Miss Elise's Art House

Miss Elise's Art House Miss Elise’s Art House is a private learning academy providing TEKS-aligned, project-based instruction through a child-centered model. Standards met.

We offer short-hour academic programming, enrichment, and community-based learning. Humans honored.

🎨✨ MUSEUM DAY MAGIC ✨🎨Our artists wrapped up the year at the San Antonio Museum of Art doing what artists do best lookin...
05/26/2026

🎨✨ MUSEUM DAY MAGIC ✨🎨

Our artists wrapped up the year at the San Antonio Museum of Art doing what artists do best looking closely, asking questions, noticing details, and making connections through art. 🖼️👀

We talked about:
🎨 “What do you notice first?”
🖌️ “How does this artwork make you feel?”
🏛️ “Why do you think the artist made it this way?”

The kids explored textures, colors, stories, sculptures, paintings, and even the museum itself like little art detectives. 🔎✨

Thank you to all our amazing families for an incredible year of creativity, curiosity, friendship, and FUN at Miss Elise’s Art House! 💛

☀️ Follow along for summer fun, field days, creative adventures, and hands-on learning all summer long!

🎨 Virtual Art Contest Announcement! 🎨Hosted by Miss Elise’s Art HouseI'm so excited to share that our next Art Exhibitio...
05/21/2026

🎨 Virtual Art Contest Announcement! 🎨
Hosted by Miss Elise’s Art House

I'm so excited to share that our next Art Exhibition is officially open — and this time, it's completely virtual!

🗓️ Key Dates
Contest Opens: Today!

Art Shows Streamed: Every Thursday in June

👩‍🎨 Who Can Enter
Open to all ages

Divided into age categories

FREE to enter!

✍️ How to Enter
Message me directly to receive your template + format guide.

You may submit 1 to 5 artworks.

All mediums welcome (see flyer for examples).

Use the template to write an artist statement (not every question is required, but it's highly encouraged to use as a guide.)

📸 How to Submit Your Art
You have 2 options:

Option 1 – Story Format (Recommended):
Use an app like CapCut to create a short visual story (with looped images + voiceover)

Talk about your artwork using the artist statement as a guide

Option 2 – Video Format:
Submit a 3–5 minute video

Show your face and upper body (if comfortable)

Your artwork must be in view

Talk through each piece using the template

If you prefer not to show your face, you can film the artwork and speak off-camera

🏆 What You Get
A Virtual Art Show Feature (solo or grouped)

Featured on Miss Elise’s Art House social pages

Promoted on local artist & community pages

Potential opportunities for local coffee shop/gallery displays

💡 Why Join?
It's free

A chance to practice your art voice in a safe, creative space

Build your confidence and visibility as an artist

Learn, grow, and connect with the community

💌 Ready to Join?
Message me now to get your entry form and template.
Let’s create something beautiful — together!

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SNEAK PEAK Behind the scenes of our Free June International Artist Contest!!!Students sent in thier work in progress.......
05/17/2026

SNEAK PEAK

Behind the scenes of our Free June International Artist Contest!!!

Students sent in thier work in progress.....

On this field day to the butterfly garden in San Antonio. This particular butterfly captured the essence of our lesson....
05/13/2026

On this field day to the butterfly garden in San Antonio.

This particular butterfly captured the essence of our lesson.

Perspective shifts can change the way you see something.

Do you see the owl eyes?

The snake head?

The lizard face?

Depending on who sees what, this also determines how you feel.

A hungry mouse sees an owl and hides.

But it is just a butterfly after all.

“When we change our perspective, the world around us changes.”

“The eye alters, alters all.”

~ The Artist's Way

Saturday Studio Warm-Ups 🎨✨Last week we explored how “ugly” color combinations can actually create some of the most inte...
05/09/2026

Saturday Studio Warm-Ups 🎨✨

Last week we explored how “ugly” color combinations can actually create some of the most interesting artwork 👀🌈

Students experimented with:
🌀 Nonobjective designs
🔺 Geometric & freeform shapes
⚖️ Symmetrical & asymmetrical balance
🎨 Unexpected color schemes

One of our favorite warm-ups is the “Bad Combo, Good Design” challenge — students were given random color combinations and shapes they normally wouldn’t choose… and then had to turn them into successful compositions 💡

It pushed creativity, problem-solving, and confidence in such a fun way. 🖤

Sometimes the colors we think “won’t work” end up creating the strongest designs ✨

🎨

04/27/2026

Today at Miss Elise’s Art House, we played a creative observation game called Switch & Draw: one person studied an image and described it while another drew only from what they heard.

We discovered:
🖼️ We don’t all see the same picture. We see through memory, experience, and perspective.

👂 Observation deepens when we have to notice and communicate.

🧠 Describing, listening, imagining, and translating words into images strengthens creative thinking and flexible problem solving.

The younger children described thier images in such brilliant ways.

"The lion's body looks like an S." - Student Age 6

The older students brought rich detail.

" There is a middle aged man, with a 3 quarters view."

What a lesson in perspective.

In our multi-age space, children step into one another’s ways of seeing.

We even paused to ask:
• Do we all see the same image?
• What sticks out to each of us first and why?
• How much of seeing is shaped by memory?

We had a full art project planned… but the creative prompts kept unfolding, and the group loved them so much we followed the curiosity.

Because sometimes the deepest learning happens when you stay with the wonder.

Art is not always about making something.

Sometimes it’s about learning how to see. 💛

04/22/2026

This video is a small story about walking into the unknown—through a student’s vision during a workshop. What started as a simple creative warm-up unfolded into something much deeper, revealing messages beneath the surface.

It reminded me how powerful art can be—how it helps us express what we’re going through in ways that quiet the mind and create a real body connection.

I’m sharing this from a place of gratitude—for being part of the New Braunfels community, and especially for spaces like The Artitude Cottage that continue to support creativity and connection.

It’s also why I’m excited to share that we’ll be hosting another FREE International Youth Art Contest this June, along with our second International Educator Panel, live in our Creative Learning Facebook group.

Thank you for being part of this journey. 💛

04/15/2026

Lev Vygotsky wrote, “Through others, we become ourselves.” And you could feel that in the room today, kids learning from each other, shaping ideas together, and gaining confidence in their own voice.

It’s honestly amazing to watch it unfold in real time.

✨ Our May Mini Pop-Up Artists Series is already full, but we do have a waitlist open for those who’ve been asking.

👉 Message us to be added to the waitlist.

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