We are quickly approaching our Spring Semester @ CCA! So for our last full week of January, we continue to let the Winter season inspire our Art Adventures- creating Snowscape Value paintings with our 5-7yo Art Adventures ..and Snow(wo)man Clay Sculptures with Found Objects for our Mini Art Adventures! Whether it’s the weather, nature, found …
Winter Trees and Snowscapes came to life as Mr. Clayton revealed fun techniques with Pastels, Bristol Board, Blending Sticks and the use of Values to create distance in a landscape. Bravo Art Adventures STUDIO artists!
You can use almost anything to make art….even from ingredients in your pantry! Our Art Adventure took us to the kitchen this week, where we found everyday spices such as cinnamon, turmeric, paprika and even cocoa powder to create different color paints. Just mix in increments with white tempera paint to achieve the desired tone, …
THANK YOU New York for acknowledging our hard work and dedication to the Arts with this Best Educational Services Award. We are proud and honored to be thriving (for 16 years!) and living in New York City! “The New York Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our …
Welcome Back to Art Adventures! Our first week back into the new year meant tons of Art Making for us in our January Winter Art Camp! CLICK HERE for 2018 SPRING NEW classes & tours! Check Out more Winter ART FUN, HERE!
The Holidays and 2017 flew by with so much art at CCA! We have a lot to be thankful for… Wishing everyone a great start to 2018 and may it be filled with exciting new Creative ADVENTURES! CLICK HERE for 2018 SPRING NEW classes & tours! Check out more of our DEC. 2017 Adventures with our …
Our Art Adventures had us revisit a favorite artist of ours: Robert Rauschenberg! We normally know him for his Combines (click for more), but this week we were introduced to his Elemental Paintings – paintings made with unconventional materials like dirt, clay, gold, grass, …etc. Students chose materials from nature and/or human made, chose their color paint, …
From all of us here at CCA, wishing everyone a grateful, filling and very Happy Thanksgiving! Stay Hungry for ART!
Last week was all about Cave Art! This two day project included creating stamps from model magic and drawing with new materials. Exploring lines and shapes and even tracing our hands with craypas and pastels. Our Mini Adventurers finished the day “painting” cave art animals with natural elements:
What a fun experience for our Studio Art Adventurers! Some images from our Halloween Photoshoot with Visiting Artist, Katie Grammes.