Visiting artist Mackenzie Younger demonstrates the basic elements of cartooning with Art Adventures Studio students! After learning silhouettes, characters, friends and foes, backgrounds and thought bubbles, students tried their hand at their own cartoons… “Mr. Mack” has published his own children’s book as well as shows his work in NYC.
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We have taken much inspiration from artists of both past and present recently! Using multiple paper materials, model magic and even recycled products, our adventurers created face sculptures as inspired by french contemporary artist, Junior Fritz Jacquet (check out his work HERE) and silly “Pop Art” masks as inspired by Roy Lichtenstein!
We have been busy bees in this new fall season of Art Adventures! We already explored the NYC Art scene through bookbinding with Basquiat’s Notebooks, traveled down Summer memory lane with Assemblage Art Box building, and this week will be traveling down the rabbit hole in our 3D paper art! Here is a glimpse of …
As we quickly approach the end of these summer days and the start of the Fall Art season, we’re so excited to see an artist that inspired some of our projects here at Art Adventures! Rachel Whiteread, a British sculptor known for her negative plaster casts of everything from the interior of buildings to boxes, …
And for lending us your trust, becoming self-confident individuals, working together and having incredible ideas with which to work! We celebrate your uniqueness, your effort, focus and of course- sense of humor! Have a great summer.
Art Adventures Studio embossed and built their own Dali-inspired functioning clocks! Clocks were designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s famous clocks. You and your child can make your own (a great Father’s Day gift) this Saturday, June 1st @4-5:30pm – contact us!
Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, students learned how to mix skin color and painted their hands in their own unique ways. Check out the results of the second part of this project:
Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, to see humor in art using body parts and learning an extreme amount of self control, students were challenged to create a hand gesture and hold it for up to 10 min. as the alginate mold was created. Check out the results of the first part of …
Inspired by the work of sand painter, Joe Mangrum and Navajo healing rituals, children designed their own sand paintings using concentric circles, organic and geometric forms. To see Joe’s work, visit his website www.joemangrum.com or find him daily in Union Square or Washington Square Park.