Yellow Belts

Today in art group the littles did do a dot pieces with collaged feathers, puff balls and sequins to dip in glue. The bigs did self portraits based on the art of Mondrian. Unfortunately I did not take more pictures.

The girls also tested for their yellow belts!

Art Group- Week 5 Printmaking

This week was all about print making both styrofoam blocks and carving linoleum blocks. Print making is always a fun process for the kids. It is one of my favorites.

July Third

We started today with my little nephew R's baptism. Then we headed up to the Lake House for our Fourth of July, small town festivities. We started with some painting projects and shaving cream marbling with liquid watercolor.

Art Group Day 4- String Art & Sculpey Bowls

Today the littles used thin strips of sculpey in pie tins to make colorful bowls. Then the bigs tried their hand at string art. We got a lot of colorful string and I think all of the kids loved the process.

Art Group Day 3- Tempura Paintings

Rachel Platten Concert

MeMine and I took the girls to their first rock/pop concert. Rachel Platten came to our town and we had seats up front and center. The girls were able to run right up to the stage and touch her hand as she went past. It was a great night.

The girls are really into this string art technique. They are insisting that we HAVE to do it with art group so I guess we will buying this stuff in bulk. They pound out a picture with little nails and then wrap colored string around it to fill in the drawing.

Art Group Day 2- Collages

Today I drove up for Young Women's camp. I get to spend the next few days with these fun girls. Before I left we had art group. The littles did glueless collages with tissue paper and contact paper. The bigs did collages based on the work of Eric Carle. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the bigs.

Art Group Begins Again- Day 1

Every summer I ask my kids if we really need to do art group this summer. I don't know that I thought it would be a permanent fixture of our summer when I started but my kids are alway incredulous when I ask as if it wouldn't be summer without art group so we begin again. This year I decided to do two groups, one for the younger kids including my tiniest nieces and an older group. We started with a liquid watercolor resist project for the bigs. We used masking tape, salt and oil pastels to resist the watercolor. The littles used texas snowflakes with the liquid watercolors. Always a hit. It is going to be fun to do some of the little kid projects again. I've missed them. I am raising my kids in tandem. There are just the two of them and they are so close in age that I feel like we only go through each stage once before we are moving on to another stage. It is delightful because I get to fully immerse myself in each stage with them but I also wish we could redo and slow down some of the stages.