Art Class Happy Hour: Let's Draw Dwight from The Office!

I've been doing tons (and I do mean TONS) of art videos for kids right now and I kept feeling like something was missing...I decided it was MY art time. One of my favorite things to do is hosting a craft night. Since I can't do that in person right now, I decided to host a bit of a virtual one with this here adult draw along! I'm going to be kicking off this Art Class Happy Hour with a drawing of one of my favorite characters from The Office: Dwight! I hope you'll grab some paper, markers and crayons and draw along with me. If you do, I'd love to share there here on my blog! You can email a snap of your drawing to casseiart75@gmail.com.

Here we go:

Have fun!

Wizard Week: Salt Dough Unicorn!

Every time we do a salt dough clay project, the crowd goes wild! This project was no exception. I'll walk you through how to make your clay and dye it before we dive into our lesson. Here are the supplies you'll need:

 Here we go:

Want to join the fun today? You can catch me live here on my Instagram or on my Facebook page. Or check me out later on my YouTube channel. I add new videos everyday so be sure and subscribe so you don't miss any! 

Let's Make an Optical Illusion Heart!

Need a fun and easy project that would be perfect for Mother's Day? How about this Optical Illusion Heart? All you'll need are the following:

* Paper
* Markers
* Black Crayon
* Pencil
* Cup of Water
* Paintbrush
* Table salt

Let's go!

Have fun!

Let it Glow: Monsters in the City!

A lesson that I was sharing a lot of images from on my Instagram got a whole lot of love and questions this year and that was this Monsters in the City project! After learning about the artist Kudu-Lah, my students began by designing their cities and creating a series of monsters. I thought I'd share some images from our project but also create a video to walk you and your students through. Because these works of art were going to be apart of our Glow Gallery, I'll be sharing my favorite glow products from Pacon. With my students, we used 24"X36" sheets of paper for the cities and 12"X18" paper for the monsters. I'll be working half that size for the video. And my paper of choice is Pacon's Mixed Media paper. Here you go:

If you are doing this at home, try using a permanent marker to draw your cities and monsters with. Then add color with crayons, markers, colored pencils or paint! 

 In my thirty-minute art classes, my fourth graders spent two days drawing their cityscapes. 

The following day we used fluorescent oil pastels and watercolor for the sky. 

Then we created TONS of monsters! I had them make as many as they could to really loosen them up. I love the variety they achieved! 

 We used our fluorescent paint to make them glow!

Then we cut them out to add to our cities! We used a little bit of foam and cardboard glued to the back of the monsters to make them pop up from our cities. For a sneak peak of last year's glow gallery, check this out:

Wizard Week: Let's Draw a Wizard's Castle!

What a wizard-y wonderful time we had yesterday when we learned to draw these castles! If you missed out, just grab these supplies:

 And follow along with me right here:

This was such a wonderful review of our elements of art!

And here's what we're creating today! You can follow me LIVE on my Instagram, on Facebook or catch the afterparty on my YouTube channel!