Cupcakes!

We are being inspired by the edible looking paintings of Wayne Thiebaud.

Although he is most famous for his paintings of food, he also paints everyday objects, landscapes and people.

Here's an info sheet for your sketchbooks.

Here are a couple of nice YouTube videos about Thiebaud. Here and Here

Activities

Use lots of different coloured paper to make a cupcake collage. Decorate it with all your favourite toppings.

Using chalk pastels on black sugar paper, draw a cup cake. Use a dark and light version of each colour, keeping the light colours all on the same side. This will help to make your cake look 3D and will look like the light is shining on it from one side. Don't forget to add a white or very pale pink highlight to your cherry to make it look shiny.

Easter Ideas

Here are a couple of lovely 'Spring' or Easter art and craft ideas, that are a wee bit too dangerous to do at the library!

Shaving foam marbled eggs.

Yarn Easter Eggs
you'll need to scroll down to find them.

Warm and Cool Colours

Understanding how colours are mixed and the effect they can have on each other is an essential skill for a budding artist.

We talked about 'Primary" colours, those which we cannot make by mixing two other colours. The 'Secondary" colours made by mixing 2 primary colours together and then decided which were 'warm' and which were 'cool'.

We used chalk pastels to make coloured spots of our warm and cool colours, then turned them into creatures. Here is my example. The children were far more creative with their creatures!

The main task was to create an abstract or simple seascape using our warm and cool colours. We used the chalk pastels onto sugar paper and fixed them with a little hairspray.