A local museum offers classes a few times a year that are always lots of fun!  The theme this time was butterfly batiks.  It was such a great springtime art project, I thought I’d share it with you.  I’ll take you through the steps below, but you’ll be looking at three different butterflies since I [...]

We spent much of our month with Matisse completing art with scissors since Matisse’s later works were often collages or realistic and abstract art constructed from cuttings. The artwork below was actually harder than it looks.  I asked the kids to use rulers to measure the desired sized blocks of color for the background.  The [...]

This was a fun little activity Eli and I did as we talked about March winds.  It’s super simple, too.  I colored water with food coloring then let him use an eye dropper to place colored dots on a piece of card stock.  He used a straw to blow the colored water all over the [...]

We’ve been so immersed in our 1900′s history studies, that Charles Russell took a bit of a back seat this month.  We did find the time to practice a little horse drawing, though.  Enjoy the resources below! Charles Russell About Charles Russell Paintings We’re Studying Innocent Allies Doubtful Handshake Drifters Round-up on the Musselshell Lesson [...]

Seurat is such a fun artist to study!  His use of pointillism was the biggest topic during the month, which made for some fun art projects.  The painting above was an attempt at recreating an “Alfalfa” style painting (see below) with a mixture of strokes and styles.  After using many different tools to create pointillism, [...]