Help Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill this summer!!!

Hey young and grown up artists.....here is something I will be doing with my kids this summer. My kids will be making art to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Donations details below image.
go to http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/ for more information....

Artist Harley wanted to contribute to the cause and here is her picture. She is 11 years old and also lives in Manhattan Beach Ca. She loves Dolphins and often sees them when she and her Mother and Sister walk on the beach. It is 5"by 7" and is done on heavy bristol board. Each card is available for a $10 donation.

DONATION DETAILS - HOW THIS WORKS

Each sketchcard on this blog is $10.00. The $10.00 is a donation to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Every penny is donated. The two Non-Profits that are benefitting are The Institute for Marine Mammal Studiesand The International Bird Rescue Research Center. You can purchase a card if you donate directly to one of the non-profits and email me the confirmation and your address toripplesketches@verizon.net. The artist will mail you the signed card.

Artists - emailripplesketches@verizon.net for info

We don't have to feel helpless. We can help. Our small actions together will ripple outward.

Gallery- 5th Grade 3D Animal Mix Masks

These are just some of the 5th grade masks. The artists learned:

* About varying ways to create texture using paper.

* The importance of symmetry in relaying our message to the viewer.

* Creating solid shapes such as cones and cylinders using paper, scissors and glue.

* The difference between visual and tactile texture.

K explore different marks they can make on clay....using various tools

Thank YOU REGINA!!

Regina Holliday deserves a BIG hug and thank you....she came in yesterday and in one hour helped me straighten out my classroom.....She is an organizing WIZZZ! Love you Regina! ....My room has not looked this neat in ages!! You are what makes a school a feel more like a 'community'!!!

Bookbinding done.......they will be journal/sketchbooks instead

Children in 3rd grade have been learning all about bookbinding. I taught them the same lesson I got while in college finishing off a studio art major. They fold sets of paper and sew them together, then they attach the pages to a cover. The children were going to use these books to show off these fables they created, yet most of them, once they saw the end result preferred to turn them into sketchbook/journals instead.

I introduced them to an artist I LOVE.......who posts her own creative journal pages online, Judy Wise at http://Judywise.blogspot.com . They were very inspired and like Judy Wise, they used mixed media to decorate their covers. Parents, please feel free to watch videos on YouTube under the search 'bookbinding'...they will make wonerful summer projects.

Samples of finished masks

5th graders are done with their elaborate 3d/textured animal mix masks.....I am trying to set up a time when all of them are able to pose for a picture with their masks on.......I will post pictures of each individual mask as well once I have all of them done.

3rd Grade Halfway Done Bookbinding Project

Here are our halfway done bound books. We were going to use the images from our class-created fables to illustrate it, but now that they are almost done, children have expressed that they'd rather use them as journal.sketchbooks. I will do one lesson on journaling and sketch booking to get them excited about continuing this process during the summer.

These books were created by folding 3 sheets of paper and sewing them together. We did this process three times and at the end sewed all 3 booklets together.

Drawing Leaves using images of real leaves (PreK)

Children used lines and shapes to create images of various types of leaves.

Children are so proud of their work!!

Look at that beautiful large leaf with veins.

Using rich visual resources is very important when introducing new images.