Tag: painting party

Facilitating Creativity

A lot has happened in the past month, so much I haven’t had time to keep up with writing about it all!

I taught two faculty paint nights as team building workshops! Both went extremely well and everyone left feeling like an artist! First we painted a lighthouse, because Ridgely is a Baltimore County Lighthouse School, we each hung our paintings up in our classrooms. The second party we painted cherry blossom trees, which were more for our houses.

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I also taught a dream catcher workshop at my friends yoga studio Life in Balance. There were 12 people in attendance and each created their own unique dream catcher!

There was also a birthday painting party! Lots of middle school girls painting circle designs, or any designs they desired! Each piece turned out awesome, and the girls had a blast!

There has been lots of painting going on!

Tags Art, Art Class, art classes, Art Education, Art Studio, Arts Integration, create, creative balance, Dream Catchers, girls night out, paint night, painting, painting party, raine dawn, students, teaching, Wine, wine and painting

Art Class Existence Wine and Painting Party

9… 8…

Yesterday was 8/8….and if you add 2+0+1+5 you get 8.

What an awesome date! 8/8/8

It was also a busy day as well… I hosted a maryland flag and crab painting party at The Stone Mill. It was a wonderful evening meeting new people, making new connections and creating new things!

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So yesterday I did not have time to post my list of 9 things for my countdown…Which means you’ll get two lists today,

9 things I’ve enjoyed about summer vacation:

Spending time with my family
Teaching adults how to paint
Seeing their faces light up when they finish their painting and realize they CAN do it.
Meeting many new and amazing people who I can call friends
Traveling to Texas and networking with yearbook advisors
Hanging out with my friend Amber in Fort Worth
Traveling to California
Visiting the Getty Villa in Malibu
Exploring life with my family

8 things I want to do in the next 8 days

Finish reading “The Traveler’s Gift”
Go hiking on the Appalachian Trail with my family
Paint more expressively (as opposed to paint night paintings)
Plan a few things for the first week of school
Go camping with my family
Spend time with my new friends
Start a painting for the Teacher as Artist Exhibit
Work on Yearbook spread layouts

I think I can handle doing at least one of those things a day, if not two or more!

Happy Summer!! <3 <3

Tags Art, Art Education, camping, hiking, lists, paint night, painting, painting party, reading, summer, The Stone Mill

Art Class Southern York Wine and Painting Party

Trying new things!

Last night a few of us got together for a paint night at The Stone Mill. We painted palm trees and a sunset! It was a really nice calming evening with the sound of rain off the old mills roof. It poured so hard you could hear the little creek next to the mill roar.

Below is last palm tree painting I did,

I decided I wanted to change it up a bit… So I did a whole new Palm tree painting with new techniques!

The results are below! I really love the process on reflecting on my paintings and seeing how I can use the brush to create different techniques on the canvas. The second painting has more steps but they are the same for each area; a shadow, midtone and high light. The first painting was a simple blended sky with black silhouettes of Palm trees. With our new techniques the second painting has more depth and looks more alive!