Father's Day Coffee Painted Sepia Eagles!

Today we started a fun little one day project for Father's Day and Memorial Day. We need simple stuff since school is almost out so I had a can of Instant coffee and we made some Sepia artwork!! 

When I asked the students if their daddys/grandfathers liked coffee they ALL raised their hands!! 

We looked at several sepia photos on the internet, and then I had the students do the step by step draw along I created above

I gave each table a plate with some instant coffee....gently rub a wet brush on the coffee and it slowly dissolves into a nice sepia tone 

These are the parts they painted with coffee first

Then they could add a very small amount of color on the sepia painting

My daughter is in kindergarten, and I was so proud of how her Eagle turned out...I'm sure it won't be a surprise for daddy after I post this, Oh well :-)

Tablet picture Tuesday (around the art room)

Excuse the poor quality of these photos! Sometimes, all I can do is snap a pic with the iphone or Ipad for the sake of time! It has been a busy few weeks! Here are a few pics from around the art room!

So a few weeks ago I got really obsessed with this streaming LIVE camera of a bald eagle family in Florida! My students LOVED watching the baby eagles and I left them streming on the wall while they worked. It was SO exciting when the mom or dad would show up to feed the babies with a HUGE fish or some such small mammal. Here is the link if you want to show your class...they will be in the nest until April.

http://www.ustream.tv/SouthwestFloridaEagleCam

 We made drawings and added feathers for fun! We learned lots of fun cool facts about the eagles too!

This is our new friend, Clover

He is a red footed tortoise and will be our new class pet!

Today kinder and first grade made some beautiful tp tube heart stamped artworks. I glued the hearts to a piece of cardboard to make them last a little longer.

 They used watercolor and made a background of squares. They had to fill their paper with squares and paint lightly

They used Prang Glitter Watercolors. They are not very bright, but the kids don't seem to mind, they just LOVE glitter

After a while the stamps get saturated and the ends start to get squishy, making the edges thicker