Finished advertising projects

Wow, these came out way better than I ever imagined.

My ITunes advertising project turned out so well, the kids have so much energy in them, and they really have achieved the contrast and design that I urged them toward today.  I told them when they have so much random patterning in the background, they need to have design and control in their silhouettes, if they decide to do anything in the inner part.  I also talked about how if there isn't a lot of contrast between foreground and background, they should find a way to emphasize the difference through outline.

Excellent results and mass excitement!

Making a glue border to glitterize!

Gotta flip this baby!

 Here are some shots of finished works-

 A lot of jumping for joy going on here!!

These were fun!  I am missing a few, need to get the rest tomorrow!

Find your joy and then JUMP!

Summer school in full swing- edited and updated

My unexpected gift this summer has certainly been summer school.  I did not expect to be so happy during my 4 hour day teaching instead of lounging at home!  Here is a little of what we have been up to lately.  We finished the self portraits and they are hanging in the cafeteria.  I realize when looking at photos that I have neglected to take final photos of them, so I will do that tomorrow.  Here are a few with their backgrounds almost complete, or completed.  It was a very successful project!  I will edit this post tomorrow and include some new photos.

The next big project is going to be some full length body silhouettes in the style of ITune ads.  It is always good to make children aware of advertising and how they use certain techniques to catch their attention and make them want what is being sold!  So we are doing some silhouettes with fancy backgrounds (again) and they will be "selling" some type of item, in their hands, or on their body in some way- like head phones, a t-shirt, shoes, etc.  This is a big project, using lots of paper and eventually paint.  I traced a lot of the kids' shapes, as you will see!

 The little kids are watercoloring color "explosions" and will use their imaginations to find pictures in the shapes- update to follow!

I go home and do not get up for at least an hour!  whew!

Some nearly completed projects! - Notice the one on the left, it is a pilots chair in a helicopter!  

1st grader

1st grader

Not quite finished!

Here are the finished portraits:

The older kids are doing large silhouettes- here they are cutting out the body shape and me doing some tracing

Cutting out body shapes

Me tracing a child

Working hard

This shouldn't tickle a bit!

Dramatic pose!

The kids doing some painting on their backgrounds- they really got into it! 

 Speaking of getting into it, there is a person who shares my room in the afternoon- who shall remain nameless- who got himself into the paint of the backgrounds as they were hanging up to dry.  Little did he know that the art room is hazardous to your wardrobe!  Hehehe.  Duck!  Art!  :)

The little kids were doing an imagination picture using watercolor and markers.  Then with the leftover time - making pictures out of wooden shapes!  Wow, there is a lot of creativity going on, you can see it buzzing around in the air!!

Busy hands and minds

Sharing ideas

Contemplation

Until tomorrow, be a joy giver!!

Summer school begins

I am not really sure why in the world I said I would teach summer school!  After all, it is summer!  One should be resting, relaxing, enjoying the weather..... but when push comes to shove, I will help out where needed. It only runs from 8 am- noon, so it isn't super long.  It was a fun day, a nice start to the event.

I am teaching 2 groups of kids, the first is the group that is going into 1st - 3rd grades, and then the next from 4th - 6th.  It is supposed to be an enrichment event, so the atmosphere is relaxed and happy.  We started off the whole session with making creativity glasses!  These glasses will help the students look at things in a new way, with creativity and joy!  What it is doing is giving them permission to do things with their art that they might not ordinarily do, perhaps choose new colors or patterns, use different types of subject matter, do things that are not normal for them.  Tomorrow when we start painting at an easel, they will use their creativity glasses to try and see themselves in a new way.  Yep, we are going to paint self portraits.  They don't know this yet so SHHHHHH!

Here are a few pix of the kids' glasses and a few pix of kids in action.  The faces have been changed to protect the innocent!

1st-3rd completed glasses

1st - 3rd grade glasses

Glitter station

One thing better than glitter?  MORE glitter

Working hard to finish!

 Tomorrow we will glue in colored cellophane, so we can look at the world through rose colored ( or gold colored) glasses!  And hopefully see ourselves in a whole new way.

I sort of like looking through joy colored glasses!