Miss Holly's New Grandson

Walker James Casey

Born Friday, 2/25/11

8 pounds 4.6 ounces

Last Wednesday of WInter Art

The 4 and 5 year old class today painted forsythia and did a great job!

The K-4th grade class did our final tulip still life for the year, and did a wonderful job!

We look forward to Spring/Easter Art that starts March 7. To register go to www.numcsportsrec.com

Apologies to the Tuesday art classes. I forgot to take my camera Tuesday- they also did the still life of flowers and did a great job.

WE LOVE HAVING YOUR CHILDREN IN ART. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THEM WITH US! WE HAVE THE BEST JOBS IN THE WORLD!

Last day of Winter Art, Monday

The 4 and 5 year old class painted a still life of forsythia (spelling??) They painted the background last week and today started the pot as a square and added a spout and handle. Then the stems were painted adding "V's", then we sponged on flowers from a flower form using 2 different colors. We went outside to look at forsythia and realized that we forgot buds, so we added buds! Aren't they wonderful!

The afternoon class painted a still life of tulips. We did the whole thing today. After painting the background, the boys were listening to directions how to start painting the pot in the shape of a circle...

The girls can talk and paint.....

The finished piece of art - FABULOUS!

SIGN UP FOR SPRING/EASTER ART and SPECIAL BUNNY CLASS

Spring/Easter Art classes start the week of March 7, register online at www.numcsportsrec.com

We are again having a parent-child class to make a Bunny from a fence picket. We have 2 dates to pick from- March 31 or April 14- Come make a keepsake bunny with your child/children. The cost is $20. per bunny.  For registration go to www.theartchicks.net to download a form or we have forms outside of the art room, or email me at theartchicks@bellsouth.net and I can try to figure how to send a form by the computer.

This week is the last week of Winter Art.

We did make snowmen from cans in the older class this past week, but I didn't seem to get any pictures of the finished pieces. We are painting a still life in ALL classes this week for our final project. Stay tuned for pictures.....

YES We do have art Monday, January 21.

The K-4th Classes make Valentine Pots "Peace and Love"

A finished product! First we started with styrofoam hearts that we paper-mached. Then we painted our pots a solid
color and drew out our design. The next week we painted designs on the pots and painted the heats solid colors, trying to use the same colors on the pots as on the hearts. Then another week later we wrote on the hearts and added leaves and took our masterpieces home! These took lots of steps and turned out fabulous! We were very proud of them - Look how every pot was so different!

Happy Valentines from 4 and 5 year old classes

We painted pots a solid color, then decorated them. Then we cut flowers from rubber and decorated the flowers, painted stems and planted them in our pots and gave them to our mother for Valentines!

4 and 5 year olds made fragile clay snowmen...

Winter Art Classes

Classes started 2 weeks ago and we are busy creating! Today starts week 3.

The 4 and 5 year old classes have made snowmen from clay. This is a process starting with globs of cold clay, following many detailed steps until there is  finished product of a 3 ball snowman with hats. Then they dry out for a week and we come back and paint them. The children love coming in the following week and painting the snowmen, they all turned out wonderful! We all know the story of the little girl who dropped her "fragile" artwork in the parking lot and it broke into pieces,  so we are all very careful to let an adult carry our snowmen, and we know that it is artwork to look at and not play with (or as one 4 year old said- do not let your little brother NEAR it).

The older classes are still finishing a Valentines pot of hearts. We started this project envisioning "Peace and Love" for Valentines- but the children have taken it in all directions.... We thought that they could paint peace signs on the pot and then we paper macheed hearts that we would paint and decorate and put in the pot -hence "Peace and Love" but they have really gone to town painting the pots with hearts, peace signs, X & O's, lots of colors- they look great! The 3 paper mache hearts are painted also and this week we will just do final touches and they will go home. I wish I had one.

I do have pictures of all the steps making the above projects, but my camera seems frozen- so I will get it fixed and post pictures asap-

We will be starting new art work today - so stay tuned.