, out of cardboard (from shipping cartons). We covered them with a coat of papier-mache, and when dried, we gave them a base coat of black acrylic.<br />
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The students painted their treasure chests and bedazzled them with some jewels. They used a colorful air-dry clay and made some tentacles and such to be emerging from the their treasure chests, and also added felt and more jewels and strings of beads as desired. We cut 'hinges' out of sparkly felt and such, and I hot glued them together for the kids. I think they came out great!<br />
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For the treasure maps, I had experimented with dark brews of tea and coffee to stain the paper, but it just didn't 'take' the way I wanted, so we used liquid watercolors. I mixed brown with green, with orange, with yellow, and with black, and after they had torn the edges of their paper, they painted them with the watercolors, blotting and wetting as desired to get the effect they wanted. They discovered that dripping water on the papers looked really cool.<br />
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The kids learned how to make a simple 'compass rose', and also how to make a scroll for a key on their maps. I printed out sheets of typical map symbols and then let them go to work making their maps truly their own inventions. The started with pencil, and then used a combination of fine-tip black markers and India ink with dip pens. They loved working with the pen and ink!! Afterward they used tiny amounts of red, white, and gold acrylic ink to embellish.<br />
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Somehow I forgot to take pics of the third project, so here's some more views of the treasure chests! <br />
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Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-91615985841614131552019-12-07T00:14:00.003-05:002019-12-07T00:14:51.063-05:00Funky Fun with Chalk Pastels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently taught a workshops at my state art teacher's convention called <b>Funky Fun with Chalk Pastels</b>, and I want to share all about it here! The hands-on workshop was intended to share unusual and innovative ways of using chalk pastels, especially for people who don't like the dust and are fearful of chalk. The room was set for about 30 people; about 60 attended. We squashed people everywhere! Some were even sitting/drawing/painting on the floor!!<br />
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Nevertheless, it was a great workshop, with everyone creating enthusiastically. All photos in this post are pieces created by the workshop participants. I was blown away by the work they did! <br />
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In the workshop, we mostly used bogus paper, an inexpensive and highly absorbent thickly fibrous ugly gray paper. I purchased it through Nasco but it can also be purchased elsewhere. I soaked the bogus paper in a tub of water. Workshop participants used a variety of soft pastels drawing directly onto the surface of the wet paper. The chalk pastels become paint-like on the wet surface, creating luscious vivid color!<br />
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A second technique was to paint lines in black acrylic on white (or bogus) paper. Then, areas of the paper could be painted with water, and colored with chalk. <br />
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Or, chalk could be colored and then blended with liquid starch, using your finger, a paintbrush, or a Q-tip. <br />
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An additional technique is called 'chalk dips', and was done on colored or black paper. Participants dipped their chalk pastel sticks in white tempera paint and worked in bold strokes of chalk. The paint 'outlines' the chalk color, as in the photos below. Any color tempera can be used for this technique.<br />
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My favorite thing that happened in the workshop was the way the participants combined the various techniques and materials. Chalk dips were added to the chalk drawings on wet bogus paper, and on the white paper with liquid starch. <br />
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And some people combined the chalk on wet bogus, the white tempera chalk dips, and also added the black acrylic. Can't you see some of these pieces, such as the ones below, re-interpreted as giant abstract paintings in oil or acrylic?<br />
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When the pieces dry, they will turn chalky again (unless the colors were blended with liquid starch, which 'fixes' the chalk). To restore the vibrancy of the colors and prevent the dry chalk from smearing, you can paint over the artwork with Mod Podge, or some other acrylic gloss varnish (or also Sax Gloss Tempera Varnish) to seal them. But this needs to be done carefully to prevent smearing the chalk. I recommend painting the gloss over one chalk color at a time, and rinsing/wiping the brush in between colors. <br />
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Here's a few more pieces from the workshop.</div>
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I taught a shorter version of this same workshop three years ago at my state convention. You can find a blog post about that workshop by clicking <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2016/11/funky-fun-with-chalk-pastels.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. And click <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-project-people-in-motion.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> for a link to a post where my after-school students used chalk and liquid starch as part of a project they were doing. </div>
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Tomorrow I'm headed to Binghamton NY for my state art teacher's convention where I'll be teaching a couple of workshops. I'll be be blogging about it in the coming week, but here's something else in the meantime. <br />
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Last April I blogged <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2019/04/warm-and-cool-colors-for-painted-paper.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> about how my DragonWing Arts students had made painted paper in warm and cool colors, to use in some sunshine collages we were making. I never posted the finished products. As it was, we ran out of time and had to take some short cuts in putting together the final pieces, but I still liked them a lot. I almost forgot to take pics, so I shot these in a hurry in very poor lighting. <br />
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The kids had designed patterns on tracing paper for their suns, and were using them with their painted paper to cut and put together like puzzles. But their ideas were WAY too complicated, so in the end, with no time left, we ditched the patterns, threw caution to the wind, and just started cutting and assembling!<br />
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It was a challenge, but the kids were enthusiastic nevertheless!</div>
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Here are the (somewhat) completed pieces.</div>
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The aftermath!</div>
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We've got some really fabulous new projects my students are working on now. I'll be telling you more about them in the coming month, when the artwork is completed. Now, I'd better go finish packing!!! Hope to see some of you in Binghamton!<br />
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A blogger friend of mine recently asked if I was still blogging, because I haven't posted in a really really long time, about 6 months. It was a good wake-up call for me. I've had a lot going on in my life <i>(some good, some not-so-good; it all balances out somehow and just takes up time; maybe I'll share some of it down the road)</i> and somehow the blog fell to the bottom of my 'things to do' list. There's a bunch of other stuff on the to-do list I haven't done either. Anyhow, I don't suppose I can totally catch up for 1/2 year of missing posts, but I'm gonna try.<br />
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I thought for fun I'd start with a quickie post of a few things that annoy me lately, to let you know I'm still the same old snarky blogger I was 6 months ago. <i> (I think this great blue heron was pretty annoyed that this fish didn't fit in his mouth, and I think the fish was pretty upset that the heron repeatedly picked him up and tossed him around.) </i> *By the way, all photos in this post are mine exclusively. So here goes:<br />
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1) <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Crooked horizons on photos, unless intentional for a specific reason.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> </b></span>It only takes a moment, whether on your phone, tablet, laptop, or whatever, to straighten your horizon, as I've done in the photo above. You don't need Photoshop to fix it. Also crooked horizons on paintings. I have an artist friend who does lovely plein air landscape paintings. Here horizons are always slightly off-kilter and she doesn't realize it and I don't dare tell her (she doesn't respond well to critique of any kind). Having one of her paintings in my home would be like having a painting hanging crooked on the wall; it would drive me bananas! I wish she would notice it on her own.<br />
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2)<span style="color: blue;"><b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Boomerang videos.</span></b></span> <br />
Why do you think I want to see the same jittery movement over and over and over again? I don't. They give me headaches. Please stop.<br />
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3)<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> Instagram stories.</b></span> <br />
I mean, I admit I do look at them sometimes <i>(particularly those by <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjB-ImX2rvlAhUJUt8KHah1DysQFjAAegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2F1bike1world%2F%3Fhl%3Den&usg=AOvVaw0c3XpeVNcHXxwxzhy0Jq-t" target="_blank">1bike1world</a>; if you've never heard of him, check him out. He's a lovely young Scottish man traveling the world on a bike, who rescued a kitten he found who now is his traveling companion)</i>. But anyhow, they annoy me so much when there's text and the image flips before I finish reading it and then I can't get it back again to finish reading it. Or I have to watch the whole damn story again to see the one part with the text I didn't finish. Ugh.<br />
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4) <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Over-saturated colors on autumn photos.</b></span> <br />
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Autumn colors are beautiful
on their own. I can understand someone giving the colors a little saturation to pump them up, or even warming the color balance a little, but dramatically over-saturating the colors make them look fake, not
beautiful. The pic above is straight from the camera, unedited. <br />
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5) <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Profile photos with Snapchat filters.</b></span><i><b> </b></i>I don't have a lot to say about this. The cutesy stuff simply gives me the creeps.<br />
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That's enough for now. Next post will be back to art education stuff, including the finished projects I was posting about last April, and what my students are working on now. By the way, here's a link to two other posts where I've previously written about pet peeves of various sorts: <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/search/label/pet%20peeves" target="_blank">PET PEEVES POSTS.</a>Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-69103518560185436782019-04-11T01:01:00.000-04:002019-04-11T01:01:06.510-04:00Warm and cool colors for painted paper!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My DragonWing Arts students have been making painted paper, to use in sunshine collages we will be creating during late April or early May. Everybody painted 4 sections of an 18x24" sheet of paper, so there will be lots of choices to use for the sun and its rays.<br />
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We painted with brushes, scratched lines with the back of the brushes, stamped with foam circle stampers and also with slices of pool noodles cut in half, among other things.<br />
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We also painted smaller pieces of paper (12"x18") with cool colors, to use for our skies. We used the same methods and tools.<br />
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I found a rubbery waffle place-mat at the dollar store, and cut it in pieces. The kids enjoyed using them for stamping texture onto their papers. It was especially fun because their hands got so messy in the process.<br />
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Stay tuned; next month I'll post the process of putting together the collages and the final product. I've got some fun ideas for them - hopefully they'll be great!Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-28791221121361910892019-04-06T01:33:00.001-04:002019-04-14T18:10:59.241-04:00Presenting a workshop - why YOU should submit a proposal!<b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;">It's THAT time of year for art teachers.</span></span></b> Here in NY state, proposals are due soon for workshop presentations at the annual NYSATA convention, held in November. And I expect that soon, it will again be time to submit proposals for the NAEA annual convention, to be held in Minneapolis in March 2020.<br />
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Today, there was a conversation on Facebook about whether or not there were enough elementary workshops at the NAEA in Boston. My immediate reaction was this: were the people who wanted more elementary workshops willing to present a workshop? Because, after all, we who attend the convention ARE the convention!<br />
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I've been presenting annually at my state convention for at least a dozen years, and nationally for about 5 or 6. So, I want to tell you why, despite the inconveniences, I continue to present workshops, even now, in my 7th year of retirement. I'll explain the many benefits of presenting a workshop at either your state convention or at the NAEA convention, in hopes that maybe YOU will take the leap and submit a workshop proposal. And for full disclosure, I'll explain the negatives as well. I hope you'll find the positives outweigh the negatives and you'll take the leap and dive in!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FIVE GOOD REASONS TO PRESENT A WORKSHOP:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>Presenting a workshop helps you to meet lots of awesome people, and make meaningful connections.</b></span><br />
Years ago, before the internet was such a big thing, my region of our state organization (NYSATA) was inactive, and, teaching in a rural school on my own, I knew nobody, and wasn't good at making easy connections in crowds. I decided to present a workshop at my state convention. The workshop was a major success, and I suddenly had people inviting me to sit with them at meals, hang out at the Saturday night party, and so on. They became my friends, and my workshop groupies; I was no longer all alone. The connections I've made as a result of teaching workshops have been lasting and meaningful.<span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b>Presenting a workshop is a fabulous advocacy tool.</b></span><br />
After I presented my first workshop, I brought copies of my evaluations, which were excellent, back to my administration. They were so proud that I represented my little rural district so well at such a big event, and shared the evaluations with the school board. It made them value my program, and ME, as the reason the program was successful.<br />
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The bonus of this was that, each year afterward, when I requested to go the convention, and they turned down my request, I told them I already had a workshop proposal approved, and they changed their mind and allowed me to go. EVERY TIME!!! And they made sure that my registration fee, and sometimes my hotel (depending on the year's finances) were paid for. They wanted our school district to be noticed!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><b>Presenting a workshop helps you to refine your presentation.</b></span><br />
We get used to talking to kids. But adults can be a more challenging audience. As a result, I've discovered that figuring out how to present successfully to adults helps you to refine your presentation to kids. You HAVE to be organized and prepared. If you are not, you'll bomb. Even in a good workshop, if something goes wrong, you will learn from it. Last year someone wrote something on an evaluation of one of my NAEA workshops that made me reevaluate my presentation. I took it as a challenge to improve. The workshop had been successful but still, there was something to fix. So I presented the same workshop this year, and tried to hopefully right my wrong!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>Presenting a workshop will make you feel appreciated and proud.</b></span><br />
At the state level, here in NY, presenters receive a certificate, and a little token certificate for the NYSATA store, to use for something like a t-shirt or an apron. Nationally, you don't get those perks, but you DO find that people will remember you, and will show their appreciation. Maybe they'll approach you in the vendor hall to tell you you are appreciated. Maybe they'll offer to help you with your stuff. Or maybe they'll 'friend' you on Facebook after the convention. Whatever the case, even without a certificate or token for goodies, you WILL feel appreciated! And that's something we all need!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b>It feels good to give back.</b></span><br />
Yup, it feels good to share your knowledge with others. It's as simple as that!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE DOWNSIDE OF PRESENTING A WORKSHOP</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="background-color: #93c47d;">Scheduling of your workshop(s) will define your convention schedule.</span> </b></span><br />
You probably won't be attending a workshop before your presentation, unless you want to attend the workshop that will be in the same room where you are presenting. And you probably won't be attending a workshop after your workshop, because by the time your laptop is back in your bag, or your supplies or visuals are packed back up, you really have to hustle to get to another workshop (unless, of course, you want to attend whatever is in the room you've just presented in!).<br />
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Also, workshops at NAEA can be at wacky times. This year, I taught a studio workshop from 6-7:50pm, which made it more challenging to make dinner plans. Or maybe your workshop might be right smack in the middle of the day at NAEA, when all your friends are heading to a museum for the afternoon with free admission, and you fear you won't be back in time. These challenges are not unmanageable. This year, even with the timing, I still made it to the Boston MFA, and still managed to grab dinner with friends!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>You will probably have stuff to transport, beyond your suitcase, and that can be an annoyance.</b></span><br />
You'll likely need to bring your laptop for a slide presentation, and maybe you are bringing visuals or examples of some sort. For a hands-on workshop, you'll need to transport materials, too. If you are presenting at a distance and need to fly to attend the convention, rather than driving, that can present a challenge. Nationally, NAEA will pay to cover the costs of shipping your materials for a ticketed studio workshop. But they do not cover the costs of shipping anything back home afterward.<br />
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Also, you might find yourself dragging your stuff around the convention for a while in order to keep yourself from missing anything, if you aren't staying in a room near enough to quickly drop off your materials/laptop. Convention centers rarely have lockers where you can put stuff temporarily.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b> SO... note that I've listed FIVE positives and only TWO negatives.</b></span> Be brave; next time you have the opportunity, offer your expertise! You won't be disappointed!Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-71674901512670910512019-04-01T23:51:00.001-04:002019-04-01T23:54:02.891-04:00Keepin' it Easy: Thumbprint Pussywillows!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was out for a walk today by a local pond and wetland area, and discovered some pussywillows growing, which, at least around here, are the predecessor of all other spring growth. They are a favorite of mine, and made me recall a favorite one-class art project that I did annually with my kindergartners until I retired.</div>
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I think it is important to remember that a good art project doesn't have to be complex and take a long time to do to be worth doing. There's a lot of value in the simplicity of this project.</div>
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Each year, I'd bring a batch of pussywillows in to the art room. I would give my kindergartners time to touch them, feel their softness, and stroke their cheeks with them. Then we'd look at the shapes of the branches, and how the little soft pussywillows grow along the stems. The kids would also observe the dark little seed pods at the base of each fuzzy bud.</div>
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We looked at various vases I had placed on the tables, and how they were shaped. Students each chose a sheet of colored construction paper (I usually offered a menu of various springtime colors), and began by choosing a shape for their vase, and drawing it using crayons. Crayons were also used to add the stems and the little dark seed pods. Each table also had some real pussywillows on it, so the kids could use them for reference as they drew their stems.<br />
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Then I lightly mixed a blend of white paint with some silver and a touch of black, that I placed in a shallow dish on each table. The kindergartners used their thumbs as stampers to stamp pussywillow buds on top of the seed pods. And that's it! Cleanup is as easy as a wipe of the thumb with a baby wipe! Easy-peasy observational project that can be completed in one class period! <br />
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I did a similar annual one-class project with my first graders, when the lilac tree in my backyard bloomed each year. Again, we looked at the flowers (and of course we sniffed them, too!). We noted how they grow in clumps, and we looked at the shape of the lilac leaves. We drew vases, this time including a table surface, and again we drew stems, adding leaves as well. I mixed a selection of lilac colors, using varying amounts of white, purple, magenta, and blue, and the students used cotton swabs to paint their flowers. Disposable paintbrushes = easy cleanup! For more info, and much better photos than those below, check out <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2016/06/lovely-lilacs-revisited.html" target="_blank"><b>this post from June 2016</b></a>.<br />
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I taught 2 workshops at this year's NAEA convention - <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Get Deep Relief with Totally Terrific Tooling Foil</b></span> and <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Using the Unexpected</b></span>. <br />
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The first, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Get Deep Relief with Totally Terrific Tooling Foil</b></span>, was a 1 hour and 50 minute ticketed studio workshop. I'm amazed that the attendees were able to complete such fabulous pieces in the time allotted. The time seemed to fly by very quickly! <br />
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I believe the attendee who made the adorable sheep (or is it a lamb?) below plans to add color to help identify his eyes. I think it will be really cool!<br />
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Here is the class, learning the basics, and getting started.</div>
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The pic below is someone looking at some of my samples.</div>
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And a few more fabulous pieces made by attendees.</div>
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Some attendees didn't have time to do the 'antiquing' process, using ink and steel wool. I hope that they will send me pics of their pieces when they are complete!<br />
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I'm not going to go into process details here, because they are posted previously on this blog. You can find my video tutorials for working with tooling foil <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2018/02/tooling-foil-tutorial.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>, and you can find a link to a handout called "<b>Oh What a Relief</b>" on my Document Weblinks tab, <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/p/document-weblinks.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. To see pics from last year's tooling foil workshop at NAEA, go <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-tale-of-two-workshops-tooling-foil.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.<br />
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Tons of samples / examples!</div>
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My second workshop, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Using the Unexpected</b></span>, was a slide presentation, where I talked about using materials such as toothpaste for an imitation batik resist (example in the pic below), roofing felt as a painting surface, Sheetrock for relief carving, sand as a textural medium for paint, shaving cream for marbling, and more. <br />
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It was a nice big room with most of the seats filled. I didn't count, but based on the number of rows of chairs, I think there were about 150 people there!! To access the handout and a PDF of my slide presentation, you can again find them on my Documents Weblinks tab on this blog, <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/p/document-weblinks.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.<br />
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I really enjoyed teaching the workshops this year, and I think my attendees were mostly quite happy! But unfortunately there is always a downside, and I want to share that with you as well. In my tooling foil workshop, during the hectic closing minutes, some visitors stopped in and looked around, and took some pictures. I should have chased them out, but I thought perhaps they had friends in the workshop. Unfortunately, I learned the next day that one of them had stolen the kit of materials from one of my attendees. How awful! With 6 or 7 thousand art teachers at the convention, there'd be no way to ever find or identify them. <br />
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Then, the next day, someone placed a recording device on the front table in my workshop, to record my presentation, and forgot to pick it up at the end. It's usually me that leaves things behind and loses them at conventions, so I feel very badly for the gentleman who was recording my presentation to bring back to the rest of his department. I hope he is able to recover it!Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-38069598738704472672019-03-21T01:38:00.002-04:002019-03-21T01:43:48.818-04:00NAEA Boston, part one!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I spent the past extended weekend in Boston, at the annual NAEA convention, a gathering of thousands of art teachers from all over the country; actually from all over the world! So much to share, I'm going to divide it into two posts. This first post is an overview of the convention experience. The squirrel pictured above is one of a number of sculptures by Okuda San Miguel, which are stationed along the median of a street in Boston. Pretty cool, huh? Getting to see these, as well as the installation Prismatica (part of which is pictured below, right) was one of many fabulous experiences during my days in Boston.<br />
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Over the space of four days, I both taught and attended workshops,
visited the vendors and tried out new materials, attended an opening
night party and danced my feet off, spent time with old friends and new
friends, ate fabulous Italian food, seafood, and sushi, attended a
fun meet and greet courtesy of the Art Class Curator, saw really
cool street art, visited the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts), walked thousands
of steps, and took hundreds of pictures. Whew! It was a busy
whirlwind, and I came home exhausted but happy.<br />
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(By the way, the silver-haired lady in all of these photographs is me.)</div>
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Boston is a lovely city. My son lives nearby, so I've definitely visited the city a number of times, but still, every time I'm there, I see something new, like this.<br />
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The side of that building is flat, by the way. It's all an illusion. </div>
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And yes, I took a lot of pics, but I did NOT take a lot of photos of people, so the images of people in this post are all borrowed from friends - thanks everyone for doing what I neglected to do! I hope its OK that I'm using your pics. Above, yummy dinner at Giacomo's, and below, eating with friends at Legal Harborside.<br />
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And at the meet-and-greet. I wish I took pics of the sushi we ate afterward!</div>
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Look at these photos below of artists Janet Echelman (1st pic) and Amy Sherald (2nd pic). I was lucky enough to get to hear them both of these inspiring women speak at the convention. Do you notice, they seem to have the same pair of glasses? Maybe I need to get a pair like them!<br />
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I'm sure you know who Amy Sherald is, right? (If you don't, she's the artist who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama for the National Gallery). But maybe you don't know about Janet Echelman. Her floating sculptures flying in the air over cities and such are amazing. I posted about her work when it was in Boston in 2015, referring to it as a psychedelic hairnet in the sky. You can see that post <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-it-psychedelic-hairnet-or-sharknado.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. Her talk was engaging and enlightening - I loved hearing how happenstance really changed the direction of her life and art-making in such a fabulous way, and how science and mathematics are such a big part of her art-making process. Here's a pic from her presentation.<br />
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One of the cool things about NAEA conventions is that they usually include the opportunity to visit local museums for free. I'd been to the MFA before, but I was glad to have the opportunity to return. Below, some pics of favorite things from the MFA.<br />
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This painting below, of the Lincoln children, by Susan Catherine Moore Waters reminds me of the creepy twins from The Shining. Is it just me, or do you see it too?<br />
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This painting below is what this past winter felt like. Hopefully, now that it is spring, we won't get too much more snow (though some is predicted for Friday).<br />
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I'm going to juxtapose two paintings from the MFA by Charles Sheeler with photos that I took while in Boston. Do you see the relationship? Cool, huh? I think I need to learn more about Charles Sheeler and his intriguing compositions.<br />
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Just a few more from the MFA...</div>
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So much more I could show you, but I've already included enough for you to see this time. In my next post, I'll tell you all about the two workshops I taught - the good and the bad (mostly good!). I'll close with a pic from my hotel. Isn't it cool? I walked past that several times every day! <br />
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My DragonWing Arts students recently completed these paintings of trees. We began with this simple method: </div>
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First, draw a land line, dividing ground and sky. </div>
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Second, draw a trunk that extends from land line to top of paper. </div>
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Third, add branches coming from the trunk, extending to the edges of the paper. More smaller branches could be added coming from these branches. </div>
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Details could be added as desired. Some of the girls decided they should have branches that were shaped like hearts. And of course they wanted to add swings, too! I left these decisions up to them. </div>
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When the drawings were done, painting began. The kids each selected two colors to use to paint their skies, mixing as desired. </div>
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In the pic on the right below, you can see the the student making use of an 'ugly sponge' when mixing colors. We use these for keeping paintbrushes clean with minimal water. The excess paint is wiped off the brush onto the sponge, and the brush can then be dipped into the other color the student is using. When changing to a completely different pair of colors, the brush is first wiped on the ugly sponge, then washed in the water, and then wiped again on the sponge to remove excess moisture. The paints stay exceptionally clean with this method! </div>
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another two colors were selected to paint the ground, and finally,
another two colors were used for the tree itself. White could be used
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When the paint was dry, some of the kids chose to use black Sharpies to outline and make their colors 'pop'. <br />
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Originally, the plan was to add a few leaves as desired, cutting them from sheets of colored foam, adding vein lines with Sharpies, and gluing onto the trees or ground. We ran out of time, so the trees stayed leafless! I think they look great!<br />
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My DragonWing Art students have been experimenting with various paint techniques, with the results being made into planets for colorful "out of this world" collages. <br />
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We began by painting large (18x24") pieces of paper with black ink, leaving unpainted borders about the thickness of a ruler. We also used some glittery purple paint on the ink, to add some sparkle. When dry, white paint was spattered on with a toothbrush, to make more stars in space.<br />
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On small sheets of white paper, we used liquid watercolors in several ways to achieve interesting surface texture.<br />
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And with bubble wrap.</div>
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plus liquid watercolor and shaving cream for marbling.</div>
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We also used bleeding tissue paper applied with water, removing the tissue paper when dry, to create colorful blends.<br />
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And finally, we printed some papers with slices of pool noodles and tempera paint.</div>
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Often, our hands ended up getting printed, too!</div>
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All the papers that were created were used to make into planets and more for our collages. <br />
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We used various bottles, caps, bowls, cd's, rolls of tape, and more as circle tracers for planets. </div>
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We used black crayons to add shadows to our planets to make them look round. This was easy for some of the students, and more challenging for others. </div>
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I showed the students how to cut rings for planets if they desired. </div>
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And the students began merrily cutting planets for their collages, to glue onto their painted and spattered background papers.</div>
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I gave the students strips of holographic contact paper, that they used to create fancy borders for their papers.<br />
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I also had strips of glow-in-the-dark contact paper, which was used on the sides of the collage pictured below.<br />
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Finally, I also offered the students some glitter glue. The bottles hadn't been used in a while, and the glue often squirted out in wonky and unexpected ways, but still, the sparkle really jazzes up the skies!<br />
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There are currently 5 students in my DragonWing Arts class; I unfortunately neglected to photograph one of the final collages. I'll photograph it in a few days, and then add the pic to this post. In the meantime, here's one last pic. <br />
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Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-1742745939667116732019-02-21T01:25:00.000-05:002019-02-21T01:25:05.317-05:00Three fabulous exhibits, no pictures?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ah, to go to NYC and see 3 fabulous art exhibits was a delight, but to learn no photos were allowed in any of them was a huge frustration! The three exhibits were: <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/frida_kahlo" target="_blank"><b>Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving</b></a> at the Brooklyn Museum, <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_181006warhol.html" target="_blank"><b>Andy Warhol's Endangered Species</b></a> at the Ukrainian Museum, and <a href="https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/tolkien" target="_blank"><b>Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth</b></a> at the Morgan Library and Museum.<br />
<br />But I'm gonna tell you about them anyhow, and show you some pics I took in parts of the museums where photography IS allowed....<br />
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I know lots of people have been VERY excited about the Frida exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. And so was I. It is an extensive collection of memorabilia, including tons of photos, some of her drawings, her clothing, her medical corsets (including plaster corsets that she'd painted herself), a prosthetic leg with red satin shoes, and video clips. It's a very in-depth look into her life. But there were only about 1/2 dozen of her paintings, and, while the exhibit was fascinating, I desperately wanted to see more of her actual paintings. They look very different (so much better!) in person, than in photos. So - worth going? It's up to you. Just don't expect to see an exhibition of her paintings, or you'll be disappointed.<br />
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Anyhow, there's so much else to see, while you're at the Brooklyn Museum. Above is a gorgeous Alfred Bierstadt painting. If you make the visit, don't miss Judy Chicago's incredible installation, The Dinner Party (pictured below)!<br />
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Below, The Virgin by Joseph Stella</div>
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There's currently a big Andy Warhol exhibit at the Whitney Museum, but we instead decided to go to the tiny Ukrainian Museum, where his Endangered Species series of prints were on display. I'd had a set of poster prints from this series in my former classroom, but again, seeing the 'real thing' is so much more impressive! The exhibit also included some memorabilia from his childhood. <br />
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Elsewhere in the Ukrainian Museum, there are exhibits of costumes and headdresses. But the exhibit that most intrigued me was <b>RE:CREATE. Christina Saj's Transformative Paintings</b>. The colorful paintings hung on the walls, and in the center of the room were boxes with a variety of painted shapes backed by magnets, that visitors were invited to use to transform the paintings. I loved the novel concept of this artwork. I hope other visitors aren't afraid to dig into the boxes and play! Such fun!<br />
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Below are the 'before' and 'afters' of a couple of paintings that I transformed.</div>
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I discovered by accident that there was a J.R.R. Tolkien at the Morgan Library and Museum. I honestly had never even heard of the Morgan Library, but I'd previously toured and seen exhibits at the New York Public Library (also worth a visit!). Well... The Morgan Library is a real gem! And the Tolkien exhibit? WOW! I hadn't realized that he was, as well as a writer, also an incredible artist. And of course he also designed all the maps, and created the languages, too. If you travel to NYC this spring, the exhibit is there through mid-May, and is definitely worth a visit, even if you aren't a huge fan of The Lord of The Rings books. (By the way, there's also a fabulous photography exhibit at the Morgan right now, and no photos were allowed there, either.)<br />
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The Morgan Library is a gorgeous place, with stunning architectural details. Above and below, a few pics from the Morgan. Beautiful place!<br />
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I also had time for a visit to Mood, the fabric store where the contestants shop for fabric on Project Runway. Our hotel was only a block away!<br />
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Here's a couple of views out my hotel window.</div>
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Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-91339999449484515402019-01-28T01:29:00.001-05:002019-01-28T01:29:44.106-05:00Using my Wolf Kahn lesson as inspiration for painting with adults<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In my book club, a different person picks a book each month and hosts the group for food, beverages, and discussion. When we read <i><b>The Art Forger</b></i> this past month (which I told you about in my previous blog post, <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2019/01/two-books.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>), the host thought the book didn't have a lot of 'meat' for discussion. Her artist daughter suggested she host the book club as a paint-and-sip. I'm the only artist in our group of 10 women, so she contacted me, wondering if I thought we could 'forge' the Degas painting that was central to the book. I said no.<br />
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I've never presented at a paint-and-sip, but I've attended one, grudgingly, and I really despised the concept of a group of people all painting matching schlocky paintings. And I looked closely at Degas paintings, and his layers of subtle color glazes, and I knew that these non-artist ladies would never feel successful trying to imitate his colors, or trying to draw a nude, or a ballerina, or a horse.<br />
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So I suggested another approach, and the host agreed, purchased paints and canvases with my guidance, and provided paper plates, rags, and a place to paint. I provided easels, paintbrushes, and my presumed expertise. And of course there was wine.<br />
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I showed the ladies the paintings of Wolf Kahn, that I had recently used for inspiration for a lesson with my DragonWing Arts students that I posted about <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2019/01/wolf-kahn-inspired-landscapes.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. I explained that we would be loosely using his paintings for our inspiration, to create (or 'forge') our own 'missing masterpieces'. <br />
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I explained that they'd begin with big brushes, creating layers of colors for sky, background, middle ground, and foreground. Each layer would be created by brushing together two or more colors, plus white if desired. We quickly reviewed the color wheel and I recommended mixing analogous colors but not complementary colors, unless they wanted to create browns and grays. The color choices were totally up to them. I explained my <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-painting-mantra-other-random-stuff.html" target="_blank">Wipe Wash Wipe</a></b> method for keeping their brushes clean, and they went right to work. <br />
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Their color choices and brush strokes were sometimes bold, sometimes gentle; some color mixes and textures were intentional, and others were a complete surprise.<br />
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We took a break for some dessert, and let the paint dry a bit, and then returned to paint some trees as desired. I gave the choice of painting trees with brushes, or using strips of corrugated cardboard with paint on the edges to stamp textured trees, and demonstrated both. We talked about size of the trees to create perspective - smaller for further away, larger for close, and then I totally left it up to them. And they each approached their trees in a totally unique way. Nobody tried to copy!!!<br />
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Some chose to be very symmetrical, others were not. Again, the decision was their own. Do trees grow in rocks on the beach? Not usually, but why not, for the purpose of the painting below?<br />
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The painting below was a view of a local golf course. The trees are not there, but were added in and I think really make the painting pop!<br />
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The ladies were so incredibly successful! And not only that, they also had a fabulous time, are proud of their paintings (which are each unique), and want to paint again! Success!<br />
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*Just realized, I'm missing photos of a couple of finished paintings. Oops... It was not intentional. :( Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-25211819967994059932019-01-19T01:24:00.000-05:002019-01-28T01:31:20.390-05:00Two BooksI'm an avid reader. But, while lots of art educators like to read books about pedagogy, and all sorts of stuff related to teaching and education and such, I admit that I do not. I read for pleasure and escapism; I like a good story. It can be a novel - pure fiction, maybe a post-apocalyptic or dystopian story, or a well-written piece of magic realism, or perhaps a historical novel based on a real person or situation, or just about anything else, as long as I enjoy the writing. I also appreciate a well-written memoir. But today's post is about two books that I've read recently, both related to art.<br />
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I first learned about the early 17th century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi in a graduate art class on female artists, in the late 70's, while I was a young teacher. I was compelled by her story and her work, and never forgot her. (And I must admit, I love the rhythmic sound of her name!) A year or so ago, I was at a library book sale, and came across the book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Artemisia-Novel-Susan-Vreeland/dp/0142001821/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank"><b>The Passion of Artemisia</b></a></i>, by Susan Vreeland, pictured above. I added it to the pile of books on my dresser and have finally read it.<br />
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If you don't know anything about Artemisia, reading this book is a good way to learn her story. While it is a novel, and therefore fiction, much of it is based on the known facts of life, including her rape by a painting teacher, and the trial of her rapist. It is well-written and a compelling story, and I highly recommend it. But if you read it, please remember, it is a novel, which means characters are invented to enhance the story, and portions of her life are edited and simplified. Still, if it brings to life an artist you might otherwise know nothing about, and makes you want to read more about her, it is worth the time. And after reading it, you might agree with me that Artemisia Gentileschi was a badass!! <br />
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My book club recently selected <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Forger-Novel-B-Shapiro/dp/1616203161" target="_blank"><b>The Art Forger</b></a></i> by B.A. Shapiro as our month's reading. It is a novel, based loosely on the true story of the unsolved theft of artwork worth more than $500 million from the <a href="https://www.gardnermuseum.org/" target="_blank">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</a> in Boston. The story of the theft is especially intriguing to me because I recently learned that there was a possible connection between this theft and an attempted 1981 heist at the Hyde Collection, here in Glens Falls NY where I live. (The thieves hijacked a Federal Express truck and then got stuck in traffic, causing them to arrive at the museum after closing time, and ruining their plan. The beautiful Rembrandt portrait of Christ and other valuable artwork at the museum remained safe, and security was subsequently much improved.)<br />
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Anyhow, the book is the story of a young woman who is a struggling artist, and works for a company that makes reproductions of famous works of art. She is approached to copy a Degas painting that had been stolen in the Gardner Museum theft. (Remember, this book is a novel; this particular Degas painting is a fictional invention.) From the book, I learned a bit about art forgery, and about Isabella Stewart Gardner and her museum, so I guess it was a worthwhile read. But if you read it, don't expect a great piece of literature! It's an easy read, so its a good book to toss in your bag to read on the beach or in an airplane, but it is not likely to make your top ten list! I honestly admit I disliked the main character, and found the story very improbable, but I suppose, since I now want to visit the Gardner, it was a worthwhile read.<br />
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Have you read either of these two books? Any other art-related books that are good stories? Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-45860950091526771262019-01-11T01:44:00.001-05:002019-01-11T01:44:47.032-05:00Creating crazy colorful papers for collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the beginnings of new project with some fun preparatory steps! Last week, my DragonWing Arts students painted large sheets of paper with black ink, and then painted over it as desired with a glittery paint. These are going to become the backgrounds for colorful outer space collages. We will also be splattering them with some white and silver paint, to create galaxies of stars. <br />
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So this week's task was to create some colorfully textured papers that can be cut into planets, or any other celestial object desired! We did these several ways, using liquid watercolors and watercolor paper. The technique used for the papers pictured in the photo at the top of this post was bubble-wrap printing. The students wet their papers with a big brush, and then painted them with saturated colors. Then, a piece of bubble wrap was placed on the wet paint, and some cardboard was placed on top to keep it in place as it dried. Above are the results when dry. Yes, somehow I have purple bubble wrap! The color has absolutely no function. It's just pretty!<br />
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A similar process was used for the papers below, but instead of bubble
wrap, students used crunched up pieces of wax paper and plastic wrap. I
love the color choices they made - there's paper created for an ice planet, and another for a fiery
planet, and so on.<br />
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Students then saturated another piece of paper with wet watercolors and sprinkled them with salt. We used a mix of table salt and kosher salt. The results, pictured below, are really lovely. <br />
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This one looks like it could be the earth!</div>
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Here's a couple more gorgeous closeups!</div>
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Finally, the students tried out shaving cream printing. If you've never done this before, it is easy and messy, but its the kind of mess that cleans up easily. Each student spread out some shaving cream on a tray. They dripped liquid watercolors into the shaving cream, and swirled the colors with a fork or a pointy wooden stick. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then a piece of paper was pressed into the shaving cream, and the paper was squeegeed off afterward to remove excess shaving cream. We used pop sticks today, but a rectangle of cardboard is also a great squeegee for this method.<br />
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It's going to be fun to use all these papers to make our planets. If we have time, we will try some other techniques for even more planet paper! Stay tuned... we are working on a couple of other projects as well, so you won't be seeing the results for a few more weeks.Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-20557002203835920762019-01-05T01:41:00.000-05:002019-01-28T01:30:22.698-05:00Wolf Kahn inspired landscapes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My DragonWing Arts winter session has begun, with a couple of new students joining the class! Our theme for the winter is 'Color my World', and we will do projects that beat the winter blues by using lots of colors, with the natural world as our inspiration.<br />
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We started with a quick project, inspired by the work of artist Wolf Kahn, to get everyone messy. The kids liked his cheerful colors, and the simplicity of the lines of his trees. We didn't seek to copy his work; we instead used it as a motivation and inspiration. His work often has layers of color, to represent background, foreground, and middle ground. We created our layers of color with pastel chalks, on both white paper and on gray bogus paper. <br />
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The kids colored with the chalk and then used either their finger, or a paper towel wrapped around their finger, to blend each layer. We shook excess chalk dust into the garbage can to prevent dust in the air!<br />
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Then, we used the edges of rectangles of cardboard as our painting tools! (The brushes were for a different project.)<br />
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I had a genius inspiration about paint distribution. I wanted to squeeze paint into lines on these foil cookie sheets, so that the kids could dip the long pieces of cardboard. But I didn't want to have to wash the trays. I discovered I had some scraps pieces of vinyl contact paper, and I lined each tray with a piece of it. Here's a pic of the contact paper covered trays.<br />
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Because I have just 5 students in the class (and one was absent), I was able to give each student their own tray, so they could select their own colors. Then the cardboard was dipped in colors and stamped to make trees. Here we are, stamping away! You can see the trays with the lines of paint on them in the pic below. By the way, the paint was tempera.<br />
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There were also shorter pieces of cardboard that the kids could use for branches or bushes. They could even be folded to create foliage.<br />
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One student bent his long cardboard pieces to make trees that bent and twisted. I think they look pretty cool.<br />
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Here's all the final results on the gray bogus paper.</div>
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Each one is so unique!</div>
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And here are the final results on the white paper.</div>
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When everyone was done, and we were out of time, we pulled monoprints off the leftover paints in the trays, and then peeled up the contact paper to discard. Poof! The foil trays were clean again! This pic below is the paint left on the tray. I'll show you to monoprint another time, since we will be using them for a future project. I think this looks like an abstract painting! If it was acrylic, I'd have wanted to save it. But since it was tempera, I knew it would just crack, so it was discarded. <br />
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And here's how easy it peeled up off the tray. Any paint on the silver was something that was there from a previous use of the tray.<br />
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I was planning to have the kids use the leftover paint to do something like my sample below, but we ran out of time. Our hands (and one nose and one forehead) were VERY messy with chalk and paint, so cleanup was a priority! <br />
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Below are some samples I made to test out the project before introducing it to my students. I experimented with using chalk over paint, but in the end I preferred the samples with chalk as background. <br />
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On the sample below, I added some chalk shadows under the trees when the paint was dry. I plan to give the students an opportunity to do that to their paintings in the next class, if they'd like. <br />
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It was a fun project, and when everything is dry and complete, we will probably be 'framing' them with some colored construction paper. They should look terrific! Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-17557803429452877522018-12-31T00:29:00.000-05:002018-12-31T00:29:31.277-05:00My New Mat Cutter!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a quickie post to share about my brand new 'toy' - a Logan Compact Mat Cutter. I was gifting a doodle drawing to my stepdaughter, and I had purchased a frame but needed a mat. I couldn't find the right size/color mat anywhere locally, I didn't have time to have a mat professionally cut, and anyhow after buying the frame, I really didn't want to pay for a custom mat. <br />
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So instead, I purchased myself a Logan Mat Cutter. I had one in my classroom before I retired, but it wasn't mine so I had to leave it behind. But I was adept at using it.<br />
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My favorite framer retired, and gave me a bunch of mat board scraps when she closed her shop, in particular, metallic mat board scraps. The metallic was going to be perfect for the artwork I was matting. I cut the mat, put it in the frame, and then proceeded to cut another 29 mats before the afternoon was over. So in one day, I think I used the mat cutter enough to make the investment totally worthwhile! I'll be cutting more mats whenever I need one, rather than spending money to have someone else do the cutting for me. Yay!<br />
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By the way, here she is with the gift! She loved it!</div>
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And while I was into making gifts, I also sewed together random scraps of fleece to make goofy hats and a scarf for my step-grandchildren!<br />
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Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-24970969520963512542018-12-21T02:22:00.006-05:002018-12-21T02:22:58.383-05:00I'm on a podcast!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a quickie post, to share my exciting news. Back in the early fall, I was interviewed by Cindy Ingram of the Art Class Curator, for her podcast series. In the whirlwind of my son's September wedding, Thanksgiving, and various other events, time whizzed by and I totally forgot about it. Well, it turns out the podcast went live about a month ago! Whoops! How did I miss that???? <br />
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Anyhow, if you want to hear my squeaky little voice talk about all things art education, here's<a href="https://artclasscurator.com/27-art-teacher-longevity-with-phyllis-brown/" target="_blank"> <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b>a link to the podcast</b></span></a>. It's episode # 27, and I hope you'll give it a listen! We focused quite a bit on art teacher longevity, which, after a public school career of 36 years (and another 6 with my private business) is something I guess I know a little about. The namesake of this blog, my dragon Lucy (in the sky with diamonds) is mentioned early in our discussion, so above you can see a photo of Lucy and her baby Sparkle on a table in my former art room. She is not wearing her wings in this photo (they are removable), because, with a 5' wingspan, she takes up a LOT of space. So her wings were neatly stored on top of a cabinet until she had cause to wear them. <br />
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Late in the episode, you'll hear Cindy ask me about an artwork that was pivotal in my life. I respond by talking about a drawing done by my late grandfather Harry Levine, who I've blogged about on several occasions, <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-grandfather-wood-carver.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>, <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-grandfathers-carvings-part-2.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>, <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2011/02/these-drawings-were-all-done-by-my.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>, <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-ugly-lamp-restoring-famiy-heirloom.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>, and <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-ugly-lamp-restoring-family-heirloom.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>. I unfortunately never met my grandfather; he died before I was born. You can't see a drawing when you are listening to a podcast, so here it is, below. The drawing currently hangs in my nephew's home. In the corner of the framed drawing is a photo of my nephew's father, who is my oldest brother, sitting under the drawing as a little boy. If you listen to the podcast, you'll hear me try to explain why it is important to me.<br />
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Weirdly, while we discussed my preference for doing hands-on, tactile art projects with kids, there's so much we didn't discuss. I didn't talk about toothpaste batik, or building papier-mache masks or cats or whatever, or painting procedures, or any other specifics about my teaching methods or projects. But I suppose that's all stuff you can find here on the blog, right?<br />
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Anyhow, I hope you'll take some time to listen to the podcast, and hopefully get something out of it!Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-74591451616808825622018-11-30T01:10:00.001-05:002018-11-30T21:28:09.825-05:00Rizzi-Inspired Papier-Mache Vehicles!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In DragonWing Arts, our theme for the fall was "Let's Get Moving!", and I developed a brand-new papier-mache project, building a prototype to make sure it was going to work. Above is the that prototype.<br />
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I introduced my small class to the charming work of James Rizzi. I don't always have internet access, so I purchased a Rizzi calendar and shared his work with my students through the images on the calendar. We especially noted the goofy vehicles with passengers and drivers with big smiles, wide eyes, and lots of personality. And birds, too! We noted the black outlines on all the bright colors. And the students set out to make their own happy goofy vehicles.<br />
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They began with an assortment of boxes and other odds and ends.
Students taped parts together to create the basic desired shape of
their vehicle, (and tested them with CDs to see how they'd look with
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Then they were covered with a couple of coats of papier-mache.</div>
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Meanwhile, CDs were decorated with colored Sharpies to become happy wheels, and we determined wheel placement on the vehicles. I marked the location of the centers of the wheels and used a drill to cut holes for axles (wooden dowels).<br />
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Students painted a coat of gesso on the dry papier-mache. The bright white gesso makes paint colors show up more brightly, essential for the James Rizzi theme.<br />
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When the paint dried, we used oil-based paint markers to add people in the windows, and to outline the people and the areas of color on the vehicles with black. The wheels were assembled with a slice of pool noodle between two CDs. The axle was inserted in the vehicle, with a wheel placed on the dowel on each side, and a bottle cap hubcap was glued on each end of the dowel, not attached to the wheel. This meant the wheels could each turn independently. You can see the wheel construction on these photos below of my prototype. I still need to add my headlights!<br />
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We used various 'gems' as lights and other embellishments on the
vehicles. Here's the box of gems after the lid popped off while I was
putting it away. Oops....<br />
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Here's an adorable finished train car made by my youngest student, a 3rd grade boy.</div>
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And a funky race car made by a 4th grade girl.<br />
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The wackiest shaped vehicle was this, which was some sort of camper trailer contraption, made by a delightful 5th grade girl. She missed one class out of our 7 classes, and tends to work slowly, so I'm glad she was able to get this project complete. With more time, she could have spent more time on her windows and people.<br />
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I wish we'd had more time for more details, but we did the best we could with the time we had. We had one emergency class cancellation, not a snow day, but a squirrel day! Yes, we had a squirrel invader making himself at home in our classroom, and making quite a mess. Once he was trapped (and released far away, I hope) we were able to get back to class. I'm pretty terrified of rodents so this was a traumatic incident! <br />
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I only had three students this fall; they are three of the nicest kids
ever. There was zero arguing or fighting, and they were so kind to each other. They go to different schools and hadn't met before, but instantly formed
friendships and by the end of the session, they often left class arm-in-arm and with hugs, and had exchanged digits and were planning play
dates! So the projects were successful, but there was this additional success as well!<br />
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By the way - this was, as I said, a very small class. If you attempt this project with a larger class, there's one important adaptation I'd make. I'd use a base box of the same size for each student, that then could be added to. If the bottom footprint of each vehicle, whether a train, a taxi, a school bus, a fire engine, a taxi cab, a truck, or an airplane, was the same size, all the axles could be cut to the same size and save a LOT of trouble!! Otherwise, this project can be done pretty easily. Have fun!Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-81315745381812350012018-11-27T01:29:00.001-05:002018-11-30T22:16:17.956-05:00NYSATA convention, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The week before Thanksgiving, I attended the annual NYSATA (NY State Art Teachers Association) convention. It's NYSATA's 70th anniversary year, so the convention was held in the city where the organization originated: Buffalo, which is on the opposite side of the state from where I live. There's so much I would have liked to visit in or near Buffalo, including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Niagara Falls, and more, but with the combo of a busy convention, teaching two workshops, and winter weather, I never left the convention hotel until it was time for the long drive home. Hopefully I'll be able to return in better weather to see everything that I missed! <br />
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My first job at the convention was to set up the Bling Your Badge table, that our Region sponsors. This table was my idea about 1/2 dozen years ago, and I've been in charge of it ever since. It's a favorite pit stop for attendees at the convention. I mean, who doesn't like to play with hot glue, rhinestones, pipe cleaners, beads, buttons, sequins, feathers, and more???<br />
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I taught two hands-on workshops at the convention. One, Roofing Felt, was a repeat of a workshop I've taught before at both my state convention and at a regional workshop. The topic of the other workshop was Kumihimo, which I'll talk about later in this post. <br />
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Forty people attended the Roofing Felt workshop, and it was fast, lively, and fun, and everyone did a great job. I've talked about the roofing felt technique several times before on the blog, <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/11/my-state-convention-part-2-roofing-felt.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>, <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-artsy-roofing-felt-post-at-last.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2016/09/dragon-eyes-on-roofing-felt.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>, so in today's post I'll mostly just share pictures of the creations of my workshop attendees after a quick explanation. Participants drew in either chalk (chalkboard or sidewalk chalk) or soap, and then painted around their lines with acrylic paints, under-painting with white when brilliant color was desired. The final step will be to wash off the chalk lines, so in these photos the lines are still very much visible.<br />
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Yup, my hair is sort of flame-colored this year. (It's also been turquoise and purple.)</div>
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Thanks to this smiley friend who took many photos for me!<br />
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And here's some more images of work-in-progress from participants.<br />
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Underpainting with white to make the colors show up more brightly:</div>
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On to the next workshop, Kumihimo: Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique, that creates a spiral braid. The basic materials are a simple circular loom (we used cardboard cake circles) with a hole in the center, and slits around the side, either 16 or 32, and yarn. Participants learned the simple technique quickly and then dove right in.<br />
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One of the workshop attendees looked familiar. It turned out that she was a former elementary student of mine, at least a decade ago, who was attending the convention as one of the college art ed student volunteers. How cool is that?! I saw her later in the convention, and she was still working on her kumihimo. It had grown a lot!!<br />
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I also briefly shared a quickie method for making a rope, that can be done WAY faster than kumihimo or a traditional braid. This technique will work great if, for example, your students have worked for weeks making woven pouches, and want to quickly make a handle. The method was taught to me by my mother, who was an avid knitter and crocheter, and used this technique to make drawstrings or ties for sweaters. Use two or more colors of yarn, cut to more than twice the length you need. Have someone hold the other end, and twist the yarn as tightly as possible. Don't let go, or it will un-twist! When it is nice and tight, fold it in half and hold the two ends together. The yarn will twist up into a rope. Knot the ends you are holding so that it doesn't come untwisted. Try it out!<br />
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When I wasn't teaching workshops, I was attending workshops! My favorite was an almost 3-hour Intuitive Painting workshop. It was a fabulous way to get rid of the stress from the previous day, and put everything aside to simply create. I found it restorative. If you ever have an opportunity to attend an Intuitive Painting workshop, give it a try!! We painted with acrylics, with no pre-planned outcome, without talking, listening to (and responding to) music, responding to simple prompts, turning our paintings as we worked. Here's my painting at various steps in the process.<br />
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I'm not sure of which way to show the final product. Here it is again, below, turned 90 degrees. Actually, I liked it better earlier in the process. I think I might go back into the painting with oil paints and see what happens.<br />
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Here's some paintings from other workshop participants.</div>
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There's much more I could say about the convention - the Friday Art Party, the student show, the 10x10 Member Show to benefit the scholarship fund, the vendors, the giveaways, and so on. But the best part, of course, is the people, and the camaraderie of interacting with other like-minded art educators. It's worth the energy and stress of a long drive in bad road conditions in a loaner car, and having to clean up the mess of a popular activity. Below, the Bling Your Badge table during cleanup. Thanks to the lovely folks who stepped up to help with the cleanup!<br />
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Since I'm retired, I can't really talk about <span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>Artful Excursions</b></span> in terms of field trips with kids, but I think, even if you are still actively teaching, it's important (informative, restorative, and enlightening) to take your own artful excursions, whether it involves visiting museums, or traveling to take an immersive class, exploring a botanical garden, or simply hitting the road with a camera and/or a sketchbook. I'm going to highlight a few of my favorite artful excursions. I'm leaving out the obvious: the Met and MoMA in NYC (though the pic above is from a visit to MoMA a few years ago). I've been to both dozens of times.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">I love to visit sculpture parks, both big and well-known, or small and off-the-beaten-path:</span><br />
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<li>The <b><a href="https://stormking.org/about/" target="_blank">Storm King Art Center</a></b> (pictured above) is an incredible place, a 500 acre outdoor sculpture park, in NY's Hudson Valley, filled with monumental sculpture. I blogged about a visit there a while ago. You can find the post <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/07/storm-king-art-center.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</li>
<li>You've probably never heard of the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/circle-museum-aka-bijans-junk-art" target="_blank"><b>Circle Museum</b></a>. We made a chance discovery of this quirky roadside attraction while driving to take a hike at Bash Bish Falls, near the border of NY and MA. You can read about my visits to the Circle Museum in two blog posts, <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-chance-encounter.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-circle-museum-roadside-treasure.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. The pics below are from this really cool place, all the work of one talented artist, Bijan Mahmoodi.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Oddball little museums:</span><br />
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<li>Check out my post about <b><a href="http://museumofbadart.org/" target="_blank">The Museum of Bad Art</a></b> in the Boston area, <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/01/yes-its-real-thing-museum-of-bad-art-is.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. It may make you feel better about your own artwork, if you lack confidence! But don't think that it's mean to have a museum like this. It's all very tongue-in-cheek fun, right down to the Somerville location, in the grungy basement of a movie theater. Admission to the museum is simply your movie ticket. There's another location in the Boston area as well.</li>
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<li>I posted about <b><a href="http://expobarbie.ca/en/" target="_blank">The Barbie Expo</a></b> in Montreal <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2018/08/montreals-barbie-expo.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. If you're into fashion, or Barbie dolls, or both, this is the place to go! I was really inspired.</li>
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<li>At the little <b><a href="https://hmnh.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Harvard Museum of Natural History</a></b>, there's an exhibit of glass flowers. Pretty amazing works of art, they were made for botanical research. Somehow, I forgot to post about it, probably because we visited it on the morning of the same day that my son got married. Anyhow, below is a pic of some of the glass flowers. Maybe, if you go to the NAEA convention in Boston this March, you could visit this awesome exhibit! By the way, there's lots more at the museum. I was especially inspired by exhibits of gorgeous colorful insects. </li>
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<li>In tiny Shushan NY, I discovered an exhibit of fairy houses at the <a href="https://thegeorgi.com/" target="_blank"><b>Georgi Museum</b></a>. Magical! Read about it in the blog post <a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2016/07/fairy-houses-and-gnome-homes.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. This exhibit inspired me to make gnome homes with my students, who were building papier-mache garden gnomes. You can find a post about them <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/05/garden-gnomes-and-gnome-homes.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Favorite museums:</span><br />
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<li>I can return to <b>Mass MoCA</b> (Museum of Contemporary Art) time after time. It's a super-cool place. And if you're in the North Adams/Williamstown MA area for a couple of days, you an visit <b>Mass MoCA</b> one day, and the nearby <b>Clark Art Institute</b> the next. Read about my visits to Mass MoCA <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2013/11/mass-moca-sol-lewitt-retrospective.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/03/nick-caves-until-and-more-at-mass-moca.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>, and in other posts as well. </li>
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<li>There's so many wonderful museums to visit in NYC, and I've been to the Met and MoMA many many times. But it's always worth hopping the subway to Brooklyn to visit the <b>Brooklyn Museum</b>, a real gem. (and bonus, there's a nearby botanical garden, too!). While at the museum, you'll get to see Judy Chicago's <b>The Dinner Party</b>, a spectacular piece of feminist art. And on your way back to Manhattan, walk across the fabulous iconic Brooklyn Bridge!</li>
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<li>It may not be an "art" museum, but I return repeatedly to the <b>Museum of Natural History</b> in NYC. Along with all the other treasures there, each year for a period of time in the winter, there's a butterfly conservatory. It's certainly an artistic inspiration! Blog posts <b><a href="http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-butterfly-conservatory-experience.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and HERE. </li>
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<li>And if all else fails, take a walk. It can be just a walk in your neighborhood, or a walk in the woods, or a walk on the beach. All are artistic inspirations for me. Bring a camera if you won't have time to sketch. Below, from a walk through Central Park in Manhattan. </li>
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The theme for our 7-week session was 'Let's Get Moving'. For the project I'm sharing today, the theme was 'people in motion'. Each student created their own movable template for a person, cutting out out body parts and assembling them all with brass fasteners so that the limbs could be arranged in various poses. I thought about showing the students Duchamp's <i><b>Nude Descending a Staircase</b></i>, but not knowing two of the children or their parents very well, I decided against it. The kids did a great job, nevertheless.<br />
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Once assembled, the templates were traced repeatedly performing a moving action, such as the bowling image below. The outlines were traced over with a black Sharpie.<br />
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Then, class was postponed for a week because of an unexpected visitor in our classroom. I'm terrified of rodents, and was freaked out to see a squirrel standing on the table next to the drying rack. Pest control was called, and after a few days the invader was trapped and released hopefully very far away. With my husband's help, the gap at the bottom of the classroom door was covered with metal stripping, and the building was better secured. Nothing had been destroyed in the room but with the squirrel trapped in there, he'd made a big mess, with stuff knocked over on the floor and squirrel droppings here and there. The custodian did a first cleanup but was afraid to move the art stuff. So then I took everything out of the room and did a thorough cleaning, and put it all back, getting rid of some useless stuff in the process. Then the custodian did a final cleaning/disinfecting. Hopefully no more rodents, ever!<br />
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Anyhow, once the classroom was ours again, and the templates were traced, the students had a choice of three ways to add color. One way was to trace inside the outlines of the figures with markers, and then use wet paintbrushes to pull the color into the figures and let the colors blend, as being done by the boy below.<br />
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The girls used the same method to color their figures.</div>
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For their backgrounds, the girls used a second process. They colored with pastel chalks, and then dipped a finger into liquid starch and used the wet finger to blend the chalk colors. The starch helps to blend, and also to 'fix' the chalk.<br />
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One of the girls had missed a class and never outlined her figures with Sharpie. I think it added an ethereal look to her diver in front of a beautiful sunset (or is it a sunrise?).<br />
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Instead of using the chalk and starch, the boy chose to paint his background with tempera paints.<br />
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I only had three students in the fall session of my class; one 4th grade girl, and one 5th grade girl,,and a 3rd grade boy. The two younger kids were first-timers in the class, and none of them had ever met each other before. After a rather quiet first class, they suddenly all became a wonderful unit, treating each other so nicely, laughing and relaxing and complimenting each other on their work. By the end of the session, the two girls had exchanged phone numbers to arrange play-dates. I couldn't have had a nicer little group.<br />
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One more time, here's the transformation of the piece at the top of this post, from before and after the chalk color had been added. Pretty cool, isn't it? <br />
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Look for another one of the new projects (hint: its based on the 'Let's Get Moving' theme, and was created with papier-mache) in a blog post coming soon! Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-80392018636950491582018-11-04T01:43:00.003-04:002018-11-04T01:43:46.397-04:00My college sketchbook discovery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking for something on my bookshelves yesterday, I came across several black bound sketchbooks from drawing classes and painting classes, taught by professors Alex Minewski and Alex Martin (I adored them both), during college in the early 1970s, in New Paltz NY. The sketchbooks are filled with drawings such as the articulating cube study of a couple of boots, above. But what especially intrigued me was discovering a number of assignments written on the inside covers of the sketchbooks. <br />
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We were never given a finite number of drawings to do; instead, we were
told to do "endless" articulating cube studies of hands, or drawings of
the bases of trees, etc. Whatever the topic, the number of required
drawings was always "endless". Many drawing assignments refer to the book <i><b>The Natural Way to Draw</b></i> by Kimon Nicolaides.<br />
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*By the way, the paper in these sketchbooks is white, though maybe a little discolored by time. But nowhere near as yellow as they appear in these photos.<br />
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Along with drawing assignments, I evidently wrote down assignments for a Freshman Studio class in the same sketchbook. I remember finding them very obscure and confusing. I didn't like the teacher.<br />
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I recall doing a vividly colorful abstract painting based on the work of Hans Hoffmann, And then, suddenly, I was instructed to tear open a hole in the painting, for a reason I never totally understood. I'm guessing it had something to do with getting us to understand that our work was not so precious, and not to be afraid to explore how it could be transformed. But I had really liked the painting, and the transformation never sat well with me. I got rid of the painting after the end of the semester. <br />
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If I ever did the drawings of ears, I must have been so embarrassed by them that I made them magically disappear, because they are nowhere to be found in my bound sketchbooks. But there's plenty of gestures and cube studies of hands... Even then I was smitten with Flair pens, one of my drawing tools of choice. I also favored soft pencils and charcoal.<br />
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The sketchbooks have lots of drawings - gestures, cube studies, weight drawings, contours, etc, done of friends doing yoga in the lounge my roommates sleeping or hanging out, and so on.<br />
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I especially recalled some of the weekend painting assignments, such as
drawing and painting in the old Huguenot cemetery in the town, and a
weekend painting assignment based on a still life of a (very smelly)
fish on a platter in the painting studio. But I have no idea what ever happened to most of these paintings, or most of the drawings and paintings I did in college, both in class or as out-of-class assignments. <br />
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I did a bunch of Rouault studies, as well as studies from other artists, in my sketchbooks. Somewhere in my house I actually still have the self-portrait that I did working in the style of Rouault. <br />
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And then there's this bit of wisdom, straight out of Mr. Minewski's mouth to my sketchbook.</div>
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The sketchbooks of that era were vastly different than the much more journal-based sketchbooks students do today, and I suspect the drawing and painting classes were vastly different as well. While we were asked to research various artists, we were not asked to keep written notes or reflections in our sketchbooks. We did absolutely no copying of images from magazines or books or photographs, other than studies of the work of famous artists. And of course we didn't have cell phones or tablets and such, and honestly, I am glad that we used observation as our primary source of inspiration. Other than the famous artists studies, ALL of our drawing and painting was done from observation, or at least based on observation with expressive interpretation of what we saw. We learned, in painting class, to model form using color. We learned to manipulate the weight of our line and to explore the way forms bent and twisted. While a lot has changed for me in the decades since my college education, I'm glad that this was the way my education as an artist began. I'm working to rediscover the skills I learned at that time! <br />
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I hope I haven't bored you too much!!</div>
Phylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482775924810462890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650247255320056704.post-14318009842510886732018-10-09T04:00:00.000-04:002018-10-09T10:01:09.744-04:00My Favorite Art Room Materials<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm retired, and work with small classes of 3 to 8 students, rather than the student load I had when I was teaching K-6 full-time in public school. But nowadays, it's the same exact materials that matter most to me, just in MUCH smaller volume! Here are a few of my absolute 'must haves' -<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Good quality (Scotch 3M) masking tape.</b></span> The cheap 'store brand' stuff will not do! We use masking tape in building papier-mache armatures, and it is absolutely essential that it really stick effectively. It is worth the investment for the good stuff!<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Elmer's Glue-All.</b></span> Again, get the good stuff! Elmer's "School Glue" is NOT the same thing. If you are building constructions of some sort, perhaps with cardboard or wood scraps, the School Glue does not effectively hold. The Glue-All is a zillion times stronger! Check out these teddy bear chairs made with scrap cardboard, cardboard rolls, and Elmer's Glue-All. <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Tempera paint.</b></span> My favorite brand is <span style="color: blue;"><b>Sax Versatemp</b></span>, because of the creamy consistency and good coverage. But when we do the 'toothpaste batik' project, I prefer <span style="color: blue;"><b>Blick Premium</b></span>, because the color seems to have strong pigmentation that holds well when we wash out the batiks. But otherwise, the Versatemp is the better choice. There are better, more expensive paints, but they would require a huge chunk of budget, and the quality of these two paints is more than adequate for an elementary classroom. <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Nasco Bulk-krylic.</b></span> I know some of you don't use acrylics with elementary, but I do, for painting papier-mache projects, cardboard constructions, and more. My feeling is this: if you've spent a significant amount of time building a papier-mache creature, perhaps, use a paint with a permanent finish! <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>'Stuff'.</b></span> Huh? What does she mean by that??? I'm a big fan of collages and assemblages, and of embellishing papier-mache structures with various materials beyond just paint. So the essential 'stuff' of my art room includes fabric scraps, yarn, ribbon, buttons, beads, feathers, pom poms, pipe cleaners, and so on. Art is much more fun when there's lots of colorful <b>'stuff'</b> with a variety of textures and shapes!<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Cardboard.</b></span> My favorite free art material! I save all clean and undamaged cardboard from shipping cartons. And also the mat board scraps that most picture framers will give away, and also the cardboard from cereal boxes. There's more uses than I can list here. Here are a few, pictured.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Black Sharpies</b></span>. I don't think any explanation is needed; we all love our black Sharpies!<br />
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