Christine Adolph Designs

More High School Art Projects

I wanted to share some of the AMAZING work that my Art 101 classes are doing. We just finished up some very large 18x22 portraits done with ebony pencil and also completed these mixed media self portraits last week. The technique was inspired by the work of artist Michelle Caplan. They turned out so well!!  

  

  

Boho Baby Collection

  Boho Baby will be available in April. 

Oceana Collection

The Oceana collection will debut at the CHA show next weekend and will be available to ship in February. This collection was inspired by a road trip I took last spring to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I spent lots of time taking photos and sketching. With the current success of my Tide Pools and South Seas collections it seemed appropriate to create another coastal inspired group of product. The collection includes specialty printed foil paper, double sided paper, paper pads, die-cut paper, brads, many sticker sheets, photo albums as well as a few gift items mixed in. This is a rather large collection and I do LOVE it...I'll show some details of my inspiration and actual designs in future posts.   

  

Radiant Rain

I have been busy making samples for the Creative Imaginations booth for the upcoming CHA trade show. At the show, Creative Imaginations will be introducing its partnership with Luminarte brand paint. I have been a loyal Luminarte fan for several years so I am very excited about helping to promote these beautiful products. These three paintings are each 10x20 and I used the Twinkling H20 Radiant Rain paint to create the resist technique in the background and paint the tulips. I'll be at CHA demonstrating these lovely products as well as promoting some of my new artwork in the CI booth. Next week I'll give a sneak peek at my new collections that will be in stores this spring. 

 

More class projects

This week my students did a project that EVERYONE experienced success in. I have 90+ high school kids in my classes and they each made collages and sketchbook covers. Everyone commented that this project was "SICK", I'm told by my daughter that "SICK" is a good thing:-). We will be back to boring pencil drawing next week, sorry to say. We'll do more of this next semester but with self portraits...

Some photos: (click to enlarge)

My new adventure..

It has been a long time since I've blogged and one of the reasons is because I'm back to teaching again, but this time I'm teaching high school art. It has been a fun adventure and a bit of a transition as I go out of the house to work full-time. My licensing business is still thriving and I am finishing up my Spring 2010 collections as well as submitting proposals for my Fall 2010 lines. It's a busy season, but I'm grateful for it all. My children go to the school I teach at and that is one of the best blessings to see them so much throughout my day.

The photo above is a project that my classes started this week. We have been working on design principles and art elements and our unit this week is on "focal point" and "texture". The students hand cut stencils and experimented with spray-paint. I gave each a manila envelope to keep their stencil in and to sample out their stencil on the front. They turned out pretty nice, don't you think? Next week they will develop more finished pieces.

Will try to update the blog more often.

Demo using Christine Adolph's Foil/Sticky2's and Art Stamps

Products are available for purchase here.

NEW COLLECTIONS: {Christine Adolph Brand} My Girl

The "My Girl" collection of paper and embellishments is also previewing this week at CHA Orlando and is available in October.

NEW COLLECTIONS: {Christine Adolph Brand} Winter Woodland & Winter Garden

The Winter Woodland collection will be shown next week at CHA Orlando and will be available in August.

I have also designed a few new papers and embellishments for my popular Winter Garden Collection and those will be available in August as well.