Sunday Sketches - 2/17/13

Not sure why she turned out sort of dark and mysterious, but I do quite like her. 

Was also working on some lettering while listening to the speaker at church today.

Heart Paper Chain and Heart In a Heart Tutorials

We made these in Art Class yesterday so I thought I'd add some tutorials here:

HEART CHAIN TUTORIAL

HEART IN A HEART IN A HEART TUTORIAL

First Friday Art Class for February 2013 - Love Notes

Today's class was all about LOVE...and specifically Love Notes.

Here's what we did in picture form and then I'll give you some more details below as well as some picture tutorials of some of the projects.

1. We wrote the word "LOVE" without picking up our pens. We practiced this several times in our lettering notebooks. This was a fun warm up.

2. Next we made envelopes out of heart. I used THIS printable and I printed it once at regular size, once at 60% and once at 50%. So in the end we got some really tiny envelopes.

3. We made books out of one sheet of paper. HERE'S HOW WE DID IT. Again we started with a full 8-1/2" x 11", but then we got smaller.

We even put covers on them.

4. For a simple up-cycle project we made bookmarks from old junk mail envelopes. HERE'S HOW TO DO IT.

5. When I showed my daughter my idea for our last project, she said "too easy" and didn't think the girls would be very interested. Wrong! They loved it and, as usual, took the idea and totally ran with it and made it their own! I will post a separate tutorial on just the heart chain and heart inside a heart HERE.

We had a great class with lots of fun and laughter. I'm so glad I get to spend time with these sweet girls!! See you next month.

Our Church Lesson Today - The Creation

I made these little drawings to help the kids at church learn the Creation. If you find them helpful and would like to print them, be my guest.

  Day 1 - Genesis 1:1-5

Day 2 - Genesis 1:6-8

Day 3 - Genesis 1:9-13

Day 4 - Genesis 1:14-19

Day 5 - Genesis 1:20-23

Day 6 - Genesis 1:24-31 

First Friday Art Class for January 2013 - Talking Rocks

I call this class "Talking Rocks". I had a couple of other ideas planned for class today once we were finished with the rocks, but the girls were so involved we just did the rocks.

The class was completely inspired by this picture I saw on lili scratchy.

So basically here it is in recipe form

Talking Rocks

Several small rocks (I bought mine at Joann's)
Lots of Sharpies in several different colors
A few sheets of paper for background
1 camera
4 creative girls--we were missing two who were out of town

Put them together with very little instruction and then just turn them loose. (We did have a brief discussion about permanent vs. transient art.)

The result?

This silly one was done by my daughter. (Not really sure why the obsession with nose picking)  :) 

 This one was a collaboration between two of the girls

The girls did such a great job with this. They were so creative and coming up with whole personas for their rock people as they were going. It was fun to watch!!

See you in February for some Valentine/Love/Heart related art!!

Children's Nativity Drawings

A few weeks ago as part of our lesson at church we had the little ones (ages 3-12) draw pictures from the Nativity. I took them home and made this banner to be displayed at our Christmas party and in the church until Christmas. I am so inspired and touched by these wonderful, young artists. 

Didn't they draw the sweetest things?? (We even ended up with a very Ninja-esqe, sword wielding Mary and Joseph--what Nativity would be complete without that?) :) 

Newest Name Sign

This was a Christmas gift for my daughter's teacher.

IF - Snow

I drew this little lady while dreaming of snowy days...but she sort of ended up looking like she's ready to pull a bank heist.

Illustration Friday - the them this week is SNOW