Cats are fascinating
This week at Towey I wanted to focus more on learning about perception and creating realistic figures. I decided to teach them they simplified way to draw an ancient animal such as a cat.
Ducks waddling at Towey
“Let’s make some ducks,” the classroom looked as if I’d bumped my head until I grew a third eye from google eyes and we created ducks. This by far was an interesting class that day. Everyone made some beautiful ducks and they had fun making them their own.
Learning 3D at Towey
3D Art can seem like a challenge for many but it’s all about perception, patience, time and a ruler of course. This was an introduction to making 3D Art and the students loved this assignment.
Treehouses at Towey
This assignment was designed so the class could all build their own treehouse. Most people don’t have trees in their backyard so this project gave everyone the chance to make a treehouse.
From Realism to Abstraction: The Picasso Portrait Challenge
Julie Shaffer is a docent at Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. This is her second semester volunteering with Art Sphere. She loves yoga, artisan ice cream, post-modern fiction, and art history. Julie wants to cultivate a love and appreciation of art in young children. What is a portrait? What makes …
Learn These Violin Basics
Violinconsruction3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons About the author: Mallika is a biology student and an artist. She loves painting, dancing, and playing the violin. She enjoys volunteering with Art Sphere and helping students learn more about all forms of art! Music is a form of expression that teaches …
Line Lanterns
This past Wednesday we had a fun discussion about the Chinese New Year. The majority of the students knew about this holiday and how this year is celebrated as the year of the rat. During this holiday it’s very common to light fireworks and light lanterns to scare away any …
Dream Home (Floor Plan)
This week’s lesson at Towey was all about teaching the class how to develop a floor plan for their dream house. We started off by a large square as a perimeter along with the front & back door, front & back yard, and the window on a sheet of graph …