Todays Lynn Ferris Class...Ocean Waves..

Hmm...when My teacher told me to sit on my hands and stop messing with this today, I should have listened to her! It was done...now its over - done...almost looks like a toxic waste spill...radioactive I think...

 and here is Gabby's...I think she may have "got" what the teacher was trying to show us!

oh well..This was fun and I want to try it again!

Classes week 3

Both younger groups used Pointillism to make fishes with Tempra paint and then tissue paper glued on for Seaweed.  This was alot of fun!

Teens finished up their Trilogy of landscapes with Paintings in Cubism using colored pencils.  We tried to keep them monochrome :)

Roosters... abstract pastel

Finished my roosters.  These were a couple roosters I saw at the Zoo in Cumberland.  I couldn't get the actual green on the Left Rooster but its close enough that I am happy with it :)

weeks one and two of Lynn Ferris art classes

First week of class we did a window with curtains and flowers.  I have never done curtains before and that was kind of fun!  I messed up on my flowers but this was a great lesson in watercolor and I really enjoyed it.  Gabby is also taking the class but her painting is not finished yet so I will post it later :)

Week two we worked on Roses.  I added the dew drops per other demos I have seen.  Roses are always fun!

Shea Studio Summer Classes have begun!

I have just finished week two of my summer Art classes.  We are having a great time!  I have the classes divided into grades K-3, 4-6 and Teens. 

Week one K-3 learned how to make a frog on lily pads without using any tube green! Blue and yellows watercolors were the only color paints they were given.  They also used  salt to create texture on the frog, blue tempera for the water, oil pastels and tissue paper for the flowers.

grades 4-6 learned the color spectrum using glass bottles that they made symmetric templates for.  They painted the transparent colors with watercolor and layered oil pastels on the overlapping areas of glass.mixing primary colors to get secondary.

The teen class has been working on doing the same landscape in three different painting styles - Pointillism, Post Impressionism and Cubism.  We are using acrylics and oil pastels for this project.

They will probably be be working on these for another class or two.

This week K-3 learned about Robert and Sonia delaunay two artists during the Cubism movement who were known for their circle drawings.  We used markers, colored pencils and oil pastels for this.

This week grades 4-6 also did a fairly quick study of one point perspective.  using shape templates, rulers and colored pencils they created some shapes that "shot" right off the page!

 Thanks for looking!!