Monday, May 28, 2018

In the Art Room: A Collaborative Painting for Field Day!

Disclaimer: Since discovering Instagram and my love for it, I've gotten super bad about snapping photos with my camera and simply using my phone. So what you have in this blog post are phone photos and for that, I apologize. If you'd like to see me overshare my art room happenings (as well as just my hot mess of a life), you can find me here

In my last post, I shared what we did for the art station portion of Field Day...when I thought it was going to be rained out. The night before Field Day, while I was head scratching what we could do, I thought creating a collaborative canvas painting would be fun (this is what happens when your brain is fried, y'all). So I pulled this giant canvas out of my closet and went to town. 
 I've had this canvas for years. I had started a painting on it years ago and never did anything with it. So I simply painted over it with a cream color paint (cuz that's all I had on hand) and used watered down black acrylic paint to create this. Why watered down acrylic? Because it has better viscosity that way. I began by sketching out four wavy lines across the canvas. Then I wrote out the letters of our school. Once I was happy with the placement, I painted it with a flat brush and called it a night. 
 Along with our other painting station, I let the kids go to town on this. My only "rule" was that one color go in one space...and TRY to stay within the lines. As you can see above, that was a struggle. But it was field day, we were wound up and I knew I could lean up the lines by simply going back over them. So no worries. 
 This was after the first day. I was tempted to leave it this way...and then I added the little pattern on the top and thought it would be fun for the kids to add patterns the following day. 
 Again, so sorry for the grainy photo. My only rule for the patterns was that the kids had to pick one pattern and color and stick with it. For the dots, they used wine corks dipped in paint (fave part of the day? A kid saying, "oh my mom has TONS of these!" Ha!) and thin brushes for the designs. Again, other than that, little direction was given. This was on the last day of school where I had free choice centers set up around the room. This just happened to be one of them. 
 Once dry, I went back over the black to once again clean up the edges. Then I thought it might be fun to add some white highlights to make the letters pop. Look, even the edge got painted!
The admin had no idea we were creating this painting. When I was sharing it with them, our school librarian saw it and LOVED IT. It was decided that this painting would go in the library for everyone to see. AND I'm really excited to share that now the librarian and I are collaborating to create an entire ALPHABET WALL in this style! The kids will kick off the new school year painting a canvas for each letter in the alphabet to showcase in the library. Y'all I'm so stoked! This project was so easy, colorful, happy and fun. I'm looking forward to making more. LOVE to hear if you give this a go! 
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14 comments:

  1. Does your husband ever see you❤️Lol
    You are amazing to have so much energy at the end of the school year! Hats off to you��

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  2. Looks like great fun! I want to do this for my: "Marlynne Snare Folk Art Studio"

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  3. nice artwork. very colorful and neat I'm sure the kids loved it.

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  4. We are doing this!!! At the beginning of next year that is.

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  5. nice artwork. i am so learning from your blogs. thank you for sharing.

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  9. Cassie, you are such an inspiration! I am also an elementary art teacher and LOVE my job. Whenever I get into a blah moment when trying to think of ideas for my kids, I go to Pinterest and YOU! You never cease to amaze me! AND..I LOVE your clothes that you make for teaching! I really want to try that this year. I've drawn designs, now I need to MAKE IT HAPPEN! Take care and thanks for what you do for all of us out 'here'!

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  10. What size is this canvas?

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  11. Awesome art work! Love iy!

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  13. This is a do over. I LOVE the Johnson Elementary School painting. Did the kids use acrylic paint to fill in the spaces around the letters? Also, did you post the Library painting and any other similar paintings. Or did I imagine it?

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  14. This is wonderful. I may not be able to spring for a canvas that size, so what do you think about using foam board panels? The place we would be able to put them would be above head height and skinny, so a few boards might work better for us. This is absolutely brilliant!

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