Liebster Blog Award

I won the Liebster Award from B Art Z- Elementary Art a wonderful blog with many creative projects.
Thank you B Art Z Elementary art for this award.
It is a humbling experience to be recognized by your peers.

The goal of this award is to introduce blogs with less than 200 followers.

The rules are:

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog
2. Thank the giver and link back to them
3. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a  comment on their blog
4. Spread our love of art to other bloggers

Here are my five picks: 

1. New city arts

2. Art and ideas that grow

3. Art Adventures with Middle School Students

4. A Faithful Attempt

5. Fine Lines

I visit these great blogs often as they provide a plethora of wonderful ideas.

A great source of inspiration for me.

Enjoy checking all of these wonderful blogs.

(G2,G3) Creating in the Style of Tomas Saraceno (Part II)

For this project, students looked at pictures of Saraceno's installations and created

mini versions of his mushrooming clusters.

We used silver thread and tried to recreate his dodecahedrons (12)  strings compositions.

He states: " I'm not interested in defining what I am- artist, engineer, inventor, scientist, I am much more interested in weaving in between and interconnecting things. I feel comfortable engaging in somebody else's discipline."  

Tomas Saraceno

Working in creating a giant spider with silver and white thread.

Working with soft pastels to create a colorful spiderweb.

Tomas Saraceno

(G2,G3) Creating in the style of Tomas Saraceno (Part I)

Students looked at the work of Tomas Saraceno, and they loved his giant webs.

We learned that Tomas Saraceno is an artist, inventor, scientist, and an engineer.

We discussed how the spiderweb is an enduring motif in his work.
He selected a species of black-window spider and fed them flies and crickets through the winter so that they  could start spinning their webs.
He wanted to recreate an exact replica of a web. He said: "Try to go to the corner of the room an see all
the spiderweb at once. You never can really see it; some parts are missing because the light doesn't hit in the right angles."

The artist Tomas Saraceno

Using rulers and pencils to create our little webs.
The pencil drawings will be used in the creation of the actual web project

 Our drawings will be the blue print for our web design.

  Following our pencil design, we used push pins to create holes on a thick piece of paper.

We placed the glue on top of our holes and pushed our pins in.
Learning how to use a hot glue gun responsibly was part of this process.

Based on our drawings, we started creating our little webs.

The challenge was to wrap the yarn twice around each pin.

Tomas Saraceno

Following the lines in our drawings in designing our webs was challenging.

Tomas Saraceno

(G2) Elf Feet in Action

While searching for a cute holiday project, I found this adorable idea  in Art Projects for Kids 

Students drew vertical lines for the feet first and then, using the shape V, they drew the shoes in small steps.

The clothes completed the holiday composition.

  

(KG) Interpreting the work of Zhan Wang (Part II)

The kindergarten students had fun learning about the work of Zhan Wong. They were so impressed with the scale of his work and with great enthusiasm went to create their own aluminum sculptures.   

In our first session, we used water colors to paint the aluminum sheets.

In our second session, the students used a 3-dimensional object and wrapped the aluminum sheet around that object in order to create their sculpture.

In our third session, we  looked at the colorful digital photography of Leovi  Fotografia abstracta  and discussed how photography

can have a sculptural quality.

 

The artist Zhan Wang

Leovi

Leovi

Leovi

Zhan Wong

Zhan Wang