Original Books

Back in October, the girls wrote their own books about the artwork that they have done this year. 

Crazy Cats

The girls were inspired by an artist at Arts in the Heart of Augusta last September. They painted with acrylics on a stretched canvas.  Great backgrounds, too!  

 

   Aren't these crazy cats cute??

Collage...Decoupage...

With an American Girl theme, Cameron made this collage:

 Marcella decided to decoupage a box for her treasures. 

Then, both girls decided that these would make great wall art for their American Girls' bedrooms.

 

Elements of Art

The girls explored line, space, shapes, and color combinations with these acrylic creations. 

Painting Wall Art

These wooden peace signs came from Big Lots.  The girls used acrylics and puff paint to make them pop!

COOL PEACE!

Clay

Catching up on posting some of our summer art projects.

Here are some cute clay projects the girls did on their own. 

 Cameron paints...

Marcella paints...

 Ta-Da!  Marcella's mushroom & vase.

 Cameron's mushroom.

Underwater Watercolors

Cameron composes her underwater scene.  Fish, a crab, some coral, some rocks, a starfish, seaweed, and a few bubbles.






La-Li helps Marcella with her composition.









Marcella uses masking fluid to save some highlights on her bubbles.

Marcella's completed work. What pretty coral!

Cameron's work dries before we frame it.  Notice that cute little crab.

Tape It!

This summer the girls decided to replace "The Sunshine Shop" and lemonade stand from last year with a TAPE IT! stand.  They have been busy using Duck tape to create and cover all sorts of items.  

    Notebook...

  Flowers...   Purses...More Purses & Sunglasses...

  La-Li helps Cameron  ....

An original "Cameron"!

Wall Sculpture

Believe it or not... these oblong pieces are made up of 1" cuts of paper towel rolls.  The girls and I painted them with acrylics; then we laid out our design on a table top.  The last step was to hot glue all these pieces together.

We used a few nails to hang it on the wall in the girls' room.  Lovely!

Abstract

This is Cameron's own design.  She used watercolors for the background:  cobalt blue, cerulean blue, and cobalt violet.  She used acrylics in similar shades for her foreground.  Her last step was some fun spattering!










Beautiful! 

Crock-pot chocolate

Yummy! Yummy!  Easy recipe from the net.  Just dump in slow cooker, wait 3 hours, spoon onto wax paper, and wait 'til cool.  Chocolate covered peanuts and coconut!  

Plastic Bottle Fish

Marcella is a whiz at being able to figure out how to make things.  She saw these fish made by 5th graders at her school and knew exactly what to do.  So, Grandpa saved her two plastic 2-liter bottles.

We cut off the bottoms (which make great water holders when painting with watercolors).

We flattened the "tail" and stapled. Marcella is drawing the back fin.

After using Sharpies to color, Marcella adds a fishy smile.

Cameron & Marcella show their fishy lips below the bottle fish.

Great job, girls!

Fun with Pipe Cleaners!

When the girls wake up early, they often get creative with pipe cleaners....

Christmas Puppet Play

The girls wrote and performed "It's Christmas-Time!" They made all the costumes and props.