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Spring 2014 Art Show
26 June 2014
Winter 2014 Art Show
26 June 2014
Fall 2013 Art Show
16 Dec. 2013
Wow. This was a great show. Thank-you to all the kids! It was an honour to make art with you!
Painting from Photo
24 June 2013
The projector is a great tool for tracing lines and shapes, and we put this tool to use for painting from photos! The kids traced the lines of a photo onto a transparency, projected it up onto a canvas, and traced it much larger. They then used both their lines and the photo to guide them as they painted!
Block Printing
23 June 2013
Maybe not officially real “block printing”, but we made prints. With blocks. And so it was named. This was a ...
Star Wars Droids
23 June 2013
After a “tedious” painting lesson, the boys were very eager to move onto something of their own choice. Paper mache ...
Junior Artists Spring 2013
23 June 2013
Our pre-school classes are full of imagination and play, and all the things in the studio to explore and make!!
Tree Houses
23 June 2013
One student's great idea started a trend in the studio! His tree house inspired 4 more. It was another project that happened without any influence from me, and that is what I always dream to see happen in the studio –the kids truly leading the show. I held back and watched as these things were built. The imagination that went into each house was spectacular. The idea satisfied the adventurous, spirited imagination of a child so well, that the kids kept wanting to come back to the same project week after week, adding more and more coolness to their tree houses.
Shadow Tracing
23 June 2013
Once in a while, you get to be a part of a break through. Even if it happens to you, it’s something you can’t predict, or intentionally make happen. It just does. This time, it started with M and H’s time spent playing and experimenting with the overhead projector.
Paper Mache Food
23 June 2013
This was one of those projects where ideas spread amongst the girls like wild fire. They shared their ideas openly, and there was no possessiveness amongst them. It was really fun to watch the initial idea about making fake fruit become bowls, cookies, ice cream cones, pumpkins, and even dolls.
Strange Sculptures
23 June 2013
So you take a wire coat hanger, a nylon sock, and a plywood square. You do a little twisting, pulling, bending, painting, and that’s pretty much all the magic you need to make these awesome little modern sculptures…
Spring Art Show 2013
17 June 2013
What a great term we had! 19 kids can do a lot in 10 weeks!
End of Term Art Show, Winter 2013
11 March 2013
We had 16 creative minds at work this semester! It was a busy 8 weeks, and look at all the fun art we made!
Milk Experiment
11 March 2013
We started off this term with an experiential art activity. This one was not destined to last - it was about the creative moment, and sparking the bright imaginations of the young artists to kick off the new term.
Fairy Huts
11 March 2013
Lainey: I’m going to paint my house rainbow. Abi: I’m going to paint mine pink and green. Different shades of ...
Foxes
11 March 2013
Recycling is my favourite. This fox project was top-notch in that regard!
Finn's Maze: The Perplexbox
11 March 2013
Finn came up with a brilliant idea. He wanted to build a maze, and fortunately I had just the right tools he needed. We got cardboard trays, and little strips of wood for the walls, and a trusty old mustard bottle filled with free-flowing white glue.
Hot Air Balloons
11 March 2013
We made these beautiful hot air balloons out of paper lanterns, adding layers of tissue paper, splatter paint, and glitter. And most of them came to be flown by strange one-eyed aliens. hmmmmm...
Fall 2012 Art Show
23 Jan. 2013
Our theme this term evolved into a sort of "out of this world" thing! With robots, spacey gardens, neon paint, string art, monsters and more! Have a look!
Isabel's house
23 Jan. 2013
Isabel’s main project this term was the much-adored dollhouse. Except, this time, Isabel took this project to a whole new ...
String Art..
23 Jan. 2013
The boys jumped right into the deep end with their study of patterns, as they embarked on the tedious, frustrating task of string art. They had created art like this before, with nails and plywood, but the pins and delicate thread were a whole new ball game.
Landscape Painting...
23 Jan. 2013
M and H drew immediate inspiration from the neon paint. They were motivated to paint on canvas, and try the new and exciting colours in all the ways they could.
Shaving Cream Printing... again..
23 Jan. 2013
This project is great not only because it is such a sensory experience, but because the results are so stunning! The colours swirl and twist all over the paper, looking like gassy clouds and nebulae.
SPRING 2012 Art Show
24 June 2012
Bunnies!
24 June 2012
Miya and Jaiden loved the very softest scraps of material that they found in the studio. Jaiden would rub the ...
Sunset Paintings
24 June 2012
For this painting, each child chose two adjacent colours on the colour wheel to blend together into a continuous gradient. ...
Rainbow Mobiles
24 June 2012
I set out the rainbow arcs, one side for the Primary 3, and the other for the secondary 3. The ...
The Colour Wheel Mixing Challenge
24 June 2012
When the boys arrived on May 8th, I presented them with a challenge. They were going to make a colour ...
Jackson Pollock Inspired
24 June 2012
There are times when mixing colour is just about fun, freedom, experimenting, and playing. These kids are never known to ...
Carson's Train
24 June 2012
On Carson’s first day of art classes with me, he came in knowing exactly what he wanted to make and ...
Pirate Ships
24 June 2012
M and H both wanted to make a boat. They brainstormed ideas of what they could make their boats out ...
Shadow Box Paintings
24 June 2012
Lainey: I want to mine to be a candy land! Isla: With a rainbow in it. Lainey: A Candyland with ...
Horse Lands
24 June 2012
Miya found 3 teeny tiny fuzzy little horses in the studio on the first day of class. They immediately took ...
Swirling, Spinning Colours
24 June 2012
Well this was an exciting challenge! I asked the kids if they could make a colour wheel on the ...
Beginning our study of colours...
24 June 2012
The kids began the new term putting the jars of watercolour paint in rainbow order. They slid the jars all ...
Winter Term 2012 Highlights
12 March 2012
Here are some of the photos from the final art show, and scroll down to see what other projects we got up to this winter!
Cuckoo Clocks
12 March 2012
Who doesn’t want to go cuckoo once in a while?
This project was an attempt to have the kids slow down and keep coming back to add layers of personality, detail, and whimsy with all sort of mediums and materials, taking their pieces a little further every time.
Mushroom Huts
12 March 2012
Fairies need houses, don’t they? This project was all about creating form with paper mache, cardboard, and thick cardboard tubing....
Gnomes
12 March 2012
Recycling water bottles and newspaper has never been so fun! Paper mache is one of those mediums that incorporates the fun of both building structures and getting messy.
Fairies!
12 March 2012
The girls began the semester building on their ideas about fairies. In the fairy world, according to these girls, there is a known hierarchy, a tiered system of power and prestige. Fairies live in an idealized beautiful kingdom, a magical place that could almost be real, somehow…
Game Boards
12 March 2012
H and M were both very excited about the idea of creating a pegboard game. They had a good lesson ...
Miya's Heart
12 March 2012
Miya had a one-on-one class with me on Febuary 13th, so she decided to do something for Valentiness Day, and ...
Fall 2011 Highlights and Art Show
4 Jan. 2012
Becoming Mad Scientists
4 Jan. 2012
How art and science can collide in the studio.
Wooden Sculpture
3 Jan. 2012
The boys started by painting their bases of plywood with bright bold colours. They then happily dug through the bins ...
Haunted Houses
3 Jan. 2012
I’ve been noticing a real sense of humor emerging in M and H, along with a willingness to learn, to ...
More Dollhouses.
3 Jan. 2012
This is a project that I have been doing with little girls for years. Watching their imaginations zoom in to a miniature scale, where clam shells are kitchen sinks and old mardi gras necklaces are bead curtains, never gets old. This time I tried to provoke conversation about houses, and here's what it sounded like.
CORKS!
3 Jan. 2012
What to do, what to do, with so so so many corks....
The Ocean and The Ship
14 June 2011
This was a great project for Michael and Colin to work on together. Colin loves to draw, and Michael loves ...
Popsicle Stick Bird Houses
14 June 2011
This term M and H really took the lead in the direction of their classes. Being just the two of ...
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