New art bundle!

For those of you who like kings and queens and fairy tales and clay, check out my new bundle of art projects at www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/Gena_Mcwilliams

I'm having a sale on www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/Gena_Mcwilliams

Rainy day art at home

A great time to watercolor! Your watercolors won't dry out too fast. You can paint some fantastic wet-on-wet shapes, blobs of wet color on damp paper. Mingle the colors together to make new colors. Use the opposite end of your brush to drizzle curly lines of paint into your color blobs. Let your painting dry a bit. You can speed up the drying with a hand held hair dryer. Turn your painting around. Do your shapes look like anything? Do they remind you of something, like a fall day, a setting sun, or a vase of many different kinds of flowers? Add details to your painting with your water based colored markers! 

Have fun!! Mizz Mac

Summer camps at the Creative Alternative updated

Mizz Mac will be teaching preschool studio art camps at the Creative Alternative. There will be 5 camps with hours 9-12. The first camp begins on June 17-21, the second one June 24, and three weeks in July. Each day will be a drawing day, a painting day, a clay day, a mixed media day, and a presentation day all based on the week's theme.  The school is closed the week of July 4. All camps are $100 with a non- refundable $25 deposit.

Do you have older children?? There are plenty of camps available in the afternoon for the older students.
How to register? Contact either Mizz Mac via email or register online at www.creativealternative.info.  

Just get out of the way!

I had one of the best classes ever with my 8th graders . My 8th graders have been painting with acrylics on canvas boards. I have found that sometimes the best teaching happens when I guide the students towards self-expression. then I get out of their way!! If they get stuck, they call "Mizz Mac!" All of the students and their teacher(me) helped one student with developing her awesome painting. Sometimes the only thing the students need is help knowing when to quit, and sometimes it's only help mixing colors or even where to put a color. Mizz Mac

Out of School?? Bored? Try creating some art

Are you at the beach?? Get some plaster of paris, a sand bucket, small shovel. seashells, a stick. Draw in the sand or press seashells in the sand, create an image, maybe a mermaid or a pirate. Get some sea water in your bucket. Add your plaster of plaster. Stir with your stick until smooth and thick like cream. Pour the plaster on your creation. Let the plaster set up (get hard). When set up, lift the plaster out of the sand. When dry, wipe the loos sand off and you should have a sand sculpture of your creation. You can paint it when you get back to your beach house/condo/motel room.

Summer Art Camps in Macon, Georgia

Mizz Mac is back!! Mizz Mac will be teaching summer art camps at the Creative Alternative in Macon, Ga. She will be offering 5 weeks beginning studio art camps for preschoolers from 9-12 beginning in the the middle of June. Each week will have a different theme. Each camp cost $100, supplies and a snack included.  Creative Alternative has other instructors offering camps for older children. To sign up or for more information, click on www.creativealternative.info.