ABC 3rd. Anniversary 4x4

One of the altered web sites that I belong to is celebrating it's 3rd anniversary in June. I, along with members of the site are participating in a 4x4 swap. We each decorate a 4"x4" page and then we will all swap them. We will then bind them ourselves. I chose the word Transform because we take old books and other items and transform them into works of art, just as the catapiller transforms into a butterfly.

More Doodle Art

We have been doing more doodle art in our Red 2 art class. I started out by drawing the guitar. I then glued on a picture of the Christian band Superchick that I had downloaded off their web site. The river of blue contains the words to their song "Pure". From their I continued to fill in the space until the page had been filled. Takes me back to my high school days and the doodle art we did in the 70's.

March Challenge

On one of the yahoo altered book sites that I belong to has a monthly challenge. This month the challenge was to use weaving in your work. A couple of weeks ago I had "painted" the pear that is at the bottom of the page using oil pastel chalks. I inlarged it and then weaved it with a picture I had taken of some trees after an ice storm last year. The advertisment for Golden Pears was given to me by one of my fellow altered book artists. I was pleased today when I found out that my work had been chosen to be displayed on the home page for abc_alteredbooks. Another yahoo site that I belong to.

Doodle Art

In my Red 2 class we have started doodle art this week. We found an image in a magazine that would have a good silhouette. I choose a flower in a bottle. We laid it down on our paper and then using a highlighter we traced around the image. We then covered the rest of the page with the highlighter. I used a yellow highlighter. The kids had the choice of leaving their picture they had traced around as a pencil drawing, a colored pencil drawing, or using colored pens to draw it. I used a combination of the three. We then started "doodling" on our paper until we had filled the page. We made sure that we left a fine line of the highlighted area to show through from the background. My paper started reminding me of the art work I did in the 60's and 70's so I titled mine "Flower Power 70's". This is a fun project that the kids are really getting into. So far I have seen them using pictures of guitars, cars, shoes, a camera, etc.

ABC Book letter C

In my ABC altered book I chose the word Child for the letter C. I used a variety of tissue papers as my background. I then used pictures and words or phrases that represented children to me. I especially like the "cowboy" as he reminds me of my nephew Sam.

Portraits in Art Class

We continued our portrait study by drawing a portrait and then the kids had the option of 3 different medias to work with. They could have chosen to use pastel chalks, oil chalks, or watercolors. I chose to do mine in oil chalks. I had not used them before this year and have enjoyed getting to know them. I am trying a landscape in my spare time and am hopeful with how it will turn out. I really like that I can blend, and change things a littler easier if I want to.

Modern Art Introduction

In our Black Art class we were introduced to M. C. Esher's work. We each were to take one of his pictures and draw it, changing it to apply to us. I chose to draw his picture of himself looking into a globe. I didn't draw myself, but one of the girls who sits next to me. I have titled this picture "Amanda".