Purple Twig

In this week we will be celebrating spring, exploring bugs and flowers. We will be drawing and painting and doing some paper mache and some printmaking. We will be creating individual art projects and collaborative ones. 

The mornings are free choice time until around 10:00 then a snack. We will then work on a larger art project, hike through the neighborhood looking for materials to use or do a treasure hunt.  The rest of the day will be reading, playing games and finishing up projects.

Alexander Calder is known for his elegant mobiles, but his wire works combined with other materials to create a circus are so special and whimsical. We will be using a lot of wire during this week along with paper maché, fabric, wood, recycled materials and cardboard to create flatworks and standing  creations.

Make your own Doll House or Fort beginning with a wooden house frame. Using art techniques to decorate the house, kids will learn printmaking techniques to make wallpaper, painting and color mixing to paint the rooms. We will make furniture and little paintings, rugs and much more. 

From the Renaissance to American folk artists of the early 19th century, they used many animals from their backyard and beyond to make paintings and sculpture. Students will the take cue from these artists to make collages, sculptures and paintings using clay, recycled materials, watercolor and a variety of papers. 

Large scale drawings, tiny drawings, plein aire drawing, self-portrait drawing. We will use a variety of materials, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, chalk pastels to make sculpture drawings, narrative drawings, still-life drawings. We will play a lot of drawing games and work together to make a large scale collaborative artwok. 

Marching through the streets all the while playing music. We will talk about celebrations and create paper mache sculptures for a parade. We will also make banners and flags and masks and have a parade or two through the streest of Eagle Rock. 

This is a color theory week. We will be mixing, mixing and mashing colors together. This class will explore color in its many forms. Students will be painting using watercolors, tempera and paints we will be mixing ourselves. Students will create collages sculptures and doing some science experiments. 

We will make our own stamps and printing plates to print on fabrics to make banners, on cardboard to make sculptures. We will do mono-printing, foam printing and printing from everyday objects.

What if you were the city planner? What does yor city need?  We will plan out a few different cities discussing the needs of the people who occupy the cities and we walk about our own neighbohood. We will make drawings and build using a variety of found and recycled materials. There will be a lot of working in collaboration this week. 

Exploring paint and its many forms will be the subject of this week, watercolor paint, tempera paint, sumi ink, powdered paints Kids will make large scaled paintings, collaborative paintings,  self-portrait paintings, abstract paintings, black and white paintings. We'll also explore color by mixing our own paints. 

Inspired by the Russian Contructivist movement of the early part of the 20^th century, this class focuses on combining disparate materials to create harmonious sculptures and collages sometimes abstract, sometimes representational. We will make mobiles, wire sculptures and create constructions using materials both found and traditional. This week will explore patterns. 

Students will spend the week creating scultpural treats, from donuts to fruit towers. We will use food to make art like printing with fruits and veggies and making sculptures that look like treats like shaving cream cakes.  This is a week of using a large variety of both sculptural and 2-D mediums. 

This week is full of sensory play and artmaking from shaving cream to large abstract paintings, ice sculptures and potion making. This week is for that young artist who finds sensory materials both invigorating and relaxing.