Today in Art with a Buddy, we took our cues from artist Jackson Pollock. He is the artist who made famous the term action art. His paintings were created by taking buckets of paint and dripping, splatting, and pouring the paint over a canvas that covered the whole floor. After spinning, jumping, blowing bubbles, and running, we talked about how fun it would be if we could capture that motion in a work of art.
The children got to try four different methods of creating their "action art" -- pulling strings, shaking marbles, dripping and blowing through a straw, and blowing colorful bubbles. They were so excited to try out the different activities and just kept asking for more paper to try another! It was fun and messy!
It is important for children to create abstract art in addition to making pictures of "things." Sometimes, as adults, we inadvertently teach our children that art needs to look like something to be good and when a child struggles to make it look right, they can get frustrated and the creativity shuts off. Abstract art is a wonderful way for children, and adults, to just explore the process of creating the art-- the colors, shapes, textures, values, and lines-- without the pressure of trying to make it look like something.
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Inspiring imagination and creativity through the visual arts
What is Creative Elements?
Creative Elements offers quality art instruction in a variety of ways-- parent/child classes for preschoolers, summer and after school classes for children, private lessons, classes for adults, Art centered birthday parties, customized art classes in your neighborhood, and more!!!
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
Testimonials
About the Art with a Buddy Series, Christine said:
"We absolutely loved your Art Class. After having a couple of Elementary Education classes in Art, I can really appreciate the concepts you are teaching the kids.
"We absolutely loved your Art Class. After having a couple of Elementary Education classes in Art, I can really appreciate the concepts you are teaching the kids.
I thought it was very well run... Awesome to have a class in the park, wonderful to provide shade, the perfect type of projects. You are a wonderful teacher! We look forward to taking more art classes from you."
Angela said:
"We loved Art with a Buddy! I loved how prepared you always were with creative ideas and activities. I especially appreciated how well you related with the little children."
Angela said:
"We loved Art with a Buddy! I loved how prepared you always were with creative ideas and activities. I especially appreciated how well you related with the little children."
My Philosophy
Everyone has an innate desire to create something worthwhile. There are endless ways to fulfill this desire. The visual arts are a wonderful vehicle to teach children to tap into that creative side while they are young and uninhibited. Not all children will become artists, but every child will have a need to be creative and imaginative to be successful in what ever they become. I teach the techniques and principles of art that are a part of the Elementary School Curriculum, but use that as a means to teach children to be more creative thinkers, to appreciate the beauties around them, and to use their talents to better the lives of others.
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About Me
My name is Alyson Harwood. I am a wife and a mother of four boys. I have an Associates of Fine Arts from Ricks College (BYU-Idaho) and a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Secondary Education Certification with a K-12 endorsement for Art or Spanish from Southern Utah University. I received the Pestalozzi Award for Outstanding Education Graduate from SUU. I taught 7th and 8th grade art in the Meridian School District for a year before I "retired" to start on my own four little masterpieces. I have taught art workshops for children from my home various times over the last ten years, just completed my first summer of Creative Elements art classes and volunteer as an art teacher in my children's classes. I absolutely love seeing children go through the creative process and am excited to provide more opportunities for that to happen.
Color Comentary
Art is in everything. Like when you hear good music it is like a beautiful picture. --Jared
Art is like an old fashion movie because if you make a lot of pictures and flip them really fast then it would look like a movie. --Camden
Art helps me become more creative every time I make a picture. --Jake
Sometimes when I see a blank paper, I just look at it and then I see something else so then I make it. --Michelle
I look at a blank paper and then just start doodling. Then it becomes a story only just with pictures and as I draw it the story changes. --Annika
Art is color. No one can control your art except for you. -- Sam
Art is like an old fashion movie because if you make a lot of pictures and flip them really fast then it would look like a movie. --Camden
Art helps me become more creative every time I make a picture. --Jake
Sometimes when I see a blank paper, I just look at it and then I see something else so then I make it. --Michelle
I look at a blank paper and then just start doodling. Then it becomes a story only just with pictures and as I draw it the story changes. --Annika
Art is color. No one can control your art except for you. -- Sam
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