Snow, Shrinky-dinks and Playful Painting

This week was another great week for SOHO! We were so happy that the girls were able to make it from their school, even in the tough weather. We did shorten the class so that we made sure everyone made it home safely. 

 

The snow made this week's photo walk with Liana especially exciting! Just like last week, Liana took everyone in her group outside for a photo class. They went to just one of the many cool parks in the fan with fun cement structures. We can't wait to see some of these developed photos! All the girls are starting to truly love photography and understand the full process.

In girl talk, the new group did the same value's lesson as last week: values! We had a lot of great values again like love, trust and one that stood out this week was justice.  Trust was something they especially valued because it runs through so much of the SOHO program and is something everyone in the group valued in a friend and themselves. The shrinky dinks were another hit this week - check out these awesome symbols of values in the picture above!

 Because of the tight time schedule thanks to the snow we will get to have our guest artist, Sarah Hand for more than one night of SOHO. These nights will be all about painted self portraits. Sarah Hand has taught the painting self portrait class for a few years now here with us at SOHO. She is such a positive individual who has a special knack for making you feel comfortable with the art project that has the potential to be a little uncomfortable. A lot of people are afraid of self-portraits because they think it has to look just like them. Thanks to Sarah and the way she teaches, this week of painting was pretty freeing and unconventional. 

 Sarah took everyone through steps in order to create a colorful, layered back ground that we would then paint our portraits on next week. The first step was to choose one color and paint the whole background. Big and little sisters worked together on this to lay down these bright colors.  

 

 Then, Sarah told everyone to choose 5 different colors, and use different objects (not a paint brush!) to create texture. This was especially fun. The group used things like: easter eggs to make circles, sponge brushes to make dots and lines, bubble wrap to create texture, and doily's to make beautiful flowery patterns. Everyone had a great time and were very happy with their end results.

 

 And everyone can't wait to paint their faces this week!