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Welcome Back Cougars!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on 8/18/2021

WELCOME Dorsum FOR THE 2021-2022 School Yr!!!

Cougars and Parents,

I am so very excited nearly the upcoming school year!

I know that after the year we all had final year that we are all pretty excited to see one another again!

I look forward to being back in the Fine art Room with everyone, and can't wait to get creative with all my wonderful kiddos.

Hither is a quick lilliputian "About Me" poster.

See everyone next week!

~Ms. White
2019-2020 Retentiveness Books

Posted past Lindsey White on five/eleven/2020
Hey Cougars!

Well, information technology's finally here - our terminate of the year project!!!

Equally some of you may know and remember - I like to make Retention Books as an end of the yr projection with my students!

Supplies Needed -
- one sheet of rectangular paper (estimator paper is fine, and so is bigger construction paper, OR fifty-fifty a affiche size folio...white or light color is recommended and so yous can meet your words and drawings better...)
- pair of scissors
- pencil/pens
- coloring supplies - markers, crayons, colored pencils, gel pens, etc. (optional)
We fold the booklets out of one canvass of paper and fill up them out however you lot would similar co-ordinate to what You lot want to remember near the schoolhouse twelvemonth...

I have attached 2 YouTube videos to bear witness you how to fold the paper into the booklet.

*Both videos show the same matter, one just has words and is longer in instance the shorter one is too difficult to follow...

https://youtu.be/53fxzMLbFm0 (verbal directions)

https://youtu.exist/21qi9ZcQVto (shorter, silent version)

Later you lot fold the booklet - you pattern a cover and then decide what you'd similar on the inside...here are some cool ideas for ways to dissever your pages besides as topics of interest and examples...SORRY, I COULDN'T GET THE IMAGES TO Turn CORRECTLY!

Take FUN MAKING YOUR 2019-2020 Retentivity BOOKS!!!

Save them somewhere special, and you can look back at them in the future to come across how much you've changed...

I only want all of you lot students to know how very proud I am of you lot...for accepting these changes, for the sacrifices you've made, for being strong, and for trying your best!

Y'all are all such a joy to teach, and I couldn't feel more honored or privileged to be a part of your lives!

Thanks from the bottom of my center,

Miss White

P.S. - I can't await to see most of yous in the Fine art Room next year!

HAVE A Rubber AND WONDERFUL Summertime!!!
Mother's Day Cards!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on v/4/2020

Female parent's Twenty-four hour period is THIS Dominicus, May 10, 2020!!!

Normally nosotros'd exist finishing upward our Mother's Day projects, just since we can't be together, I idea I'd put upwards some fun card making lessons for this week.

I was talking to one of my other art instructor friends (who happens to work at McMullan Uncomplicated), and she told me that she'd made a video and power point slide show with lots of unlike types of cards for all levels of artists!

Here are the links to her YouTube video and her slide evidence...

(video)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1os6VmWwjJ2OhnnfYCOckAlG6GaspS3h3Xu2f4CK2Kqo/edit#slide=id.p (slide show)

Want More? Check out these unlike ways to fold a menu:

*How to make an expandable Birthday Gift Card

https://www.redtedart.com/how-to-make-an-expandable-birthday-souvenir-carte du jour/?cn-reloaded=i

AND a couple other folding options...

Here are a few boosted fun card ideas...(*These are probably best for the older kiddos...)

*DIY Pull Tab Origami Envelope Carte | Alphabetic character Folding Origami | birthday Menu | Greeting Card |
https://youtu.be/Tr7g9Tc-t-chiliad

*Pop-Up Carte du jour Flower - Tutorial: Paper Blossom

Want More than? Bank check out these videos with real greeting card artists:

I dear seeing the work that you exercise!

Feel gratuitous to take a picture show of yourself with any fine art projects y'all may create and ship them to me through email at:

lindsey.white@cvisd.org

*Be sure to go your parents permission before sending pictures on the internet.

Become design your cards, happy creating!!

And HAPPY Mother'S DAY TO ALL OUR MOMS!!!

With MUCH love and respect,

Ms. White
Salt Dough Sculpture Calendar week!!!

Posted past Lindsey White on 4/26/2020

Hey My Awesome Cougars,

It's Sculpture Week with Ms. White!!!

Only don't worry if you don't accept Play-Dough or modeling clay at home - I'thousand sending you a recipe for how to brand Homemade Salt Dough that volition harden!!!

Just before we become into the creating office of the consignment, I desire yous to take a few minutes to look over this slide show I created, showing 20 cool sculptures from all over the world!!

(Your scultpure creations don't accept to expect anything like these - I merely thought they were fun to look at!)

Sculptures Slideshow

After yous've looked at some of the nifty masterpieces - I want y'all to create your own table salt dough sculptures!!!

You tin can use this recipe to create your ain common salt dough...note - many of the action videos listed beneath take different recipe ideas equally well...the bones ingredients are the same - common salt, flour, and h2o (sometimes vegetable or canola oil as well, depends on the recipe)

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/240641/common salt-dough/

*If y'all enter "how to make common salt dough" or "how to brand air dry out dirt" on YouTube - SOOOOO MANY OPTIONS volition pop up. Ingredient listing may vary, but nigh of the recipes are elementary, with few ingredients.

Here are some activities for you to try with your salt dough...

Elementary Compression Pot (K-2) - https://youtu.exist/A0U_OzzhaQw

Salt Dough Flowers (3-5) - https://youtu.be/Ty6LeUrlZLo

Absurd Handprint Stepping Stones (Grand-v) - https://youtu.be/UgRs3pXNW0E

Ornaments using Cookie Cutters (M-v) - https://youtu.be/Kf5qI1ftqVQ

*NOTE - You lot DO Non Take TO Use CHRISTMAS COOKIE CUTTERS - You tin use any kind of cookie cutter you lot want and make fun ornaments to hang upwards for any/all holidays or just for fun...HINT - Mother'southward Twenty-four hour period is in two weeks - you could brand hearts or mitt prints...

I hope yous all bask playing with the salt dough!

It'due south a fun way to pass the time when you're bored!

In one case the clay is COMPLETELY DRY you lot tin can decorate information technology with paint or markers.

Transport me pics of your creations - I'd love to see them!

Dear AND MISS ALL OF MY Crawly COUGARS!
Vincent Van Gogh Week!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on 4/20/2020

Hey Hey Cobb Cougars!!!

This week we're going to take a deeper look into the life, fine art, and legacy of Dutch mail service-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh! (He painted the famous portrait - Starry Night (run across beneath) and hundreds of others!)

Beneath you will find several links to videos and fine art lessons centered around this Amazing artist...Enjoy!!!

TO WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/sentry?v=9lGEvm1Lve0 - Mati and Dada video (One thousand-2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBLvusSwHRk - Van Gogh video (three-fifth) - This video is a little chip longer and parts of it may not exist suitable for petty ones as it discusses Van Gogh'southward suicide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=oz908BHg55Y - PBS video about the Starry Dark painting and details about Van Gogh

TO VISIT - VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP TO...THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM IN The netherlands!

https://360stories.com/amsterdam/story/van-gogh-museum - I went on this website, and it was a great bout of the museum...Hint - click on the floor arrows and be ready to movement your mouse up and down...moving through the museum was kinda tricky at showtime, and there is some reading involved - only only read virtually the paintings yous really like!

TO CREATE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLNU6dPi93s - This is an Crawly "How to create your ain StarryNight" crayon and watercolor paint masterpiece! (If you don't have watercolor paint - you tin always use a little bit of h2o and food color to create your own!)

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/children-and-families/van-gogh-colouring-pages - Here are some cool Van Gogh Coloring sheets that you can print and color with whatsoever colors YOU want to! (*Printer required.)

https://www.playideas.com/25-van-gogh-inspired-fine art-projects-kids/ - Here are 25 dissimilar project ideas for creating your own version of Van Gogh masterpieces!!! (Supply requirements may vary, please check each one out before you first your project!)

I promise you lot enjoy learning nearly the life and work of artist extraordinaire Vincent Van Gogh!!! If yous'd like to show me YOUR ain renditions of Van Gogh insipired masterpieces - delight e-mail me pics!!!

Honey and Miss All of You!!!
COVID-19 Awareness Contest and At Habitation Art Projection!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on 4/14/2020
Hello Cobb Cougars and Parents!!!

I hope anybody had a very fun, rubber, and HAPPY EASTER!!!

My daughter had fun hunting for eggs in our house (haha, we are still missing 2!)

All in all, it'due south been a very fulfilling holiday weekend at the White House (my house!)

I know that some of you lot may be getting tired of being at home and non beingness able to go out and see your friends. This Coronavirus pandemic has been a hard adjustment for most of the entire world, and I'chiliad proud of everyone for doing your part to be strong and brand the necessary changes to continue you and your family unit prophylactic!

This week, I thought we'd take a moment to think nigh the things we're grateful for...and how we tin can take some time to transport postitive messages to others.

Here is an article nigh an eleven yr old daughter who makes "positivity posters" and shares them with her neighborhood...Now, please don't get me wrong here - I"M NOT SUGGESTING THAT YOU WALK AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND PUT POSTERS ON OTHER PEOPLE'S MAILBOXES...But I Practice retrieve that you could make posters for your windows and doors. This may assist a neighbor out walking their dog or the mailman or anyone else that drives past and needs to run into a positive message...I've besides included a photo of the positivity poster on MY front door as an instance of what you tin can brand...

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/youngsters-pitching-in-to-bring-positivity-amidst-coronavirus-anarchy/

I as well found an article nearly a Texas Art Instructor who created a sidewalk chalk positivity landscape on her sidewalk...this would also exist a fun manner to put your message out in that location...

https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/groves-teacher-creates-landscape-on-sidewalk-videos-to-spread-positivity-during-schoolhouse-closures/502-9a69970c-01eb-4e54-b51c-c7972aaa6a1a

OR

You could write it on your fence boards with chalk (Sorry I don't have a pic to get with that one! ***Likewise ASK YOUR PARENTS PERMISSION Earlier Cartoon ON YOUR Fence!!!)

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The 2d thing I wanted to share with you this week is a COVID-19 Mental Wellness Contest. YOU Do NOT Have TO PARTICIPATE! I just wanted to laissez passer this along for anyone wanting a competitive art challenge...I would Honey to come across your entry, if you lot do participate, of course!!!

Did you know the month of May is Mental wellness awareness month? Well, it is, and CSBH (The Center for School Behavioral Health at MHA of Greater Houston) is offereing y'all an opportunity to enter an art contest to help raise awareness virtually the importance of protecting childrens mental wellness!

The art will be featured in an on-line gallery on Mental Wellness America of Greater Houston'due south Facebook Page. Prizes will be awarded to winning artwork.

If yous want to enter the contest pieces can be drawings, collage, mixed media, mosaics, needlework, paint, photography, or sculpture but it must be a students own piece of work and should showcase your all-time awesome artists skills.

Please read the contest details below and let me know if you plan to enter the contest. If you lot would like help inbound the competition I am more than happy to help you lot. You can contact me via electronic mail - lindsey.white@cvisd.org - with whatsoever questions.

The theme:Artin the Face of COVID-19

Rules:
- Participants must exist five to xx years erstwhile
- Each piece must be original
- Simply 1 submission per youth
- Although the theme has shifted we realize some take created pieces related to the original theme 'What My Feelings Await Like' and wevolition still have these pieces likewise.
- Pieces can be collage, mixed media, drawings, mosaics, needlework, pigment, photography, or sculpture
How to Enter:
- E-mail a scanned or photographed copy of the art slice and a completed consent class to csbhinfo@mhahouston.org
- Pieces can be scanned or photographed (please send loftier resolution photos so people tin see the piece of work every bit conspicuously as possible;please practice non send u.s.a. the actual fine art every bit we, like many other businesses, are working remotely)
- We will have pieces throughFriday, May 8^th at 5 PM CST
- Winners of the following categories will each receive via mail a$50 Texas Fine art Supply Gift Menu!
- Parents may submit art on behalf of their children
- Pieces may non contain vulgar language, nudity, or lewd/suggestive images or phrases
Check out contest on the Mental Health of Greater Houston webpage hither:
https://mhahouston.org/2020artshowcase/?fbclid=IwAR3A-0Dee8IpapTJOm1cdLKTxIYvpYtCFSCDUQLIp5fXxD19DW18QaaeLQ0

Or through Facebook here:
https://world wide web.facebook.com/plugins/mail service.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMHAGreaterHouston%2Fposts%2F10157883313595781

View contest rules the consent form hither:
https://mhahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Virtual-Art-Showcase-Awarding-2020.pdf

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As always, if you feel like participating in our POSITIVITY WEEK Art challenges, please send me a photo of you and your artwork, and let me know if it's ok for me to post your work on our school's Twitter account...I know Mrs. Castelline would beloved to see your work and bear witness information technology off to the whole commune!!!

Nonetheless missing and loving all of you to pieces!!!

XOXO,

Miss White
Draw, Draw, Describe!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on 4/5/2020 4:00:00 PM

Hey Yous,

This week's additional resources are going to be about drawing!!!

I'chiliad listing a week'south worth of drawing exercises also as a 25 Twenty-four hour period Drawing Challenge!

You DO NOT have to exercise everything I've listed. I just wanted to requite y'all equally many drawing ideas as possible...

Too, just for fun - if y'all go to YouTube (with your parent/guardian permission, of form) - and type in " Easy How to Depict _____ (type in whatever you want to learn how to draw) - you will most likely observe a video that will help y'all acquire how to pace-by-step depict almost anything you tin think of!!!

You can too type "step past step drawing ____ (whatever yous want to draw) on Google (click Images tab), and it will accept the impress out version, rather than video.

*If you accept any questions or want to prove me your work, delight email me at - lindsey.white@cvisd.org

Miss and love you all!!!

~Miss White

One Week Art Challenge!

Rules: Endeavor to check off everything on the list. Y'all don't have to do it all at once, instead just exercise a little each day at your ain pace. You can become in whatever order that y'all wish and you may utilize any materials available to you- even if they're not traditional Art materials. It's okay to make mistakes, the of import thing is that y'all are creating something!

𝥁 Imaginary pet: What if you could continue an imaginary animal such every bit a dragon or unicorn as a pet? Describe or sculpt you and your imaginary pet doing something together such every bit going for a walk or playing outside.

𝥁 String Challenge: Find a fairly long (3-iv feet) piece of string and apply it to create a picture of your shoe on a newspaper or piece of cardboard. Have a picture when you're finished. Don't forget details like eyelets, stains, wrinkles, laces, etc. No cut the string and then program your lines carefully!

𝥁 No Peeking: Draw a film of your paw without looking at the paper. Add as many details every bit possible such as fingernails, the creases where your joints are, hair, scars, etc. Don't cheat by looking at the paper!

𝥁 Speed Challenge: Get someone in your family to strike a pose for y'all. Now set a timer such equally a kitchen timer or a timer on your phone for 15 seconds and endeavour to draw them before time runs out. After making five drawings, reduce the time to ten seconds and brand three more.

𝥁 Scavenger Hunt: Choose i of the post-obit famous artists. Learn three facts about them and find iii works of art fabricated by them. Draw a picture in the style of whichever creative person you chose.

Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt, Titian, Francisco Goya, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diego Rivera, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lee Krasner, Chuck Close, Edward Gorey, Rufino Tamayo, or Manuel Álvarez Bravo

𝥁 Art Show: Hang up all the artwork that yous have made this week and testify it off to your family.
Color Theory Calendar week Art ACTIVITIES!!!

Posted by Lindsey White on 3/28/2020

This week we are going to focus on Color Theory!!!

* How do colors mix together to create other colors???

* What are the Primary Colors?

* What are the Secondary Colors?

* What is a Color Wheel and How practice I make ane?

I've listed 3 YouTube Links below to help you answer these questions...too every bit a fun Science/Art Experiment you tin do at home!

If you do not take internet admission right at present, I've also attached copies of art textbook pages to help you learn more about colors.

Feel free to practice any of the suggested projects in the volume, or listed below.

HAPPY Colour CREATING!!!

https://youtu.be/9EUfVIon6t8 - Walking Water - This is a super fun, cool, piece of cake, (and smARTsy) Scientific discipline EXPERIMENT that y'all tin can do to show how colors mix together to create other colors!!!(Don't try this without talking to your parent or guardian about it get-go!!!) You lot will need: vii clear cups or jars, food coloring, and 4 paper towels

*After you picket these videos, y'all can create your own color cycle using whatever supplies yous have at habitation...or you can just play with colour mixing and create your own masterpiece!

Ideas: Paper plates, notebook paper, figurer paper, crayons, markers, paint, (if y'all don't have any of these - y'all can make paint using a small amount of water and a few drops of food coloring -Ask parents for assist with this, or at least tell them your plan earlier making your own paint!!! If yous don't have paint brushes, you lot can use Q-tips or cotton fiber balls)

http://scrapbookcoloring.com - You lot can as well practise you color bike/avant-garde colory theory knowledge on this fun online coloring volume website!!!

Feel free to take a flick or video of yourself with your Colour Theory Science or Art Projects and e-mail them to me at -

I am working on setting up a Class DoJo account, but until I figure out how to become it up and running for the entire school, I think using email would be easiest for you to show me your work.

Missing yous all like crazy!!!