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

Navajo Blankets/Rugs

First I chatted with the kids about Navajo Blankets/Rugs and how they were made. Then we looked up Navajo Blankets on line to get an idea of how geometric they are.

I cut out the front of brown paper grocery sacks, and the kids sketched their designs onto the sack and then painted it on with tempra paint.

Thumbprint Valentines

We did two versions of this craft for valentine's day. First, we made thumbprint hearts. I helped a lot on this part. It was difficult for the kids not to want to hold down their papers, or accidentally touch them with their inky fingers. Then we used our thumbprints to make butterflies, or other animals like caterpillars. It was fun, but messy. I recommend washable ink.

Wordless Wednesday

Native American Pinch Pots

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.

Global warming has impacted us all.........florida is GONE

Well, I had tried to cut the cookie into a round about shape of the US. Then went to bed, while I was in bed the children snuck out and John ate most of california, part of Texas, and Emma took out all of Florida like some rampaging Hurricane.

anyways, so we still frosted it, and of course when we were done the camera was out of batteries. The kids were so not going to wait, so we ate it. But it was fun, really fun.