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Our first Garage Art Day was not actually in the garage at all. First of all the garage was a mess, and also it was a beautiful sunny day!
A Still Life ( we added a duck and a baseball after this picture was taken to make it more interesting)
Building an art table
Apparently you can’t just screw legs on flat piece of wood and then expect it to stand. We did it the wrong way , and then we took it apart and did it the right way. Good thing there was four of us. It looks great!
Cassius needed to make a puppet for his animation class and he decided to make it of the Blueberry Ninja cartoon he greated a few years ago. He worked sooooo hard on this. The work was very detailed and he had a challange figuring out how to cut along the line. Making the joints was very tricky.
I sat beside him all day as he figured it out. Sometimes I would do it at the same time as him and explain exactly what I was doing. This really seemed to help. I found it difficult to figure out myself, since I had never done it before. It was really fun solving our problems together. After working all day he figured out that the arms couldn’t reach the weapons because the were on the back. I moved then to the front for him. He really did make the puppet himself though!
They spent the class making an animation with the Blueberry Ninja as the hero.
Mars Kelsey is the fifteen year old daughter of friends of our family . She attends the alternative school Indigo Sudbury Campus in Alberta. Check out her beautiful music on her My Space Page. Her Biography states that it is “freedom fom homework” that has allowed her the time to develope her talents.
“Her participation in an alternative schooling program meant she was left to pursue her own interests at school and at home. More than anything, the freedom from homework allowed her to spend hours and hours alone in her basement bedroom listening to everything from the Beatles to Janis Joplin, Feist, The Rolling Stones and Radiohead, some of which were on scratchy old vinyl records culled from garage sales and thrift stores. These were her “History” lessons. A lover of almost all forms of music and a self-admitted “ham”, Mars enjoys each part of the creative process and is utterly involved in all aspects of her music, from writing and arranging to performing and even marketing. Her demo CD with 10 of her own songs was completed in January 2009. With her beautiful melodies and introspective lyrics, Mars provides an insightful look into the human experience that is seemingly well beyond” her 15 years.
Base Making Supplies
- Plastered cotton strips
- Scissors
- Vaseline
- Headbands or handkerchiefs for hair
- Bowls for water and strips
- Towels
- Dropcloth for floor Read the rest of this entry »
done
The painting in these pictures happened when Tamara and I were sewing in the other room. They used ALL the paint about 20 pages of paper. (it was still cheaper than all of them talking an art class for an hour) They had an amazing amount of fun. We had been looking at Marla Olmstead’s (The now 5 year old painter) website earlier in the day and had noticed that she poured paint right onto the canvas. The kids decided to try it and loved it.
- Anja kept exclaiming, “I’d forgotten how good paint feels on your hands! I haven’t done this in so long!”
At the next painting session the pouring started in earnest and we realize we really need to set that garage up. Maia and Kate did one that looked exactly like marbled paper. It was so wet and heavy- I threw it out, but seeing how well the other two dried I wish I had kept it.
A Painting by Anja
- A Painting by Cassius
Cassius' finished mask for Romeo. I painted it, but Cassius did pick the colours.
