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Cheers for chairs at SKETCH EXPRESS tonight! 🪑
Shiny and sparkly over here while ART INTEGRATION illuminates their historiated letters with gold leaf. They also learned the role of the ox and rabbits in the process and that it takes three years as apprentice pounder to be good enough to make the sheets as thin as 1 millionth of an inch!
This weekend is the first "Second Saturdays" LANGUAGE ARTS class – recharge, re-connect to your process, through language and the arts!
Rachel Eisler will be the guest artist/teacher leading a mini-workshop. "Memento Memoir". Bring an object. Doughnuts and coffee provided. Register: socialstudioart.com
This month’s WEEKEND WORKSHOP is all about “faces”. Today kids made wire and bead faces warming up with blind contours and dry erase mirror drawings.
Kids ages 6-8, made black ink cats too! 🐈⬛ Their ink cats are in the foreground made with reed pens and sumo brushes. They made haunted houses in the background using a stylus - perfect for imperfect lines!
Cats on mats! Today PAINT & PLAY joined other artists in “Inktober” using ink to make black cats. Kids tried out sumi brushes and bamboo reed pens to make thick big curves and scratchy straight lines. they practiced their lines by making ink stripes in their mats. 🐈⬛
Over and under, in and around! AFTERSCHOOL STUDIO created concentric square collages after looking at Frank Stella's artwork. This was the perfect project to work on cutting and pasting skills. Artists cut square frames out of two rectangles and then made two collages, alternating the colors. For their first collage, they had to make their square frames nestle into each other and for their second collage, they had the option to twist the frames and to color in the negative space.
Adult GOUACHE INTENSIVE started today - artists will learn color mixing, collage composition, and acrylic gouache layering inspired by the works and ways of @painted_mary 🎨
On Tuesdays, PAINT & PLAY artists are diving into Art Opposites such as straight and curvy lines and warm and cool colors. They also created layered compositions by making shapes and lines that go over and under other visual elements.
Yesterday we combined all of these opposites into a mixed media project. We were inspired by artists like Frank Stella and Wassily Kandinsky.
AFTERSCHOOL STUDIO created paintings inspired by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Mondrian is well known for his abstract geometric paintings. He mainly used the primary colors - red, yellow, and blue. He also incorporated black, white and gray into his art.
Our Thursday cohort created color blocks with the primary colors by making many squares and rectangles. Then they added lines with black paint. When the paint dried, they added white and gray areas with paint sticks and created more squares with paint and stamps.
PAINT & PLAY looked at Filipino artist Pacita Abad’s circle paintings and made their own. They are selected gems, buttons and beads to make a circle clay disk.