Last Week was Chinese (Lunar) New Year! We celebrated by sculpting a pig with air dry clay, painting with acrylics, then exploring Chinese Ink, Iridescent Watercolor paints & Bamboo brushes to create beautifully balanced abstract Calligraphy paintings! Practice, Practice, Practice was the name of the game when using our Line & Shape Families to create …
Category: Art Adventure
Learning about, surrounding ourselves with & creating ART…@ the Guggenheim! For the next 2 weeks of January we are taking our Art Adventures on a Museum Adventure: exploring the ‘out of this world’ art of Hilma af Klint. Learn about Abstraction, Art Concepts & Klint Practice using various drawing media and papers Start your own …
Top 9 Art Projects from 2018
Here are 9 of our favorite art projects @ Claire’s Creative Adventures this past year! Such an ART-filled year and we are so excited for this upcoming 2019
Last night, Claire had the honor of meeting Mr. Kentridge at the “Head & the Load” performance at the Park Avenue Armory and shared with him her passion for bringing his work into the classroom for children.
The holiday season is in full swing! In celebration, we played with color. Our Art Adventurers explored color mixing by making their own age appropriated color wheel with watercolors! Primaries, Secondaries, Tertiaries…oh my! We then took inspiration from the Bauhaus painter, Wassily Kandinsky & created our version of his …
Chalk Pastels may seem intimidating, but fear not! Just stick to your values & everything will work out just fine. Watch our process in learning chalk pastel drawing techniques! AND check out more Art Adventure class project photos HERE
We are so proud of our Art Adventurer’s accomplishments this Fall! Here’s 5 things CCA is thankful for… today & always: Our Art Adventurer’s- 1- CREATIVITY Each student brings in a unique perspective to every art project we present -Giacometti inspired Plaster Wrap Spooky Sculptures & Haunted Scene (Ages 8 & up) 2-CURIOUSITY Our Science …
A very exciting Art Adventure this past weekend with a visit to Brooklyn, an art + fashion show AND an inside look into the art making process with Pratt’s MFA open studios. We are SO proud of our very own Art Adventurer + our Art Adventurer Mom- Sawyer & Deborah! This past Saturday, family & …
Le Finale! The Day has arrived with our Spooky but fun Giacometti Plaster wrap sculpture Haunted Scenes! Ghosts & Spiders & skeletons (sculpted of course!) …oh my! We arranged and constructed our Halloween scenes with our suspending spooky Giacometti inspired heads! Have a spooky but creative Halloween!!