art critique

At a loss for words at your next art critique, check out this handy dandy art critique generator!  ha haha

Book Winner!

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Crusade #47

Another challenge I recently discovered is Michelle Ward's street team crusade.  There is a new technique every month and then you post your results.  This month the challenge is "It's a Wrap".  You are supposed to incorporate wrapping paper, tags or cards into your artwork.  This is some Christmas wrapping paper, combined with my own drawing and painting.

Overall, for an experiment I am fine with how they turned out.  I would like to have been able to glue down the wrapping paper without it wrinkling.  Plus, the wrapping paper on the bottom two are kind of cutesy, but that's all we had left!  :)   On the first one, I tried to replicate the swirly patterns from the wrapping paper using watercolor.

Last chance!

Last chance to sign up for this random giveaway of an art book.  See this post to sign up. I will choose a winner tomorrow.

Egyptian profile paintings--4th/5th grade

Egyptian Profile Paintings:The 4/5s have studied ancient Egypt in their social studies class.  In Art class, they are using the standard proportions of the human face to draw each other in profile.  Then, they are adding typical ancient Egyptian headdresses, clothes and jewelry to their portraits.  Finally, they are drawing some hieroglyphics to finish the picture.

Sketchbook Pages

"highly prized" drawings for the Sketchbook Challenge

Sketchbook Pages

This last one will have text added to it later probably.

Woot Woot!! Art Book Giveaway!!

In honor of reaching 100 followers on this blog, which in my opinion is really darn cool, I'm going to do a series of giveaways.  In the spirit of sharing, decluttering and passing things on to good homes, please participate if you are interested in the giveaway offered.  As an art teacher, subscribing to magazines, purchasing books, receiving other people's art books and always being on the look out for good sales, I end up with way more things than I need.  My goal this year is to use what I have and move some of the things out of my house.   My first giveaway is for this book:

If you are interested in painting watercolors of subjects that are typical to greeting cards, you would like this book. I enjoyed flipping through it and looking at her step by step designs. This book was in my Dad's art book stash which he consolidated and gave a bunch of them to me.

If you are interested, please post a comment and tell me what subject matter you like to paint the most or what you are interested in painting (if you don't already do so).  I will randomly select someone from the comments to win.

99 followers!

Wow!  I have 99 followers!  I decided that when I reach 100, I'm going to have a special giveaway.  It will probably involve an art book or magazines from my stash.  :) 

 

And here is another sketchbook page, because i cannot post a pictureless entry!

Sketchbook Page

watercolor sketchbook page