Folk Art Landscapes continued

Tracing pencil lines with Sharpie and adding color with oil pastels. 

Folk Art Landscapes

We looked at different styles of artwork including; Abstract, Non-Objective and Realistic. We also talked about the difference between Folk Art and Fine Art. We then looked at a collection of Heather Galler's (a New York Folk Arist) paintings and talked about what we saw. Observations included: lots of color, shapes and patterns.

We then got to work on our own landscapes inspired by Heather Galler.  Starting with pencil and tracing with sharpie. Our next step will be to color in with oil pastels and watercolor paints.

Snowmen shadows

While the Pinch Pots were firing we had fun learning about negative space, symmetry and shadows by cutting out snowmen and flipping them over to show the shadow. We added a moon as the light source.