SILKSCREENS! Visiting Silkscreen Artist, Diallo House (www.DHLOVEFISH.com), helped us to collaborate on this wonderful canvas. More fish to come this summer in our JUNE CAMPS! CHECK OUT OUR CAMPS & REGISTER NOW FOR AM or PM: June 12-16th June 19-23rd June 26-30th Ages Late 3-6’s / 7-11’s 9:30-12:30 (Includes Picnic Lunch + Met Tour) 1:30-3:30 (Includes …
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Happy Spring! In celebration of Spring & Earth Day and taking inspiration from the beautiful stained glass of Tiffany’s Studio, our Art Adventurers painted with glass paints last week! We chose our favorite spring flower, practiced our skills with outlining and were introduced to painting with this very special type of paint on transparencies. Just look …
An interesting read as we start our Spring Semester at Claire’s Creative Adventures- some art teaching methods by Bauhaus Master, Paul Klee. Check it Out and Welcome to our new semester of Art! https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-to-be-an-artist-according-to-paul-klee
Our Art Adventurers came up with some silly and interesting illustrations last week! After cutting out different shapes from our textures, we collaged to share a scene and tell a story. What great storytellers and a great way to end our Fall Semester!
For Part Trois in our Value Study Series, our guest artist, Mr. Banks, returned to continue our study on value & gradation… but this time with color! Art Adventures Studio interpreted the highlights and shadows in the fruit still life using color pastel. Pretty impressive for a tween. Check out more of our Art Adventurers work …
Last week our Art Adventurers took inspiration from the work of Eric Carle, painting with everything but a paintbrush! Using rollers, scrapers, stamps, sponges, and even toy race cars, we dipped our crazy tools in warm and cool colors to create textures! This week we are cutting these textures to collage our very own illustration. …
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art! Our little Artists are taking an adventure with CCA this week to explore the modern wing at the Met. Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Alexander Calder are just a few artists we will be exploring and taking inspiration from to create our own versions right at the museum!
Happy New Year! We welcome 2017 with some mobile fun! Taking inspiration from Kandinsky’s work with color, our Art Adventurers explored color theory and balance. We overlapped opaque and translucent colors, shapes, and sizes to create different patterns and balance in our mobiles.
Happy 7th Night of Hanukkah! Holiday Mosaics, Kandinsky and the lighting of candles for Hanukkah…Introducing children to basic color concepts and patterns.
Our Art Adventurers became collage illustrators, creating the images for this story: The Yeti At Spaghetti Check it Out! And From all of us here at Claire’s Creative Adventures, wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Merry New Year! Keep creating and see you in 2017!