Our guest Artist, Mr. Banks returned for round two of our value study series! This time we studied the gradation of multiple fruits under directed light to understand how to interpret shadows and lights with charcoal and paper
Visiting Artist Banks Clayton shared his techniques to make objects look 3D with the use of Values and smearing stomps. As well as Subtractive use of the eraser. Our kid’s loved their results!
Tis a groovy time in the season for Tie Dye! Our Art Adventurers AND Party Adventurers took it back to create mandala star tie dye tapestries. We discovered pleating cloth and brushed up on our color theory with our primary and secondary colors. What color combinations did each Art & Party Adventurer use? …
Our Art Adventurers became visual “culinary” artists these past two weeks. As inspired by contemporary artist, Philip Haas’ and Renaissance artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s work, we rolled, pinched, sculpted, overlapped, arranged and assembled different foods made from model magic and natural elements to create a silly face relief and a cornucopia: a symbol of abundance during …
Check Out the results of our candy mosaic collages and what we’ve been up to in CLASS! Last week we made candy mosaic collages of pumpkins and took inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss.
Holiday Pumpkins provide a unique opportunity for our introduction to the art of Mosaics… as well as the idea of recycling candy! Students this week will follow Contour Lines to create shapes, explore line families and “See-Through” or Negative Shapes. They also practiced Unity and Variety, the cornerstone to making elevated art, as well as practice …
Our Art Adventurers painted, shopped and assembled 3D spooky fun scenes in celebration for one of our favorite holidays! From our young Art Adventurers with their drop dye pumpkin patches to our 6-8’s Art Adventurers with their Louise Bourgeois inspired Spiders, check out our process and final results HERE!
Last Week we made spheres from model magic then carved, poked, pinched and twisted, to sculpt them into our pumpkin patches! Drop dye was used after to add festive fall colors on our pumpkins. “One Drop STOP!” was chanted amongst our Art Adventurers to help give them better hand control over the droppers filled with dye. …
BOO! Halloween is fast approaching and we’re SO EXCITED for what we have hiding in our art closets! Our Art Adventurers will sculpt, paint, “shop” and assemble to create a unique spooky Halloween scene. Day 1 is all about our pumpkin patches- sculpting and painting using drop dye. Day 2 we will choose different Halloween fun materials, arrange our choices, …
Our minds were already in Halloween mode when we created these life-size bobble-heads! Many layers were needed for this paper mache head mask, but what fun it was to see them come to life! Can you guess who is who?