Client: Little, Brown and Company | Description: Lucy's 12th book cover illustration for the Lady Emily series! Check out Lucy's portfolio here
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Painting students have moved on to acrylic paint. Their first project is to create a radial design with a repeating shape. Each of the 12 sections will be painted a different color with the end result looking like a color wheel. UPDATE: With another workday, students are about 1/2 way to 3/4 of the way finished with their colors. Most students have completed their primary and secondary colors and will be moving on to the rest of their colors over the next couple of days.
Notan is a Japanese term that means light and dark harmony. It is a way of simplifying the image to only black and white to render the image as black and white shapes. There are no middle values and no color and textures. I used the threshold feature in photoshop to reduce this photograph of […]
Keep Warm And Drink Cocoa! Today we will find inspiration from contemporary artist, Heather Galler. We will create a very colorful cup of hot cocoa that includes exciting patterns and many toppings! This art lesson will warm up your heart.Last school year I taught virtually using the Seesaw and Microsoft Teams platforms. This is a Seesaw introduction to the art lesson. Here I am in my classroom virtually and today's art lesson is on the board. This was a popular remote learning art lesson. I ta
Quite a few years ago I made my first applique wall hanging, it was the first time I had experimented with raw edge applique and I loved the whole process. This is the wall hanging. So many quilter…
nothing brightens up my inbox like a newsletter from suzy ultman. in it she featured these two fabulous new prints 'birdies' and 'banjos' which have just been published as note cards and gift wrap by madison park greetings. also included was a new felt and embroidered journal for chronicle books. dont forget if you're a fan suzy is also on etsy.
Happy Spring! We kicked off our first craft club day of spring with these fun Tie Dye Butterflies! The kids had a blast, and I must admit that they turned out way cuter than I imagined. What are clubs? Want more information on clubs? The last Thursday of every month, we spend 40 minutes prior […]
I came up with this lesson after going through some of my favorite Eric Carle books. I was drawn immediately to “The Mixed Up Chameleon” with its vibrant colors. Kindergarten is learnin…
Vector abstract ethnic pattern cards on white background
Having a pen pal helps promote many key developmental skills. Sure we can hop online any time and be in contact with someone from the other side of the world, but having a snail mail pen pal has it's perks too! The most obvious skills practiced with sending and receiving letters in the mail are reading and writing. This is a great opportunity to focus on practicing punctuation, capitalization, and long hand writing as in not short cutting phrases like "that was funny" into "LOL." I'm sure any ch
It’s hard to believe, but every one of these amazing geometric sculptures are made of paper.