Mixed Media Illustrations

I've been working on some illustrations that blend two of my favorite media, painting and cut paper:

Big Words for a Big Idea

Gearing up for my final session at the TATLab, a teaching artist training lab that may well turn out to be a life changing experience for this teaching artist, I'm still trying to get comfortable crafting a Teaching Artist's Big Idea. How about this version:

"Engaging in the Visual Arts activates metacognition, empowering students to make integrative connections."

It's a mouthful.

Photo by Youth in Focus

Words like "activate" and "empower" easily roll off the tongue, but who says "metacognition" in an elevator speech?

"Integrative connections" are where I try to elaborate: in art and in life, connections within and between systems, across diverse disciplines, is what I want my students to find the power to enact.

What better place to foster this synergy besides an arts rich learning environment? Where tools and training are readily at hand, and a spirit of inclusiveness clears a path to creativity and collaboration?

 

Garden Art Summer Day Camp 2012!

Experience a whole new kind of Summer Art Camp! Not only will your children return home with beautiful handcrafted clay sculptures, miniature gardens, paintings and collages, they'll always remember spending three days in nature surrounded by trees, songbirds, chickens and flowers.

Our Garden Art Activities Include: Drawing, Painting with Watercolors, Sculpting with Clay, Collage, Sun-print, Wire Garden Ornament Sculpture, and Planting Miniature Gardens.

Get inspired by the colors, textures and sounds of Village Green!

Art and Gardening materials included.
Please pack a lunch and plan for the weather.
Ages 8 - 12
Wednesday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Session 1: July 11 - 13
Session 2: July 18 - 20
$250

Where: Village Green Perennial Nursery, 10223 26th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146
 
Registration: Mail-in, payment by check. 

Registration Form

Drawing with a Knife

For me, the art of

cutting paper

is about saying

more with less.

It's about cutting through the surface

to expose a simple truth.

All the action is at the edge.

I'm interested in the way we get lost

in the struggle to survive, and then

find ourselves again in moments of kindness.

As human beings, we can be profoundly

transformed by this cycle.

Cut Paper by Sarah Browing on display through December 14th, 2011, at Dubsea Coffee.

 Watercolor Activity

 In the Fall Garden

Starfish