Show Listing and Projects

1. Charcoal Portraits
2. Drawing in Motion
3. Painting Picasso Style
4. Tesselmania
5. Emotions in Motion
6. In the Mood
7. Horsing Around
8. Playing with Paper Mache
9. Be Inventive
10. Leonardo's Window
11. Larger than Life
12. Rock Painting
13. Get the Point
14. Frankly Fresco
15. Balancing Act
16. Krazy Kreations with Kids
17. Eye Wonders Op-Art
18. Walk Like an Egyptian
19. Wrapped in Pride- African Art
20. Painting on Eggs- Russian Art
21. South of the Border- Mexican Art
22. Native American- Indian Art
23. Fun with Folk Art- Early American Art
24. Art from India
25. Architecture
26. The Rainbow War
27. Face Painting Fun
28. Fun Family Portraits
29. Seeing Shadows
30. Pop-Up Mania

Show #1
Title: Portraits
Goal: To draw portraits using chiaroscuro techniques
Activities: Drawing

1. Shading with cotton and charcoal
2. Chiaroscuro techniques

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Supplies: Vine Charcoal, Cotton Balls, Cotton Swabs, Drawing Paper, Kneaded Eraser
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Show #2
Title: Drawing in Motion
Goal: to capture movement in your drawing
Activities: Drawing with a Live Model

1. Drawing stick figures from a mannequin
2. Proportions
3. Timed Drawings with a live model

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Supplies: Drawing pencils, Art Gum Erasers, Masking tape
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Show #3
Title: Painting Picasso Style
Goal: To Paint an Abstract Still Life
Activities: Monochromatic Painting

1. Mixing Paints
2. Tinting and Shading
3. Drawing in a Cubist style
4. Painting monochromatic

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Supplies: Tempera Paints, Brushes/water/paper towels, Pencil, White Paper (80lbs)
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Show #4
Title: Tesselmania Goal: to tessellate an image and make a creative design
Activities: Drawing tesselations

1. Create Positive and Negative shapes from paper
   
2. Op Art using Positive and Negative Shapes
   
3. Make a Template
   
4. Create a tessellated picture using pattern

Artist: M.C. Escher
Supplies: scissors, Tape, pencil, paper, index card, markers or crayons
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Show #5
Title: Emotions in Motion
Goal: To Create a painting using Impasto techniques
Activities: Painting

1. Mixing Colors
2. Making Paint with Texture
3. Painting with a Palette Knife
4. Impasto style painting

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Supplies: White poster board or canvas, Saw Dust, Wax paper, Palette knife, Paints (tempera), Newspaper, Water, Paper towels
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Show #6
Title: In the Mood
Goal: To create a Photomontage
Activities: Collage

1. Creating a collage
2. Collecting Images
3. Applying photos to make a collage
4. "The Three Little Pig Blues"

Artist: Romare Bearden
Supplies: scissors, paper, glue, magazines, photos
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Show #7
Title: Horsin' Around
Goal: To create a Hobby Horse
Activities: Soft Sculpture

1. Making Paper Puppets with Popsicle sticks
2. Paper Stuffed Puppets
3. Hobby Horse from Sock and dowel rod

Artist: Red Grooms
Supplies: Sock, Dowel rod, Bag of Cotton, Glue, Black Yarn, 2 wiggly eyes, black marker, White Felt
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Show #8
Title: Playing with Paper Mache
Goal: To make a Piggy Bank
Activities: Paper Mache

1. Making the Paste
2. Making the Armature
3. Forming the Pig
4. Decorating the Pig

Artist: Red Grooms
Supplies: Newspaper, Construction paper (pink), Wheat Paste, Water, one Milk Jug, 4 small drinking Cups
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Show #9
Title: Be Inventive
Goal: To make a Creative Book
Activities: Book making

1. Folded Books
2. Accordion Books
3. Scroll Books
4. Sewn Books
5. Making the binding
6. Making the Signatures
7. Assembling the book

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Supplies: scissors, Paper, cardboard, Glue, Decorative material or paper, needle and thread
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Show #10
Title: Leonardo's Window
Goal: To draw using One Point Perspective
Activities: Drawing

1. Looking at things through a view finder
2. Seeing Perspective
3. Using a ruler to create a simple line perspective
4. Landscape drawing through Leonardo's window

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Supplies: Scissors, 3x5 card, pencil, strip of poster board, object 10-12"tall, a tape measure, ruler, Paper
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Show #11
Title: Larger than Life
Goal: To draw and paint large flowers images
Activities: Painting

1. Looking through a viewfinder
2. Contour Drawing
3. Large outline
4. Getting inside one of Georgia O'Keefe's paintings

Artist: Georgia O'Keefe and Laverne Turner
Supplies: Watercolors, Watercolor paper, paintbrushes, palette to mix paint on, pencil, magazine pictures of flowers, fresh flowers, index card/scissors, water, paper towels, magnifying glass
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Show #12
Title: Rock Painting
Goal: To paint animal images on rocks
Activities: Painting

1. Finding Animal images
2. Discovering Pre-Historic Art
3. Painting on a rock
4. Visiting a cave with cave paintings

Artist: Primitive Art
Supplies: Acrylic Paint, Brushes, Water and Paper Towels, a Rock, Animal Images, Spray varnish, Paper bag, colored chalk, vine charcoal, straw
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Show #13
Title: Getting the Point
Goal: To paint an image in neo-impressionistic style
Activities: Painting

1. Blending Colors the scientific way
2. Painting with dots
3. Meeting Georges Seurat

Artist: Georges Seurat
Supplies: Paint, cotton swabs, Water and Paper Towels, Paper and an image
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Show #14
Title: Frankly Fresco
Goal: To paint an image using Fresco style
Activities: Painting

1. Making Plaster
2. Transferring Image to Plaque
3. Painting on Plaster
4. Visiting the Sistine Chapel and meeting Michelangelo

Artist: Michelangelo
Supplies: Paper plate/pie tin, plaster of Paris, stick or paint stirrer, water and container, paperclip or piece of yarn, watercolor or tempera paints
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Show #15
Title: Balancing Act
Goal: To create mage that is balanced
Activities: Painting

1. A balanced images (half photograph and half draw)
2. Creating symmetrical designs on a paper plate
3. Creating symmetrical designs on a coffee filter
4. Meet a psychedelic painter

Supplies:

1. Magazine photos, Scissors, and Glue, Pencil and Paper
2. Paper Plate, ruler, and markers
3. Coffee Filter, Food coloring, and water

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Show #16
Title: Krazy Kreations with Kids
Goal: To create fun "Can Do" products from household items
Activities: Creating Concoctions

1. Making Sidewalk Chalk
2. Making Funny Putty
3. Making Play Dough
4. Making Glossy Paint
5. Making Edible Paint

Supplies:

1. plaster of Paris, powder tempera paint, water, cookie molds or toilet paper tube, and tape
2. liquid starch, food coloring, white glue, plastic eggs or zip lock baggies
3. flour, salt, unsweetened powdered drink mix, cooking oil, water
4. One Can of sweeten condensed milk, food coloring, bowls for different Colors
5. Ready-made vanilla yogurt, food coloring

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Show #17
Title: Eye Wonders Op Art
Goal: To create an optical illusion
Activities: Op art

1. Pencil Illusions/Mirror Illusions/Mixed Image illusion
2. Spinners
3. Folded illusions
4. Thaumatrope
5. Phenakistoscpe
6. Zoetrope

Supplies:

1. Posterboard, index cards, scissors, pencil, and a straight pin
2. Rubber bands or yarn, markers, magazine pictures, and a ruler
3. Hole punch, index cards, white paper, and glue

Artist: Early Motion Picture

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Show #18
Title: Walk Like an Egyptian
Goal: To create a King Tut replica
Activities: Mask Making

Creating a Plaster Mask

Decorating the mask to resemble King Tut

Travel into King Tut's Tomb with Howard Carter Art Period/Style: Ancient Egyptian Art
Supplies: Mask Form, Plaster of Paris, Gauze, Poster board, Glue, Gold Spray Paint, Colored Tape, Black Marker, Colored Jewels (Optional)
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Show #19
Title: Wrapped in Pride- African Art
Goal: To create Weaving
Activities: Weaving

1. Weaving with Paper
2. Weaving with a cardboard Loom
3. Weaving with Straws

Art Period/Style: African Art
Supplies:

1. 18"x4" strips of good quality white paper, pencils, rules, Paint, Paint brushes, water and paper towels
2. Cardboard, yarn, scissors
3. Strips of construction paper, glue, and scissors

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Show #20
Title: Painting on Eggs - Russian Art
Goal: To create a decorative egg
Activities: Painting

1. How to hollow an egg
2. How to decorate eggs with crayons and Paint
3. How to display egg after painted

Art Period/Style: Russian Art
Supplies:
Large Raw Egg, Small nail or paper clip, paper towels, Food Coloring, Vinegar, spoons, and crayons, Small bowl, spray varnish, small strips of stiff paper

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Show #21
Title: South of the Border - Mexican Art
Goal: To make a native crafts
Activities: Craft

1. God's eye (Popsicle sticks and yarn)
2. Maraca (rice and paper plates)
3. Poncho (from paper sacks)
4. Paper flowers (tissue paper)
5. Sun God from clay

Art Period/Style: Russian Art
Supplies:

1. 2 popsicle sticks or small dowl rods, and colorful yarn
2. Paper Towel tube, construction paper, colored tape, and Aluminum foil
3. Large Brown paper sack, markers, small paper plates, and rice
4. Tissue paper, scissors, and floral wire
5. Wet set clay and plastic tools

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Show #22
Title: Native American Art - Indian Art
Goal: To make a native crafts
Activities: Craft

1. Dream Catcher
2. Sand painting
3. Jewelry
4. Totem Pole
5. Symbols

Art Period/Style: Native American Art
Supplies:

1. Metal Ring, Assorted pony beads, suede lacing,& cotton twist cord
2. Contact Paper, Salt, tape, Squeezable paint, and card board
3. Glue, scissors, Fimo clay, or Air Dry Clay, Lacing, Sand Paper, and a wooden stylus
4. Oatmeal container (or coffee container), glue, scissors, and construction paper
5. Brown paper sacks, and black tempera paint

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Show #23
Title: Fun with Folk Art - Early American Art
Goal: To make native crafts
Activities: Craft

1. Weathervanes
2. Tin Punch
3. Miniature Silhouettes

Look at other American Crafts:

1. Floor Cloths
2. Scrimshaw
3. Basket making
4. Quilting
5. Candle making
6. Needle point
7. Rag dolls
8. Tole painted boxes

Art Period/Style: Early American
Supplies:

1. cardboard, aluminum foil, black tempera paint, and glue
2. Aluminum or a pie tin, an awl or a nail, along with a simple folk art design
3. black construction paper, pencil, small scissors

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Show #24
Title: Art from India - Indian Art
Goal: To make native crafts
Activities: Craft

1. Printmaking with stencils
2. Printmaking with found objects and handmade stamps
3. Soap Carving

Art Period/Style: Indian Art
Supplies:

1. sponges, scissors, white paper and index card
2. tempera paint, found objects, play dough, and handkerchiefs
3. scissors, soap, plastic carving tools cardboard, aluminum foil, black tempera paint, and glue
4. Aluminum or a pie tin, an awl or a nail, along with a simple folk art design
5. black construction paper, pencil, small scissors

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Show #25
Title: ArKIDtecture- architecture
ARTISTS: Frank Lloyd Wright, and Buckminster Fuller
Goal: To make native crafts
Activities: Craft

1. Construction 3-Dimensional Forms
2. Triangle Sculpture (geodesic domes)
3. Marshmallow Sculpture
4. Architectural Collage

Art Period/Style: Architecture
Supplies:

1. Paper, scissors, ruler, pencil, and glue
2. Drinking straws, and fishing line
3. Mini marshmallows and toothpicks
4. Construction Paper and glue

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Show #26
Title: The Rainbow War
Goal: To look at mixing colors in a light hearted way that may also open the doors to other issues about tolerance toward others.
Activities: Watching the award winning short film Rainbow War
Art Period/Style: Color
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Show #27
Title: Face Painting Fun
Goal: To make be creative with face paint and simple costume designs
Activities: Craft

1. Make homemade face paint
2. How to make creative ears and eyes using a headband and felt
3. Paint each other like an animal/or character

Art Period/Style: Modern
Supplies:

1. Face Paint or Tempera Paint, sponges
2. Shortening, cornstarch, water, and food coloring
3. Felt, scissors, and Glue
4. Material, Fun fur, and paper

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Show #28
Title: Fun Family Portraits
ARTISTS: Various portrait artists
Goal: To make a fun portrait of a family member
Activities: Portrait painting

1. Drawing with washable crayons
2. Drawing with Pen and Ink
3. Drawing with Pastels
4. Drawing with watercolor pencils and paint

Steps:

1. Construction 3-Dimensional Forms
2. Triangle Sculpture (geodesic domes)
3. Marshmallow Sculpture
4. Architectural Collage

Art Period/Style: Modern
Supplies:

1. Washable crayons, Paper,and water
2. Pen and Ink and a mirror
3. Pastels, cotton balls, and cotton swabs
4. Watercolor Pencil ,Watercolor paints, and Lots of fun stuff to dress a friend up in

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Show #29
Title: Seeing Shadows
ARTISTS: Various
Goal: To make art inspired by shadows
Activities: Craft

1. Construction 3-Dimensional Forms
2. Triangle Sculpture (geodesic domes)
3. Marshmallow Sculpture
4. Architectural Collage

Art Period/Style: Architecture
Supplies:

1. Paper, scissors, ruler, pencil, and glue
2. Drinking straws, and fishing line
3. Mini marshmallows and toothpicks
4. Construction Paper and glue

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Show #30
Title: Pop-Up Mania
ARTISTS: None
Goal: To make creative pop-up designs
Activities: Craft

1. Learn simple pop-up tricks
2. Make a pop up envelope and accordion folded paper
3. Read and look at various pop-up books and cards
4. Make a simple pop-up book

Art Period/Style: Paper Engineering
Supplies:

1. Construction Paper, Scissors, and Glue
2. Stiff Paper, Plain white Paper, and Paper Fasteners
3. Markers, crayons, or colored Pencils, and Tracing Paper

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