First Flight with Elephant Sanctuary Arthouse

First Art Class at Elephant Sanctuary Art House.
Students and Coaches!
On another adventure. A friend of a friend of mine invited me to come and create with the little tikes that were going to attend the first ever art class at Elephant Sanctuary Art House. (ESAH).  This was one of the funnest Saturday mornings I've had in a while.  It's because kids say the darnest things. It's funny how their imaginations run wild.  AND it is so awesome to see how their imagination comes to life in 2D or 3D form when they are given the opportunity to.  Here are my students being silly, focused, energetic and creative.

Robert seriously was very mechanical about his elephant.
 He built his piece by piece focusing on shape and proportions. 
 I could tell by the statements and the way he laid out the shapes before gluing it all down. 
 He used scissors a lot for the limbs, but tore the body.
Christian had a lot of fun with the tissue paper. 
He just wanted his elephant to be "BIG".  
He had trouble tearing paper, and later asked me for scissors. 
Sophia is really focused.  
She really concentrated on the shapes and environment of where elephants live and come from.  
I love how she sees that elephants are big like mountains.
Sebastian's magical flying elephant.  
It was really intriguing to see his though process of what flying and wings look like.
He used the long snake like streamers to show that it was flying in the wind.
I really liked how his tissue paper goes off the page.
Elephant Sculptures with toilet paper rolls and pipe cleaners.
I really love their imaginations and interpretations on different parts of an elephants trunk. 

Demos
This was my demo on shape, colors, texture, and paper mache.  From above you can see they had lots of fun, and really got focused on how to use small shapes to create a bigger shape.
Using the elements to create Elephants
I ran out of time to take pictures of their paintings, but here is the example I made for them and detailed later.
Etch n Sketch with the kids


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