Tree Silhouettes

Fourth Grade Art Club

Fourth grade art club students created some very cool silhouette acrylic paintings. The assignment was to have a glowing moon or sun and a tree silhouette.  Students could make any kind of tree and add other subjects to their paintings.  As you can see, there are quite a diverse selection of subject matter and color choices.

These three added deer to their paintings. 

This selection shows the diversity - A horse running towards a tree, a lone tree and a spooky graveyard painting. 

Fall is in the Air!

In celebration of Fall, First Grade Artists created close up and far away Scarecrows. The focus of our lesson was drawing up close and far away pictures of the same scarecrow. First graders used crayon resist with markers to add color and texture to their drawings. Crayon resist is one of our favorite techniques in art class.  Ask your first grader about "magic white."  Below are just some of the scarecrows on display in the TTE Town Square.

Thank You!

Thank you so much for all of your support during the emergency involving my father. We almost lost him a couple of times, but he is home now and on the long road to recovery. He is still not ready for rehab yet, but hopefully soon.  Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers!!!  

Beautiful flowers from TTEA! 

Welcome Back TTE Students

Welcome Back Artists!

I hope you have had the chance to rest and recharge your art batteries this summer. There are so many cool projects we are going to work on this year.  I can't wait to give you all big hugs and get started creating! I am hoping to increase communication this year through a variety of ways. Everyone has a preferred mode to receive information and I have tried to provide a way everyone can use.  As always, e-mail is the best way to get a hold of me if you have any questions or concerns!

There are a number of ways to find out more about what is going on in the TTE Art Classroom:

Timber Trail Art Studio - Art Class Website, if you have basic questions about art or dance at TTE, it is a great place to start. Most of your art/dance questions can be answered via the information on the website.

Miss Wilson Art Teacher Facebook Page -  Facebook page that highlights some of the big art/dance events at TTE (Art Shows, 5th grade dance...etc...).  If you are a Facebook user and are interested in some of the big happenings involving art and dance at TTE, follow the my art teacher FB page.

Miss Wilson Art Twitter -  Twitter account that celebrates art education and TTE artists and dancers. I am relatively new to tweeting, but will try and tweet things that I consider important to art education. Follow me here: @MisWilsonArt

MissWilsonArts is my TTE Instagram feed. Student art is featured.

TTE Art Pawprint Press - Link to this blog. It is the most updated and current picture of the art/dance program at TTE. It is the best place to find out the latest and the greatest happenings in the TTE Art Room.  I updated this blog often.

Summer Fun!

Summer is over!!  It went by too fast! I hope you had a great break and are ready to learn! Below are some pictures of how I spent my summer.

I spent a lot of time painting.  I like to paint in oils during the summer. Below are a few pictures of me working on some summertime paintings.  

 

I also love hiking. Spent some fun times hiking around the Denver Metro area with different friends.  

One great thing about living in Colorado is that people love to visit.  It's always great to have out of state friends come to visit. 

BASE Camp Art Club is always fun.  I teach a couple of classes during the summer for the BASE Camp kiddos.  We painted fun ceramic figures and created  cool canvas paintings. 

Celebrating with family is always fun.  You didn't know that I was related to Santa, did you?

My nephew was so adorable in full cammo planting this flag on Fourth of July

I even had my cartoon portrait drawn.

My friend from art school was in the Cherry Creek Art Festival for the third year in a row! He is a fantastic artist.  I had so much fun hanging out with him at the festival. 

Pool-time with the niece and nephew is always a fun way to spend the hot summer days!

Every summer I teach two classes at the Rocky Heights S.OA.R. Program.  Below are some pics of creations from both the Wearable Art and Canvas and Creativity Classes. The first pic of a pair of new "Art Teacher" shoes I created, the others are all talented student creations. 

Wearable Art

Wearable Art

S.O.A.R. Program at Rocky Heights Middle School

During the summer I enjoy spending time up at Rocky Heights Middle School teaching art in their S.O.A.R. program.  The S.O.A.R. program is a summer enrichment program open to DougCo students 4th -8th grade.  I teach two classes.  Below are pictures from my Wearable Art Class. Each student was encouraged to express their own individuality by working on functional items that can we worn or used. Below are pictures of some of their masterpieces.

"Art Teacher " Shoes I created 

Student Work

Super cool shirt created by a fantastic student! 

Cheshire Cat Shoes!!! I wish I'd thought of that!

Batman Shirt

Classy Ball Cap

Pusheen Cat themed Mini-Canvases and Mini-Bags

Cool Bag

Canvas and Creativity 2016

S.O.A.R. Program at Rocky Heights Middle School


During the summer I enjoy spending time up at Rocky Heights Middle School teaching art in their S.O.A.R. program.  The S.O.A.R. program is a summer enrichment program open to DougCo students 4th -8th grade.  I teach two classes.  Below are pictures from my Canvas and Creativity Painting Class. We were  a full class! Each student was encouraged to express themselves by working on paintings of subject matter of their own choosing. Below are pictures of some of their masterpieces.

Full Class

Awesome Tryptic in progress

Unfinished Tryptic

Awesome Portrait

Adorable Cat Painting

Super Cool Skyline

Very Cool Wolf

Interesting  Portrait 

Beautiful Winter Painting

Dog Portrait in Progress

Completed Dog Portrait

Dog Portrait

Aaron Rodgers Painting

Giraffe Painting

Completed Giraffe Painting

Cool Bubble Wrap Printed Abstract Painting