Monday, September 14, 2015

Paint a Pig!

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Well, the Eastern Idaho State Fair is over, but you can still find your HAPPY at the Blackfoot Art Center! How? By painting this smiley litt...

Mosaics!

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Here is one of our favorite projects! Great fun; beautiful projects to take home and show off! Several of the kids made these as gifts and...

Native American Inspired Crafts

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I wanted to be sure to include some of the Indian crafts we did last summer. The younger children made wearable weavings on cardboard looms,...

Folded Paper Collages

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This awesome project was so popular last summer we did it again  this  summer - and the results were amazing! These are done with tiny stick...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Copper Tooling Doodling!

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Everyone likes to doodle! During the first part of July, our youngest students, teens, and adults have all been doodling. What is doodling...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

New Drawing Class Just for Adults!

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The Blackfoot Art Center has added an Adult Drawing & Sketching class to our schedule. This class will be held on Wednesdays from 10 ...
Saturday, June 06, 2015

We've Moved!

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We've moved to a great new location in downtown Blackfoot! It wasn't easy; a lot of renovation was needed and it took longer than pl...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Tiny Landscapes

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Sounds like an oxymoron, right?  Consider the fact that painting a landscape in a small format can remove many of the uncertainties and doub...

Raindrops and Puddles

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Watercolor is an ideal medium for "rain art." Makes sense, right? Continuing with watercolor week, our 2nd graders created a rainy...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Wonderful Watercolor!

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That little paint tin with 8 small pans of color and a brush - remember it? Add a cup of water and a sheet of paper, you're good to go. ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Manga Me!

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What do we know about middle school kids? They don't usually like to be the center of attention, or to focus on themselves, or to embarr...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

I'm Falling ! ! !

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Our 5th graders tried self-portraits with a twist. They drew themselves falling through space and learned about foreshortening in the proces...

Me and My Shadow

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Self-portraits are even more fun when something unexpected is added. Our older elementary students added shadows, and they loved the resulti...

It's Wonderful Me!

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This week we created self-portraits -- with personality! The idea was to add a surprise element to the artwork, something that would get the...

More Beautiful Animals

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This is such a fun project -  I wanted to share just a couple more photos with you. This student is hard at work on her Toucan painting, usi...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Arty Animals

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Children love to create ANIMAL art. Animals can be drawn, painted, cut and glued collage style, sculpted, or paper mache'd. It doesn...