tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57740268117201811762024-03-13T13:24:41.221-07:00Art IntertwineWeaving Art Into Every DayHeather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-14504134522894811192016-03-27T15:54:00.000-07:002016-03-27T15:54:49.290-07:00Upcoming Van Gogh Movie - Loving Vincent<br />
Check out the video below of the upcoming Van Gogh bio film, <i>Loving Vincent</i>. The film consists entirely of oil paintings and is the first feature length film of painted animation. <br />
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for more info visit the <a href="http://www.lovingvincent.com/?id=home" target="_blank">Loving Vincent</a> website. Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-12339990518353472172016-01-14T20:40:00.000-08:002016-01-14T20:40:00.487-08:00Emily Carr Forest Paintings<br />
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Our Inspiration: Emily Carr's <i>Blue Sky</i>, 1932</div>
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This student was especially inspired by Emily Carr's love of animals and her large amount of pets, from several dogs to her monkey Woo.</div>
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Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-17897982044882472592016-01-05T21:40:00.000-08:002016-01-11T21:57:43.252-08:00Year In Review - My Top 10 Posts of 2015<br />
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Roy Lichtenstein Action Word Collages</h3>
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The city critter figurines</div>
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We started with a basic step by step guide to assist in the creation of the drawings for their monsters. When painting the kids used 3 values of one colour as a way to give their monsters a bit of dimensionality, something which is particularly visible on the spikes of the fur.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-88385382796973637402015-10-07T13:20:00.002-07:002015-10-07T13:20:45.825-07:00Art news - Anti-Renior Protest<a href="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/9691/production/_85954583_renoirap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/9691/production/_85954583_renoirap.jpg" height="177" width="320" /></a>A mock demonstration was held outside the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to protest the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir which is currently being displayed. Led by Max Geller, who created the Instagram account Renoir Sucks at Painting, the protesters demanded that Renoir's art be taken down and replaced by that of other 'better' artists. While the protest is only semi-serious, and the style over substance reasoning behind Geller's disdain falls a little flat, the demonstration does raise awareness on the authority of museum institutions to dictate what is good art, as well as the need for personal love it or hate it passion to really appreciate and form a relationship with art. <br />
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Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-477933002233670342015-09-21T14:18:00.001-07:002015-10-07T13:23:12.473-07:00Collaborative Art Project - The Enchanted Forest<br />
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I started by creating 6 large brown craft paper trees that lined either side of our building's main hallway. I also made flower stems at different heights.<br />
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The first week students created brightly coloured flowers.<br />
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Most of the elements added to our enchanted forest were created using construction paper, such as the birds, fairy houses, and toadstools.<br />
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At different points throughout the summer I would also add elements that went with that week's addition, such as a couple of beehives for the kids' bees to swarm around, and spider webs for their spiders to hang from.<br />
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Another element that really made this forest enchanted was the addition of fairies. I invited other instructors and staff members to create a fairy that would magically appear in the forest each week. This was a great way to include everyone in the art making process, and turned a lot of kids into fairy hunters!<br />
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To finish the forest the kids added tinfoil dragonflies, 3D snails, tracing paper butterflies, and bugs resting on the leaves of the tree tops.<br />
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Stay tuned for future posts where I'll share detailed instructions on how to create all the different pieces in the enchanted forest. <br />
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Brown is known for her surf art that celebrates the natural beauty of Hawaii. We looked at her artwork Juicy Sunset (below) for inspiration to create our own acrylic paintings. This artwork offers a great opportunity to introduce students to warm and cool colour families, as well as colour mixing-something that's always a big hit with kids.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-70013044847388836722015-06-15T13:45:00.000-07:002015-06-15T13:45:44.572-07:00The Future Is Now! Amazing Minecraft with HoloLens Demo From E3<br />
Check out the video below to see the awesome demo of Microsoft's HoloLens being used with Minecraft from their press conference today at E3.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-11409664662784973092015-06-08T13:51:00.000-07:002015-06-08T13:51:03.454-07:00Nebula Paintings<br />
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While going through old photos I found these of nebula paintings that I did with a group of younger students (ages 6-8). Unlike the majority of my other posts, I decided to include the example artwork that I made along with those of the students. This is because these paintings were one of those activities that didn't quite successfully go from idea to reality. <br />
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The issue I found was with technique - getting kids to sponge their paint lightly to create a cloud-like appearance, and to layer their colours. I also had a few instances of dragging the paint. In retrospect this activity proved a bit frustrating for the younger students and would have been better suited for an older age group, who would have more patience and therefore be more successful with the sponge technique. <br />
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You can see the dragging of paint on the right side of this student's artwork.</div>
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In the artwork above you can see how this student had difficulty with layering different paint colours.</div>
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-63297942456075536262015-05-30T17:22:00.004-07:002015-06-04T17:47:03.011-07:00POW! Roy Lichtenstein Inspired Action Word Reliefs<br />
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The students started by choosing an action word and then making a silkscreen image of it. The students pulled a few images onto light coloured construction paper before picking their favourite to use for the relief. We built the reliefs up in 4 layers: the background colour, a large cloud or burst shape, their action word cut into another burst shape, and construction paper 'shrapnel'. To give the reliefs a sense of depth we attached the action words using a small loop of paper. The students did a fantastic job with a great deal of variety not only in their choice of action words but in their overall relief designs.<br />
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To view the other artworks that my students created during their Roy Lichtenstein unit click on the following links or check out my Art Lessons By Artist tab.<br />
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The Final Artworks!</div>
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I love the concentric cut out layers on this student's heart.</div>
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A very cool variation on the paper shrapnel.</div>
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This year I went to a local used book sale fundraiser and I'm so glad I did! I was able to scoop up a bunch books in the getting to know the world's greatest artists series, a few on Leonardo Da Vinci, Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet, and even one on Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-72681857207236247062015-05-04T13:08:00.002-07:002015-05-04T13:08:28.063-07:00Dale Chihuly Niijima Float Inspired Artworks<br />
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The students started by blowing up a balloon to the desired size and then wiping it down with water before completely covering it in a layer of plastic wrap. We then used clear packing tape, wrapping the whole thing in 3 layers. You will use A LOT of tape, but you need the sculpture to be strong enough to stand on its own without collapsing. My younger students (6-8) needed help with this step, so in the future I would only do this project with older kids. After applying the tape we used scissors to poke through the layers and pop the balloon. A magical moment for the kids with lots of oohhs and ahhhs when they see that the clear tape has retained the form of the balloon. We then took the scissors to cut the sculpture almost completely in half, leaving a hinge so that it opened like a book. Finally we removed the popped balloon and any loose pieces of plastic wrap before painting designs onto the interior, keeping the glass-like appearance on the outside. The students used acrylic paints to create colourful macchia spot and striped designs since tempera will flake off of the plastic. When the paint had dried we attached the two halves again with more packing tape to create the finished niijima floats. <br />
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Alternatively, instead of making niijima floats you could have students work in pairs and then cut the sculptures in half using a wavy line to create macchia, like the ones below.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-6040521191580311342015-04-30T17:45:00.002-07:002015-04-30T17:45:30.365-07:00Colour Cubbies! Countdown to Summer Art Camps Begins<br />
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Even though it's only April I have started thinking about and planning for my summer art camps deciding what projects to do, what supplies I need to order, and how to organize my art room. Last year about midway through the summer I had the brilliant idea to give each student a coloured cubby box to store all their drawings and other free time artworks. My art room space is limited so I needed something that I could hang on the walls. I also wanted something I could make due to my budget. Well the kids loved them and with small groups this was fairly easy to do and definitely kept paper artworks organized. <br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-80452008884608071522015-04-26T18:04:00.000-07:002015-04-26T18:04:03.024-07:00Today's Artistic Inspiration - Hohokum<br />
<a href="http://www.eggplante.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hohokum-Logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.eggplante.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hohokum-Logo.png" height="136" width="200" /></a>For today's inspirational art I have a few images from the art video game Hohokum. The game's art design was done in collaboration with artist Richard Hogg. In Hohokum players control an ever changing multicoloured snake-like creature called the Long Mover to explore the levels in a meandering way that resembles flying a kite.<br />
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Check out the videos below for a behind the scenes look at the art and music of Hohokum. The music of Hohokum video also gives a nice variety of the game play and the interactions that occur with the visual elements of each level.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-50750830912036728562015-04-22T17:18:00.003-07:002015-04-26T16:27:33.267-07:00Wild Beast Masks<br />
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For our masks we used a template as the starting point since I had a ton in storage, but you could easily have each student create a basic mask out of card stock. Due to time constrains we also used templates for the feathers/fur and the beaks/noses, tracing them onto construction paper. We then used acrylic paints to add pattern and details to each part of the mask before layering and gluing all the pieces together.<br />
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This artist was the only one who decided to add ears to her wild beast!</div>
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I chose this artwork as our focus since it provided a nice way to introduce warm and cool colours, as well as how to create a wash of colour.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-80985503282947721652015-04-03T01:00:00.000-07:002015-04-03T01:00:12.399-07:00Art Fun For Fridays - The Gluten Free Museum<br />
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Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-63389062106096370822015-03-25T17:05:00.001-07:002015-03-25T17:13:00.668-07:00Watercolor Giraffes - The Final Artworks!<br />
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<a href="http://www.artintertwine.blogspot.ca/2015/02/giraffe-drawings-part-2-adding-patterns.html" target="_blank">Adding Pattern & Watercolour To the Giraffes</a><br />
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Our final step was to create the background effect. We started with a white oil pastel resist with a single colour wash over top. The kids could create any pattern they wished with the oil pastel, however a number of them incorporated hearts into their designs. The group also did a final outline of their giraffes in black pen.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-8700715558947655072015-03-01T18:50:00.000-08:002015-03-01T18:50:20.907-08:00Today's Artistic Inspiration - Roger Broders<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T2qB21sZfXU/VOe7TQH45OI/AAAAAAAACD0/Pbrjmr8jEA0/s1600/kawaiipainting8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T2qB21sZfXU/VOe7TQH45OI/AAAAAAAACD0/Pbrjmr8jEA0/s1600/kawaiipainting8.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>Have you ever had that ah-ha moment that magically brings a lesson together? That 'click' happened for me when coming up with the idea for this Roy Lichtenstein inspired lesson. While developing a unit on Roy Lichtenstein I had already decided on a <a href="http://artintertwine.blogspot.ca/2014/12/art-activity-roy-lichtensteins-spotted.html" target="_blank">primary coloured dot art activity</a>, as well as an action word one, so when it came to coming up with an idea for creating acrylic paintings I wanted to do something different. After perusing images of Roy Lichtenstein's artworks I honed in on his landscapes such as Sunrise 1965, and Sinking Sun 1964<br />
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I also wanted to emphasize Lichtenstein's use of cartoon and comic strip images for his pop art. Learning that Lichtenstein's landscapes were inspired by Japanese art I wondered if there might be a way to connect the two. That's when I discovered Kawaii. If you are unfamiliar with Kawaii it is an element in Japanese pop culture signifying cuteness. Examples of Kawaii that your students would likely be familiar with are anime characters such as Hello Kitty and Pikachu from Pokemon. For our paintings we looked at these Kawaii clouds for inspiration:<br />
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The finished artworks are a cool mash up of Kawaii and Roy Lichtenstein pop art, and turned out fantastic! Some of the Kawaii style facial expressions on the clouds are a bit hard to see given the colour choices, but I think that you can still tell by the variety how much the kids enjoyed adding this layer of personality to their paintings. On a final note, while we did add a lot of dots and concentric circles, I would have liked the kids to create dots with a more Ben-day dot technique, so if anyone has any suggestions that would be great!<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-13968255625052190722015-02-15T11:50:00.000-08:002015-02-15T11:50:07.400-08:003D Doodle Pen<br />
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Check out this video of the 3Doodler, a pen that allows you to create three dimensional drawings using melted plastic. It looks pretty amazing, so I'd love to hear if anyone has used this and if you think it's worth the $100+ price tag.<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-31955254799936015012015-02-11T14:47:00.002-08:002015-02-11T14:47:37.299-08:00Giraffe Drawings Part 2 - Adding Patterns & Watercolour<br />
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Some close ups of the patterned spots <br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-23453458123078446272015-02-09T17:10:00.002-08:002015-02-09T17:10:55.084-08:00Do You Do Holiday Art? Podcast Episode 3<br />
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With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I discuss some of the pros and cons of creating holiday themed art & crafts in the art room, share why I don't really like holiday art, and give my pick for this episode's art shout out.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Image source: http://www.surfandsunshine.com/15-fun-valentines-craft-ideas-for-kids/)</span></div>
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Click the image below to check out this episode's art shout out<br />
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<br />Heather@ArtIntertwinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00319909306561279583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774026811720181176.post-78712271910054118902015-01-31T11:35:00.003-08:002015-01-31T11:35:18.970-08:00D.I.Y. Circus Skittles for Lawn Bowling/Carnival Ring Toss<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xefS9OU-k5U/VM0rAYv65DI/AAAAAAAACBA/pFHFPT0EJz8/s1600/skittles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xefS9OU-k5U/VM0rAYv65DI/AAAAAAAACBA/pFHFPT0EJz8/s1600/skittles.jpg" height="131" width="200" /></a>I created these skittles for a circus themed week-long camp at the community rec site where I teach. To create the skittles or pins I used plastic Perrier bottles. The variety of flavours: lime, lemon, and grapefruit, already create colourful tops for each skittle. I then used acrylic paint to create the different designs, since it wouldn't flake off like tempera will on plastic. While painting some of the colours may appear transparent, but will dry opaque as you can see below. To finish, slightly fill each skittle with sand, rice, etc. to give them a bit more weight. While I made these for skittle lawn bowling, they could easily be adapted to a carnival ring toss. If you save up the bottles ahead of time, these could also be a fun activity to do with an entire class.<br />
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