MNO Art Party

Last week I hosted our homeschool group’s mom’s night out and held it in Dakota’s studio and we had an art party.

We had such a good time. Dakota gave us step by step directions to paint a winter cardinal scene.

I love how everyone's painting turned out a little different from the others. All the paintings turned out awesome.

This is my painting.

I like how the snow turned out on Jamee’s painting.

Kristie did not add snow to her painting. I like her branch and her bird looks great too.

Everyone looks so serious and hard at work. Trust me there was a lot of laughing and talking going on.

Jessica’s bird turned out really cute.

I like how Konni added more to her branch at the ends.

Pam’s fat bird turned out cute too.

We had such a good time, it was a fun experience.

Dakota plans to offer ladies art nights and couple art date nights soon.

January Art

We have been having the best time out in Bayou Art Classes studio. I love painting!

Here are a few paintings I have finished and one I’m still thinking about.

One day I kept singing Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white they are precious in his sight… and I ended up painting this 20x20 acrylic.  I’m giving it to my friend, Nicole, so she can hang it in the children’s room at her church.

I love how this next painting turned out. I didn’t really have a plan, but I had fun painting it. 16x20 acrylic

I decided on a zebra print cross because no two zebra’s have the same stripes and it is a great reminder that God made each one of us different too. 8x10 acrylic

I’m still working on this piece. I haven’t decided what to add just yet. It’s a work in progress.

 

Here is some art Elijah has done in art class at Bayou Art during the month of January.

This 11x17 bird print was a fun project.

 

The students really enjoyed making this 11x14 acrylic marble painting. Each student picked out 3 colors and Elijah wanted a Mardi Gras look so he picked purple, green and gold. Turned out great and I love how Dakota frames their art work for them.

Night time landscape of birch trees in water color on a 9x12 canvas. I thought this turned out to be a cool picture.

Here Elijah is working on an 18x24 acrylic painting that he designed. I can’t wait to see it finished.

 

We have some exciting events coming up at Bayou Art Classes for February. Dakota will be doing an art class for 27 girl scouts where they will work on 3 projects. I’m having our homeschool group Mom’s Night Out at the studio and Dakota will give us an art lesson. I can’t wait to enjoy art with my friends. We have new students starting in February also.

If you want to see more projects done at Bayou Art Class check out our facebook page.

Bayou Art

Elijah is enjoying art class through Bayou Art Classes. I’m loving the art pieces he has completed.
This piece is an 8x10 chalk pastel of fall leaves. Dakota taught the students how to use chalk pastel and blend colors. Elijah’s turned out really nice. Dakota framed this project for the students.
This turkey was done with colored pencils. Dakota was teaching how to blend colors with colored pencils and using the pencils with different pressure to get different effects.

This acrylic pointillism project was fun for the kids. Each student could draw any picture they wanted for this project. Elijah drew a big fish.

This fall leaf project was created with water colors.


At the end of each class or while waiting for paint to dry on a project Dakota gives the students drawing lessons. He has been getting them to draw things out of certain shapes or using certain lines. I snapped a few pictures from Elijah’s sketch book. I can certainly tell Elijah’s drawing is improving and he is learning to control his pencil more.  
Elijah’s October art from Bayou Art Classes.

Bayou Art Classes can be found on the website and on facebook.

Dakota’s Art

Dakota has done some new 16 x 20 paintings in the last couple of weeks that he has up for sale on Etsy. The pictures do not do the paintings justice. The actual piece of art looks awesome.

This one is mine and I hung it up in our living room. I love it!

I love this Louisiana painting. It looks so awesome!
This wedding picture is amazing with silver, gold, black and white. I love how this turned out.
This black and red fleur de lis picture turned out nice too.

Here’s another Louisiana painting that also looks very cool.

This one looks so amazing in real life, the picture just doesn’t show how beautiful these colors are together.
       I like the mint green fleur de lis on gold with chocolate too. I love the black, white, red, silver and gold together. It looks so freaking awesome!

This one is zebra print of off white and black and the pink fleur is much prettier and brighter than it looks here in this picture.

This crazy picture looks really cool. It’s purple, gold and green, our Mardi gras colors.

This turquoise on gold with chocolate looks amazing too.

I love all the paintings and can’t decide which is my favorite.

Recycled Art

Last month 4H had a recycled art contest.  Elijah collected some recyclables and thought about several ideas and finally came up with a tree idea.
Here is Cousin It painting the background on a ceiling tile. We do call him Cousin It when his hair is all in his face like that.
 
See that big bruise on his arm, it was healing at that point. The first night of gun club he came home with his arm and chest red and bloody.    Elijah painting packaging peanuts.
The tree trunk was cut out from cardboard.
Here is Elijah gluing all the pieces together on his ceiling tile.
The finished recycled art picture. I thought it turned out really cute. He worked hard on his little project.

Elijah was very happy to get second place for his art picture. He did get a second place ribbon, but had already put that in his art book by the time I took a picture of the project.

Art Fair post # 4

I forgot to post Dakota's art work he entered in the fair. This was his last year to be able to enter any art in the fair because he started teaching art in October.

 Dakota painted this mask to wear to the Jr./ Sr. banquet this past school year.

 This painting is of buildings in our down town area. Dakota painted the house on top of the building pink because it used to be pink and that's the way everyone remembers it. The picture below is a picture he took of the buildings.

 

 This is an ink drawing Dakota did of downtown.

 The oil cat. Dakota's favorite medium is oil.

 Stained ceramic. The cup didn't even turn out the way Dakota had visioned, but it still won first place.

 This is a collection of Dakota's senior pictures.

Dakota was very pleased with his winnings.