Show time!

 

Hello all!

I have my first showcase coming up this month, and I am excited. I have grown amazingly this year, in terms of quality of work, time management, and maturity of projects, and am gradually realizing that I have found my niche.

This showcase takes a look at my works over the past year and the theme I’ve found emerging. “So Delicately” is a collection of works centered around intricate and delicate qualities. Since each piece comes from different assignments and projects from the last year and a half, subject matters vary, but every piece is intimate in size and requires the audience to view it on a close and personal level. I’ve also explored my interests in multiples and how a series can enhance the delicate nature of each individual segment.

Enjoy, and I hope to post more work soon!

Based on the Butterfly Effect and Order vs. Chaos

Star/Carousel book

“And you push me up to this state of emergency; how beautiful to be” – Bjork

I wanted to explore the notion of “collections” that people have. This is a collection of sealife xsrays, like one would collect fossils or bones. X rays can be precise or nebulous, and the pieces transition to abstraction diagonally down to the right, moving from a completely realistic, detailed form to an abstract, referential form.

Series of small paintings of interior spaces

Second Round of Pottery

Hello, all-

The second round of pottery came out of the high-fire kiln this weekend (all cups), and here they are! I’m not quite as happy with the glazes, but I tried to use some different glazes that I had never used, so it’s a good experiment.

This was probably my best one out of the batch

I don’t like red and green, and the green was black underglaze, so…

The outside had a acorn cap texture

Pretty tiny and cute

Little tiny birds under the glaze.

 

Enjoy!

Pottery!!!

My first round of pottery has gone through the high fire kiln, and I am super excited, as I’ve never done anything like this before. So I just wanted to share! 🙂

Will share more later. These were just some test glazings.

Awesome Art Ed Resources!

I’m finally beginning the long journey into art education, and as part of our first assignment in my class, we were supposed to come up with a list of our top five museum resource sites and our top five art education sites, as well as a lesson plan from each type of resource site to share with the class.

I get a little too excited.

And so, I have decided to share all the exciting resources and pages I have found through this process, and you’ll probably see more pages throughout the next couple of years with many more I discover along the way. 😉

Enjoy!

Museums:

MoMA Learning

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/tools_tips

This is probably one of my favorite museum sites yet. The site has available slideshows, follow-up worksheets, and other resources for use in the classroom or self-guided learning under dozens of time periods and subcategories.

 

American Visionary Art Museum

http://www.avam.org/for-educators-and-educatees/past-educational-resources.shtml

You can download PDF files here to print as handouts for your students when they visit the museum and for use in the classroom. There are numerous class activities and critical thinking resources under each lesson unit.

 

Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/resourcefinder/

The Educator Resource Finder has Artwork Resource Packets on specific pieces, Teacher Manuals on specific time periods or subjects (which would also be valuable as handouts or table laminations), and Thematic Websites on specific topics.

 

Dallas Museum of Art

http://www.dmaconnect.org/CONNECT/index.htm

Connect is a collection of teaching materials focused on works of art from Africa and Asia in the Dallas Museum of Art collections.  Materials offer images of pieces, the descriptions, explanations and histories of the pieces, and teaching ideas based off of each individual piece.

 

Museum of Arts and Design

http://madmuseum.org/learn/resource-materials

This has a large collection of enormous articles (often 40 pages or more) with well-written, very detailed explanations and lessons. These would be excellent to use portions of, but probably not the entire packet.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/for-educators

Has a lot of lesson plans inspired by their collection pieces.

 

Baltimore Museum of Art

http://www.artbma.org/educators/resources.html#online

Lessons relating to collection pieces, as well as links to online resources.

 

Art Education Sites:

 

The Teaching Palette

http://theteachingpalette.com/

This is a very exciting a progressive site, with all kinds of articles and lesson ideas. This is definitely one of my top favorites – a site run by art teachers/educators with everything in the field explored.

 

Deep Space Sparkle

http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/

This educator blogs some amazing lessons in the classroom. It has a ton of art lessons, PDF lesson plans, and resources to make teaching art to kids easier. It also has links to free art lessons, products and resources, and e-courses.

 

The Art of Education

http://www.theartofed.com/

Phenomenal all-around resource for a teacher. It has articles for personal/professional development, how-to-teach sections, and lesson plans separated by age range. It also has online classes for Art Teachers, and an online magazine with daily articles, tips, tricks, and videos.

 

iPad Art Room

http://www.ipadartroom.com

With the transition into the digital age, knowing how to create assignments out of new technology is crucial. You’ll find lots of lesson ideas, teaching tips, resources and apps. Especially valuable for experienced teachers that are having difficulty learning/incorporating new technology standards into their practice.

 

Organized Chaos

http://msnovak.blogspot.com/

A teacher’s very cool blog spot full of articles, lesson plans, and ideas. “Creating and teaching art requires a sense of humor and an understanding of organized chaos – as there is no way to create something original without spreading out supplies and getting a little messy.” So true!

 

Artventures in Middle Schooling

http://bcwmsart.weebly.com/

This site has good examples of allowing the student to approach the project in whatever way they feel is best – what I very recently learned as choice-based education. It’s a very strange/difficult scenario to teach in, but amazing conceptually, and this site helps illustrate how possible and successful it is.

 

TinkerLab

http://tinkerlab.com/

This site has a lot of DIY’s for the teacher, lesson ideas/prompts, and good articles. Overall, a cute site, too.

 

School Arts Room

http://www.schoolartsroom.com/

Has some neat articles and lesson ideas, along with a ton of information about current artists.

 

The Incredible Art Department

http://www.incredibleart.org/

Yet another fantastic site with so many resources – departments, galleries, lesson plans, and even a career/job page.

 

Art Teachers Hate Glitter

http://athglitter.com/

Have to put this one in here. 🙂 It’s not really a resource site, but it’s a funny day-in-the-life-of-a-teacher site. Matches my humor pretty well.

 

Resources With Resources!

 

Choice-Based Art Education

http://choicearted.com/

THE site for explaining choice-based art education and self-directed learning. Also has a list of blogs related to it.

 

National Art Education Association

http://www.arteducators.org/

This is the big mama of art websites. The site of all sites. Lesson plans, professional development tools, community involvement tools, grants and financial opportunities, resource guides – practically anything you will ever need. I wish I was teaching with a school already so I could sign up…

 

Blick

http://www.dickblick.com/educators/

Lesson plans to go along with supplies you can buy through Blick, which is one of the major suppliers for classrooms.

 

Portfolio Oomph

http://www.portfolio-oomph.com/?utm_campaign=Listly&utm_medium=list&utm_source=listly

Good resource for students on how to apply and get into art schools/colleges.

 

Share My Lesson

http://www.sharemylesson.com/

Lesson plans for all ages and subjects, which you can break down into your particular subject, as well as use cross-curriculum resources.

 

 

I know that was so much at once. But hey, there’s even more awesome ones out there! Hope you find some cool stuff out of these!

3 a.m. painting

Enjoy ❤

Shibori me!

 

 

This summer has been SUPER busy, so I haven’t had the chance yet to upload all my work, as I wanted. I have, however, had the chance to browse Pinterest on a regular basis (my addiction is sad…), and I discovered Shibori techniques on there today. This is definitely something I want to try out and base some projects on!

Most people would probably think of this as tie-dye, but tie-dye is only one way of wrapping in the Shibori dying techniques. Shibori dying dates back to 8th century Japan and is made by binding, stitching, folding, wrapping, twisting, etc. cloth and then soaking it in dye.

 

I am absolutely amazed at the patterns and techniques you can get.

 

And they can look pretty modern and chic, too. 🙂

 

I’m pretty excited! Here’s my Pinterest page for lots more pictures and some DIY instructions for you to try!

Photos and their credits are all found on my pinterest page.

 

End of the year

It’ll take me a while to get 2014’s artwork up (the stuff done thus far) – this was my first year in college, and I’ve created a large body of work that needs documented and sorted through. I will get there!

Meanwhile, enjoy some multiple exposures from my final project.

2013 work

Hello again!

So here’s another dump of some of my work, this time from 2013 – my senior year in high school.

Enjoy!

2012 work

Hello everyone!

Welcome to my brand new blog, where I will post my previous work and current projects, as well as anything interesting I find along the way.

So, to get started, here are a couple things from 2012.