Scribble Art Studio is delighted to announce our involvement with Live Oaks Public Libraries! We are honored to be designing the new Twigs coloring book using the wonderful artwork of our talented students as well as the graphics for the upcoming Children's Book Festival!
October will kick off the start of "Storybook Art with Scribble Art Studio"! Our Storybook art classes will be held twice a month at the Southwest Chatham Library art room and will be free to the public. Projects will draw inspiration from the stories and artwork of new and classic children's literature!
Stay tuned for dates and details!
The studio is a awash in artwork featuring Twigs, the reading squirrel mascot of Live Oaks. The students are going above and beyond to create the fantastic new coloring book illustrations. Here's a sneak peek!
What An Exciting Week!!!
Fall classes began last week and the kids jumped right in with some wonderful artwork! We were happy to see some new faces along with old favorites. Here's a few highlights!
Fashion Nite Out!
We were thrilled to participate in the Fashion's Night Out Judge Realty booth installation titled "building savannah: art & commerce". Each participate was given a variety of wine crates and cigar boxes and told to "create" a building. How fun! We created a mini Scribble Art Studio with bird artists. If you look closely you'll notice the birds have been seized by the creative process and are using a bigger canvas to paint (the wall)!
Surfers for Autism!
Sunshine! Waves! Arts and Crafts! What could be better?!
This was our first year participating in Surfers for Autism and we LOVED it! Surfers for Autism is a wonderful organization, their mission is to unlock the potential of people with developmental delays, support advocacy for autism issues and scientific research. It's a fantastic event for all children. The families had a blast and so did we! The weather was perfect with some decent sized waves, usual for Tybee! http://www.surfersforautism.org/
Helpful Hints! Helpful Hints!
Who doesn't love helpful hints?! Here are a few simple ideas to add pizazz to every day art done at home!
Paper!
Most people don't give a lot of thought to paper, but we do! Certain papers are key in creating a successful art project. Here's a quick run down of different papers and how best to use them!
Computer Paper: Perfect for every day sketching and practice drawing. It's inexpensive and plentiful. The only downfall to computer paper? It's too thin to take any sort of wet medium well and doesn't always feel very special (never underestimate the importance"special" paper lends to a project)!
Drawing Paper: Usually a little thicker and heavier in weight. Drawing paper can be bought in relatively inexpensive packs at most art supply stores, plus it feels nice to draw on! Drawing paper can handle wet mediums such as watercolor and acrylic fairly well.
Bristol Paper: The Rolls Royce of papers! Bristol paper is great! It's smooth, the perfect weight, and supports all wet mediums wonderfully. Bristol is sold in larger size pads (we often conserve by tearing sheets into smaller sizes) at most art supply stores, unfortunately it tends to be a little on the expensive side. Save for special projects!
*Scrap Fabric: Do kids love the scrap fabric box?! Yes, it's the best! Whether used to "dress" a painting, added to a mixed media piece, or simply the finishing touch to a line drawing, kids love scrap fabric. You can make your own scrap fabric box out of any empty box and old clothing, blankets, sheets, or old fabric you have hanging around!
*Scrap Paper Bin: Scrap paper is fun! It's fun to go through (like a treasure hunt) and it's fun to use in art projects! Plus it's cheap and teaches about recycling! Cut up brown paper bags, old Christmas cards and stationary; throw it in the scrap paper bin. Parents, you can always get a few more minutes to any art project if you pull out the scrap paper bin. *Don't forget to clean out your scrap paper bin every so often to keep it new and exciting!
