See the full gallery on Posterous Line_and_shape_in_sculpture.MOV Watch on Posterous Making_Giacometti_Sculptures.MOV Watch on Posterous Met_Rooftop.MOV Watch on Posterous At our Museum Adventures tour of the Met this week, students used the 5 elements of line and shape to create sculptures inspired by Alberto Giacometti right in the gallery.  Then we went up the rooftop to see Tomas …

See the full gallery on Posterous Learning the fundamentals of drawing, we explored abstract line compositions and contour line study on forms during our Wednesday Drawing Class!

See the full gallery on Posterous In our Thursday 4:30 Art Studio, using shading and value, students learned to balance a composition of geometric forms.  

See the full gallery on Posterous We explored abstract line compositions and contour line study on forms during our Tuesday Art Adventures Studio!

See the full gallery on Posterous In Art Adventures, overlapping primaries create secondaries, especially when seen through a window!  We also learned the word translucent.

See the full gallery on Posterous Take a look at our Keith Haring transparency finger-painting prints! Taken from the Blue Man Group, children smeared & color mixed, then explored lines into shapes with their finger. To capture each “drawing”, they also made prints of their changing pieces. The results look awesome!

See the full gallery on Posterous For our exciting first day of Art Adventures, we used decoupage to explore textures and overlapping forms on the covers of our journals!  Our journals will be used throughout the year to explore the 5 Families of Line and Shape.

See the full gallery on Posterous During our tour, we got to see how line and shape families are present in all that we see everyday and around us in the world and in art. We focused on Alberto Giacometti’s cat sculpture with his simple use of thin line and textured appearance and created our …

We at Claire’s Creative Adventures love Contemporary Art so we are very excited that Frieze London opens to the public today for its 10 edition, running October 11th – October 14th!  Located in Regent’s Park, Frieze is housed in a bespoke temporary building with lots of natural light designed by the architects Carmody Groarke.  Frieze …

This weekend (October 6th and 7th) join the Tenth Annual Open House New York Weekend for talks, tours, performances, and projects that highlight architecture and design in NYC.  Covering all five boroughs, visitors will have access to great programming in hundreds of institutions, private residencies, gardens, museums, artist studios, and historic houses. There are a lot …