Social Media Art
with Social Studio
Let’s make art together … wherever you are.
Why? Because learning and growing is a social activity.
Artists of all backgrounds and skills deserve a community built on inspiration, support, feedback, and empathy.
Though Social Studio’s social-media-based art activities you’ll:
- Build confidence
- Find greater self-awareness
- Increase your range of ideas and possible outcomes
- Find that the creativity and perspective skills you develop in art can be used in all areas of life.
- See yourself and others through art and together discover how to be ourselves.
Get started by following us on social (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube) and join the daily fun!
Social-Media Activities
Sketch
Practice. Practice. Practice! Social Studio Sketch is a daily practice of responding to an open-ended prompt with a sketch challenge as a way to explore and express our perspectives. Sharing our work teaches us to see and respect the way others see too.
Sundays
An informal introduction of an art or craft to a virtual community on Instagram Live. Social Studio Sundays presents projects you can do together as a family, at home with easy to find materials.
Sessions
Just because we’re not together doesn’t mean we can’t make art together. These group classes are designed to develop art-making and creative thinking skills on various topics.
Stories
Let’s read and get inspired to make art. Social Studio Stories creates opportunities to read and relate to stories from the children’s book collection at Social Studio. The story is followed by related art activities.
Sketch
Find new perspectives and sharpen your skills through our daily sketch challenge. Share your creation and tag @socialstudiobaltimore with hashtag #socialstudiosketch
(this is my #socIalstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore)
A fun little #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore
Playing catch up with #socialstudiosketch assignments from socialstudiobaltimore. This assignment was to take a doughnut shape and draw it aa anything except a doughnut
Need some stress relief? I just had the best time making this — part 1 of my #socialstudiosketch assignment for the day from socialstudiobaltimore. Soda cartons. Scissors. Glue. I had a plan but went in an entirely different direction. I just played without worrying about the final product — and I am in love with it.
(Today’s #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore was to make and illustrate a piece of blackout poetry. I used two pages from Grace: A Memoir, by Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue)
In Summer Sketchbook Club (Wednesdays 4-4:45pm, free) the prompt was draw a universal symbol and in the spaces draw a personal experience when you felt the meaning of that symbol. Nora used the “power on” symbol saying when she gets enough sleep, she feels”on” the next day. And, Gracie combined the infinite sign with the “no” symbol showing it seems like forever we can’t have school. #socialstudiosketch #socialstudiosummer
Summer Sketchbook Club is an informal class when artists respond to a sketchbook prompt and share their work and ideas with each other! #socialstudiosketch
Summer Sketchbook Club Challenge: Playing with Shapes -
Blackout Poetry #socialstudiosketch “Romantic Themes” - mood of exaltation prevailing/enthusiasm for all/poetry and music/persisted/for all the arts/ dynamic/brilliant/crazy
Today’s #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore — my favorite vegetable (a leek) in pastels, colored pencils, and watercolor
(Today’s poem is in response to a wanpoetry prompt to write a poem about your name and the drawings are my #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore. The drawing assignment is to create a pop art version of a word to announce your re-entry into the world IRL)
Today’s words and today’s #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore
Day 39/47
if there was a tug of war
between night and day
night has won
lasting 16 hours or so of the 24
for company In the endless wee hours
i depend heavily on Bette and Barbara and Joan
in their shirtwaist dresses, fur stoles, and tidy gloves
every hair in place as they architect their way through tough situations
as all women must do
here’s hoping lessons learned from their nighttime exploits
fortify me for the days ahead
Day 26/44
tarot cards predicting death
someone is leaving
my key in the door
a suitcase by his side
It wasn’t so sudden after all
obviously not the best of circumstances
a gray seascape of cliffs linger shyly
bordering my winding journey
a mad scramble
Draw an arrangement of 3D geometrical shapes like sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid, prism and cube. Use shading to give the illusion of 3D. Complete sketch by adding an optical illusion background. Share to online sketch gallery using #socialstudiosketch
Day 19/37
rushing through the moonlit woods
a glittering tiara slips off her head
as the paparazzi close in
she darts from side to side avoiding landmines
accompanied by the small animals she protects
also always with her, her metal cuffs and her lasso of truth
she uses them to unlock the wonders of the world
and then shares her findings by making marks on paper
creating a beacon, a glowing light in the dark sky
the life of a middle-aged goddess in baltimore
who always knew she was destined to be a princess
and that creating was her superpower
Day 13/31
one tear becomes forty
as the skies open
to rain down grief
in biblical proportions
the torrent pelts us
coming at us sideways
inescapeable dodgeballs
soaking us to our core
while the orange man in the white house
worries only about his own umbrella
Sundays
Sundays are for making things together. Social Studio Sundays are art initiatives you can do together as a family, at home with easy to obtain materials. Join us on Instagram Live.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays socialstudiobaltimore
Get a kit and get ready for fireworks (the quiet kind)! This “softly social” kit includes a salad spinner, 4 colors of paint, & 8 cut paper circles. Reserve yours now online at socialstudioart.com by clicking “optional add-on” under Social Studio Sundays online. Join #socialstudiosundays Sunday @4:15pm for demonstration how-to or Check out video on Social Studio YouTube channel. 🎉 Pick up pack Thursday 1pm-7pm or Friday 9am-3pm this week!! (You can buy pack at the studio without reservation.) Great for ages 3 and up! Cost is $25. Proceeds go to Social Studio “Pay it Forward Fund” to support art excellence for all.🎨
#SocialStudioSundays is a family friendly art activity made with objects easy to find around your home. We also make “Softly Social” craft packs for $5 that match the week’s activity. This week is MONSTER TISSUE BOX. Sign up to pick up your packet under “online classes” at socialstudioart.com AND get another “softly social” craft pack for free. Many of the craft packs have how-to videos on the Social Studio YouTube channel. We do the activity together on Zoom @4:15pm on Sunday afternoons. Money for craft packs goes into the “Pay It Forward” Fund. More about this fund and how to give to or access it is on the website. Pick up for packs is outside the studio - 737 Deepdene Road, Baltimore.
Not pictured is the 3 episodes of Tiger King. At least that’s over! Still #socialstudiosundays Stick Weaving
This Sunday at 4:15pm learn how to make a Funny Faces Flip Book. Don’t want to prep materials yourself? Add “Softly Social craft pack” when you register and pick it up at the studio front door! #socialstudiosundays #freezoom #familyartactivities
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays
#socialstudiosundays has moved to Zoom for an afternoon free family art activity. Sign-up under “online classes”. Gather the materials you have in the house, make creative substitutions when necessary! 💡
Join in the family fun of #socialstudiosundays and learn a perfect summer craft - Fortune Tellers! Invent your own answers, especially now when the future is so blurry!! Sunday afternoon 4:15-5:00pm/Zoom, FREE - taught be intern Liv Loeb🌟Register “online classes” - link in profile.
#Socialstudiosundays is a free activity that’s fun for the whole family at 4:15pm on Sundays. Register online. This week intern Julia will teach you how to make dragonflies. Materials: pipe cleaners, beads, and mini google eyes. Packets available for pick-up if you add to order!
After 12pm tomorrow “Softly Social Craft Packs” will be available for those who requested one when you registered for #socialstudiosundays - see online classes. For more family fun craft activities check out Social Studio on YouTube.
How awesome is this!!! @marymarymu turned today’s cyanotype print into a #socialstudiosundays banner! Thank you Mary for a great afternoon. Watch it on IGTV and make art in the ☀️with you family! #bitchinstitchin #cyanotypes #summerishere
Fun things to do in the ☀️- learn how to make sun prints with @marymarymu TOMORROW at 4pm on IG LIVE 🌿#socialstudiosundays #sunprints #cyanotypes #familyartactivities
Stories
Enjoy a story from Social Studio’s children’s book collection followed by art integration activities.
Today during “Power Hour” (Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5pm) we read “The Quiltmaker’s Gift” - a wonderful story about a gift exchange that also distinguishes between material gifts and essential or intangible gifts. The kids write, draw and share after the story. Here is Esme’s quilt drawing. #socialstudiostories #powerhour #socialstudiosummer #readaloud
Give yourself an hour and give your kids a #socialstudiostories experience! Sign-up under “online” classes at socialstudioart.com Today we will take multiple adventures at once with the magical word “meanwhile”!
Today in POWER HOUR we will read “Knots in a Counting Rope” - a sensory story about a blind boy and the importance of storytelling! Sign up to join in from 4-5pm for reading, writing, drawing and sharing! #socialstudiostories #summerreading
At POWER HOUR the kids shared how they would help others when they thought they needed courage. Here are some of their answers: ELSIE - I will make sure that people who need courage will have an animal they really like near them to help them move through the dark mountains. OLIVIA - I will believe in whoever needs courage so that they can do it. They can always try again if they can’t do it. I will be so happy that I help a lot of people. LAURENCE - I will help them to get through the hard parts by giving them the tools they need to get through (like a boat and hiking sticks and masks). When you help others get through their fears you get more courage and friends. #socialstudiostories
Want to stop being the teacher, but have your kids still learning? Sign them up for POWER HOUR a fun hour of stories, ideas, and sharing at that time of day everyone needs a break from each other! Space is limited. #socialstudiostories
We will read a story about wolf brothers today and learn why the moon is full each month! Join us! #socialstudiostories
Power Hour: A small group of kids logged on from 4-5pm for a read aloud, writing prompt, drawing prompt, and share and it was interactive and inventive! Dr. Seuss did not always get it right. Many of his illustrations perpetuate stereotypes and present a biased world view. However he nailed it in this book: The Sneetches! #socialstudiostories #thesneetches #inclusive #exclusive #racism #equality NEXT POWER HOUR: Thursday 4pm, limited space!
Need a break while you transition to evening routines? Sign your kids up for #socialstudiostories ! I’ll read them a story and do art integration activities to follow! M & W 5:15-6pm #artintegration #onlineartclass #readaloud
Make your own melted crayon painting! More info on the IG LIVE recording in stories! #socialstudiostories
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
Looking for something engaging and creative for ages 5-12? Social Studio has made 5 prerecorded lessons including a read aloud and 3 art integration activities. Choose one to try FREE. Reply with theme and I’ll send you the link! #socialstudiostories
Another version of color and feelings made by #socialstudiostories student! She named all the colors she mixed after a feeling or and experience that matched the color. The story for this activity is “When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry” by Molly Bang. 🎨
Sessions
Connect to art through a supportive community. These group classes develop art-making and thinking skills on various topics.
The first pic is an Elizabeth Murray painting. She pushed painting into sculptural shape constructions. The kids made their own playing with composition to make music for the eyes. #elizabethmurray #kidsart #shapeshifting #socialstudiosessions
Straw towers - a great challenge! Kids could go tor the height challenge or the strength challenge tested with a tennis ball and/or baseball (and/or rocks). Great lesson in material facility, strong shapes, engineering, and the design process! #allinanhour #socialstudiosessions #artintegration
Monet at Preschool Paint & Play! Kids mixed yellow, blue and white for variations of green, cut out a “piece of pie” from circles to make lilypads and constructed anatomically correct flowers complete with stamens and ovaries resulting in pond paintings inspired by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. You get a little bit of everything and lots of fun at Social Studio! #socialstudiosessions #artintegration #snalgrouplearning
Adult Abstract Art class today was elemental, elemental, and engaging! #creativeprocess #socialstudiosessions
Drawing hands ✋👌🤟🤚🖐🤝#socialstudiosessions
Preschool printing pink smiles. 45 minutes of Preschool Paint & Play Sunday afternoons and Tuesday mornings! Space for 4. Masks a must! #socialstudiosessions #printmakingforkids #preschoolart
I try to use the summer months to gain new inspiration & rethink what I do and how I do things, so thought it would be a good time to help others doing the same: I'm hosting my next Social Media Strategy Workshop on July 28 💭
We traveled somewhere new... landscape minis in chalk pastel. Next week adult in studio class is pen and ink on Stonehenge little papers. Sign-up for and afternoon of essential exploration! #creativeprocess #worksmall #adultartclasses #socialstudiosessions
The shoe drawings in the adult drawing class: VALUE - Black & White show use of value to show form and markmaking to show expression. We contemplated the question: How do artists use value (lights & darks) to show what they value (care about)? We looked at some shoe art by Van Gogh, @cj_hendry @sarahbeetson and Andy Warhol. #socialstudiosessions #onlineartclass
It’s been so much fun doing a variety of fiber arts projects “yarn & dye” this week! The in-studio campers made pillows... one side shibori the other side glue batik. And quilts and finger knitting and weavings of all sorts! #socialstudiosummer #socialstudiosessions
Plants & Animals - Rainforests / this online class for ages 5-10 is a great way to learn about drawing as well as science and geography. Each class teaches a different relationship between plants and animals and we travel the world’s biomes! Taught by Genie Arnot with great warm-up, wriggle, and wrap-ups with Social a studio intern @cecelia.reichelt ! #socialstudiosessions #onlineartclasses #socialstudiosummer
Planning some new Social Studio Sessions & Workshops, which Social Media & Digital related topics would you like to learn more about? 🤳🏻 #socialstudiosessions #igersvienna #creativehappylife #girlbosses
It will help you rethink/think about the way you can use your channels, set goals for your online activities and give you new ideas 💡
Space is limited, to keep it cosy & interactive! More info and sign up via the link in my bio. Would love to see some of you there 💚
#creativehappylife #socialstudiosessions #igersvienna
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