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Moments of exploration, performance, and play during our Shadow Puppets & Silhouettes PARTNER WORKSHOP this weekend.
There are some great annual events in the Baltimore area that tap into shadows and light during this transitional time of year, like the Creative Alliance's Lantern Parade and the Garden Glow at Ladew. These events were sources of inspiration for this workshop. It was the perfect acitvity for partners, as they could take turns operating puppets and holding a light source while working together to brainstorm puppets and story ideas.
We ended the workshop with hot cocoa, tea, and a mini performance from each duo!
Sign up for our next seasonal PARTNER WORKSHOP that's taking place on Sunday December 15th, where we'll create artwork to celebrate the winter solstice.
https://www.hisawyer.com/social-studio/schedules/activity-set/1014891?day=2024-12-15&view=cal&source=semesters
This project concludes the month of “Faces” at WEEKEND WORKSHOP! kids made reverse acetate expressionistic self-portraits. Ages 9-11 Sundays 1-3pm Next month: NOVEMBER - PAPER PLAY
11/3 Paper Cut-Out Sculptures
11/10 Quilling Falling Leaves
11/17 Abstract Design Paper Quilts
11/24 Origami Mandala
The new grafitti in the neighborhood made a great backdrop for these kids’ “mud masks”!
“Shady Pumpkins” gave ART ACTIVITY kids (ages 6-8) practice mixing tubes and shades! 🎃
Bird night at SKETCH EXPRESS! It’s always a great time to try something new! 🦜
Plaid Pumpkins - two great fall phenomena that go great together. 🎃
Indigo dyeing workshop at WINE & ART WEDNESDAY! New 2025 schedule coming soon!
Enjoy a little fall themed creative time with a partner! 🍁This workshop includes shadow puppets, hot chocolate and a story. ☕️ Ages 6-adult! 📖 Perfect for child and parent/gramdparent, two friends on a play date, day date, girl get together, colleague bonding, and so on… find your match and make some art! #partnerworkshops #artmakingafternoon #localstudio
Sumi ink was a great medium to use during PAINT & PLAY for an Art Opposite lesson about how things can look Near and Far! The young artists enjoyed creating a dyanmic landscape with flowing ink. We talked about how things that seem near will look darker and how things that are far away will look lighter. We looked at artwork by Gord McKenna for landscape examples that showed a range of value.
STUDIO SKETCH made collage sketches inspired by the paintings of Copper Thunderbird aka Norval Morrisseau this week. He was an indigenous Canadian artist from Ontario, Canada 1932-2007. 🐟 🐻 🐢
All day 🆘 School’s Out Studio made fall forests with woven owl friends, magical mushrooms, and twisted trees. Such a delight spending the day making art and making friends!
Since it's Inktober, artists created inky octopuses for HALF DAY CAMP. They practiced stippling, hatching, cross contours and doodle lines and then applied these different mark-making techniques to their octopus drawings to give them form and texture. After coloring their creatures with watercolor, they dropped some sumi ink onto their paper for a final touch!