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I also love to create Joomchi, although it requires a lot of patience to acquire this skill. Joomchi is Korean papermaking using mulberry paper. I took a mini workshop some years ago with Saaraliisa Ylitalo who did a presentation for our Potomac Fiber Guild and I became hooked. I have received some interest from others wanting to learn and will teach a workshop in Charleston on September 23 - very excited! The top piece is very delicate and I do love to experiment - I have created bowls also and continue to experiment. These are book covers - and I water colored some inside book plates before adding the signature pages. Patience pays off and very much like felting with wool, your hands have to learn as much as your head does!
1.9M views, 90K likes, 535 comments, 5K shares, Facebook Reels from Andrew Scott: Just a few of my frame experiments from the past year. These used to just be a small part of my focus as an artist...
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A couple of weeks ago I participated in a lovely class with Yvonne Westover, where she showed us her fragment Avro. Here I combined it with Jody Genovese's What the Well. Whew, this was tricky! What was I thinking! :-)
The start of the year always means an elements and principles of art review for my 6th graders. Rather than having days of lectures, I decided they would do a small art project for each one. I have 12 sections (3 classes a day for 4 days) of my 6th graders. For my sanity I try to keep them working on the same (or very similar things). For our review of lines we are doing a different line project for each day... check out my examples below. "Contour Line Mapping"... done art class style "Art with Mr. E's" line design Non-Figurative Line drawing with lines and colors Our "Line Quilts" Each project takes about one class period to finish. They are not complicated so it also makes for a great review of CRAFTSMANSHIP. At the end I am going to display them all together.
Found a giant pair of red neoprene dice at the dollar store about a billion years ago and couldn't resist. I knew I would use them for something school related one day and that one day finally came. A little white gesso and black paint transformed them into "art dice". I won't lie. I shamelessly (stole) borrowed this idea from Tinkerlab. I like to start the year out with something simple and something "line" related. It was great. Little kids loved rolling the dice to create their designs and we reviewed line quality including direction words: horizontal, vertical, diagonal. We took a short break to review classroom rules and expectations while the paint dried and then I let them color with crayons. Third graders let their designs dry overnight. They will paint them with primary colors during our next class. Here are some shots of kids working and their results in progress. Thank you TinkerLab...fabulous idea! I found this project gave me a great opportunity to check out how kids are holding the crayon and give a little guidance on writing grip vs. drawing grip. Back up a little and straighten out the forefinger a bit. Use the arm to color, not just the fingers.
Students in third grade learned about the artist David Hockney. We focused especially on his California influenced pool paintings from the 60's and 70's. I saw a similar project on the blog "Kids Artists". The students were focusing on line, shape, and color while working on these. We also spent a good bit of time thinking about how our hair and body look different when submerged under water. The kids loved creating the look of weightlessness in their self portrait. Hockney used interesting techniques to create the effect of light shining in on the water of his pool paintings and we tried to recreate that. I love how they all look so much like the child that made them. Great job third graders!
The Boob Hat has been making the rounds–blazing a trail all through fb and pinterest. So naturally, I’ve been asked several times to tackle it–and I have. I present you with my ve…
