3-D Doodles

Found this 3-D Doodle Kit from Fred Flare.  The ad says..."Make a doodle, slip on some 3-D glasses and watch as your doodle jumps off the page."
Remind me to make a set of 3-D glasses....cause I already have the red pencil, the blue pencil and a roll of tape.  

Thinking of Summer

Beach with Bathers

Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985)

Passed this lovely holiday weekend visiting with friends and family, and especially with my lovely daughter who drove all the way from Virginia to spend this week with us in Vermont.  What did you do this weekend? 

Flag

"In the late 1950’s, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete. Johns laid the groundwork for both Pop Art and Minimalism. Today, as his prints and paintings set record prices at auction, the meanings of his paintings, his imagery, and his changing style continue to be subjects of controversy."  
Read more....http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jasper-johns/about-the-painter/54/

Missing Links

Help!  My links are gone.  

I don't know what's going on with the blog these days, but I have noticed that my blogroll got messed up and some of my links are gone.

What to do.  What to do.
I'd love to add them right back, but to be honest I kind of forgot who was there.

So, iIf you were linked up and notice that you are no longer, or if you would like to share a link to your art, art ed, or other blog of interest; leave a comment following this post.  I'm going to start working on the old blogroll and would love to include your blog.

Drawing from Observation

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Sixth Grade used a combination of real and artificial flowers as the basis for these observational drawings.  After lightly drawing in chalk on colored paper students went over their chalk lines with glue.  Today the glue was dry and they finished up their drawings using chalk pastels.

Blackstone Tjanpi Weavers

Blackstone Tjanpi Weavers, Australia. Tjanpi Grass Toyota, 2005

                                       Grass, raffia and a discarded car frame

I came across this by chance and am posting it because I find it so appealing. Maybe I'm attracted by the  boxy form and soft lines.  They remind me so strongly of the wonderful way my students draw (thinking especially of the boys) who pass through a stage where they become so strongly engaged with drawing cars and trucks.  They often leave these little drawings behind on the art room tables.  Maybe they don't attach a lot of importance to these little drawings, but I find them entirely endearing.

This woven sculpture was created by the Blackstone Tjanpi Weavers, a group of Aboriginal women from 28 different indigenous communities in Western Australia.  It won the the Telstra Art Award--the only award of it's kind dedicated to indigenous artists.  The truck was awarded First Place in 2005. 

Here's a link to a lesson kit that includes the truck and a variety of other wonderful activities and visuals that you can use in your classroom.  This kit is designed for upper level students, but could be adapted for younger students. http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/education/pdf/2005natsiaaedkit.pdf

And here is a link to more lesson kits offered by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. 

http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/education/resources.html 

Hay in Art

 Haystacks by Giovanni Fattori, a leading artist of the Macchiaioli Movement

Haystacks by Paul Gauguin

Woman and Haystacks by Andre Breton

Haystacks by Van Gogh

http://www.hayinart.com/2006_10.html