Students are Falling into Space Self Portrait

Here is a fun project that the Beavercreek High School students created to make themselves look like they are falling in space. 

 

First they traced their shoe at the bottom of the paper and added the shoe sole pattern. Then we traced their hands on each side. 

An oval was drawn for their head and the students drew in their personal hairstyle and face.

Then the clothes were drawn in smaller to look further away and were filled in with the clothes they were wearing.

This is such a fun project to make a self portrait!

Delaney

 

 

Scrambler

 

 

 

Easy Animal Drawings

 

 

Do you have a hard time drawing animals? Many of Diane's students do and she came up with a solution. She found large pictures of dogs from a book on dog breeds. Using heavy vellum paper, the photo was taped to the underside of the vellum.

 

 The students then drew an outline of the dog's features with a black Sharpie.  The rest of the picture was filled in with water soluble markers as Crayola.

 

 

 

 The students were encouraged to have fun with the colors and to put in an environment so the viewer would know where the dog was - inside or outside. Some students named their dogs and added their favorite dog dish and bone.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                      The finished art work can be displayed in a window since it is translucent or on a wall with white paper behind it.

Supplies needed:

 

        Heavy translucent vellum paper

Tape

   Black Sharpie

   Crayola markers

 Animal book or calendar



Printing with Fairborn and Beavercreek High School Students

We Care Arts has a large outreach art program. Our art instructors go to schools, nursing homes, senior centers, adult disability day programs, and wherever there is a need for the magic of art.

 

These students are from Fairborn and Beavercreek High Schools. They receive art classes each week from We Care Arts. Most of these students do not have regular art classes.

 

In this printing experience, they are creating a monoprint background with Gelli Plates and acrylic paint. Next a Thermofax silkscreen was used to print a pattern over the background.

 

 

Austin and Hailey are using bubble wrap, foam stamps and found objects to make textures on the Gelli Plates.

 

 

Austin is using a brayer to roll out the paint on the Gelli Plate.

 

 

Gretchen is helping Hailey spread the paint on the Gelli plate. Hailey silkscreened butterflies over her monoprint.

 

 

Michael and his peer helper are using a Thermofax screen to print a dragon

onto his Gelli print background.

 

 

Abbi is printing with a complimentary color scheme of purple and yellow.

 

 

Here are two examples from the art teacher of monoprints with a silkscreen design.

 

All the artists are amazed and proud of their prints! They are displayed in their rooms and in their annual art show. The teacher, aides and peer helpers at each location are an important part to the success of this program and we thank you all!