Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.

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Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.

Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.

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Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.

What’s black and white and read all over? Book-inspired home decor, of course! All jokes aside, we’re total bookworms here at Brit HQ and we love seeing projects and products that bring the bookish aesthetic out of the library and into the home. While we don’t support destroying perfectly good books in the name of DIY, we do think that old and outdated books (think old encyclopedias and dictionaries) deserve opportunities to find new life as beautiful decor. These 35 products-to-buy and projects-to-DIY will have you dying to crack open a book in your newly decorated space.

Hi! I’m here today to share with you a meaningful art project for your younger students. This would be good as as a “getting to know you” activity. The following examples were …

PRINT’s latest Designer of the Week, Michigan-based Kristen Uroda, will captivate you with her use of color and inspire you with her perspective on what art and design should create in our lives. Name: Kristen Uroda Location: Holland, Michigan Website: kristenuroda.com Design school attended: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA How would you describe your work? Playful and colorful Where do you find inspiration? I think I find inspiration in a lot of random th

A humorous romp through a funny dump of hilarious awkward family photos. As strange & bizarre these vintage family pics may appear, they'll make you happy that you're part of a crazy family that is less awkward than you may seem.

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Fountain with a figure of Persus, in bronze, executed by Hubert Gerhard (about 1550-about 1623) for the Grottenhof in the Residenz in Munich; about 1590. Victoria and Albert Museum

So... I am excited to catch up and post all of the last 4 months of art projects. I was so tired by the end of the school year trying to finish up so many projects that I didn't even have the spec of desire to post them- probably due to the fact that I pay for high-speed, but don't actually have it... So posting them takes longer than it should. Blah. Yay! Here is another wonderful collaborative HAND ART project that I made up for the 4rth-graders. They get to "leave their mark" before they head over to middle school next year as 5th-graders. Materials Needed: hands to trace! thick card stock acrylic paint brushes Mod Podge pre-painted (acrylic) background of a tree on a pre-stretched canvas or a wood board (similar to the ones I make for all of my school projects- go here to see "How to make your own WOOD CANVAS"). Here's how we did it: Each of the kids traced and cut out their hands on card stock. Then they drew with pencil their design and then painted their hand with acrylic. (Help: I find if they don't draw it first with pencil and go straight to painting it turns into a paint mess) They look so bright and a blast of colors! Each hand is soooo unique! We let them dry overnight and then flattened hands in books for 24 hours. I started to adhere one group by group of hands with Mod Podge (apply Mod Podge to the canvas not the hands), then laid plastic wrap on top of hands, and then books on top to keep them flattened. It takes about 20+ minutes to safely dry and go on to the next group of hands. The finish will be shinny and a little bumpy from the plastic wrap. Try to flatten out before placing books on top and drying. Add an overall coat of Mod Podge to seal and protect the artwork. Seeing the kids examine and find their own hand and screaming like crazies, makes it all worth my time... oh hands... The best concept about my elementary school projects is that you can make smaller versions of them at home with your kids or adapt them to any group of persons! Have fun and try it! Join my exclusive email list for my upcoming Candice Ashment Studio shop! I do NOT SPAM! You won't be sorry when you get the SUPER SECRETE SALES & SNEAK PEEKS! Thank you for stopping by

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I had sooooooo much fun doing this monster art project in my son Elliot's kindergarten class recently! I chose to do this project because Elliot LOVES monsters and he LOVES using his imagination to make characters come to life. We have enjoyed using popsicle stick puppets for many many years and he always enjoys both creating

If you’ve played on Pinterest enough, you’ve likely seen one of Petr Vaclavek’s world-famous acorn elves! The first time I laid eyes on them, I was smiling ear to ear! They are fun, silly, absolutely unique and incredibly brilliant! I couldn’t stop flipping from one image to the next! And the best part? The idea was born out of a simple brainstorming session of how to make art from the collections of materials brought home from nature walks with his kids! How wonderful! If you want to see his site, click here! You won’t be disappointed! Of course, as soon as I saw Vaclavek’s beautiful acorn elves, I just knew that I had to plan an Acorn Art Night at our house! The hardest part was waiting for autumn so the acorns would fall. Ha! The best part? An unexpected road trip to see my sister in North Carolina in October meant that we could collect acorns from all different states along the way! By the time we started this project, we had acorns of all different colors and sizes! All said and done, we had an absolute blast making our own acorn art, but we learned a lot along the way! So, in this blog post, we will share some of our best tips and hints to help you make your “Acorn Art Family Night” a huge hit! In this blog post, you’ll find: Our List of Materials Our Favorite Tips Our Scary Surprise Pics of Our Final Pieces Acorns (some with hats! (also known as the stem and capule)) Small Sticks or Branches Small Acorn Hats (Capules) for Feet Google Eyes Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks Sanding Block or Sanding Paper Paint and Painting Supplies (optional) Bowls, Cups, Plates, Canvas, or Other Supplies for Mounting Additional supplies or materials could be needed, based on your design, so you may need to brainstorm what you want to include in your piece. When we first sat down to create our acorn art, I didn’t really think through what I planned to create. We just dumped a bunch of nature art materials on the table and jumped in. The more we built our pieces, the more we realized what materials we would need. #1 – So, my first tip would be to take some time to brainstorm how you want to build your art piece to make sure you have all your supplies picked up ahead of time. Once we started gluing our pieces together, I realized that we were having a hard time connecting the bodies and heads due to the remains of the style, better known as the pokey part at the bottom of the acorn. That’s where a sanding block or sanding paper come in handy. #2 – Before you try to glue your pieces together, sand down the remains of the style for a better fit. We found that using a hot glue gun worked best for this project, however, as we went along, I found that often times I needed to use a small stick and wipe excess glue off the acorns and art pieces before attaching them to each other. Because you are working with such small materials, excess glue will be very noticeable. #3 – So, my third tip is to have something handy to use while gluing in order to quickly and efficiently remove excess hot glue before it dries. Make sure it’s something small enough that you can easily move it around your tiny pieces of art. (Additionally, we also made sure the hot glue gun was handled by adults only.) As you can tell from our pictures, we painted some of our acorns, specifically the fishing bobbers on one of the pieces. #4 –When painting the acorns, we generally found it easier to remove the hat (capule) and paint it separately and then hot glue the hat back onto the acorn. #5 – This also leads me to our next tip… We glued every hat (capule) on every acorn, even if they initially felt secure. The two pieces would often come apart during the process, so it was easier to attach them securely with glue before attaching them to our art. Some of our supplies had to be gathered outside of our nature walk. #6 – When gathering extra supplies for your art, don’t forget to think thrifty! We shopped all of our supplies at our local Dollar Tree and thrift shops! My son had a blast walking through the thrift shop and finding various pieces that he could use to design his acorn art! He ended up with a really neat little leaf that fit his project just perfect! Best part? It was only $1! You never know what treasures you’ll find when you think thrifty! Want to use leaves in your acorn art? #7 – Wax your leaves! So, we recently tried a leaf waxing project and, while it didn’t turn out the way I had hoped, it worked perfect for this art project! Want to learn more about leaf waxing? Click here. (Side note: We used a double boiler and a mini crockpot and none of our leaves held color. Probably a mishap of some kind on our end, but I wanted to note this since I was referring you to the article.) There’s absolutely no way I can complete this blog post without telling you about our scary surprise! We happened to be visiting my mom, aka Nana, when we built our acorn art and we managed to totally gross her out when these tiny little maggot looking larvae started literally crawling out of our acorns! Sound totally gross? It was! But of course, it was also very educational! Our acorns had been stored in a cup for over a week and these little creatures started chewing holes from the inside out and crawling all over! So, we had to do some research and learn just what we were witnessing! Turns out, it’s the gloriously disgusting larvae of an acorn weevil! Based on our research, the acorn weevil plants her eggs in acorns and the larvae eat the inside of the acorn until the acorn falls to the ground and then they chew their way out. Check out this very detailed description from a fellow blogger, Mrs. Homegrown: “The female weevil, whose snout is as long as her body (about 3/8″), digs a hole in a green, developing acorn with tiny appendages on the end of her snout. She sucks the oily nutritious juice out of the acorn, and thus fortified, lays her eggs in the hole, and plugs the hole with her own poo. The grubs hatch in the continuous buffet which is the acorn, and snuggled up in there, snacking, until the acorn falls from the tree. By this time (as Nature is smart) they are ready to leave the acorn, and they take the fall to the ground (which must be quite a shock) as a signal to start chewing their way out of the acorn. How fast this happens depends on how thick the acorn’s shell is — anywhere from a few hours to three days. The grubs always chew a perfectly round, 1/8″ hole. It’s just big enough for their head, and they have to squeeze and wiggle their fat, shiny acorn-stuffed body through the hole to escape. Once they fall to the forest floor, they hurry to bury themselves in the soil before something comes along and eats them. If they make it, they take a multiyear nap underground (I’ve read anywhere from 1-5 years). They don’t eat, but they somehow metamorphose into their adult beetle form. When they wake one fine summer day, they crawl out of the soil, mate soon after, and start the process all over again.” Want to read more of her post? Click here. … and here are a few of our “art in progress” shots:

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If there’s any takeaway from our current global situation, it’s that one of the most important things in this world is FAMILY. We may be cut off from a lot of things while social distancing, but our families at home are a bigger part of our daily lives than ever.

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Sean O'Hagan: The British-based Italian artist adds coloured thread to found photographs, covering and subverting the poignancy that attends all discarded images

Not all art has an apparent purpose in the beginning, but in the end, it turns out to be very relevant. Volker Hermes has been creating a series of "Hidden Portraits" for over 10 years, where he manipulates photos of classical paintings tangled up in head accessories. It seemed like an innocent play of imagination until it became very poignant when the COVID-19 pandemic took place.

Lisa Kokin’s work in artist’s books, mixed media installation, assemblage and sculpture is about memory, history, and social commentary. She used photographs as objects to create new ways of considering the photographic image and the results are layered, whimsical, artful, and unique. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the

Sophia Loren’s face is caving in on itself, Yul Brynner has three heads but no brain and Gregory Peck has an entire family living in his skull. Artist Matthieu Bourel takes vintage Hollywood headshots down the rabbit hole

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Perhaps if you follow this blog, or have come here via Pinterest like some 680,000 of you (seriously, there were 15,000+ visits last month?!), you have noticed that I have not posted in over a year and wondered what's up?? I mentioned in an earlier post that maintaining our school blogs became less encouraged at one point, so I sort of slowed down and was mostly posting within our school's class pages for parents to see. Then, during the last school year, my family made the decision to move to a new state, and I suppose I just started to focus on wrapping up nine glorious years at Calvert School and I stopped blogging altogether. Last June, I moved south and this year I have been staying home part time with my son and actually making some art of my own (I paint pet portraits! See below :)). I miss teaching so very much, and I still visit this blog every month or two to approve/publish comments and reply to them. I am happy and humbled that so many people are inspired by my lessons and my students' work, and it is so cool to still feel connected in some way to the Art Education world through comments and questions from other teachers! I hope to one day find a new school home and continue to do what I know I do best- teach ART! - and then you might see me pick up here again too! (if interested in commissioning a portrait, check out www.larisakamp.com)

Hands up if you, like me, started back to school yesterday... As we launch full-speed into the new year, I thought it would be helpful to stop and look back for a moment on 2015. Today I'm sharing my favorite music teacher blog posts from last year- 5 of my own and 5 from some of my other favorite blogs (click on the pictures to read each post). I hope you'll join me in taking a deep breath and getting energized with some awesome ideas and inspiration! 1. Teaching Letter Names of Notes 2. Hand Signals for Quick Transitions 3. Drum Circle Lesson Ideas 4. From National Standards to Specific Lessons 5. Rhythm Monster Magnets for Music Composition 6. 10 Ways to Use Balls in Music Class (via Sing-Play-Creatively) 7. Advice for a Struggling New Teacher (via Music With Mrs. Tanenblatt) 8. Top Five Procedures in Elementary Music (via The Yellow Brick Road) 9. Interactive Bulletin Boards and Instrument Family Pyramids (via Musical Gems) 10. Tons of Halloween and Fall Music Lesson Ideas (via O for Tuna Orff) Did you find a new blog to follow? A great idea you missed before? Have your own favorite posts from 2015 to share? Leave a comment! :)

There really is nothing quite like a great Broadway show, in the words of theatre director Augusto Boal, ‘Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.’ Shows bring storytelling to a level that movies and books just can’t compete with.

【Abbrevations】sc = single crochet, inc = increase, ch = chain stitch, dec = decrease, dc = double crochet, sp = spaces, ss = slip stitch 【Hand】x 2, make with skin color Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR Rnd 2: 6 sc Fasten off and leave long end for sewing. 【Foot】x 2 make with white color … Elk Elf Brooch Crochet Pattern Read More »

Honour thy father and thy mother. London based illustrator Maria Tiurina has created this illustration for INDIE magazine’s anniversary issue. The issue

The other day, my teens were having a dispute. Unkind words were being thrown back and forth like ping pong balls. My otherwise amiable children were not being so amiable. I was not happy. I decided it was time to enlighten them on the importance of thinking before speaking, a valuable asset in the adult world. I remembered seeing posters and images on the internet which said, "Before you speak: THINK." THINK is an acronym for "Is it True? Is it Helpful? Is it Inspiring? Is it Necessary? Is it Kind?" That was just what I needed so I got to work to make my own poster for our homeschool room. I opened up InDesign. I chose a cat font since my daughters love cats. I used it for the word, "THINK" and selected a different font for the rest of the poster. I laid out all of the text in various text boxes. When I finished, I printed it off and hung it up in plain view. My daughters got the point. The unpleasant word usage has been reduced. If it starts to rear its ugly head again, I just point to the poster. Thank you, internet. I thought that you might also like to have a THINK poster, so I created some free printables using a variety of fonts. (I love fonts!) Here they are.

I'm over here working my buns off for the next online class (mixed media journaling) which of course will contain everything but the kitchen sink. I cut the stencil above as part of one of the demos; my father, mom and older sister from a photo taken before I was born. Daddy left for Guam shortly after this was taken; he was an airplane mechanic and it's probable that I was already in the oven here. That was all so long ago. The brown paper bag journal bug has bit again and hard. More about that in a moment. I'm living in smoothie-ville now. I'm always the last one on the turnip wagon. There's a food revolution going on in the country (or is it just Portland?) and everybody's getting healthy. At least until the next trip to Mexico. The purple smoothie is red cabbage, blueberries, mango, banana, almond milk, nutritional yeast, chia seeds, lime juice and spinach. We're eating more vegetables than Bugs Bunny. I've been hunkered down low trying to get all the videos made for the March class before we take off in a month. It's been so dark and rainy here that we're really looking forward to breaking free and getting out into some sunshine. We hardly got to wear our summer clothes this year so maybe we can go where it's summer all the time. This long, sweet week between Christmas and New Year's Day is the perfect time to dream, count blessings, bid adieu to the old, and to conjure up the coming year. Like a good witch I like to think I have a hand in what happens; not that I'm in control of anything but that I can choose to help things in the right direction here and there. I feel like it's my responsibility as a pushy old gal. I used to choose words for the coming year but recently I've stopped at Grace. I don't think there are many better words than that. To be willing to accept what comes whether you like it or not. To hold it in your heart toward others, especially when they try your patience. I like to sit for long sessions with my journal and write it all out. How the miracles just keep coming. How glad I am to be a creator instead of a destroyer, politician or meanie. I have great sadness for those people and for the very wealthy. I think it would be a curse to be rich or famous. I love being a nobody. And I love other nobodies. I think we're the bomb. See my little fingers conjuring up a wonderful new year? Nathan and his new camera. Just because. Did I ever mention his beautiful hands? No? So here's the latest brown bag book. First the measured papers, soaked, scrunched, flattened. Then dried quickly on the red hot woodstove between gulps of coffee. The dried pages looking like a stack of tobacco leaves. Ironed lightly and folded into folios. And sewn with aqua linen book binder's thread into a coptic journal. This is one of the other brown bag books that I wrote about here. And the first brown bag book that I wrote about here. Long live the brown bag book. I'm going to try milk paint on the pages of this new one. White milk paint. I can't wait. And then I'll show you. Because it's so much fun to get excited and see if I can get some of you excited too. Happy New Year 2012. May grace, beauty, magic, and miracles follow wherever you find yourself in the coming year. xo

Hi, this is the only page on this dubanci website, that is translated to English. Dubanci – in English it means Acorn Elves – are funny figures from Czech Republic. Most fans mainly want to buy acorn elves products – postcards, calendars, T-shirts, cups … here’s a link to my zazzle e-shop: Visit my e-shop on Zazzle.com…

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Artist Hope Gangloff captures the personalities of her friends and family in brightly colored large-scale portraits. Gangloff’s acrylic and collage paintings show her subjects in intimate settings—often domestic interiors—in poses of relaxation or quiet focus. The artist’s strong but gestural lines create defined shapes that are filled with repetitive marks and bright patterns. Gangloff gives equal textural attention to all areas of the painting, which draws the viewer’s eye to every detail and also contextualizes each portrait sitter in a unique set of surroundings. More

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