studiomelange: FLYING WEST I hope there's a place, way up in the sky, Where pilots can go, when they have to die. A place where a guy can buy a cold beer for a friend and a comrade who's memory is dear; A place where no doctor or lawyer can tread, Nor a management ty
studiomelange: Another fox fan... wonderful articulated critter from my Let's Make Art after school art program. #afterschoolartprogram #letsmakeart #letsmakeartla #afterschoolartclass #vickyrees #articulatedcreature #articulatedfigure #articulatedfox #foxart
studiomelange: Mr. Fox, another wonderful articulated critter from my Let's Make Art after school art program. #afterschoolartprogram #letsmakeart #letsmakeartla #afterschoolartclass #vickyrees #articulatedcreature #articulatedfigure #articulatedfox #foxart
studiomelange: We made some cool articulated critters in my Let's Make Art class this week. #articulatedcat #articulatedfigure #articulatedcreature #letsmakeartla #letsmakeart #afterschoolartprogram #afterschoolartclass #vickyrees
studiomelange: Sculptures using recycled materials made by my 4-6 grade students. Clockwise... cat, bird with eggs, dog, and a "Winged Catasus". #letsmakeart #letsmakeartla #vickyrees #victoriarees #studiomelange #recycledart #recycledsculpture #cardboard #eggcartonscul
studiomelange: Proud to receive Best Of Show at the Glendale Art Association Spring Member Exhibition with my newest oil painting, "Shadows III". Thank you to my ever supportive and loving hubby, Jon. Great show at McGroarty Arts Center.... a super nice venue. Show runs
studiomelange: Architectural model on the trail this week. #deukmejianwildernesspark #californiaparks #lacrescenta #architecturalmodel #miniaturetrees #dailysketch #minitrees #miniatures
studiomelange: Sugar baby pumpkin pan pastel and conte sketching this morning. I love these little cuties. #panpastel #contecrayon #pastel #sugarbaby #pumpkin #dailydrawing #fallishere #dailysketch
studiomelange: Cute little wiener dog made out of soap. Created by one of my ubber talented 4th grade students during our soap carving lessons. Great job A.V. You rocked it! #soapcarving #letsmakeart #mountainavenueelementary #afterschoolart #loveteachingart #ivorysoap
studiomelange: Mini pomegranate painting. 2 x 3. Oil on panel. I searched through the entire batch of pomegranates before I could find one that actually had most of the little points on the top. My favorite part of this fruit other than the shiny seeded inside. Yummmm!!
studiomelange: Almost done WIP (work in progress). 12x12 inches. Exploring more light themes and still life arrangements. #wip #oiloncanvas #vintageglass #gerberdaisy #shadows #artistlife #victoriarees #vickyrees #studiomelange
studiomelange: For the season... in my Etsy store. #raven #crow #blackbird #watercolor #smartbirds #watercolorpainting #vickyrees #victoriarees
studiomelange: More crocheted stones from the weekend artwalk demo session. #pasadenaartwalk2016 #crochetedstone #sennelier #watercolorpainting #vickyrees #victoriarees
studiomelange: Crocheted stone from the weekend artwalk demo session. #pasadenaartwalk2016 #crochetedstone #sennelier #watercolorpainting #vickyrees #victoriarees
studiomelange: More scratchboard adventures for the 1-3 grades. Great job kids.
studiomelange: More scratchboard adventures for the 1-3 grades. Great job kids.
studiomelange: Another great scratch-boarder... see my previous post for the details on this lesson. Photo transfer inspired scratch board self portrait lesson. This artist had to work with his non-dominant hand because of a hand brace/cast and he STILL created an amaz
studiomelange: Another great scratch-boarder... see my previous post for the details on this lesson. Photo transfer inspired scratch board self portrait lesson. #scratchboard #letsmakeart #selfportrait #scratchboardart #vickyrees #mountainavenueelementary #mountainave
studiomelange: We are learning about image transfer and scratch board this week with some awesome self portraits. After coating the back of a portrait printout with chalk, the kids placed the printouts over the top of their scratchboard and traced around the contours of
studiomelange: Thank you to all the lovely people who stopped by this weekend to say hello at the GO Glendale open studio tour I participated in at BMAI, especially these two handsome, supportive and ever so helpful fellows. It was really interesting to get feedback whi
studiomelange: Skelly head in progress for the season. #letsmakeart #vickyrees #skellyhead #skelly #dialosmuertos #halloween #sugerskull
studiomelange: Pregame sky tonight at Muir High School in Pasadena. #sunset #californiasunset #crescentavalleyfalconfootball
studiomelange: The beautiful result of our International Day Of Peace "Helping Heart Hands" project. See my previous post. For the backgrounds, we wrote words that tell how we show love and help others with our hands using wax based crayons and then we talked about crea
studiomelange: The beautiful result of our International Day Of Peace "Helping Heart Hands" project. See my previous post. For the backgrounds, we wrote words that tell how we show love and help others with our hands using wax based crayons and then we talked about crea
studiomelange: The beautiful result of our International Day Of Peace "Helping Heart Hands" project. See my previous post. For the backgrounds, we wrote words that tell how we show love and help others with our hands using wax based crayons and then we talked about crea
studiomelange: In honor of International Day of Peace, September 21st, my 1-3 grade students are doing a project about how we can help others with our hands... "My Heart Is In My Hands". This week we created our heart hands using pencil, watercolor and colored pencil. N
studiomelange: In honor of International Day of Peace, September 21st, my 1-3 grade students are doing a project about how we can help others with our hands... "My Heart Is In My Hands". This week we created our heart hands using pencil, watercolor and colored pencil. N
studiomelange: In honor of International Day of Peace, September 21st, my 1-3 grade students are doing a project about how we can help others with our hands... "My Heart Is In My Hands". This week we created our heart hands using pencil, watercolor and colored pencil. N
studiomelange: Another seriously exceptional group of hand sketches from my 4-6 grade students. Great, great, great! #handsketch #drawingfromlife #drawingfoundations #hands #pencilsketch #mountainavenueelementary #letsmakeart
studiomelange: I thought I would take a few moments to play with some of the foam block printing plates too. I think the best way to understand the challenges that your students have to overcome is to use the exact same tools they are using. I have a sample that I did a