Art Rage 3: Vacation Mode

What to do with a week off:

1. Declare every day pajama party day
2. Catch up on my long-ignored Zelda games
3. Enjoy some no-commitment sketching

Thursday Art Club: Rorschach Art

Every Thursday I have an art club with a crazy group of about twenty 1st-5th grade kids. It's definitely not an art "class," but I think they learn a little something every time.

Today we learned how to create a Rorschach (of sorts), which was fun to watch them make, and hilarious to hear them try to say.

Friday Art Club?

No, I'm not dead. This week has been an interesting one to say the least. Even my Thursday Art Club had to be moved to Friday to accommodate the kids' wonky school schedule.

Today we started with simple, expressionless shapes of animals...

Smoking Cowgirl

I love digging through old sketches and finding one that is unfinished. There are plenty, since I have a bad habit of giving in too easily to my short attention span. As I said on Monday, unfinished sketches are a great exercise for me on those "I don't wanna" days.

Thursday Art Club #3: Beneath the Autumn Tree

Every Thursday I have an Art Club with a crazy group of about twenty 1st-5th grade kids. It's definitely not an art "class," but I think they learn something every time.

Today we made a perspective drawing of a tree in the fall, with yellow, orange, and red leaves.

Tree by Amanda, age 8

Post-Halloween Sugar Fog

Halloween weekend is over, I've eaten just about all the chocolate I can take, and now it's time to sit down and draw on a quiet Monday morning.

Call it artists' block or sugar crash, but today I'm in a total fog. When that happens, I pull out an old sketch and draw it again.