Sunday, November 24, 2013

Lesson 11 Crabs

Dear Creative friends:

As we wind down this semester.  I want to thank you for signing your students up for Joyousbrush Club.  Each week we explore a sea creature in its shape and form, it's anatomy and their functions.  We paint them with personalized best effort strokes.  

We did crabs this past week.  Do view our gallery in school hall way for 1 last week. The paintings will be taken down on our last class 12/2/13.    I have updated the blogspot for your viewing:   hhttp://joyousbrushclubatshallowfordfalls.blogspot.com/  I am delighted  to hear your students say"  It looked really hard, but it's really not after you do it" .  What better way to build their confidence through painting.  

I regret that I did not sent their paintings home for Thanksgiving brag during the Thanksgiving gathering.  Hopefully, they can be a conversation piece during the Christmas holidays.  

Happy Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Lesson 10 Octopus


No body understands the fun we have in painting these sea creatures.  I usually give my students some guava candies for encouragement.  No body cared about Guava candies today.  They are totally absorbed in their octopus.  We talk about the long stroke of their legs.  We even sing to help with our long unbroken strokes.  How these legs can create interesting design, perspective and interaction.

Lesson 9 Lobsters


This ends our series of shrimp, crawl fish and lobster.  The same differences allows us more practice.  We explored layout, background color and under the sea abstract design.  Do stop by our gallery in school hall way.  You can see each student's uniqueness in their personal touch from the same lesson.  Enjoy.

Lesson 8 Crawl fish

I took some crawl fish from a Chinese seafood restaurant and brought it to our Joyousbrush class for sample.  It awaken the students' appetite to look, to marvel, to wonder, to question, and to joke about.  How inquisitive minds learn.  How nature delights.  How satisfying it is to unite the mind and the nature through the exercise of painting.