Kandinsky Circles, art class, and clay

Before we left for Art class I caught Emma reading a Junie B Jones book to Chloe. I love sneaking up on these moments between the sisters.

Then we left for art class where we used a brand new exciting medium of oil pastels and clay. We did Kandinsky circles with the oil pastels.

Eric Carle Illustrations Project

This is the end result of our Eric Carle Illustrations project.

At the first class we painted pieces of paper with textured paint. We let it dry. At this class we each chose either an Eric Carle illustration, or an illustration of our own making and we cut out the design and then pasted it onto paper

Art Class 1/19/09: Eric Carle Illustrating and Angie Vandenbogaard

This is some examples I used for the class of the art of Angie Vandenboogaard. She uses monochromatic polkadots of various sizes to compose her paintings. I love how graphically powerful they are. So part of our art lesson was to imitate her style. Below is Emma and my attempts at copying her style.

Then we went on to do the first part of a project with Eric Carle's illustrating technique. We painted paper with paint, leaving alot of brush marks and texture on the paintings. At the next class we will cut out our pictures from the paper to make our own Eric Carle artwork. So if you missed the last class, and want to participate, make sure you paint some paper with alot of texture for yourself. You will want to do several different colors depending on what you are wanting to illustrate.