Loving CWE & a fun video!

This has been an amazing year so far! I'm considering myself really lucky to be at Cogburn Woods. As we wrap up our art show options a couple of my classes have had a chance to view this video and wanted to be able to see it at home.

A happy ending to another year

What a wonderful 2011-2012 school year. Please remember you can do anything and be any kind of person you want, you just have to believe in yourself and set your mind to it.

Here's a sweet video of kids getting the chance to try out a new career.

Interesting Weather

Check out this website, it shows wind patterns across the US. When you first arrive at the page it shows still shots, but you can click a link at the top to see a live action simulation!

I think the stills look like hair. What could you draw and fill with interesting, organic patterns?

March is Youth Art Month (YAM), click the Mountain Park Displays tab to see how beautiful the school looks absolutely covered in student artwork!!!

Every single classroom has art on their bulletin board for the month. Mrs. Haviland and I even hung special boards with additional pieces in empty wall space near the office, and counselor suite.

Check it out and be AMAZED!

Quilling

Back in December I posted a video about paper quilling. My 2nd graders are actually going to be doing a quilling project beginning next week. I found a really cool website found here. Check it out and get ready guys!

Food as Art

My 4th graders are getting ready to start a project that involves making food (that looks are realistic as possible) out of clay. We talked about and artist named Kim Burke (her etsy shop, if you're interested, can be found here). She makes amazingly small food miniatures from Polymer Clay.

Here is one of the examples I showed my classes

This project got me thinking about what other types of art people might make having to do with food..... And mysteriously this next picture by Christopher Boffoli, found me on the internet this weekend. The title is: Citrus Mower. 

I love how he strategically peeled the orange and paired it with the perfect plastic toy. Do you think he was making a statement about something from life, or just making an interesting piece of work? 

I'm not saying you should play with your food, but I bet you can come up with some neat ideas of your own.

Two in One day!

Okay, Clearly I have been spending a little more time than usual on the internet. But I think it's been worth it. LOOK at what this artist, Guy Larame, has been creating from old books!



He uses tools to carve into them and create really detailed landscapes. You can see more of his work here. What an awesome way to reduce, reuse and recycle.

The Joy of Books

Hello!

I hope everyone got plenty of rest over the break, this time of year I always feel like we have a ton to do and not enough time to do it in. Classes will be working on either clay or printmaking, weaving and at least one more drawing project for the year. This semester is when some of my most favorite projects happen.

I was online checking my email this morning and came across this fabulous video a couple from Toronto, Canada made using a technique called Stop Animation. It's called "The Joy of Books" I hope it makes you smile like it did me =-)



Here are two great resources for more information on Stop Animation. Link #1 and Link #2 *Parents, Link #2 is going to take you away from my page to a You Tube video, the music is crazy but I have not seen any inappropriate previews for other videos*