March Art Lessons

Motorcycles, American Indian Ledger Art, Rubbish Robots and Animal Close-Ups!!

BEAUTIFUL Animal Close-Ups in Oils

The girls in the oil painting class worked on these beautiful paintings from February until April. They turned out spectacular, I think!

by Bethany, age 12

by Bethany, age 12

 by Sadie, age 14

 by Sadie, age 14

 by Saige, age 12

by Saige, age 12

FUN Rubbish Robots!!

Our biggest project this spring has been making sculptures to look like robots, what I call RUBBISH ROBOTS!  The kids love this and we learned about artist Lyle Nichols from Colorado who has a great display of metal rubbish sculptures just outside of St. George that I was able to see.  Also, thanks to www.thatartistwoman.com for the great ideas on how to build these little guys using candy boxes.  We had to eat a lot of candy to save up for 15 kids' sculptures!
CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE THE WHOLE GALLERY OF RUBBISH ROBOTS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleknightsart/

 by Hannah, age 11

 by Joseph, age 9

 by Preston, age 10

by Catie age 10

GREAT American Indian Ledger Art

American Indian Ledger Art was our lesson combining culural art and learning about an artist for this month.  We painted stylized horses and indians on maps like artist Michael Horse.  If you go to the Featured Artist link above you can read more about him and Ledger art.  The kids did a great job on this project.  It was lots of fun!
CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE THE WHOLE GALLERY OF LEDGER ART:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleknightsart/

 by Abigail, age 7

 by Kate S., age 10

by Averie, age 11

AWESOME Indian Ink/Watercolor Motorcycles

The boys class ages 12 and up worked on learning how to draw these awesome motorcylces.  Then we applied watercolors and India Ink.  We splattered, used salt and blew out of a straw onto the ink for special dirt effects!

 By Zachary age 12

 by Spencer, age 13

below by Cameron age 12