Faux Stained Glass in a frame-Art with a Splash of English(Tal Menashe)

Teaching English in a fun & creative way …

I found this wonderful idea on Suzys Artsy CraftySitcom for faux (fake)stained glass and loved it! Thank you Suzy for your fantastic & inspiring ideas!!!

After reading our English story the girls & I used Artline pens to trace the designs that they chose.

We mixed the acrylic paints with white plastic glue and they started to paint (make sure they paint on the opp. side of the outlines).They also painted and decorated their frames with acrylics.
They absolutely loved painting with the thick shiny "new" paint!

To add an extra dimension we even stuck aluminum foil on the back of some of them; it really gives a fun, sparkly effect.

Just look at the wonderful results!

Faux Stained Glass with my Tal Menashe girls

Faux Stained Glass with my Tal Menashe girls

Paper Mache Bowls- Art with a Splash of English

I love working with Paper Mache! This time we used bowls for our shapes, covered with Vaseline .I like to use good old fashioned newspaper & flour.But next time I will try glad-wrap instead of Vaseline!
We used acrylics to decorate and I varnished afterwards to give a sheen & protect them.
I am delighted with these wonderful treasures!

Paper-Mache bowls with Tal Menashe

Art with a splash of English- Painting on Canvasses (Tal Menashe)

Is there more fun than painting on a canvas?

All that I stipulated was that they had to come up with 2 different pictures, to make a series. The subject matter was freedom of choice, but we did try to think of things that would work well together & things that were big enough to fill a canvas.

My girls are so very talented & I was well impressed!

We used acrylics & took 2 lessons to complete our master-pieces!

Ayelet painting her sunset

Another beautiful sun being painted by Myann

Masks for Purim

Art with a splash of English- Masks for Purim
After reading our English story we went straight to making masks for Purim
We used cardboard, pastels & glitter
What a lot of fun!

What a lot of fun!With Cloudscape Studios

Art with a splash of English-Collage Owls(my Studio & Tal Menashe)

After reading “Wow said the Owl”(Tim Hopgood) I was greatly inspired by the pictures and the story …a great way for my kids to learn the colours!

I absolutely love working in textures & collage, so this was a must!

And my kids have finally caught onto the wonders of collaging! Don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t work the first time you collage with  the kids …the second time round it just clicks!

Beautiful collage work starting

With the addition of pastels, giving a great effect!

Great eyes with different colours to his classmates

Adding pattern in markers

A family of owls

I just love how the different personalities come through!

I just love the happiness in this little owl!

Collage Owls

Art with a splash of English-28/10/13-4/11/13 (Tal Menashe)

A group project once again, this time with the “littlies”. grade1-3's

After reading the great book “The glass bottom boat” by Peter Harris

We spent the first lesson painting the background with different shades of blue & green on great big sheets of paper. The following week we drew fish with black pastels and painted the watercolors. The results were spectacular.

I then cut out the fish and stuck them on our beautiful sea background. Just look at the beautiful aquarium we now have in our studio. A wonderful way to “jell” a class and have fun doing it and a great way to decorate our white walls in our new studio in Tal Menashe.

After drawing the outlines with an oil pastel they start filling in the colour

Three shades of blue

Look at how they are all working together so nicely

Adding some more details with oil pastels

 

Beautiful drawings with black pastel & watercolors

I just love this fish!

Beautiful shapes, pattern & colour!

After carefully cutting out all the fish I glued them onto the beautifully prepared background...spectacular!!!

Flower Mural

As a project to get to know my new group of girls from grade 5 & 6 I decided it would be fun and great team building to do a mural together. Thanks to my wonderful father-in-law I have access to great big pieces of paper!

We looked at both photos and pictures of flowers .I told them we would paint a field together! The idea was to fill the entire paper. They drew the outlines, some preferred to start painting without pencil.

Each girl found a space and got started .It took longer for some to feel confident and comfortable but at the end of the class they were all into it! We used a mix of tempera and gouache paints.

For the first lesson we painted the flowers, leaves, butterflies and even some ants & then the following week we painted the background. The background really brought the girls together as a group because they were all doing the same thing and they were feeling more confident.

I suggested they outline everything in black but the girls decided as a group against it.

Looking at the photos I think they made a great choice! It is delicate and beautiful just like my group of girls!

It now adorns the wall in our studio and everybody admires it!! I am so proud of my girls!!

It was a great way to start the year !!!

Starting to take shape

Each girl finding her space

Working together with lovely ideas and beautiful colours!

Adding some grass

Connecting the flowers with stalks

Working so nicely together

Background almost finished 

Wow!



Simply magnificent !!!Well done girls!!!

Art with a splash of English – Spots and dots!

I am very excited as today is my first lesson in Tel Menashe, with a group of new girls ranging from pre-school to grade 3.Teaching English in a fun & creative way I decided today we would start off with something fun and colorful and simple but effective. I had recently bought the wonderful book “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds and loved the illustrations and the wonderful message! Just the perfect way to get started!

Unfortunately my studio was not available yet, but we were blessed by one of the moms offering us her patio…so we got to enjoy the outdoor air too!

We read the delightful story, on my magic carpet; translating each page …they loved it!

I gave the girls each a cut out circle in different colours and asked them to stick it on their page as our starting point .I also gave them black pastels and suggested that they could make rings around the circle(like a tree).Others stayed with the dot idea.

The girls were delighted with the wonderful paints (I use Giotto tempera)the radiant colours and wonderful results!

Great fun was had by all!