PAUL KLEE LINES & PATTERNS

The past two weeks we have been rediscovering lines and all they can do for our drawings.  I am introducing them to the 1st graders and reintroducing them to the 2nd - 4th graders. It is always fun getting antiquated again with our favorites. 

1st grade drew a Paul Klee inspired cat.  I do not have pictures of this lesson.  They are currently in a bag waiting to be uploaded to Artsonia.  I have not had the upload lesson just yet with 1st graders.  I usually wait to introduce Artsonia until the 2nd semester. They are still just learning the basics of the art room and to add another thing is just too much for my Littles. 

I should say, these are all lessons from  Deep Space Sparkle Member's Club.  

Any of you who have followed me for a while know these are my absolute FAVORITE lessons to do.  They are tried, true, and pretend art teacher proof! LOL!  

2nd Grade had fun with line and pattern with this Paul Klee Man.  Some thought he was a robot, others thought an alien, but we all had fun with the lines, shapes, and pattern.  These were created with a black oil pastel directed drawing and painted the next week. 

3rd Grade used the new Crayola Oil Pastels to create these beautiful Castles and Suns.  We drew the castle with a white oil pastel the first day and the next they had to fill each shape created with the oil pastels. They turned out beautifully and I will always order Crayola oil pastels in the future.  The colors are so bright and beautiful! On the black construction paper they really pop!

4th Grade also did a Paul Klee inspired drawing.  I didn't tell them this but they did this exact lesson when they were in 2nd grade.  The improvement was amazing!  This is another reason I love having my students for 4 years in a row.  I get to see the progression of their talent.  We created this drawing with a black oil pastel on white paper  one week and painted it with temper cakes the next week. These turned out so great! 

This Week in the Art Room

So, during  one of my 4th Grade classes this past week, I asked my students to put their pencils up, as in back in the container on the table, and this is what I got!  

I almost peed my pants laughing so hard.  You got to understand, these are my GT kiddos, the brightest of the bright.  When I posted this on my FB page, my coworker explained these were her darlings from last year and "pencils up" means time's up, stop, look and listen!  

She trained them well! 

I can already tell, I am going to love this group of kiddos!  They have a great since of humor!

Home Studio is done! Ready for Students!!

After a brief sabbatical from blogging, I am back!  I have gotten my Parkway Classroom ready and the kiddos had a blast last week doing a Painted Paper lesson.  Lots of mess, giggles, and a few tears over a spot or two of paint on new school clothes. We had so much fun and I gave my janitor heart palpitations! HeeHee!

My Home Studio is READY!

Now all I need are students willing to have an adventure with me after school.  In this studio we will explore all kinds of cool art techniques that we can't do in the regular classroom on my campus. 

I love how it turned out and super proud of it.  

This is me painting some old Victrola records I found in my closet....you know, cuz everyone just has some random Victrola records laying around.  I mean, really?  Don't you? 

I reused some shelving I had left over from my gigantic TV entertainment center and organized my paints and papers in beautiful bins a friend of mine bought me over the summer.  I had a little fit about a sale at Target that I was missing while on vacation and my dear friend took pity on me and went shopping for me!  I think they are beautiful even if they were out of the Blue! :-(  

If any of you were following my frantic Kitchen Remodel on FB you may recognize the apron hanger.  It is the decorative piece that came off the top of the dresser we used as our kitchen island.  We added 5 hooks and hunk it on the wall....not knowing that we screwed the pocket door closed.  OOPS! Had to do a little readjustment on that particular screw!  

My records came out perfect!  I love this wall in the studio.  I reused the drawers from the dresser as shelving as well as some random drawers I had saved in the attic for just this type of project.  I think they have been up there for about 10 years!  Every time Mr. Art asks me if he can throw them away, I say "NO!  I have plans for those!......eventually...."  And look how cute they turned out!

I have tons of cool stuff we are going to play with and can not wait to get started. 

The walls are a little bare for my taste, but I plan to add artwork as we create it.  Girl Child #1 is working on a painting as we speak to go over the aprons.  Should be cute.  

If you or someone you know is interested in taking private art lessons on Thursday evenings from 6pm - 7pm please let me know.  Email me, FB Message me, call me, send me a smoke single.....I am married to an Indian you know! HA!  Just let me know.  

 Classes are $120 per month, once a week.  

I have ordered art kits from Arsel Art in Dallas to ready for our first class on September 6th.  

Looking forward to starting this adventure!

Private Lessons in September

I am going to offer private art lessons at my home coming in the Fall.  I have had several parents ask about Summer classes and I have just not had the energy or the time to do a summer program.  Between end of the year crazy town and teaching Summer School I have been just a busy in the month of June as I was in May! 

EDIT: Have had to raise the grade level on this offer.  I have many former students upset with me for cutting it off at 4th grade, so I have decided to take students up to 6th.  This being said, I may have to split the age groups 1st - 3rd and 4th - 6th.  We will see how many I have interested...

After School Art Classes for Elementary with

Mrs. Misti Scaggs

Grades 1st - 6th

Limit 6 Students

onetime $30.00 supply fee

$30.00 per lesson

paid monthly

Classes Begin Thursday, September 6th

 from 6 pm - 7 pm

This will be a studio type class offered weekly to students interested in furthering their art education.

Misti R. Scaggs

mistiscaggs@gmail.com

*Classes will not be affiliated with PTISD or my campus art program.  Classes will be offered in my home. 

 Please let me know if you would be interested in you child attending weekly classes for extra art instruction. 

Looking forward to this new adventure for me and my students.  

2018 In the Art Room

Well, another year has flown by! I can't believe how fast it went. We had some laughs, some tears, and a whole lota fun!  Here is a little video of some of the projects we explored this year.  Towards the end of the year, as many of you know, the schedule gets tighter, faster, and more hectic.  It became increasingly harder to get pictures in this fast and furious pace.  So here is just a glimpse of our year.  

I am looking forward to next year's adventures in the art room! 

2nd Grade Clay Fish

During our 2nd Grade clay project I learned quite a bit about the amounts of clay to use and how difficult the project was for 2nd graders.  MAN was this a challenge!!!  I learned that I had not prepped enough clay per student, that the project took longer than expected time wise and would require a lot more organization and prep from me in the future.

The First day
During the first day, we watched the video by Cassie Stephens on how to make our base and our fish.  We created a large "rock" for the base with seaweed springing from the bottom and our fish.  Paying close attention to the fact that this would be a 3D sculpture, we made sure both sides of our fish were matching.  I had the classroom teacher come to the classroom about 10 minutes before pick up time to help mark the fish and the base with the student's classroom number, i.e - the student is in Mrs. Longs class, she would put L2 on the bottom of each piece belonging to that student.

The Second Day:
Students found their two pieces on a table I had set up in the hallway and place them on a paper lined blue tray donated to the art room from the science department. (BTW....I love these trays and we use them OFTEN!)  Students had Color stations of Acrylic paint to walk between to paint their fish.  I had students put their name and teacher's name on their paper before painting.  When finished, I placed the wet pieces together with their paper on my rolling wire shelves to dry.  The next week, I bagged them and sent them to their classroom to take home.

Things I learned from this lesson:

This lesson take quite a while.  I had to nick 15 extra minutes from the classroom teacher to finish the first day's lesson.  I think next time I will break it up into a 3 day lesson.  Day 1 for the base, day 2 for the fish, day 3 for painting.  Also, the hole you make for the stick to attach the two pieces together needs to be over-sized.  When the clay dries and is fired the hole draws up considerably.  I spend a lot of time shaving craft sticks with an Exacto knife so they would fit.  You can always hot glue the stick if it is too loose, but let me tell you, shaving those things is NOT fun!

First Clay Project with 1st Grade

I know it has been a while and I want to apologize!  I have been expressly busy after I returned from TAEA and it has truly been a marathon of clay projects with 1st and 2nd graders and Christmas Musical Program practices with 4th Graders!  But.....the end is near...Just 1 1/2 more days until the blessed Christmas Break commences!  YIPPPPPYYYYY

But, in the meantime, I would like to give you a little update!

First, as soon as I returned from TAEA I prepped my clay to begin Clay Birds with 1st Graders!  Thanks Cassie Stephens for a fantastic lesson!  This lesson took me 3 (45 min) class periods.

Cassie Stephens Clay Birds

Preping my clay:

I made myself a slab cutter from some scrap 2"x4" I had in the garage from a recent project (bunk beds for my son).  I used the eye hooks as a tightener and 20 gage wire.  I think in the future, I will use a more flexable wire.  This is very stiff and heard to wind and work with.

I strung a center wire to cut my slabs in half.  I cut up a cheep dollar store plastic table cloth into rectangles to place between the clay slabs and put 20 into a bag.  I did 8 bags for 12 bags to accommodate myself and about 200 students with a little extra just in case.

Day 1:  We constructed our birds.  This was a learning experience for both myself and the 1st graders.  Next time I will do a trial run with play dough before we dive into real clay.
Day 2: We used the tempera cakes to paint our birds.  This worked fine until it came time to "glaze".
Day 3:  We used Mod Podge to "glaze" our birds.  Again, this was a learning experience.  Next time I will dip the birds into a Mod Podge bath and hang dry.  Painting smeared the tempera paint and caused some birds to change colors as the tempera mixed with the Mod Podge.  OR... I may just use acrylic paint....uggghhhh....maybe not..We are talking about 1st graders!