The teens completed their landscape watercolor paintings. There were a lot of lessons wrapped up into this project. We started with an introduction to watercolor painting and all of the different types of marks you can make with watercolor. We learned about color mixing and painted our own colorwheels. We also had an in depth … Continue reading Teen Landscape Watercolors
Middle School Classes
Glass Christmas Trees
Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope you are enjoying this time with your families and friends. Here is a look at our last project of the year. We made Glass-Fusion Christmas Tree Candle holders as our yearly Christmas presents. The kids love making presents this time of the year. They turned out just … Continue reading Glass Christmas Trees
End of First Session
Hi Parents and Students, The First Session of Classes is now over! I leave Wednesday morning to see my daughter in Spain. Yes, I am a little excited to see her. The Next Session begins on November 8th. You can find Registration Information Here. Most classes are already full. If you did not register … Continue reading End of First Session
Ceramic Hearts – Sending some Love on Vday
As a filler project while the layers of our figurines dried, we made ceramic hearts. Hope these brought you a little happiness today. Before we fired them.
Figurines
After spending the last few weeks painting, we moved into making some 3 D art. We started by looking at sculptures of the human figure. Alberto Giacometti and George Segal: I introduced the students to Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor and Painter. Although he was a painter as well, Giacometti is most renowned for his expressive … Continue reading Figurines
Teen Still Life Paintings
As part of our Acrylic Painting series, the Teens painted fruit still life paintings. Here is a peek at their work. We warmed up by doing some exercises with brush strokes, surrounding color and layering of colors. They picked the fruit they wanted to paint and the background colors. We talked about using complimentary colors … Continue reading Teen Still Life Paintings
Teen SunFlower Paintings
Acrylic paintings of Sunflowers by the Teen Art class.
New Tuesday Night Teen Art Class
We are adding a new Teen Art Class on Tuesday nights from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm that is open to students in 6th - 9th grade. Classes will consist of fine art instruction with exploration of diverse mediums while learning basic art concepts such as drawing, shading, color mixing and composition. Our high quality … Continue reading New Tuesday Night Teen Art Class
Ceramic Clocks
Welcome to the New Year! Now that Christmas is over, I am hoping I can share a sampling of our ceramic clocks. I hope you enjoyed receiving them as much as we enjoyed making them.
Torn Paper Portraits – Teens Class
In our teen class this week, we assembled our ceramics projects. Sorry images of these are under wraps until after Christmas. Now that the big ceramic project is done, we returned to our Torn Paper Portraits. This project is an exercise to learn value. Value is the amount of light reflected from the surface. Value … Continue reading Torn Paper Portraits – Teens Class