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
Zentangle #studybreak anyone? Today’s challenge for #socialstudiosketch socialstudiobaltimore
Blackout Poetry #socialstudiosketch “Romantic Themes” - mood of exaltation prevailing/enthusiasm for all/poetry and music/persisted/for all the arts/ dynamic/brilliant/crazy
Todays’s #sketchbookchallenge is a classic! 1. Trace something (it does not have to be your hand!) lightly on the paper. Throughout this exercise, resist the temptation to trace this outline with marker!!! The optical illusion works best with the change in line, not outlines! 2. Using a marker or pen make a horizontal straight line up to the pencil outline. Then curve the line as it goes across the surface of the object you chose. Then, straighten the line to go across the rest of the page. 3. Make many, many parallel lines in this fashion, curving them to match the object form. 4. Add lines between the lines changing color or thickness. 5. “Pic and post” using #socialstudiosketch 👏🤚👋
So once again, I didn’t exactly follow directions on my #socialstudiosketch assignment for today from socialstudiobaltimore. Because my hand now looks so much like my mom’s, I inserted some words I had written about her sewing dresses for me and Sondra:
Sketchbook Challenge 91/100- Draw a person of a race different than your own — could be someone famous or someone you know. “I find that drawing really helps me see,” said @dianaspen who came up with today’s sketchbook prompt, THANK YOU! Try seeing something new or different or in a different way today. There are 4 strategies to get you started: 1. Freehand, 2. Grid drawing, 3. Video tutorial, 4. Symmetry. #socialstudiosketch #facerace #humanity #drawingwellisseeingbetter
“Hand-spring” #socialstudiosketch by @carnotpolakoff 👏
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 — my favorite vegetable (a leek) in pastels, colored pencils, and watercolor
(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)
North Building @brynmawrschool by Hannah - Greg Otto style! #socialstudiosketch @brynmawrarts 💛💚
#socialstudiosketch by @carnotpolakoff #cardsforcovidpatients #artforsocialgood #getwellsoon 💐
After Vincent Van Gogh by @carnotpolakoff for museum day #socialstudiosketch 80/100 🎨
Bits of colorful cotton left behind by others
Held in metal bins for perusing
Her talented hands sifted through
Divining treasures for us
Sturdy Singer at the ready
She fashioned dresses for every occasion
Three simple shapes
Altered with buttons, pockets, rick rack
Into endless varieties
Her magic transforming remnants into childhood couture
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
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.
What I made today! A block weaving as instructed by socialstudiobaltimore. It was so easy to make, and I have a basement full of yarn and a few more of these chunky burlap-covered square canvases.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays socialstudiobaltimore
Social Studio intern, Liv Loeb, who taught you how to make tin can planters in April, returns this week to teach you how to draw a mermaid for #mermay #mermay2020 🧜🏾♀️🧜🏼 #socialstudiosundays #familyfun #artforall #illustrationart Join in on IG Live @4pm tomorrow!
I’m creeping towards 1,000 followers which means the word is spreading about Social Studio! Thank you for your support and participation in this growing creative community! Now, with Social (Distance) Studio, art opportunities are available beyond Baltimore. HERE’S HOW TO PLAY: Tag a friend below who might be interested in #socialstudiosessions (online classes) #socialstudiosketch (daily sketchbook challenges) #socialstudiosundays (family fun art activities presented on IG Live) or just wants a fun follow! Your name will be entered to win a waterproof logo sticker great for water bottles, computers or cars (see award winning logo by @hersickwebster on picture above). Winners will be announced Sunday at 4pm on IG Live. On your mark, get set, GO!
Stick weaving #socialstudioSundays by @mtnearthstars 🤝
Weavings are a wonderful medium for expressing how we are all interconnected #allinthistogether - did you put #socialstudiosundays stick weaving outdoors for others to enjoy? Send me a pic!
Looking for an afternoon activity? Catch the IGLive by hitting the pink Social Studio logo to watch 14 minutes of “how to block weave” in preparation for #socialstudioSundays STICK WEAVING LIVE @4pm #creativecommunity #stickweaving #familyfiberarts #stayathome #artactivitiesforall #artforall #freelesson
Join mother and son special for #socialstudiosundays at 4pm where we make a paper flower bouquet. See stories for suggested materials! 💐(idea and images borrowed from @gettymuseum)
#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.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays
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
#socialstudiosundays
Stories
Enjoy a story from Social Studio’s children’s book collection followed by art integration activities.
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
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. 🎨
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
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
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
Just in...SPREAD THE WORD! IG LIVE Read Aloud! I love this book, especially now. Kids and adults will love it. 4pm IG Live! #readaloud #socialstudiostories #notajoke #greatbook #childrensbooks
Virtual Social Studio starts next week with #socialstudiostories. Sign up for read alouds and art integration activities to follow www.socialstudioart.com “online”. Great for ages 3-8! #onlineart #artintegration #teadalouds #stayathome
The first #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration goes out to enrolled participants TOMORROW! Sign up: www.socialstudioart.com It’s a great way to engage your students at home with children’s literature and thoughtful art activities. Designed for ages 3-10. Younger students will need a facilitator! #onlineart #artsintegration #readalouds #artideas #learningathome #homeschool #socialstudio
Yep. I did it! I called it Social (Distance) Studio! A bit over 6 months ago, I started Social Studio - a local art studio in Roland Park. An amazing neighborhood of people who love the arts and community building. And, a neighborhood full of children!!! There are 7 schools in walking distance. The studio, albeit small, is packed with visual inspiration, good energy, lots of books, and almost every art supply available. Now, because of the current coronavirus pandemic, I’m expanding the studio to reach people in their homes, wherever they may be. It is my goal to bring you the creativity and connection cultivated in the actual studio through my “Studio (Distance) Studio” programs. Here they are: #socialstudiosundays #socislstudiosketch #socialstudiosessions #socialstudiostories #socialstudiosayings - You can get more information on the website: socialstudioart.com and in IG highlights on @socialstudiobaltimore profile page. Be well & be creative! ❤️
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
Stop motion animation is one of the Art Integration ideas for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories. Sign-up: “online classes” socialstudioart.com for the last of this week’s series. Next week the videos will be available again. Great for kids ages 5-12.
Sessions
Connect to art through a supportive community. These group classes develop art-making and thinking skills on various topics.
Getting into summer mode... lots of online art opportunities for ages 5-10, 8-15, 12-16 and adults! #socialstudiosessions
I’m creeping towards 1,000 followers which means the word is spreading about Social Studio! Thank you for your support and participation in this growing creative community! Now, with Social (Distance) Studio, art opportunities are available beyond Baltimore. HERE’S HOW TO PLAY: Tag a friend below who might be interested in #socialstudiosessions (online classes) #socialstudiosketch (daily sketchbook challenges) #socialstudiosundays (family fun art activities presented on IG Live) or just wants a fun follow! Your name will be entered to win a waterproof logo sticker great for water bottles, computers or cars (see award winning logo by @hersickwebster on picture above). Winners will be announced Sunday at 4pm on IG Live. On your mark, get set, GO!
Not just an ordinary work station! This 6th grader made art installations inspired by the two featured artists in Art & Art History class today. Tanaka Tatsuya & Claes Oldenburg but work with size, perspective and everyday objects, juxtaposition, and relationship to people. Check out how the kid used objects around him: gum, coins, batteries, food, toys, keys, and LEGO characters to create original visual stories! #socialstudiosessions #arthistory #playart #funonlineclasses #zoomartclass
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
Summer schedule starts today!!! With FREE Wednesday afternoon Summer Sketchbook Club (sign up for link), tomorrow with Thursday night Paint Party, and Thursday and Friday - an incredible 2 day Value Workshop: Apples, Shoes & the Color Of Your Skin. Go to “online classes” link in profile for more information! #socialstudiosessions #onlineartclasses #socialstudio #creativeprocess
Louise Bourgeois is our artist for our first #mastermonday - Louise Bourgeois was a famous artist who was best known for her sculptures and installation art although she was also a painter and a printmaker. Social Studio is offering a class called “Spiders and Stitches” where you can make art inspired by her. Come back tomorrow to learn more about our Louise Bourgeois class! #socialstudiosessions #artonline #artclassesforkids
At in-studio camp we spend some time making an art piece together. Here each kid had a different color alcohol paint and we added drops until we were all mixed up! #socialstudiosummer #socialstudiosessions #arttogether #communityart
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 💭
Planning some new Social Studio Sessions & Workshops, which Social Media & Digital related topics would you like to learn more about? 🤳🏻 #socialstudiosessions #igersvienna #creativehappylife #girlbosses
Do you agree? Through her art, Louise Bourgeois explored her childhood experiences. What themes are in your artwork? In “Spiders and Stitches” class, we will be exploring our own identities and how we can represent them in abstract ways. SIGN UP NOW: SOCIALSTUDIOART.COM - Starts Tuesday, class material kit will be distributed Monday. #socialstudiosessions #artonline #artclassesforkids
Wire name necklaces at small in-studio camp today! An idea from Intern @julia.suriano 💡#socialstudiosessions #socialstudiosummer #mudandmetal
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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