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<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-39980749909887322232014-08-06T00:27:00.000-07:002014-09-23T13:57:54.060-07:00It's a Good Idea to Learn How to Use Fondant Before You Volunteer to Decorate the Wedding CakeAs I mentioned in the previous post, my son got married and I wanted to help with the reception but we live far away from the reception venue. I have four boys and no girls so wedding planning isn't something that came up much, really never, but it was still something I was excited about. When my husband and I went to visit our "new" family, the bride and her mom graciously let me be a part of the process, even asking me to come along and help pick out the dress, which I really appreciated. I found a picture of a cake that reminded me of her dress and impulsively volunteered to decorate the cake. I've done a little cake decorating but I had never worked with fondant and this cake was covered with fondant and fondant ruffles. Besides, I'm a sculptor so I was confident I could figure it out. I also planned to take a cake decorating class. <br />
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I made the bride and groom cake top figures from wooden clothespins and wooden heads and bases. The arms were made with wire covered with paper. The faces and hair were hand painted with acrylic paint. I used a pom pom for the bride's ponytail. The clothes were made out of lace, ribbon and felt and tried to match their real outfits. These were lot's of fun to make and I think they look a lot like the cute couple!Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-31420416423611480582014-08-05T01:00:00.001-07:002014-08-05T01:00:16.575-07:00Back from my blog break......life happensWow, didn't realize I'd let so much time pass without checking in. At first it was because of teaching. Prepping for classes and then spending my days in the classsroom didn't leave much time for documentation. Before I could recover from the mess I made of my house and art room it was time to get ready for the summer wedding of my son. No time for organizing my thoughts. The actual wedding and reception was primarily the worry of the bride and her family although I helped with as much as I could from 7+ hours away. Since many of my family and friends weren't able to make the trip I wanted to have an open house for the bride and groom here, which required finishing some projects around the house/backyard.<br />
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<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-32216520857513753352014-01-09T23:15:00.002-08:002014-01-14T00:24:45.535-08:00It's a New Year!It's hard to believe we're already well into a new year. I enjoyed spending time with family and friends during the holidays. Unfortunately I never quite got the decorations all the way up and I'm still not done taking them down. I tend to get distracted. I'm hoping to get some artwork finished before I begin teaching again. Fortunately I tend to work better under deadlines. I did manage to find time to make some jewelry. <br />
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<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-62718662255946124782013-10-05T11:41:00.001-07:002013-10-09T02:05:08.358-07:00Switching gears again. I had a shift at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HighHandGallery">High Hand Gallery</a> so I made some new jewelry to take with me. I guessed wrong and made more necklaces when I really should have made more bracelets. Necklaces are more fun to make though. Here are a few of the new ones. As a side note, I'm getting better with my jewelry photography skills.<br />
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Had a great time today painting tablecloths with some of the artists from High Hand. They will be used at the Artstock Reception! I've been focused on making jewelry and mixed media lately so it was fun to play with paint for a change. <br />
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Finished my pieces for Artstock. One piece is a bronze I made several years ago. After the first and only show I entered it in a weld broke while I was transporting it home so it's been residing under my art table since then. After getting the weld repaired and a little TLC it is ready for viewing once again. I re-christened it "Theta". My son suggested it. It has something to do with a polar graph that creates a spiral.....did I mention that I that my husband and sons are all math/scientists?<br />
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If I had more time I may have adjusted a few things but the deadline had arrived and it was time to submit. I was just glad the glue and paint was mostly dry and it was staying together. I liked the idea of mother nature but it didn't quite work for me as a name. I finally decided on "Gaia", the Greek personification of Earth and the mother of all things.<br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Working on some sculptures for the High Hand Artstock Show. The entry deadline is tomorrow. It would be nice not to always be in such a rush trying to my work done at the last minute but I seem to get more creative when I'm in semi-panic mode. I've got to work on changing that dynamic. I'm sure it's not good for me and it's probably annoying to everyone who gets there stuff done on time.....or early. We'll see how I do next time.</span><br />
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<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-73775147894011543242013-08-22T00:04:00.001-07:002013-08-22T00:04:04.313-07:00Gone Too Soon.....<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCqPwEgycGU/UhW2aTncPXI/AAAAAAAAGHk/aYx0I3g_9eU/s1600/chewed+shoes+1+72.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCqPwEgycGU/UhW2aTncPXI/AAAAAAAAGHk/aYx0I3g_9eU/s320/chewed+shoes+1+72.jpg" width="320" /></a>This is what can happen when there's a new puppy in the house and you don't put your things away. The frustrating part is that he had new chew toys and a full bowl of food when he did it. If he'd eaten a left and a right I could get creative and wear one of each!Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-4600520199251315552013-08-07T17:51:00.000-07:002013-08-07T17:53:58.222-07:00The Eye of the Beholder......<br />
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Although many of my art pieces are dimensional because I work with found objects I hadn't really thought much about the tactile aspect of my art. I should have, especially after teaching a visual art residency to a visually impaired class. At the time I was mostly concerned about the my student's experience making art while not being able to see and I didn't think about how they would enjoy and experience the artwork after it was made. Even though I'm a "visual" artist I think I'll have to keep in mind that people "see" in different ways.<br />
<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-71038853732379517722013-07-18T11:33:00.001-07:002013-10-05T11:20:46.990-07:00New Jewelry Finishing up some jewelry for High Hand. Still need to make more before I start focusing on some pieces for the Artstock show that's coming up next month. Then I have to work BIG which will be quite a change of pace!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I finally finished my entry last night and will be taking it to the gallery to join all the other fabulously creative entries made by our artists and other members of the community. Click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.568669329839678.1073741825.100212843351998&type=3">here</a> if you'd like to get a taste of what will be at the auctioned tonight at the High Hand Night Gallery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I finished up my Any Given Child Residency this past week. I used the book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/562039557">"Elmer"</a> by David McKee as an introduction to our final project on camouflage. "Elmer" is the story of a patchwork elephant who learns the importance of being true to oneself instead of trying to be like everyone else. As I read the book we discussed the importance of not making fun of others and being happy with yourself. I also let the students know that I didn't expect their work to be perfect but I did expect them to show me their personal best. The next thing we discussed was the camouflage aspect of Elmer. As a patchwork elephant he didn't fit into his habitat so we discussed what his habitat would have to look like in order for him to be camouflaged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For this project the students had to think more abstractly. The first part of the project was to draw the outline of an animal. We had already practiced drawing animals for the previous project. This time they were instructed to keep the animal simple and not add much detail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next the students drew lines through the entire page from "edge to edge". The type of line was their choice (curvy, straight, zig-zag etc...) but the lines needed to cut through the animal. Then they traced over all the pencil lines with a black sharpie. When they were finished the image looked kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next the students used watercolor pencils to color in each of the newly created shapes. They were also instructed to limit their color palette to only four colors. The hardest part was getting them to color the new shapes and not look at the image as an animal and a background.</span><br />
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The students who finished in time had the option of brushing water over the colored areas to activate the pencils in order to create a watercolor effect.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I usually like to spend more time on the basic elements by doing a few warm-up lessons on color, line, shape and pattern prior to beginning a final project but due to time constraints I tried to get the job done in a one hour lesson using a worksheet I made up. We briefly went over color (primary and secondary), line (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, thick, thin, curvy, straight etc....) shape (geometric and organic) and then practiced creating patterns and textures in preparation for the final projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On day two we looked at examples of animal artwork done by various artists and discussed how drawing animals could be made less complicated by starting with simple shapes to get the proportions and basic animal shape and then refining the drawings by erasing unnecessary lines and adding detail. We drew several animals as a class and then I encouraged them to try drawing an animal of their own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the third day we looked at pictures of animals in their natural habitats and discussed how they were camouflaged. We looked at the colors, patterns and textures of the animals and their habitats. Then the students chose one of their animal drawings to transfer onto colored construction paper. They used oil pastels to pattern their animal before cutting it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the fourth day we talked about the element of art "space" and discussed how they could create an illusion of space in their artwork. We added overlap, foreground, middle ground and background to their vocabulary list and then they went to work creating a background for their animals. They used a sheet of construction paper the same color as their animal and sketched in elements of their animals habitat before adding color with oil pastels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The final step of the project was adding some low relief by gluing layers of foam between the animal and the back ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Their finished artwork. I think they're fabulous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We had a great time in fruit sheds creating art this past weekend. If you didn't make it this year I hope you can join us next time! </span></div>
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<br />Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-59197449421001287522013-03-26T00:31:00.000-07:002013-06-17T01:24:32.603-07:00Fifth Grade: Faith Ringold Inspired Story Quilts<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/book01.htm"><img align="RIGHT" alt="Tar Beach" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" src="http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/books/frgbk01l.jpg" valign="TOP" width="153" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">The fifth graders learned about the
artist Faith Ringold. We read her book <a href="http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/book01.htm">"Tar Beach"</a> and then talked
about her artwork. Before starting the project we discussed quilting and how a story could be told visually instead of relying on words alone. Instead of using fabric we created our story quilts on tagboard with a "quilted" border made of squares of patterned
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<span style="font-size: small;">During the first lesson the students drew a 2"
border around the tagboard where the paper squares would be applied. Then we talked
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a brief discussion on perspective, overlap and making their drawings large enough to fill the paper, the students began a rough pencil sketch. Their stories could be about a family tradition, favorite memory or a dream for their future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">During the next two class periods watercolor pencils were used to add color. If desired, water could be used to blend the color and give a watercolor effect. After the center was colored in we used squares of patterned wallpaper to make a "quilted" border around the edge. Black sharpie pens were used to add details, words or "stitching" if the students desired.</span><br />
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We started with black and white "Op Art" designs made by drawing either geometric or organic shapes and then cutting through them with lines. The newly created shapes are then filled in with an alternating black and white "checkerboard" pattern. This project isn't hard but it requires patience, attention and neatness. Generally students will either love it or hate it depending on their personalities. It's best to start small and keep the design simple before trying to make a complicated design.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The next week we discussed geometric forms and joining techniques that would make their sculptures more sturdy</span>. In order to be successful they had to think like an artist and an engineer. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When the students came into class the first thing I had them do was draw a portrait of themselves. When they were done I had them put it aside to use as a reference at the end of this lesson. We spent the rest of the class observing faces and talking about what the facial features looked like and facial proportion. We used lightly drawn lines to divide the face which helped with placement. The students added each facial feature as we discussed it. At the end of class they put the two portraits together to see if there were significant changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After learning what actual faces looked like and how to make realistic portraits it was time to be a little more creative. We found our inspiration in the artists Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. As an intro to the lesson we read the book <a href="http://www.ninaladen.com/books/pigasso_mootisse/index.html">"When Pigasso Met Mootisse"</a> a tale of a moose and a pig which caricatures the relationship of the artists who inspired the book. We looked at paintings from both artists and compared and contrasted their unique styles. After our discussion the students drew portraits in the style of each artist. Matisse enjoyed painting in bold, bright colors with decorative backgrounds. His portraits were generally more realistic in proportion and placement but they could be painted with very unusual colors. Picasso's paintings were typically more subdued in color but he was much more creative with how he arranged his subject matter. He is most well known for painting in a style called Cubism.</span></div>
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two weeks we started our final project which combined all three
elements. The second graders has been studying camouflage and this project ties into what they have been learning in the classroom. Each student started with a pre-printed lizard or chameleon. They chose three watercolor pencils: one cool color and two warm colors OR one warm color and two cool colors. They could use only these colors for the entire project. The first step of the project was to pattern their lizard. Then they would create a camouflaged background for it to "live" on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After they finished patterning their lizards they cut them out and started designing the background. They were instructed to use the same colors and make patterns compatible but not necessarily exactly like the lizard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After they finished coloring the background they could use water to blend the watercolor pencil. They could also use a sharpie if they wanted to define the outline. (The lizards can be glued directly to the background or you can use foam tape to give give your lizard some relief).</span><br />
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Kim Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01272416653786617193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662154836720978258.post-56403839634914188042013-02-25T23:38:00.000-08:002013-06-17T01:45:41.144-07:00First Grade: Aboriginal Dream Paintings<span style="font-size: small;">The first graders were introduced to <a href="http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/dreaming.php">dotted dream paintings</a> created by the aborigines of Australia. We talked about the
materials, techniques and symbols that the aborigines used and then made our own artwork using the dream paintings as inspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first step of the project was to use a q-tip to make dotted outlines that created a pattern around a pre-painted snake. The snake was used in this project because the rainbow serpent is an important symbol in aboriginal culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After finishing the outlines we talked about the symbols that we found in the aboriginal art. The students chose symbols to use in their own artwork that would tell a story.</span></div>
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