Disco Cleanup

  Posting this recycled Kindergarten GEM HERE!  Oil pastel and tempera on cardboard with gold paint on the edges.  I punched holes in the sides and added string so they could wear them.  We also spent a day drawing dinos, crowns, skulls, and other Basquiat motifs with sidewalk chalk on a spring day and wore them! EXCELLENT SPRING RECYCLING PROJECT!  To pair it with a book, I recommend Radiant Child! 

Mini musuem with mini wallpaper!! The relief printing technique is basically making stamps.  The ink goes on top of the incision instead of wiping ink into the incisions.  Last year was the first year I experimented with linocuts. In my art room at Westwood View, I didn't know exactly what I had in the supply closet but I figured it out. I ended up making a few awesome projects with my students that I hadn't tried myself. I never took printmaking in my undergrad butbindid make some AMAZING collograph plates at a class in the Nelson Atkins in a middle school art class. I remembet it because it was one of the coolest mediums I had worked with. I could draw with shapes. I love that. A lot of printmaking is really tedious in my mind but I'm really calling the kettle black if you look at some of my paintings. To each their own and all that. I'm working on my example project for my TLP and my blog post for class at the same time. Yess! In m...

Howdy Y'all!  Round here, we got both kinds of monoprinting... Country and Western. BUT Today, we're including Country Western monoprinting projects! + A BONUS MONOPRINT! My Mimi is the queen of the Southwest aesthetic. Last month, I had breakthrough covid. I missed her 85th birthday party so family has been on my mind! This goes out to the greatest teacher I know. Love you Mimi! This month, my favorite cowboy had a birthday! My amazing DAD!!  He always wears boots. Rarely sneakers, sometimes sandals, never barefoot..... He's a boots man. He has an art installation or a sculpture? (I guess we can call it that?) of retired boots and antlers in his shop. It's next to the fishing gear and my grandfather's invented peasheller. And, don't call them, ahem, cowboy boots. They're JUST BOOTS.  He always told this joke about his ostrich boots. People would ask,   "What are those made of?"  "Cattle with acne." Bahahhahaha. Th...