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Man Shops Globe

2009-10-31T08:57:00.000-07:00

This is an amazing little show with Keith Johnson shopping the globe for Anthropologie. (Sundance Channel) What a fantastic job!
http://www.sundancechannel.com/man-shops-globe/

Her Morning Elegance-Oren Lavie

2009-10-18T09:26:00.000-07:00

I thought this video was beaufitful...

Monday morning...

2009-10-17T10:26:00.000-07:00

We had a cool morning here ...the kids were so excited to get out their hats.

a good day in fremont

2009-10-17T10:13:00.000-07:00

My dear friend Lori and I had a fabulous day escaping reality and daydreaming/catching up in Fremont...Thanks Lori-Wasn't Bitter so fun? I want to go back there real soon!!

"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends." Helen Steiner Rice

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living." Amanda Bradley

Hall Tree

2009-10-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

I wanted to keep this myself...but no room. I finally got to use some old metal handles I bought a long time ago..saving for the right piece.

"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow-that is patience."

plastic to plaster

2009-10-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

I had this plastic chandelier that needed a bit of a change. I covered it with plaster...and left it white...I loved how organic it looked bare with no paint.

Art for Adaliz

2009-10-17T09:36:00.000-07:00

My sister Jenny gave birth to a healthy little girl-Adaliz Margarete(Adi). Congratulations Jenny and Ralph!!! I made this piece to go in her room.

a dresser do

2009-08-14T18:32:00.000-07:00

"We are all special cases." Albert Camus

Walking the Plank

2009-08-10T22:34:00.000-07:00

"Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow."

old spoons

2009-08-10T22:13:00.000-07:00

I finally got to tinkering around with the saudering gun/propane torch and some jewelry making. The three necklaces I gave as very late birthday gifts to some special ladies. The first necklace pendant came from the bottom of a spoon...Oscar helped a little with the drill press on this one. Necklace #2's pendant is a baby spoon I cut off. ....and necklace #3 's pendant is a serving spoon...I loved the roughness of it with the pretty beads. I did not make the necklaces just the pendants..I made this ring for myself-its an old brooch...I think it looks great except for underneath-Its a hot mess...I'll make sure no one looks too closely..hee, hee. Thanks to Michelle Beschen's jewerly making videos on DIY network!!!!!

"Don't Wait, The time will never be just right."-Napoleon Hill

Workbench

2009-08-03T23:31:00.000-07:00

I recently took this into Fremont.....Its heavier then heck.

Some Summer Fun

2009-08-03T22:53:00.000-07:00

2009 School Art Show, "Take Flight"

2009-08-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

One of our main gallery walls

A first grader's art show piece.

Kindergarteners created one of a kind "Birds on a Branch." We did a directed drawing and then students had free choice in how they painted their birds.

Third Grade-"Clay Birds." This project was one of my favorites this year. I love the simplicity of it....We went to paint them (I did not want to) and before I began telling students we were going to paint them, I had two students pipe up , "Ms. Bean......they look good not painted." I agree....so they will be at our school on permanent display.

The drift wood came from Alki Beach in Seattle.
First Grade Butterfly mural-A Kathy Barbro lesson. Each first grade class made one using a different media.

First Grade, "Wordy Butterflies." I got this inspiration from my daily blog reading on poppytalk. They had a posting of artists using newsprint for sculptural art. I photocopied old newspapers from the eighties...all four classes used paint, marker, and oil pastel. Students could come up with any design but their butterfly had to be symmetrical.

Second Grade-"Peacocks" These were fun but sooooo messy with the glitter.

Third Grade.."Symmetrical Butterflies"

Fourth Grade- "Painted Parakeets" I had students study various pictures/paintings of parakeets. We looked at the various color gradations...Students had to mix at least three colors within their parakeet. We painted them on acetate, outlined with black sharpie marker and framed with black construction paper. Walking from either side of the hall...you could see the bird from both sides.

Fifth Grade-"Printed Birds"-a study of printmaking with linoleum blocks.

Along with having students voluntarily enter their own work, each class had an art lesson that I had displayed in the show so everyone was included. Our theme was "Take Flight." Anything that has wings....I tried to come up with something different for each class. The last few weeks of school our hallways were jam packed with art----It was lovely.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana

Paul Klee Art Workshop

2009-08-03T21:59:00.000-07:00

Here's one of my student's own interpretations of Paul Klee's "Castle and Sun."(oil pastel on black construction paper)
Art does not reproduce what we see ; rather, it makes us see. Paul Klee

Around the World

2009-08-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

Sculptures from around the world! The students came up with this idea. I asked for some ideas with what we could create for our sculpture segment of art. My fifth graders agreed on around the world sculptures.....So here we have the Golden Gate Bridge, the Space Needle, the Sphinx, the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum and the Eiffel Tower.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Frank Lloyd Wright

Third Grade "Foiled Sea Creatures"

2009-08-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

First Grade Rocket Mixed Media

2009-08-03T19:09:00.001-07:00

Auction Mural

2009-08-03T19:01:00.000-07:00

This year the music teacher, tech teacher and myself sold a mural project at our school auction in the spring. First grade studens came in on a Sat. with us teachers and began painting our Keith Haring Mural. I will post the final pic soon(I haven't taken a picture of our final work with the black borders on). This mural is the hallway leading out to recess-we needed some liveliness in this space!

Fifth Grade Space Mixed Media

2009-08-03T19:00:00.001-07:00

Fifh Grade VanGogh Mural

2009-08-03T18:55:00.000-07:00

I did purchase the layout for the this mural from the great Kathy Barbro at artprojectsforkids.org

Fourt Grade T-shirt Design

2009-08-03T18:49:00.001-07:00

My fourth grade art students were asked to come up with a t-shirt design for one of our many school fundraisers. To keep the cost low for making t-shirts, we were asked to keep the design simple. So...I hade students make a bike design on black with white pencil and on white with black pencil. One student's work was chosen while the rest of the student's work was displayed on posters throughout the school adverting our fundraiser.

A picture is a poem without words- Horace

A study of Matisse's "Polynesia"

2009-08-03T18:43:00.000-07:00

My after school art workshop kiddos made two of these large scale(4x8) "Polynesia's." It was fun cutting paper with all of the kiddos in a sea of white.

-Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. -Pablo Picasso

Kandinsky Art Workshop

2009-08-03T18:41:00.000-07:00

A writer should write with his eyes, and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein

Robot Workshop

2009-08-03T15:54:00.000-07:00

This was a fun afterschool workshop where students created one of a kind robot art. When students were finished I sprayed painted them with an aluminum silver.

Fourth Grade "Finish It Drawings"

2009-08-03T15:48:00.001-07:00

I can't remember what art teacher site I got this lesson from....I know its a lesson thats been around for a long time..My fourth graders loooovvved this lesson...Most of them made extra finish it drawings with their free time until the end of the year.