Painted Fabric and Guadalupe

 A product of last Friday's all-nighter was learning this technique that my sister invented for her kid art classes.  She has her students draw an image.  Then, they trace the drawing with sharpie marker and then again onto fabric.  Finally, they paint the fabric with watered down acrylics.  My sister turns the painted fabric into pillows which are cuter than you can imagine. 

I'm super inspired by this process and am going to create an art quilt with these Lupes along with some other painted fabrics and block printed fabric.  More on this later. . .

PS  All-nighters with sisters whilst making art is fun and highly recommended!

Pilgrim Friday Enrichment Week 2

Pen's drawing for her pillow.  It's a dancing potato head.

Another great week!!!!!!

Sofia's dragon drawing for her pillow

tree collage

students working on abstract collage by cutting up paint samples

gluing seeds, rice, and pasta to silly faces

spray paint

Ian's batman

Jenna's tree collage with leaves prints cut out from previous week

Penelope's tree collage, okra print

Ian's abstract collage

spray paintings

Levi's funny face

Sofia's  funny face

Day of the Dead at Nido

using latter effectively to display work by several artists

Latest bird--embroidered, block printed wing

Printed posters were first items made on our press

Altar for ofrendas

sugar skulls

tree for leaving names of our dead loved ones

felted sugar skulls

crocheted skull

skull garland

sharpie, painted pillow

Chicago Homicides Related to Gun Violence in October

Marcus Gaiter, Bobby Pruitt-Williams, Sheldon McCraven, Todd Coleman, Gregory Daniel, Steven Noble, Dante Mondragon, Fredrick Ollie, Jonathan Neal, Robert Franklin, William Aikens, Martellis Griffis, Robert Murphy III, Anthony Williamson, Lionel Johnson, Reginald Jackson, Darrius Morris, Abdullah Trull, Sylvester Solomon, Ashton Pugh, Eddie Murphy, Tavache Kizer, Arlanders Watkins, Cory Atwater, Louis Wherry, Donnerick McGee

More information at:  http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/date/2013/10/

Pre-chool Friday Enrichment: Week One

 Last Friday was my first enrichment class at Penelope's pre-school, Pilgrim.  We made nature weavings, printed with okra, and carved leaf stamps into styrofoam treys, designed sketchbook covers with oil pastels.  The kids moved much faster than I had expected but were so great at tackling everything I through their way.  The overall goal for this four session class is to expose these little hands to many different materials (particularly textiles) and media while exploring nature and art.  I'm having fun and hoping they are, too.