Category: Class Topics

Press Release! Small Business Excellence Award for Claire’s Creative Adventures

Thank you for noticing!  We love what we do. Press Release

“Klimt-ified” Glass Paint Contour Line Portraits

A few weeks ago our Art Studio Adventurers drew and painted continuous contour line portraits of each other then “Klimt-ified” them! What does that mean? We learned the art of gilding and added gold leaf to our glass paint line portraits just like Gustav Klimt did! Our results were very ornate and linear interpretations of …

Value Study Still Life with Guest Artist Mr. Banks

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

Learning Values

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!

A Groovy Time of the Season

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?       …

Happy Thanksgiving from Us to You

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 …

Candy Mosaic Collage fun

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.

What To Do With ALL Of That Candy? Candy Mosaic Collages!

  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 …

Happy Halloween!

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!

“One Drop, STOP!” Pumpkin Patches

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. …