With a printout of face dimensions, pencil, eraser, sharpies, cray-pas on their side & a canvas… Discuss contrasting colors, opposites, around and behind +types of lines and shapes. Use examples from Alex Katz to the Fauves to African Masks!
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Surrealism and functionality come together while you create your very own Dali-inspired clock! Using metal embossing techniques, these clocks will be designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s works, complete with base and stand. Saturday, February 1st, 2014 4pm-5:30 pm Ages 6 and up. $75 pp. @All Souls Church 1157 Lexington …
Picture an outline of a fir tree, star on top, colored in, on poster board or foam core… Poke holes with a pencil. Take colored Xmas lights and push through the openings! Voila! Make a large tree, and buy the shortest lights:) Color it in with markers using repeated strokes or scribbles. Have fun with …
Can’t wait to share this with our 3-5’s today! Basic lines may seem rather basic and unimportant to focus on, however, recognizing and purposefully implementing them into desired outcomes is really the key to any drawing.
Takashi Murikami provided us with a multitude of learning opportunities! Takashi Murikami is from Japan. He loves “Superflat,” a word he made up! It means colors and shapes look flat on a page, not round. In this piece of art, we made Superflat go 3D: With a sphere… but the only way you can tell …
New York City is an amazing resource for modern and contemporary art! As a fine artist, as well as an art teacher of children for 15 years, I have found the question, “What is Art?” a never-ending one. Hence my goal- to demystify artists and their processes in language children can understand and adults can …
I’ve been wanting to do this Damien Hirst kids project for a few years, it just took a while to get it down for both the very young hands to feel successful, as well as to engage older kids. What worked well was that they could add as many details as they wanted, or work …
Jack’s fascination with transportation left his parents in a difficult situation. Are front-loaders sold at costume shops? WW1 fighter planes? My mother used to sew our costumes, but who does that anymore? Well, you don’t necessarily have to… These creative parents decided to BUILD them. Cardboard is easily found, but as Jack’s parents concluded, making …
Register now: Art Adventures Parent-Child class Sat. Nov. 2nd from 4-5:30 pm. ClairesCreativeAdventures.com We are so excited to have professional scenic artist Cliff Gokenbach teach us the secrets of how artists create for the movies. He can’t tell us about the new Spiderman he’s working on, but he can help us make any imaginary set we …
Post Halloween blues? This Friday from 3:45-5pm, kids can create Monet’s mood through color, Van Gogh’s swirling lines in metal and hide Rousseau’s animals in the jungle… In our Friday Met Children’s Tour, ages 6 and up. Artists of all ages will love the projects and come home with a goodie bag…. full of …