DAM (Denver Art Museum)

What a fun day we had at the art museum...

The big hit of the day was a hands on exhibit called ~Marvelous Mud~!  The girls put on aprons and tried out the pottery wheel, SO FUN!!!  
Then Mitch, the girls and myself sat at the art tables and made whatever we could dream up with a ball of clay!  In our group we made the following:  a pretzel, strawberries, a puffer fish, a piggy, a living room scene, a dragon, and a chain link.

  It was fun getting messy and being creative!  We even got to take home our creations!

We found the art of Monet and Matisse and the girls found the time to play dress up and act silly!

Our day at the art museum in 8 words:

Walking - Looking - Snacking - Laughing - Creating - Exploring - Playing - Shopping

Just For Fun...

Kaleigh...  and her friend, Vanessa had fun just playing around this afternoon!

Lesson With Emily - July 27th

Emily loves animals and sunsets!!! 

We spent our lesson this week painting a beautiful sunset with liquid watercolors and

then drawing and coloring our elephant... tree... and bushes! 

When we put our picture all together it turned out super ~ adorable!

Lesson With Macy - July 27th

We painted flowers in a jar...  Macy picked her favorite colors and we colored the flowers and roots with crayons and oil pastels and then painted with watercolor.  It's a fun way to show the wax resist & watercolor trick! 

I saw this idea on a blog called - art projects for kids!  It's a great site with lots of fun ideas!

Art Lesson With Ty

Ty Loves Birds...  so we decided this keel billed toucan would be fun to draw and paint!!!

We used liquid watercolor and oil pastels for this cute painting!
He did a great job!

SAILBOATS...

We had fun in class with sailboats!!!

Then we said goodbye to our cute friend Lauren who is moving!!! 

We will miss painting with her in our Saturday morning classes!!!

Creative Kids - July 22

Lemonade...

Crunchy Ice...

Sip It Once...

Sip It Twice...

Sunflowers & The Eiffel Tower... with the TWEENS!!!

I had 4 tweens that painted SUNFLOWERS...  and 2 that wanted to paint the Eiffel Tower!

Private Lesson with Sydney and Emily - July 21st

The artist we talked about this week was Claude Monet...  We figured out how to stay cool with Claude!

We drew sailboats and then drank lemonade and drew and painted lemonade stands.

Ahhhhhh.... refreshing!

Addie the PUP...

Here's Addie being ARTISTIC with the curtains!!!

I think Kaleigh approves of her new look!!!

Adult Class - July 19th

We painted aspen trees! 

Here is the class demo...  I really enjoyed this one!

New Student To Artfully Me...

Today I worked with Ty for the first time...  This little boy LOVES birds!  The first bird we decided to work on was a penguin!!! 

And wouldn't you know...  I didn't get a picture of his CUTER that CUTE art but thought I would share my demo...  because penguins are cute...  no matter who paints them!  : )

Pint-Sized Picasso's - July 16th

 Today in class we read the book, "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds and then painted DOTS... 

to go along with our Jackson Pollock art week! 

We also explored making molds using sand, shells, and glass beads... and Plaster of Paris!