artful stamples

I am having lots of fun spending my summer vacation making "stamples" using Artful Illusions stamps for Mrs. O'Leary's.  It is great to have "free brain space" to think creatively and be productive...I Love Summer!!!

Steampunk Kitty

The Mermaid and the Airships

If Leo Knew Steampunk

Automaton Fly Girl

Butterfly Specimens

Clockwork Girl

Always Dream

Art Dolls

Here are a few art dolls created in the classroom

and some for an art group challenge...enjoy!



Art Doll fun for early finishers. 
Mat board base, collage, wire arms and legs
with beads, clay head, buttons.

Another student project.
Articulated doll with stamp images, oil pastels, construction
paper crayons, brads, clay head. Fastened to stamped and drawn background.

This is a trio of art dolls created for my
Altered Artists Group challenge for June.

I was inspired by indiandollartworks 
and I just love the awesome use of all sorts of "junk!"

I finally got to use all of my junk I have been collecting.
I call these my Chunkie Junkies!

Pinterest Inspiration for the Art Room





So I am totally addicted to Pinterest and all the fabulous inspiration I get from the site on a daily basis!  These are just a few projects I have been inspired to try.  Many of my lessons this year have also been inspired by the site.  If you don't know what Pinterest is all about...hop on board...it is a great resource! You can follow my boards here.

Above, ART collage, finished while the students were collaging this spring...just can't resist playing too!  Below is my start at a color wheel using junk.  It has taken all year to collect stuff, especially the intermediate colors...still in progress!  At top, the melted crayon rainbow.  It is pretty awesome to see the crayons come to life and create a work of art.  I am not quite finished with this either, as the melting crayon fumes can be a bit much! 

Puzzled?

In an effort to keep my mind busy...I decided to finish some art puzzles to display in the art room.  I finished the Mona Lisa puzzle over spring break.  This is a thousand piece puzzle of a photomosaic.  Each piece is made up of about 4 famous artworks from various artists.  It was quite the challenge, yet fun to complete!

This is a Starry Night puzzle that I started about 5 years ago and work on every now and then at school when the kids are working on projects.  I have also had students attempt to help, but it is very difficult!  These pieces are made up of 4 different pictures of space ships and other NASA type stuff.  It has taken so long because I can only work on it for a bit before my eyes go googly trying to figure out the images! 

Surrealist Spaces

After completing a 12 by 12 inch one-point perspective room design,
students work in pairs to create a 22 by 22 inch surrealist
space on poster board with magazine collage. 



It is fun to see what the students find to fill their spaces with,
and also to see students collaborate on a large project!



Spring String Art

 

"String Art Reproducible Patterns" by Annette Schmidt,
1998 Frank Schaffer Publications Inc.

The spring semester is the perfect time for String Art in the art room!  I discovered this great string art pattern book a few years ago.  Some patterns are a bit advanced, so I simplified the ideas for 7th graders.

 

 

We used black railroad board and solid or muliti-colored crochet thread.

We then matted them with coordinating construction paper.

Steamy Spring



It has been raining my entire spring break!  I usually don't mind the rain, but it is making for a very steamy situation!  I have been stuck inside making more steampunk stamples for Mrs. O'Leary's art store using Artful Illusions stamps. 

Here are some of the latest!