Big Art Day and other happenings

 Thursday was Big Art Day in Texas.

Big Art Day is an art happening to raise awareness of art education and art as a creative force in our communities on a BIG statewide scale. It is an attempt by the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) to engage all art educators, their students and communities in a single day art event.

In our classroom we used Skype to connect with another art room! 
We shared our class pets who had been "decorated" for Big Art Day!
Bunbun got some rainbow chalk highlights!

In other classes, we finished our clay hearts,

this one says," I'll love you till Earth is Venus." The artist who made it LOVES science! I asked him what his Valentine meant and he said,  " If the atmospheric conditions continued to add more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere the conditions of Earth would become like Venus...but it will never happen." 

We added ribbon and students took them home

Kinder is using watercolor pencils to draw the Van Gogh sunflowers and design a frame with gold paint pens on black paper!

3rd grade made camouflage 3D chameleons using oil pastels! They did so good, that you can hardly see them!!

Vincent Van Gogh Report

If anyone knows me, they know I have a special love and fascination with Vincent Van Gogh. He had an incredibly sad life battling mental illness and the loneliness associated with his inability to fit in. His passion for painting and brilliantly individual style make him one the greatest painters of all time.

starry starry night cupcakes anyone?

The other night I saw an interesting 60 Minutes report on Vincent Van Gogh. I absolutely love this painter and cry every time I listen to the song, Starry, starry night by Don Mclean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

Please take the time to watch this Amazing report that brings a totally NEW LIGHT into everything you once thought you knew about Vincent Van Gogh.

Just click the link below to watch!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7384904n&tag=fdEmbedTooEarly

Van Gogh’s Room

We have been talking about Vincent Van Gogh, and this week the students made these little rooms. We looked at his painting of his room and I told them that I had been there and it was really nice. I wanted them to imagine an artwork where they would like to visit; a fun personally designed room of their dreams that reflected the colors and things that they liked.

The artist’s Room!

Tiny closet with tiny clothes on tiny hangers!

The beach going sports enthusiast's room!

Tiny flat screen TV…or laptop?

The museum curator's Room!

Shout out to Artolazzi!

TUTORIAL FOR LIZARD HEAD HERE http://www.elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2013/05/catching-up-lots-of-fun-stuff.html  I have been so busy lately and have hardly had time to blog. Thank you so much for the Versatile blogger awards. I will eventually get some time to reciprocate! I appologise! I really appreciate all my readers and your sweet sweet comments. I have two high maintenence toddlers at home that keep me on my toes! We have been doing so many things in here and I need to catch up and bring my camera this week to update the latest. Here are some things from a few weeks ago…

These cubes are so easy to make and you can be so creative with what they put inside. Some kids put an alien inside, some made flowers, animals, tvs, and some made it into a giant robot head


Ok this made my day. Today I had a parent tell me that they were on their way to the zoo and saw a painting of Van Gogh outside the art museum and the child said, “Look mommy, it’s Vincent Van Gogh!” It made the two weeks of yellow paint stains on my pants completely worth it!!

Shout out to Artolazzi! Jenny Bartolazzi, you are a genius!
Your ideas impress me and your posts never disappoint. I am so glad you blog so I can copy you!
My kids are so happy with their chameleons because of you. I love the candid picture I caught of a student snuzzling up to her chameleons as though they were made out of velvet and purred like kittens!! You can find step by step instructions for these chameleons on her blog here:
http://artolazzi.blogspot.com/2011/04/3-d-lizard-directions.html
My kids used the same steps as we used on the bunny head to make the chameleon head
They LOVED them.
We watched these videos first, some of the other classes gave theirs sun glasses

Some kids even made a cube cage for their Chameleons and I gave a prize to the one who could spell chameleon first!

AND I will conclude with a random photo from one of my recent newborn photoshoots that has nothing to do with elementary art! This also keeps me busy! Is she not the cutest thing God ever breathed life into! www.shelbyjunephotography.com
She makes my ovaries hurt!