my artful nest

HELLO!  I have discovered the ease of posting my art to instagram!  I have not posted in this blog in a few years, I am not sure if I should...

I decided to end this year of middle school drawing with Portraits. I already knew several students were good at drawing them and wanted to ...

It was a good challenge to work with Collage and  Drawing  this  semester.  This is a lesson from  "Mrs. Hamilton's ART Class"...

Dragons are fun to draw this time of year. Since we were  working on mostly drawing this year, I decided to try  Dragon Faces and Colored Pe...

My teaching style has had to change a bit this school year due to Remote Learning and Classroom Covid Precautions. YAY! Not knowing when stu...

I have always wanted to do an Artful Heart drawing project. This school year seemed like the perfect time to explore a bit about what is in ...

Surrealism is creating a dream like image. Perspective is a drawing system used creating depth on a flat surface. This lesson is a bit of bo...