3D wooden blocks - Children's Auction Art Project

Remember last year's (2010) auction art project 'Vase with Flowers'?  And last February's  'Our Neighborhood' from the primary students? Well I'd finally like to share the lower elementary class auction art project 'Our Universe.'

Watercolor Tricks & Techniques

The following photos are taken from a poster I made as a reference guide for lower elementary children during an art project for the school auction.  For more about the art project please check out 'Our Universe.'

Our Neighborhood - Children's Auction Art project

 The 2011 primary class' Auction Art project is finally complete!

Mandala Painting on Canvas with Montessori Students

Vase with Flowers - School Auction Project - Part 2

Vase with Flowers (continued from Part One)

Photo Collages for Invitations, Art, and Christmas Cards

Over the years I've enjoyed getting to know Photoshop, meanwhile developing a standard of creativity for holiday cards by which I feel I must live up to and surpass annually. (...ahhh, the pressure!) While it is a complete absorption of time and you can often find the kids left in their pajamas all day, I do have fun with the end result. Besides collages for other people, I've made a couple invitations and a moving postcard for my family as well. Cue the guilt that only the first born has creative collages for birthday invitations as well as the first few Christmas Cards with the subject matter being none other then...the first born. Yay for sibling order stereo typing....just doing my part.

Fine Art

Freshman year of college I signed up for a Life Art Drawing class at Sonoma State University. My only previous experience with formal art instruction was ceramics and sculpture in high school. When I saw a Life Drawing class offered I thought, "well I like drawing life, ...trees, ...things that are living." I was a bit surprised when a guy wrapped in a robe stepped up onto a stage and proceeded to lose the robe. I remember looking around at everyone else to see if anyone was as surprised as me. A total novice, I actually had to raise my hand to ask how to use the required pen and ink I had brought with me to class. This became one of my favorite classes from all four years. I learned so much and soon had naked figure drawings covering my walls in the dorm. I continued taking art classes and received a minor in Fine Art. Since college i've mostly painted in acrylics on canvas due to the fumes of oils and my (what seems like) constant state of pregnancy.