Ugly Bunny Time

Ok since it's a week before Easter I thought I'd start the first blog post off with my Ugly Bunnies that we made in honor of my second grade student who passed away last year.  Stephen loved Ugly Dolls and they brought him a lot of happiness towards the end when he was really sick.   I like to think he was inspired by the How to Draw Ugly Dolls book I had in the art room that I often found him and a friend using during free time.

The Ugly Bunnies have been appearing a lot lately on Pinterest, pinned on a number of other art teachers boards.  Unfortunately it only links back to my old flickr account. No one seems to use flickr anymore these days...we've all moved over to Pinterest for collecting ideas. I'm glad his memory can live on through other kids still doing the project.

We actually did the bunnies with a lesson on tinting tempera paints.  We did look at the typical faces, style and shapes of Ugly Dolls too.  At the end we cleaned up the black lines with oil pastel and added the spring time objects in the background with construction paper crayons.  I'm not sure I was crazy about the Easter grass at the bottom..it probably would have been fine without it. 

Happy Spring and welcome to the new blog.  Our friends at the AENJ conferences have been asking for a few years for us to start a blog based on the presentations we've done, so I am finally getting around to that!

More to come this week...