Give Aways!
Welcome to Blog Give Away Day!
I'm Becka. I am an art teacher. Specifically I teach fiber art. I know, cool huh? I make a lot of samples as I am teaching so my students can see how things work step by step. My Give Away Day prizes are some beautiful projects made as samples in classes I have taught. Pictured are:
- a shibori dyed silk scarf. Fuschia/lime/deep purple.
- two handwoven cuff bracelets made on an inkle loom. One is classy grey/blue stripes, one has a pick up pattern of diamonds that "float" on top. Cotton warps.
This giveaway is open May 27 through May 31. I will draw three winning names at random and announce them first thing on June 1st. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me about your favorite art class project. What did you make? Why was it the best thing ever? (Be sure you leave your email or some way I can contact you so I can mail your prize!)
P.S. I will ship internationally!
Visit more blogs and enter some more!
posted by Becka @ 12:36 AM
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161 Comments:
I'm in! LOVE the bracelets! Looks fun!
I love the inkle loom bracelets. Can you help me get started with Inkle weaving? My neighbor gifted me a loom and I don't know where/how to find out more.
My favorite art class project was years ago at a camp. It was a watercolor class and we worked on sketching and painting -- I made a painting of my (favorite) shoes. I had it hanging on the wall, but the frame broke at some point and I filed it away. My piece was so different than everyone else's -- mostly they painted landscapes.
kelli
Ooh, fun giveaway! What did I make... one thing I remember is that we glued layers and layers of small square colored construction paper on top of each other, and sanded the edges until we had hearts (I think). And we glued them onto pins for our mothers for Mother's Day. I don't know why that one sticks in my mind, but it's the only one I can think of!
Your work is beautiful - Yea! Minneapolis craft artists.
My favorite art projects in school:
1) painting with melted crayons. I was in summer school in 1970, and the teacher took a metal muffin tin and placed in on a hot plate, then put unwrapped broken crayons in the little tins. Melted, we painted with q-tips. I'm sure this would be far too dangerous for today's classroom.
2) Ceramics. I loved to make the little animals, paint them with glaze, and see how different they looked when they came back to us after beind fired. I felt so proud to see my work sitting out on a table in our house. I'm a potter now, and I have the little elementary school animals in my studio to keep me humble.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
My favorite art project was making paper mache pumpkins in 8th grade. I love paper mache!
Thanks for the giveaway!
www.craftyheidi.wordpress.com
Beautiful projects! My art classes never had projects that cool! I took a class long after I was done with college where we learned to bezel set faceted stones. I learned about how to make assymetry appealing to my symmetry focused engineering brain.
I just had to help my sister with her art class project. They had to pick unusual mediums to form art (no crayons, markers, paint, the usual). We "painted" t shirts using bleach and squirt guns. Then, we decopauged some shoes with scrapbook paper (with distressing liquid) and rub on stickers. They turned out so well she wore the shoes to prom!
Very nice! I loved working with clay in art class (which is funny because I always hated getting my hands dirty!).
Love the scarf. I just did a fun art project with my kids. We took Modge Podge and used it to cover glass vases with tissue paper. They are drying as I write. The girls enjoyed it.
So hard to choose a favorite! There's the classic paper mache hot air balloon with a green plastic strawberry basket for the basket part, the leaf rub on clay (that I still have 23 years later)and now use on my stove. Oh my list could go on and on!!
My fave art class project was when we used this spoon like knife and dug out our own "stamp" out of rubber...I was loving it until I cut myself--but my stamp was awesome!
my favorite art project was in high school ceramics, I made a huge pot that looked just like the one that winnie the pooh used for his honey..i even painted "hunny" on my pot, and i still display it!
Please enter me in your giveaway. My favorite art was china painting. I really enjoyed the medium.
One of my favorite art projects is from way, way back to when I was about a 7th grader in country school. We used window screen and stitched a picture. Kind of like using needlepoint plastic canvas now. I chose to stitch a mountain with a sunset and black silhouetted trees on either side - a big project as it was all covered with stitches and about 8" x 10". Loved art then and still do.
Those are so neat! I wish I was crafty enough to make something like that :)
My favorite are class project was making little totem poles out of clay. I can't remember what 2 of the things were, but it was topped off by a flying pig. Getting the wings to stay on was pretty hard, but I figured it out eventually.
i love the scarf! my fave art project was actually in Ceramics class when we built a huge pit outside and got to try out Raku firing.
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My favorite art class project, hands down, was actually when I was very small, at a artsy summer day camp. We each made our own batik fabric (and I cannot even imagine taking this project on, as we ranged in age from about five years to eight years or so), then we used the batik as the cover of a handmade camp journal which we worked on on and off for the rest of the week. Inside we journalled our camp experiences, added pieces of our other artwork, lots of drawings and paintings... As a writer, this was an awesome project, and as a sewer, this was also an awesome project. I'd like to do it again someday! I still have it sitting on my dresser.
Your giveaway is great!!! Thank you! My favourite art class was when we made rings...we only used some kind of wire but we shaped them ourselves and we could wear them something girly that we made it was great (at least for 12 year olds)!
Fun! I only took art in middle school - b/c then music took over my life. ;) but I remember loving watercolors and the special effects my teacher taught us to do by sprinkling the painting with salt. And I always loved painting ceramics!
I want to win. Love your creations!
My fave art project back in school was a paper mache cat. I still love doing paper mache.
I love your bracelets!!! I would love to have a little loom, I think my daughter would have fun making things! Please enter me in your drawing! emandmikey@aol.com
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My favorite art project was making woven baskets... they were pretty neat.
Thanks!
Cassie Driver
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I took a ceramics class as a kid. We sanded the already formed pottery, painted it and left it to be fired. Came back to a beautiful piece. I still have a few of those things. Wish there was someone nearby doing this now...I love serving dishes and the like.
If I win your giveaway, I'm gifting it to my daughter. SHe's 17 and an accessory horse!
this is really fun !
My favorite art class project was when I learned to knit as a new mom. After wanting to learn my whole life, I took a class in downtown Lawrence KS (go KU!) and felt so hip and cool as I sat on a vintage couch with a good friend and three new friends and knit a cotton dishcloth. Now it's one of my favorite pastimes.
Heh -- my favorite school art class project was 6th grade, where they taught us inkle weaving. I ended up buying a loom afterwards (so did one other boy in the class), and there you go.
I love the giveaway! Thank you for it. My favorite art class project was in early high school. We were to use normal hardware items to make something. I think we also had to make an environment or setting for our object. I made a person who had hook hands. Then I crafted a paper mache mountain for the man to rock climb on. I still have the little man, and I love this idea!
My favorite art class project was a japanese painting technique (the name escapes me now) it only uses one color ink, so the focus is mainly on the brushstrokes. I used it in my pottery class to make some bowls for my mom :)
Thanks for the opportunity!!!
i loved art. my favorite projects were from pottery. one was a vase that i made that was shaped like a giant egg and the glaze was this shimmery oily gray with teal shimmery dots. i called it my alien egg, it was awesome!
the other thing i gave to my mother and she still has it. it was for extra credit. i just took a small blob of clay and molded from it a guy sitting on the blob,
Love the scarf, the colors are great.
I have always loved pottery and working in clay. I still use some of the pots and bowls that I made.
My favorite art class project was my first ever assignment with Conte. I'm usually a pencil only girl and was pretty nervous using it but ever since then I've been in love. Made my best drawing ever that day.
Thanks for the giveaway, the scarf is amazing!
How beautiful! You must love your job. I don't remember much about art class. I am from a very small town. I remember drawing a picture of a cat that didn't turn out so well. I wish I had more exposure to different mediums of art growing up. I would love to try my hand at ceramics.
one of my favorite art project way back in high school was to make a mask from a dream I had...I used those plaster strips and had an outdoor theme as my dream at that time was to live in/near the great outdoors as it inspires me so ~ The face was mostly blue with clouds for eyebrows and trees for a beard :)
My favorite art project was something I did with children in a preschool class, but could be done with children of any age. I cut holes into a box and set up paints and paper inside the box. The children had to paint a picture without seeing the work in progress. Not only was it great fun... tons of giggles, but the pictures turned out beautiful and abstract... something the perfectionist in the group would never have accepted. And, there was really no difference between children with various motor skills.
Your projects being offered are lovely. Thank you for the chance to win.
Such nice bracelets!
The only thing I remember from art class was making a paper mache teenage mutant ninja turtle (michaelangelo), which wasn't all that great. But I'm a science teacher now and I make a point of collaborating with the art teacher as much as possible. We make anatomically correct paper mache insects, recycled art, etc. It's great!
jeanne706@gmail.com
Oh that is so cute!
I always loved collages... I think cuz the beauty was that they didn't need to be perfect to be beautiful.
my favorite project was making puppets and then putting on a show. the kids were so creative and had such a great time!
elkesten at yahoo dot com
the scarf and cuffs are great!
my favorite project was a
coil project in ceramics art. we could make anything we wanted and most people made coil boxes. i made a coil woman's body. it ended up being 4 feet tall. and pregnant. (on accident). :)
I would love to win any of these, what a fun give away!
If I am the lucky winner, you can contact me through my website www.radseams.com.
What a beautiful giveaway - thanks for the great opportunity! I always loved nature art - I remember making sun prints with leaves. I hope to do that with my daughter soon :)
I'm a ceramics tutor so I suppose my favourite art project was that first lump of clay I picked up in college. The project was 'natural containers' and my innocent brain chose shells. I made a series of wonky, badly glazed, huge pots with giant spirals as handles. I still have them in my garden to remind me of the first time I got muddy! :)
The best thing ever was the pinch pot I made in first grade! My mom STILL has it on her makeup table - Its now a mini trash can for shavings as she sharpens her eye liner!
bylulu@live.com
I made papier-mache chandelier once in art class. We used it in a production of "Phantom of the Opera" in high school
my favorite art class projects were from back in early school years! I loved the ones where you colored a sheet with crayons then painted the whole thing with India Ink and then scratched the ink back off. Also clay/pottery projects where also fun!
love the bracelets! :)
My favorite art class was in the 6th grade when my teacher taught me to embroider!
Love your giveaway!!!
nhsarab at yahoo dot com
I liked working with clay. Pottery was always my favorite unit in art, from start to finish. Especially when we got to work on the potters' wheel. And mow that I'm a mother, and do lots of crafts with my own girls, I like to repurpose trash into crafting supplies.
Thanks for the offer!
My favorite art class was drawing in High School. I am definitely NOT a drawer, however, I did realize that you can do anything if you put your heart & mind into it. I have found out since then, that ceramics is my niche. Thanks for the giveaway! I'm sure your students will always look up to you...you seem passionate and talented.
Art class... I loved pottery! I never had a chance to do it on my own, but class provided the supplies. Fun stuff! Thanks for the chance to win!
These are beautiful!
My favorite art class project was a sculpture made out of wire, of a bunch of celery. I don't know why I decided "celery," but I liked it! My hands were sore for weeks afterward from the wire, though.
Favorite art class project has to be from a metalsmithing class I took in HS. I made a metal jewelry box, hinges and all.
I've never taken an art class outside of school and I was never a fan of it there, but I did like the time we made papier mache bowls. I seem to be better at three-dimensional things than two-dimensional, and it was nice to make something that was useful as well as decorative.
I love the scarf. Favorite art class project: jewelry-making at camp oh those years ago.
I'm hosting a giveaway and a fat quarter swap as well. Come on by :)
my fave art class is pottery! thanks for the giveaway. shibori fabric is just gorgeous!
Unfortunately, I never had many art classes in school. I did have one art class in high school, where we did some sketching. I still have all of them. My favorite was a pencil drawing of a big tree on the school grounds, since I'm a tree hugger :)
Your projects are lovely! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite art class project was the first oil painting I ever did... using only palette knives and no brushes. I was so impressed with myself. I can't even draw stick figures! A few months later I met my husband who happened to have a beautiful empty frame that complements and completes my painting. As they say... the rest is (art) history =)
Wow! That shibori scarf is fabulous! I love love love the color!
I remember making a mini scale replica of my house out of cardboard in high school art class.... I really hate math and putting everything to scale but I'm proud of it and it's pretty accurate! :D
Knitting nancy. That was my favourite in primary school! :)
my fave was a painting i did of the fall trees in the nc mountains. probably the only painting that i ever did. it turned out pretty cool.
your offerings are amazing! thanks for the incredible opportunity!
To this day, my favorite art project was taught in the second grade.
We made beads from clay to make a necklace for our mothers for Mother's Day.
My favourite art class...or class...felting! Loved the shibori scarf we made and so easy! I love textiles, you have my dream job!!
My favorite art class project was a pen and ink still life we all had to draw of a grouping of objects including a long horned skull. I had no idea I could draw so well, that project was a total eye-opener.
Oh the bracelets and the scarf are beautiful. My favorite art class project--though this is an adult ed class at the Museum of Visionary Art in Baltimore--was my first mosaic, which was a fish made of broken scrap stained glass. It turned out beautifully and was like putting a puzzle together to find the right scraps to define the fish. I was hooked.
Anna S.
Gorgeous! I am certainly a scarf woman, and a novice weaver myself. I've not done any shibori. :)
My favorite art class project was dying and weaving a kente cloth. It's brightly colored, and I loved being able to work on a nice counter march loom. (At least I think that's what it was called...)
Oh I would love to win the scarf!
I haven't been in very many art classes (more self taught) but I really enjoyed a basket weaving class I was in. We made a simple melon basket there but it inspired me to go and try making many more baskets on my own.
I LOVE the scarf! And it ties in with one of my favorite projects. We dyed handkerchiefs using plants and natural dyes. I was hooked then and am now actually growing some plants with the ultimate goal of using them for dyes.
Thank you for entering me in your drawing.
I always enjoyed learning how to draw the human face. I loved learning aspects such as the corner of the mouth should line up with the eye pupil and ect.
One class I had in high school was learning stained glass, and I ended up taking all of the leftover bits of glass from all of the windows, as well as some broken tiles, pottery, and figurines, and made a mosaic tabletop. I loved that my teacher was flexible enough to let me do something off of the curriculum.
I loved the days that we could make whatever we wanted from clay.
the best art project in school... i'm going with comic strips -- it helped me realize art didn't have to be perfect, and that everyone has their own style! love your work.
Hi, your giveaway is so beautiful! I love scrapbooking, and sewing! kisses from BRazil!
I love your work! My favorite art project was in high school, we did multimedia paintings that I loved. I so wish we had been able to do fiber work like your students are able to do!
Great colors on the scarf. I love how where I live (Belgium), everyone wears scarves year round - they're an accessory, not just to keep you warm.
My favourite art class project was designing a teapot out of clay. Mine was based on the Angel of the North (in Gateshead UK) which was a new statue in our area. I was so upset when it exploded in the kiln!
Now i stick to fibre as it tends not to explode.
I funked art and now sew for a living ! Go figure
Lovely bracelets!
I love the loom bracelets...so beautiful! My favorite art project involved a small sculpture of my brother, which turned out looking slightly like a monkey.
Love the scarf! My favorite art class project was a ceramic swan made in the third grade - still sitting on my bureau today.
Susan G
sgalasso@triad.rr.com
i love the braclets - mu fav art class was a stained glass class i took in HS. I made my mom our family crest which she had professionally installed (though it was a far cry form professional) into our kitchen window. Every time I go home i am reminded how much i LOVED that class!
Amanda
amandalockhart@yahoo.com
Honestly, I don't recall much art from High School, but I remember a project we did in Elementary. We colored a piece of paper with whatever colored pencils we wanted to use, then covered it with black crayon.... then we used something to scratch off the black crayon and make a picture to reveal the colors underneath. I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Hi, my favorite art class project was when I learned how to dye fabric. Now I dye fabric with procion dyes, I learned to do batik and I experiment with all kinds of surface design. That first class got me hooked and gave me a love and an excitment for fabric more than I had already. I just love it. Thanks, and I love this give away.
My favorite project was a high-school home ec. class when I made a very-90s straight skirt...it's long since outdated, but I remember how amazing I felt wearing it back then!
how great!
My favorite project I've ever made in an art class was a HUGE, and I do mean HUGE falcon. It was made out of chicken wire and mache. I was asked to make it for a conference on endangered animals and it stood right behind the speakers the entire time. Was it the best thing ever? Maybe not, but it was stunning.
I love the art your are giving away! Beautiful...
Art was always my favorite class in school. I think my favorite projects were drawing with chalk and charcoal. I still love those drawings 15 years later.
cuffs are my wrist jewelry of choice - and yours are lovely. favourite art class project? i remember making my giant clothespin in grade 6 shop class. the only thing i remember from the art class that same year was alberto convincing the teacher that guns 'n' roses' song "sweet child of mine" was about the baby jesus so we could listen to "appetite for destruction" in class right before the holidays!
I loved to draw in art class. I also liked to work with different fibers and create projects.
dvolkman@bright.net
Hhmm... my fave art class project was the photography unit in high school, because we got to learn how to develop the photos ourselves in the darkroom! Plus, it was the spring, so we got to go play outside to take our photos, which made it that much more enjoyable.
What a beautiful giveaway! My favorite art class item was a ceramic garden gnome. After hiding in the closet all these years he is finally back in style!
really cool pieces. My favorite art class project was fabric painted keds. I was 7 and they made me feel sooo awesome (note this was the 90's and that was a good thing). BTW do you teach adult classes I'm from the twin cities.
The best thing I eever made in art class was a painted mirror with a "self portrait" of my glasses and hair and some lyrics by the band... Self! I thought I was so clever at the time.
In elementary schools we had to draw our own optical illusion. That was my favorite that I can remember, even though I was no good at it. Mine was birds that turned into fish.
I didn't even have to think twice about my favorite project....it was decoupaging a shoe box with pictures we cut out of a magazine. I kept that thing for a looong time!
A project I have done with my class that was a big hit was an ornament. Take a clear glass ornament and cover with glue. Cover with a variety of colors of cut up tissue paper and then cover with glue again. Sprinkle with the iridescent glitter and tie a ribbon at the top. It turns out beautiful.
See a pattern here???
ceramics - I loved making vases or jars but the glaze that you put on them and then being fired in the klin that was the amazing part. Thanks for the Giveaway!
Wow - what a great giveaway - thanks! My favorite art class project was just simple pencil sketches...
masks! of paper mache
Thanks for a chance to win! :)
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I love the bracelets and the colors in the scarf are beautiful. Great giveaway!
Sadly, I never had an art class, but I love to quilt and knit. Wish I could paint and sketch, but I've problems finding enough time asit is.
I love to quilt and my favorite class was with Ruth McDowel. I just love the way she can put 100 pieces of fabric together and end up with a wonderful project.
My favorite art class project was turning a phrase into a 3D sculptural clay piece. My finished piece was far from professional looking, but I loved the process and seeing everyone else's creations.
How fun to play with art like that all day long. Great job. You had to ask that question too huh?
You're going to make me show my age since back when I was in art class we didn't have the cool stuff being done now. Heck, I can barely recall ANY projects that stand out in my mind as a favorite. Isn't that sad? I think however, probably the most fun I had was when we learned decopauge. That following Christmas I decopauged just about anything that would stand still as gifts for everyone. While cleaning things out after my father died I actually found one of those presents I'd given him that many years ago.
I love those things you are giving away and how cool my favorite color is purple and shades of purple.
my favorite art class project was in my ceramics class. we had to create boxes and i had a fabulous time making my clay box! i still have it today and love it!!!
Oh there are so many. I was a girl guide as a child so we were always crafting something. But I think one of my favs was when I took a sewing class in highschool. That's when I really feel in love with sewing...I made some placemats that I thought were the greatest thing in the world, at that time at least.
WOW I am jealous, I want YOUR JOB. How fun would that be. be sure to check out my giveaway too, hand dyed wool.
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Thanks for sharing.
I am also an art teacher, but elementary level. My favorite projects are clay sculptures of animals or birds. The students love when I make little samples, demonstrating pinching techniques when forming. My tiny dragons are our favorites. I love textiles, however and have a weaving loom now.
Henny Bulten
I love the fabric on the scarf!
My favorite art project was a wind chime I made in 7th grade, still have it!
Oh I love your fiber art. It's gorgeous. Thanks for the opportunity to own one.
My favorite art lesson is from a class I took during my teaching certification. In an elementary art class we had to focus on one artist and I choose Faith Ringold. I love how she tells stories through her quilts. So I picked up a brush and painted a picture of me as a child under my favorite tree with my favorite toy...a radio flyer. My then mother in law who has since passed away quilted the piece for me. I loved it so I gave it to my mom as a gift and it hangs in her home.
Favorite art class project was one I taught actually. It was teaching elementary students about pointillism. One of my students referred to it a dotillism. Very cute and funny. Thanks for your very generous give-away.
I just love all your items, especially the bracelets.
I think my favorite art class was during an art camp in Alaska, of all places. I took a ceramics class, and we had an instructor from Mexico, who showed us how to make a ceramic head, and then let us go; we spent two days solid letting our creative juices flow. We glazed and raku-fired them...I still have the piece and am in love with it.
Your work is interesting. My favorite art class project is collage. It was always amazing what one could create with scraps.
alittleteacher@gmail.com
How Fun! I love all kinds of art, so it's hard to pick a favorite...Most recently however, I've been working on portrait drawings, and I've been plesantly surprised at the results. I love capturing expressions, especially ones that convey love.
My favorite art class project was using exacto knives to do papercuting projects. I did mine of a profile of Alfred Hitchcock?! There's so much papercutting designs out there now I might have to try it again!
Thanks for offering this giveaway, all of the items are beautiful although I have my eyes set on making that scarf mine! :)
I love the scarf and the bracelets!!!!!
My favorite art class project was learning to cut a silkscreen and then print with it. It wasn't the act of making the screen or the printing that caught me, it was the realization that I could actually make good stuff--everything worthwhile did not come from a large store!
what a fun little package!
i'd love to win it.
I drew a portrait during my art class and it was the best piece I've ever created!
aikychien@yahoo.com
Oh my gosh, I haven't taken an art class in ages. My favorite would have to be in elementary school we had to make a clay sculpture for a contest. I made a snail called Patrick (wayyyyy before any kind of spongebob stuff) and WON! Wonder where that thing got off to....
My favorite art class project was a mural we painted in the weight room when I was a junior. It featured all different types of sports. Thanks!
Love them!
I remember art class in grammar school we made a paper mache bowl for Mother's Day. It was my favorite because it was a gift and my mother placed it on top of the piano instead of in the back of the closet! LOL
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I remember liking decoupage. My mother was very good at working on projects with me since she was my Brownie leader. Good memories.
Your projects are beautiful. My daughter is learning a little about weaving now. A friend loaned us a book to read and we've watched her weaving on a very large loom.
You are making some lovely pieces. Good morning and nice to meet you. I remember taking ceramic classes in middle school and I loved all the things we learned to make in that class... makes me think I should go back to school...
My favorite art project was actually my mother's! In the fifth grade they did free hand stitchery. She outlined her house and the tree out front and put her name and grade at the bottom. At the top in red floss she wrote "Home Sweet Home" and hearts! I found in when we cleaned out my grandmother's house and have had it displayed in my house ever since.
My best art project was an oil painting of Dorothy Hamill I did in High School right after she won the Olympics. My art teacher practically painted it for me, but I was still so proud of it. At the end of the school year she gave me all of the left over paint supplies. I was thrilled. My love of art was a direct result of that teacher!
Wow! What a marvelous prize giveaway.
The scarf is so lovely and the bracelets are great! I adore handmade items. To me, there is nothing like them. Please enter my name in your drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
Beautiful!
I'm a Elementary teacher and when I was in school I made a clay puppet of Horton from 'Horton Hears a Who.' It was my favorite because I was surprised at how good it looked! :)
Thanks for sharing your amazing talent!
I loved working with clay in my grade 12 art class, I made a sculpture that I ended up giving my mum. Haven't seen the actual piece in ages, btu have fond memories of the process! Thanks for the great giveaway. Love the scarf especially,
adrianesturgeon@whale-mail.com
I'm a scrapbooker, so I it was a canvas art class.
My favorite art class was drawing. sweet giveaway. I would love to win. My contact info is on my blogger profile.
Oh I just took an online altered book class, it was great fun.
My favorite art project art class project was learning traditional photography and developing...and then my final photo project which was a themed set of photos that I called "boys will be boys"...all pictures of grown men playing with toys and/or doing boy things :)
oooh I love both of those!
My fave art class project was a self portrait we had to do, but we couldnt make it the traditional face. It also had to be somewhat biographical and use certain color schemes. It really pushed my creativity.
Mine was an adult multi media class and I made a baby dragon based on a an ant among other things. I call him my faire dragon.
Would love to win.!!
I have never been in any art class! Unfortunately not that many classes are offered around here and nothing cool anyway...
You can contact me via a comment on my blog or the email provided there.
It's been a long time since I took an art class, but I definitely remember fondly the pottery wheels in middle-school art. Probably the best thing I ever made in art class was the first pot I ever threw (actually a bowl/dish thing)--it wasn't perfect, but I glazed it all experimentally and my parents still use it for the spare change in the kitchen. Hooray for useful!
Wow ... these are beautiful.
When I was in yr 9 I made a sculpture. It was an open theme but the whole class had to use the same medium. The basic four were chicken wire, feathers, recycled plastic bottle and paint.
So I made a garbage bin out of chicken wire and plaster. Sticking out of this was 'rubbish' and the back end of a cat (chicken wire covered in feathers in the shape of a cat). I thought it was awesome but my teacher was kind of the traditional type! Didn't like it.
Truly, I loved making coil pots in art class when I was about 13. My coil pot ended up being a plate that looked like a flower made of coils.
I was a slow worker and never had the time to blend. The glaze ended up deep pink petals and the center turned to a shiny peanut butter colour...I never liked the end product but it was fun.
Mum still uses the plate for her condiments, a decade later.
Your gifts are beautiful! It is so hard to choose a favourite art project....but I do remember enjoying basket weaving when I was about 8. If I remember correctly I weaved wool and wooden beads into the basket as I went. I think my Mum still has that somewhere....
I used to love the friendship bracelets we made together at camp, and would sit for hours making them. Thanks for the opportunity.
lauren sobaje at yahoo dot com
I love your giveaways! I had never heard of an inkle loom before so I had to do a little research!
I think my favorite art projects in school generally had to do with painting, specifically watercolor. I just loved the way the medium allowed for expression. I notice my 2.5yo daughter is really drawn to watercolor as well.
Would love to get in this drawing, wonderful give-away!
My fav class was when we had to do something abstract. I was about 15 I think. I just learned how to write my name in Arabic, and I did that. The teacher didn't know it was actually a language, the art I made, and was over the top with it. Gave me the highest mark ever LOL
Awesome giveaway! pillow.
I'm 8, and I have my own sewing blog. My mom is teaching me to sew. I am also doing a giveaway. So please come and put your name in.
www.sewingsister.blogspot.com
My mom is doing the giveaway too. Her blog is www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
email trudycallan65@yahoo.com
wow, i wish i was in your class! i love that stripey bracelet...i love them all, but i have a thing for stripes. :)
My mom is an art teacher, so we did projects at home too :) I love that silk scarf, it makes me think of her.
I always loved working with clay and glazing. The thing that I still love though was a little project I had in design class in college. It was something like make a sign with your name with some kind of objects drawn with colored pencils to form each letter. I still have it hanging in my sewing room. I just felt like it was some of my best drawing. I had little women in different colored dresses forming each letter.
Wow! You're talented! I just learned how to tie dye and I think I'm such a hotshot, but you've got me beat for sure! Thanks for participating in this wonderful giveaway!
Your arts are adorable!
In school we made a kite with oil pastels then got to paint it with hodge podge. We were supposed to make a repeating pattern. I loved this!
I think my favorite art class project was when we made plaster face masks of ourselves and then painted & decorated them. It was so cool to see how creative we all were!
Love the scarf. I never took art class, so I have no favorite art class projects. But in 3rd grade we made some fake stained glass pictures with tissue paper, and they were awesome. Does that count?
Thanks for giving!
My favorite art project was when I was in college. I was dating a very creative girl and we made a set of mouse hand puppets together, then went on to write short plays for them. Later we got married and spent the first summer together performing for children at Storybook Island in Rapid city, along with our troupe of puppets which we called "Tails for Two".
Love them. So nice. I'm not sure what was or has been my favorite art class or project. I love all arts. Watercolor, drawing, sculpture, knitting, weaving, glass... I'm mostly excietd right now we've refinished a little corner in our house we call it our "art studio" and we can finally have all our supplies on hand and ready to do art anytime and everytime we need to.
Thanks for the chance.
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Way back in High School I took so many ceramics classes that I ran out, and became the teacher's TA for the next couple of years. In between helping other people, I sculpted a white elephant in all sorts of detail, and I loved it. I call him Herbert.
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When I was in 3rd grade we made calendars for our parents for Christmas. For each month we did something different for the decoration and I just remember having so much fun melting crayons or blowing bubbles in the paint to make the decorations. I should ask my mom if she still has that, I'd love to look at it again!
My all time favorite art class project had to be the raku fires in pottery class in college. It was so awesome having so much control over how the piece turned out. Great giveaway!
Those bracelets are so cute. My daughter would love them.
My favorite art class project was a cut metal necklace we stamped designs into them.
I just took a felting class, we wet felted wall hangings and I loved it! Beautiful giveaway items!
Gosh, I never took an art class. I took Home Ec classes and taught Home Ec, so maybe those count.
I do remember a time in 6th grade when our teacher gave us all sheets of copper that we embossed with a tool of some sort. She washed them with some sort of chemical that turned them black, then we used something-maybe steel wool--to work all of the black stuff off of everything but the embossed parts. It was fun, and messy, so we got to spend part of each Spring day outside. Which may be why she did it, now that I think about it. ;-)
How beautiful! I'm interested in weaving and have been fiddling around with a little homemade loom. I'm in awe of those bracelets!
Allison L.
Love the scarf!
I actually took a photography class as an art class in high school. We did everything from using a manual camera, developing the film, prints, etc. My favorite thing I made was a print of my best friend that I cut up and dyed different colors. It turned out very well and my teacher loved it.
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Gorgeous! My favourite art class project was probably lino cut prints. I'd never done lino cutting before and even though I'm not that artistic it was sooo much fun.
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