In anticipation of visiting the Long Beach Museum of Art’s current exhibit, “About Face”, we are working on our portrait drawing skills.
We started out with a blow up of a face from a magazine copied onto paper in black and white. We cut the image in half vertically and pasted the left side of [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
Portrait practice
January 23, 2008
Paying it forward…
Today is pay it forward day (among other things like preparing an indigo vat and starting in on the taxes) so Emily, Anna, Kristen, Juanita, & Maura are being sent a little something as a reminder of being part of the community of artists teaching art. I won’t say what it is- that would [...]
January 21, 2008
classroom is dark today-MLK holiday
Just as well as I am recovering from 5 days at the Pasadena Bead and Design Show.
John Nava, Lizzie Cornwell, 2003,
Oil on canvas,48″ x 44″
Collection of the Museum of Ventura County,
Bonita McFarland Trust
There is an update however. Penny went to see a great little portrait show at the Long Beach Museum of Art and [...]
January 16, 2008
facing technology in the 4th grade classroom
Well it seemed like a good idea……….
After our photography presentation last week we had asked the students to take a photo with a digital camera and email it to
the teacher. Most kids said they would be able to do this with the help of a parent or sibling. The few that didn’t think [...]
January 7, 2008
January is Photography month
In a little bit of New Year’s organizing, I finally found the yearly outline for art in the fourth grade classroom Penny & I had created back in September. We’ve been winging it based on our combined memories of what we had planned back then and I’m happy to report that we still have [...]
