Hearts

Who doesn't love hearts? Here are a couple examples of student artwork from this year.

Here's a bisque fired heart, ready to be glazed (top photo).

Second photo shows the hard way using prayer for the interior and black for the edges to create good contrast.

Glass marbles are added and the heart is fired again this time to come over five, which allows the marbles to melt.

Here are three examples of completed melted glass hearts. Enjoy!

Hearts

Who doesn't love hearts? Here are a couple examples of student artwork from this year.

Here's a bisque fired heart, ready to be glazed (top photo).

Second photo shows the hard way using prayer for the interior and black for the edges to create good contrast.

Glass marbles are added and the heart is fired again this time to come over five, which allows the marbles to melt.

Here are three examples of completed melted glass hearts. Enjoy!

Traditional Textured Ornaments

Seasonal textured ornaments are part of the Ridgecrest tradition, dating to 2006. A couple of my favorite kindergarten students with their clay ornaments.

 The North Star Slab Roller (kind of like a pasta roller incorporated into a table top) really gets a workout at this time of the year. I use a small plastic coffee lid to cut uniform circles just the perfect size. We talk about the purpose and function of texture on the bottom of our shoe soles, and make the connection to art: adding visual interest.  The students impress a slab-rolled clay disc onto the bottom of their shoe.  The process is completed with name and date inscription and cutting a hole to hang, made by piercing the disk with a drinking straw.  When dried the textured ornaments will be fired and then students will paint their ornaments and then finish them up with glitter glue.

Time to be Thankful!

We are working on our holiday ornaments here at Ridgecrest.  We first made paper template to use to cut our slab pieces of clay, next was firing, then painting and finally adding glitter to their ornaments.  Enjoy!

 Rainbows are popular with this class!

Fall 2015! Back to the blog!

 Hard to believe that it's been a year since my last post. Going to try to  post more regularly now that I've got an iPad! It's hugely exciting that we got six iPads for the room this year, we're just waiting on the covers so that we can begin using them as a class due to the hard concrete floors that are here in the art room. Will be doing self-portraits as soon as we get the covers.

 Here are some photos of the most recent day of the dead mask from the show at Lawmdale.

Here's a photo of food.

Not exactly Thanksgiving feasting, but definitely comforting.  Looking forward to going to San Antonio for the Texas Art Education Association Convention.   Sure to pick up some new ideas and lots of photos.  Will share when I return!!

Today is the live streaming event for Every Artist Me.  This year's theme is "My favorite story."  I suspect the the site is being overwhelmed with responses.  It took me several tries to get my images posted last night and when I checked the site today, there weren't any images in the gallery.
So...........I have re-entered the images and now I have 2 galleries for Ridgecrest Roadrunners: one without any images and the other with the correct amount of 21 images.  I was going to add more but now I am not sure I am up for it.
Here are a few images from the gallery.