Action Jackson

August 13th was my Action Jackson art class at Monkey See...Monkey Do! And I must say I had a blast. We learned about the work of Jackson Pollock, how he recorded movement through his art and listened to funk jazz music to inspire him.

We then turned up the tunes and got to work creating our own artwork on canvas. I loved seeing the different techniques and ways of working each student had. Each chose such fantastic and different color palettes and had such great variety of lines going across their canvases.


Besides the brush flinging and bottle squirting we also ran marbles across the canvas to blend and create a variety of different lines. Look at the texture of the one below!   We learned that sometimes flies and nails would fall on Jackson's large canvas but he would just leave them and paint over it; well her's has some grass and paint globs.

And of course we got quite messy!

Brittany Thrun is the owner, artist and instructor behind A Fine Tangle.
Visit her at www.afinetangle.com. Follow her on twitter @afinetangle

Felicity American Girl Embroidery Class

This Saturday from 10-11am is the Felicity Learns A Lesson Embroidery class!  Travel to colonial times to discover a skill then passed on from generations.  Each "American Girl" will create their own embroidered hoop as they go back in time to the days of Felicity.

Interested?  There's still room!  Sign up at Monkey See...Monkey Do Children's Bookstore!

Brittany Thrun is the owner, artist and instructor behind A Fine Tangle.

Visit her at www.afinetangle.com. Follow her on twitter @afinetangle

Call for Volunteers Wednesday!

Monkey See, Monkey Do... plans on participating in Albright Knox's annual Art Alive event and we need volunteers to participate!

Art Alive is an annual event where schools, individuals an groups recreate a work of art using costumes, backdrops and creativity!  It is an incredible event with food, music and fun for all ages.

We are looking for those interested to come to Monkey See, Monkey Do Bookstore at 3:30pm so we can discuss the artwork we will be recreated and to help us build, paint and create our entry!  We will also discuss other meeting times to work on this project that night as well as information for the day of the event. 

The event is June 4th so we don't have much time!  But we can do it! Check out the pictures from last years event, aren't they fantastic?

Wearable Art: Wed. 18th 1-3pm

This Wednesday I will be teaching at Monkey See, Monkey Do.... Children's Bookstore.  I am super excited for it is a Wearable Art class!  One of the projects is a T-shirt scarf you see me sporting in the picture above. 

Wearable Art Workshop
1 – 3pm (ages 7 and up)
Kids will stencil their own shirt and create wearable items using old shirts—scarves and rosette pins! This fun-filled class will inspire creativity and one-of-a kind projects! We’ll read A Girl Named Pants Builds a Business to further enhance the theme “I Can Do Anything!”
$25/student.

Contact the bookstore to sign up!