woogie wednesday

“Spa-art” party

woogie — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:46:11 +0000

We did out Woogie Wednesday on Thursday last week but I’m just now getting to post about it. I invited the Woog to a “spa-rt” (spa + art) party. I made her this invitation:

Afterwards, she made me this (I love her cucumber):

I somewhat decorated my bedroom all spa like, had mood lighting and music planning (mainly the new Selena Gomez album she downloaded earlier in the day). We touched up our hair from a few weeks ago, put on masks, put cucumbers on our eyes and painted our tone nails. I went with red and she went with red, white and blue.

Afterwards we finished it all up with a relaxing sketching session which we drew portraits of each other during our “spa-rt.”

Here’s her’s of me:

Here’s mine of her:

Hair Dyeing

woogie — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:03:35 +0000

Finally a Woogie Wednesday to post. Our projects together this summer have been abandoned or on going but today we did a short project. We dyed our hair. We previously tried Kool-Aid but it pretty much all rinsed out afterward so we went with semi-permanent color. She went with pink and I went with purple. Unfortunately (or fortunately as a 30 something mother of 2) my purple bangs are more subtle and don’t really show up in a photograph.

The goop:

The end result:

Not a bright as she wanted but I wasn’t going to bleach her hair and I didn’t want to leave it on too long so this will have to do and will hopefully be gone buy the time school starts.

Thing 1, I mean Ocee’s hair on the other hand took the color really well!

Just kidding. He’s such a good sport to entertain & put up with us all!

tie-dye fun

woogie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:16:32 +0000

A tie-dye kit was in the “summer fun kit” I gave the Woog at the end of the year and told her she’d get one at the end of every school year to keep her busy all summer. She’s been wanting a tie-dyed dress for a while, so yesterday we made one. The colors on the shirt and hat turned out really vibrant, but the dress wasn’t as bright and I wished it would be. I’m sure the fabric type had something to do with it.

starry night

woogie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:17:55 +0000

This week, the hero of the week in the Woog’s class is Vincent van Gogh, so we did a little Woogie Wednesday project to learn more about him. Starry Night is my favorite piece of his (and the Woog’s too!) so we took the project outside and used sidewalk chalk to recreate the work on the deck.

In progress:

Complete:

*I’m still having some blog issues since moving this entire site over to WordPress so bare with me. The comments are wacky at the moment and hopefully I will be able to get them all squared away and acting right again.

peacock

woogie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:29 +0000

What do you do when your friend breaks your favorite blue plastic headband at rest time? You make a peacock – and that’s what we did!

The Woog was so upset when I picked her up from school yesterday but luckily we turned that frown upside down and made a Woogie Wednesday project out of the apparently catastrophic event:

there’s a woogie in my hoogie

woogie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:06:20 +0000

Last week was Dr. Seuss week for the Woog and I found thins cute little drawing in her folder:

We also worked on a Woogie Wednesday/Weekday/Weekend project of the Cat in The Hat:

Check out her wocket in her pocket costume here.

Snow Day Project

woogie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:46:00 +0000

It’s Tuesday, but I’m posting a Woogie Wednesday/Weekend today. It was a snow day so the Woog wanted to work on a project for her teacher so we made a snowman together.

Here’s what we started with:

And the finished product:

She’s very excited to give it to Mrs. M. tomorrow!

Ice Ornaments

woogie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:20:00 +0000

One of my New Years resolutions this year was to get back on track with making art with the Woog. It is freezing here and it snowed so we probably won’t venture out for a few days. Yesterday morning we did a quick project and made ice ornaments. She used a collection of colored beads, paper and glitter while I mixed together some previous work illustrations.

making hers:

making mine:

setting them out to freeze:

on display:

1 day to go!

woogie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000

One last piece of art to wrap up the countdown. This has been in my sketchbook for a while and thought it was a perfect piece for this little series.

Tomorrow is THE day!!

2 days to go!

woogie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:03:00 +0000

The Woog’s allergies finally caught up with her today so she’s been resting all afternoon so I decided to do a quick piece on my own.

Tomorrow: Art for 1 day to go!