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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!
This fall Social Studio started a new afterschool art class for grades 3-5 called 3M - Mixed Media Modules. The fall modules “Fix Your Face” include a sequence of lessons that teach kids more about face proportion, portraits, and different materials. Here are some works from Module 2 where the kids drew with wire exploring the connections between the features of the face.
Mushrooms from SKETCH EXPRESS this week inspired by Yayoi Kusama - these artists (ages 9-81) spend an hour a week sketching in response to prompts using a variety of materials. This week they used Tombow markers, Sharpie markers, and Posca paint pens. 🍄
Marian arranged another great month of LIVE MUSIC on Second Sundays! @raywinder duo played a set that swooned the listeners of all ages! Thank you Rachel & Charlie for being part of our program! 🎤
PAINT & PLAY made gel prints today using Maple leaves and acrylic paint. The layered prints making “A Pile of Leaves” and silhouetted the leaf and loved the impressions they made.
WEEKEND WORKSHOP is a 2 hour immersion into the creative process! This month is all about “faces”. Today kids (ages 9-11) made “Garish Gouache Portraits”.
ART ACTIVITY is a great 1 hour weekend class - every week is a different project. Today kids (ages 6-8) made woven & felt owl friends!
If this “Mask Mural” was a portal to your future self, what things from childhood would you want to make sure you carry with you? Kids’ answers included: play, imaginary friends, dance parties, passion for reading, play dates, toys, time on the couch, my family, unicorns, and rainbows.
LANGUAGE ARTS, a once a month writing workshop at Social Studio’s Art Bar, was hosted today by guest teacher Rachel Eisler. “Memento Memoir”. She will teach this workshop again Saturday, December 14th! 🖋️ Ruut DeMeo @museatthebarn is teaching the November workshop called “Taking Up Word Space”. Register: socialstudioart.com