Art

Monochromatic by Tina Fuglestad

First painting classes in the Art Room. Color galore! Learning how to mix colors and how to make it look like something.


Monochromatic from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Ellen Winner: "Visual Art and Habits of Mind" 

from Arts|Learning, Inc. by Derek LeDoux. Sponsored in part by the Kennedy Center.




Ellen Winner: Visual Art and Habits of Mind from Arts|Learning on Vimeo.

Big boom Big Bang

Look at this fun video I found. Now that is a lot of graffitti painting. Don't you wish you could get away with doing something like this? hmmmmmmm................ (I'm thinking)


BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Community Art Room on ARTSONIA

Artsonia started their new year so our Community Art Room is empty of last years art and we start filling our page with the art work from June on. Click on artsonia.com to see our summer art projects. You as parent can register in order to supervise the comments that your child receives as well as approve of the "fans" of you child. While you are on Artsonia, check out the gift shop of products, all of which can have any of your favorite art work on each piece. And Artsonia's policy is to reward the Community Art Room with 15% of the sale to purchase art supplies for students. Be sure and spread the news to family and friends so they can see all the great art your child is producing and help the Art Room with art supplies.

Mural Project at the Animal Shelter

Justin Larson was selected for his design proposal to the Sierra Vista Arts and Humanities/Cochise College posting of a mural project on the water collection tank located at the new Animal Shelter. Justin's proposal is called "Raining Cats and Dogs" with reference to the animals of the shelter and to the water tank's collection of rain water. The site of the mural is out back of the Animal Shelter on a water collection tank.

Edie Manion, member of the Sierra Vista Arts and Humanities Commission was the chair of the Mural Project is also a member of the Huachuca Art Association proposed to the HAA Art Classroom Students to assist Justin with his mural project. How could they pass up an opportunity to work with a mural artist on a real outdoor mural site. Justin then visited the HAA Art Room with  his design and showed the students how they could participate in his design. His design included dogs and cats with umbrellas blowing around the water tank with one big dog under an umbrella. The students produced their own animal with an umbrella. Justin then demonstrated how to make a actual sized stencil to cut out and would be taped to the water tank before painting.

On the painting day at the Animal Shelter, Justin had the stencils already taped up and the students spent the morning painting their contribution to the mural. After they were done everyone took the tour of the new Animal Shelter facilities.

Student Art Show, August 6th - 29th, 2010

The Art Gallery is now collecting art work from any student who has taken art classes at the Gallery/Art Room.  You students out there, go through your collection of art work on all the projects we have done this year and pick 3 of you best and favorite ones. Also see if you have your own art work you have done this year to see if you want to include them in the art show.

The art work for any art show needs to be framed and ready to be hung. That means it needs a frame and possibly a mat inside the frame and some art needs to be in a frame with glass. The hangers on the back are the eye screws and wire or the frames with a hanging devise attached. The Art Room has a supply of donated frames that may work for your art so bring your work in to see if we have something you can use.

The procedure for entering your art work after you have chosen your 3 pieces, framed them and readied them for hanging is to bring them to the Art Gallery (3818 Astro, Hereford) on Thursday, August 5th from 9am to 12 noon. There you will fill out an entry form for each of your pieces. Then the work will be hung for all to see.

Each art show has a special time to gather friends, family and other artists to celebrate the show. The Student Art Show Reception will be on August 7th from 4pm - 6pm at the Art Gallery. All the artists who have art work invite people to come and see the show and have something to eat and drink.  Be thinking of who you can invite to come and celebrate your showing and send them an invitation.

At the end of the show (August 29th) the art work is taken down and you are required to come in and pick them up.

Again, bring you art work in if you need help with the framing.

Buttermilk Painting Project

Main ingredient for this project is BUTTERMILK, yes, buttermilk from the dairy isle in the grocery store. Other things needed include pieces of muslin material , and chalk pastels for coloring. That's it!
Having all materials gathered, pour the buttermilk in a bowl, yes it's cold and smelly, you can even taste it. You may or may not like it but when used in making pancakes and other baking things, it is very good. But for now we are going to scrunch up the piece of muslin cloth and submerge it into the bowl of buttermilk. Swish it around to get it thoroughly wet, take it out of the bowl, squeeze out the excess milk. It should be just not drippy but very gooey wet. Spread the cloth out onto the table and smooth out the wrinkles, make sure there is still a good layer of milk over the surface of the cloth.

Next comes the fun painting part. Use the chalk pastels to draw and color your art into the milk. The chalky pastel should melt when it gets wet and makes a gooey color to play with. Most of the time you will want to not mess with the color you are painting but sometimes it looks good to smooth and blend with your fingers. Remember messy is fun! I find that drawing a border design around the art is a very colorful way to finish the art.

When satisfied with you art, peel the cloth off the table by holding onto the corners and lift. Carefully lay it on a card board or layers of paper and lay it out in sun to dry. Once dry, you can iron out the wrinkles with an iron and a pressing cloth. And in order to seal it, painting or spraying a coat of clear acrylic varnish is recommended.

Summer Art Sampler Camp

What a summer blast of creativity went on in the Summer Art Camp at Cochise College. There were four fun packed days of nothing but art stuff. We drew, painted, and constructed projects every day. The most challenging part were the paper sculptures and construction projects. Although getting messy was fun too with the painting we did with buttermilk. By the end of the camp we were ready for a pause but eager to continue doing artsy projects so the HAA Art Classes are continuing the summer arts on Wednesday afternoons. From 1 - 4:30 pm the Art Gallery/Art Room will be open for drop in students to come and choose a project to work on and Sherry will be on hand for instruction and assistance. Call or come in for a 'look/see'.

Mural Project Update
The HAA Art Class students have been invited by Justin Larsen, artist/muralist to assist in his mural at the Animal Shelter. He will be presenting his project to the Art Class this Wednesday, June 23, at 2 PM  All students are invited to participate. Come by the HAA Art Gallery on Wed or contact me for more info.

After Justin's introduction, we will sketch our contributions to the mural and make the patterns we will use when we spend the day actually painting on the mural. Saturday, June 26th is the painting day. We get to paint on a water tank at the Animal Shelter.

Sherry

Hello Artists and Parents of Artists! Here are some news items from the Art Room:

1. Mural Project - we have been invited to assist Justin Larson paint a mural at the County Animal Shelter. First introduction lesson is WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1:00-3:00 PM AT THE HAA ART GALLERY/ARTROOM. 3818 Astro Lane, Hereford. (see website for directions). Then on SATURDAY, JUNE 26 9:00 AM AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER ON HWY 92 (will have directions), we will paint until to hot and plan other times to finish the project. Call Sherry for more info and sign-up 775-304-5684 (cell) or leave message at 520-304-1078.

2.Open Art Class - I have several art projects set out every Wednesday 1:00-4:00 pm at the HAA Art Gallery/Art Room. Call for more info.

3. Student Art Show - I am collecting artwork you have done this year, in our art classes or camps, or some you have done as a results of what you have learned. The work needs to be framed and ready to be hung. If you need assistance with framing come in on Wed afternoons for a consult and some framing supplies. The deadline for entries is Thursday, July 29 from 9:00am to 3:00pm at the HAA Art Gallery/Art Room. 

4. The June Artwork students have done in the Art Room and the Summer Art Sampler Camp is to be posted on the Artsonia.com site on July 1st. Because if I do it now they will disappear on June 30th the end of their school year, if I wait until July 1 your artwork will be on the page for the whole next year for friends and family to see. Sneak peak of a sample of artwork is posted on the HAA Face Book page.

5. New Website and Fall Class Schedule - CHECK IT OUT!

Announcing new Website

I have published a web site just for my art work and the art classes I provide at the Huachuca Art Gallery, located south of Sierra Vista, Arizona in Hereford. On the web site there is a catalog of classes for all ages and at various time of the week. If someone wanted a special class and different time, just contact me at: sherryharig@yahoo.com. The student artwork page is still under construction because it will take another day to upload it all. Go look at the site and sign up for a class!

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
I came across  this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert on TED recently. As an artist I have struggled with the gift of creativity and talent and what to do with it and the responsibility of it all. Elizabeth gives a perspective to the creative person and the 'audience' of this creative venture. I share this talk as a way of saying to other fellow creative friends: 'this may help us find some sense of this thing called creativity'.

Received an Award

This week I was awarded a certificate from Artsonia. Artsonia is an online kid's art museum providing free, educational resources for kids, families and school. The award was for outstanding leadership in the area of Arts Education at Winn Art Room. The school's online art gallery - www.artsonia.com/schools/winn2 - ranks # 1 in Nevada, according to Artsonia. The award also recognized significant achievement in the area of technology intergration within the art program.

While teachers in more than 100 countries showcase their student artwork on Artsonia, Winn Art Room, in Winnemucca Nevada was ranked #1 out of the schools in all of Nevada. During the 2008-2009 school year, the Winn Art Room gallery showcased 3574 pieces of artwork. More than 51557 visits to the their page were recorded and had received 1041 comments from friends and family. And I keep saying that Artsonia is a great and effective way to get parents and families more involved it our art program, and the kids love it.

Also the family members purchased keepsakes imprinted with the child's artwork and Artsonia donated 15% of their annual sales back to Winn Art Room, this year we raised $213.16. (I used the money for art supplies in the art room.)

What a way to leave Nevada! I am very grateful to Winnemucca's Lowry High School for allowing me to upload pictures of thier art departments work along with my art room's work. By combining both together to showcase the commitment to the arts in such a small community and compete with the larger cities in the state.

After moving to Sierra Vista and opening an art program with the Huachuca Art Association, I again signed up with Artsonia to showcase my students here. We starting small and growing all the time. So far we have two classes and around 18 students. More on the new program another day.

"Nana Sews a Quilt" (my first little book)

Let me step back and show you a project that started small as a gift for my grand daughter, Rachel, age 10 (then) and lives far away from me in Virginia. I wanted to sew her a quilt remenisent of the one her mother had when she was a child. It was a pink, delicate quilt of Sun Bonnet Sue. Catrina loved that quilt and even though is was well worn and tattered, she wanted to preserve it. I took the tattered quilt and, to my best attempt, I repaired it. The idea of following the tradition of sewing a quilt for the new generation was germinated.

I wanted to sew a new version of the Sun Bonnet Sue. But when I went researching, I found a 'plethora' of information on this 100 year old quilt pattern. I ended up designing a small single sized quilt for Rachel that included a sleeping girl under a cover of 12 Sun Bonnet Sue blocks, each representing a different era of the pattern. Phew! This was getting to be a bigger project than the first idea plan.

With the help of quilting friends at the Winnemucca Quilters Group, I learned to cut, stitch, stuff and stitch some more. And the purist I am, I sewed it all by hand with just a tiny needle and lots of bandaides for punctured fingers. After I finished it and was ready to pack it off to Rachel, I decided to write a little book with all the information I had collected on the history of the Sun Bonnet Sue pattern as well as what it took to create and construct Rachel's quilt. The result was a colorful little book published on Lulu.com where you can go to purchase the book. Have a look.

Nana Sews A Quilt by Sherry Harig

2010 Came Anyway - Ready or Not

Since I posted my first on the blog and was getting things 'on the cyber road', life threw a curve ball for us in Nevada. We have to uproot again, can't stay here with no place in the state for my husband to work.
Through the expanded world of the Internet, we found we could go pretty much anywhere in the world for work but it always comes down to uprooting a home and household. So off he went to Arizona to test a position there and I was charged with the assignment of finishing the remodeling projects on the house, packing and storing our possessions, and selling the property.
It took me 6 months! I learned I can do all sorts of construction projects on my own, using tools smoothly and successfully tackling DIY projects. Who knew I would be so adept in the area of construction. When done, I deemed myself a "DIY Diva" (crown included). The house sold in 15 days.
Life started in Arizona with a three month time of transition until we were settled on 5 acre piece of desert and home that need MORE CONSTRUCTION! Well I was ready with my new DIY crown and all the experience I had acquired . Of course the progress is slow when we do it ourselves but we are happy when we finish each stage. Making a new life in a new place is hard work but after 43 years of new beginnings, we are getting the hang of doing it with a sense of ease.