Oh the possibilities with text! When I’m working on a project I spend way too much time playing with different fonts. Trying them out. Do they portray the right mood? Fit with my image? Are they easy to read? Then if I start changing the direction of the text….. Well I could spend an awful lot of time not getting… Read more »
Gift ideas are hard to come by. We run out of ideas. You can’t google “What’s the perfect gift for Aunt Mary?” Well you can but its not very helpful… So if you have a creative/artistic type on your list, I’m hoping I can give you a few ideas. This list is intended for high school aged kids and adults. It may… Read more »
What to buy???? What to buy???? A great question… I quizzed my students, paid attention to their favorite supplies to use in class, and visited some local stores to come up with some gift ideas. If you’re like me you need gift ideas for those middle ages, 9-13, but there’s not many ideas out there. Both of my kids are in this… Read more »
Here we are Folks. We’re at the final Artist for this series on local Artists from the Recycled Art Show at Campbell Pottery. Meet Tami Hritzay. Tami and I talked for a long time. We were talking long after everyone else left and the employees were cleaning up the punch and snacks. We talked a lot about local Art education… Read more »
This next artist really helped contribute to the wonderful variety of pieces at Campbell Pottery’s Stonewall Gallery in their recent Recycle, Renew, Reuse Show. She called herself a Gourd Artist. Jody Neugebauer is from Sandy Lake and often shows at Campbell’s. Her love of nature & animals really shows in her pieces. Current work seems African inspired especially the pieces in this… Read more »
Let’s have some fun today! Let’s play! I love giving this age group (10-16 years) a prompt like this. You absolutely never know what will come out. I want to encourage freedom and creativity in my students’ artwork. That’s the whole purpose of this Creativity Series, to have students push themselves past what is comfortable. I want them to try new things,… Read more »
I hope you’ve gotten a chance to visit the Recycled Art Show at the Stonewall Gallery at Campbell Pottery. You can read about my experience here. I thoroughly enjoyed having the time to chat with local Artists like Katie LeVan, Mike Saletra, Amy Hahn, Debra Brown, Jody Neugebauer, and Tami Hritzay. The next of this “Spotlight on local Artists” series… Read more »
New Class Alert!!!!! After School Arts Enrichment Class at Calvary Perspective is used to help show distance. Its most commonly recognized by a road or fence line that disappears into the distance. This class we will start with one-point perspective then move onto two-point perspective. Depending on group progress we may venture into three-point and elliptical perspective. November and December… Read more »
A recent visit to the Stonewall Gallery at Campbell Pottery inspired this series of local Artists. So far we have met Katie LeVan and Mike Saletra. This next Artist was hard to pin down so this post a bit shorter. But I still wanted to include it. You see Amy Hahn is the Gallery Director. And being a good Gallery… Read more »
After visiting Stonewall Gallery at Campbell Pottery for their Recycled Art Show, I started this series on some of the local Artists I got to speak with while there. You can take a virtual field trip of the show here or read about the first Artist of this series- Katie LeVan in this post. Today I’ll introduce you to Mike Saletra. … Read more »