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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

father and son

A great video from YouTube highlighting hand lettering by a father and son.

In other news, one of my goals this year is to redesign this site, get more participants and try and post regularly with work from my daughter and myself, plus try and highlight some other big and little art from the web. Maybe all this will happen this summer. Maybe I won't be as swamped with work then :)

I want to thank all of you who have kept this site fresh with posts!

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

We borrowed a library book involving shapes that become sea creatures in a cut-paper style...

and since today we integrated the letter D to our learning, we looked at the "semicircle" page...

and made our own jellyfish out of cut paper. This is TheSquirrel's, which was great for scissor practice. (The jellyfish I mean; I had to cut the fish for her)

And here is mine:

By: ErinSherman & TheSquirrel, age just4!
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Labels: Erin Sherman, jellyfish

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Rain Painting

I was actually excited that it rained today. That's because we could try this project: Drip just a little liquid food coloring (or we had liquid watercolors) on a paper plate, then hold it out or place it in the rain to watch what interesting thing the rain does to it. (I guess the paint splatters a little as the raindrops fall into it).

Then we took the textures it made to the computer and I asked the Squirrel, what does this look like? So she gave me ideas and we made these doodles:

And I made the space one above, and this flower one:

By: Erin Sherman & TheSquirrel, age 4!
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Labels: Erin Sherman, rain painting, textures

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Here's how it works!
Grab a child in your life and let them dictate what you all will do. Work how you work so they can see what you do and how you do it. If it's on the computer, give them the mouse to color something in or if your medium of choice is paint, have them paint. Just be creative!! You can see what I do with one of my styles here. Enjoy your time and just have fun! Participation is open to all.

Participants:
Holli Conger
Stacy D.
Shena Leonard
Laura Zarrin
Wendi Gratz
Erin Sherman
Elena D'Cruze
Crystal
Melanie

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Rain Painting
March lion and lamb
Pockets
Sidewalk Paint
Holiday Collage Art
Cardboard Elephants
Valentine's Day Card
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