Purple Twig

This is a great class for those who want to explore dying fabrics with natural plant materials, like beets and tumeric. I't like mixing ones own potions. Students will learn dying techniques for making patterns We will also be making our own paints to use and do some printmaking. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking.   They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills. 

There is so much to discover in our oceans, slithering octopuses, colorful coral, mysterious seahorses and opulent jellyfish. We will look and explore all of these incredible living creatures and more through building sculptures, making mobiles, paintings and much more, starting with builing a ship to set sail into the seas. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking.   They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills. 

Students will further and practice basic drawing techniques while doing character design, creating narratives and making pop up books. They will create characters, learn about comic book structure and explore different kinds of drawing materials. 

This class is FULL

This is a process oriented class, designed for a parent/caregiver and child interactive, learning experience. While introducing your child to all kinds of materials, clay, glue, beads, buttons fabric. We'll explore printing, painting, sculpting, cutting and gluing. Some of the projects will be collaborative between adult and child but most will be watching what your child can do. Adult must be present to interact with child. The class is seasonally themed for fall, winter and spring.

Using materials we forage from the neighborhood leaves, sticks, rocks and combining them with paint, clay and paper, students will create sculptures, prints, banners and collages. Students will also make their own paints using plants, beets and tumeric and more.

Join us to make your own doll house with a wooden house frame. Using a variety art techniques to decorate the house, kids will learn printmaking techniques to make wallpaper, painting and color mixing to paint the rooms, sewing to make mattresses. We will make furniture and little paintings and much more. 

In this class students will explore the hand building process. They will learn many building technique like coiling, pinching, rolling in order to make pots and bowls and much more. After working on pinching we will move on to slab building which is the foundation to many hand-building ceramics techniques. While making animals, lanterns, houses and masks, students will learn a variety of surface treatments and techniques, including textures and glazing. We use two kinds of low fire clays, terrecotta and a white and we use a variety of both underglazes and over glazes. 

This class will focus mainly on drawing but will also explore some other mediums like collage and watercolor. Students will refine their own drawing skills and style by practicing shading, composition, line weight. We will working to build out their portfolios to apply to the local art highschools. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking.   They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills.

This class is FULL- if you would like to be added to the waitlist please email us at info@purpletwig.com

This is a wonderful class for both parent and child. You’ll explore the hand building process. You’ll coil, stack, roll and pinch your way to making landscapes, animals, masks and beautiful bowls and more. You’ll also learn a variety of surface treatment and techniques, including textures and glazes. Some of our projects will be collaborative for parent and child and some will be individual ones.