Drawing the Eiffel Tower in Summer Art Classs

Video - Eiffel Tower Drawings


Summer Drawing Classes with Kindergarten through 3rd grade - We drew the Eiffel Tower. Watch here!

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Design Your Own Dinosaur

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The Kindergarten and First Grade art class had been asking me to teach them to draw a dinosaur. I should've studied up on the subject before I attempted this, they knew about everything there is to know about all the types of dinosaurs, and what they ate, and more. I just told them to make it look however they wanted to if they were the ones helping God on the day he created dinosaurs. Here is the Artsonia  online gallery for this project: Artsonia Dinosaur Gallery


I started them out by lightly sketching an egg shape (Did dinosaurs come from eggs? My class thought "yes") in the middle of their paper to be the body. Watch the video to see how we went from that point.

Music is from Disney's "Ice Age" - "Walk the Dinosaur", done by Queen Latifah in the movie, but redone in this version for a Kid's Travel Cd by "Kids United".

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St. Patricks Day - Irish Street Scene Drawing

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For St. Patrick's Day we drew Irish street scenes, complete with cobblestone streets and chimney stacks. Every street scene had a pot of gold hidden in it somewhere, and a rainbow, or course! Our snack for the day was Lucky Charms (a big hit!). Watch the video to see how to direct the kids, step by step, in this simple drawing exercise.

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How to Draw a Fire

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I have a class full of kindergarten and 1st graders, mostly boys, to keep entertained in Art Club.  One thing that boys often like is fire.

Sketch first with a pencil:
1. Start with 5 or 6 circles along the bottom of the page.
2. Draw a swirl inside each circle
3. Put a dot in the center towards the top of the paper
4. Draw lines from the sides of each circle back to that dot. Draw lightly.
5. Draw a "smile shape in the middle of that group of lines.
6. Erase the lines above the smile shape.
7. Draw several "witches hats" floating along the top.
8. Draw the flames and sparks using long skinny "S" shapes that connect at the bottom.
9. Go over the pencil lines with a black Sharpie.
10. Explain how to color in the fire using a mix of crayons and markers.
11. Don't forget some marshmallows and curly smoke!

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"On the Sea of Life" Painting Auction

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Watch this video!
Painting is available for auction.

The painting that I do in this video will be auctioned on my website this spring. I have brainstormed about how to do this, and I think the easiest way for everyone is to just have people email me an offer, and the highest offer I get by May 1st will be the winner.  This is acrylic on canvas and consists of three 8"x20" panels. These panels are lightweight and easy to hang as is. No framing necessary. Shipping is free. I will start the bidding at $50. Any takers? My email address is ArtSpigotStudio@me.com

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I now have a Website!

I have finally built myself a website. http://ArtSpigotStudio.com. I it did myself, too, which is why all the buttons may not work as expected and spelling errors are sure to be found.  But... on the bright side... I plan to start auctioning paintings (video-ed to music by my kids and friends and favorites) as soon as I have an online audience. I am collecting email addresses of people who may like to watch this for entertainment or participation. That way I can contact people when the auction starts. I am also giving away free one-of-a-kind original paintings to anyone who gets me 50 email subscribers.  Please visit to figure this all out.

Go there and give me your email address!

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Painting Brazilian Toucans

                                      
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Trapped by an ice storm with my sister and her kids visiting from Florida, we decided to paint for entertainment.  My niece, a sophmore at MVNU, was packing to fly to Brazil for the semester, and so I decided to teach them to paint a Toucan. The video shows the finished product for all 7 of us. When my niece arrived in Brazil, she facebook-ed me a photo of the art classroom on campus, which, lo and behold, had a display of painted Toucans. If you friend me on Facebook you can see it!  

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