Purple Twig

Drawing is an incredible way for kids to express themselves and all you need is a pencil and paper. We will also be using charcoal, watercolor, chalk pastels all the while learning basic techniques in drawing from perspective, proportion and shadow. We will draw from life and draw from our imagination. Printmaking is a lovely partner for drawing, learning about multiples and monoprinting. 

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 begins September 21st

I will provide materials to be picked up before class including glazes. We will fire the kiln twice duing this class. There will a few days during the session to drop off work to fire and pick up new materials needed. All our clay is lowfire class and we will be using underglazes. 

We will be making pinch pots and coiled pots and animal scultpures. 

We will be learning some basic ceramic handbuilding skills using 2 different types of low-fire clay (white and terre cotta) to build pinch pots and animals and faces and do some sculpting. We will also build some large pieces using large coils and slabs. 

We have quite a variety of both underglazes and glazes to experiment with.  

In this bookmaking class we will focus on a few ways to bind a book. We'll make accordion books and do sew bindings. We will use cardboard and even make a ceramic one. We will be learning a variety of watercolor techniques, do some collaging and focus on creating collections and books to hold them. 

This isn't your ordinary collage class. Collages can be beautiful made from colorful vibrant papers and they can be funny made from animal images.  Students will explore both the abstract collage inspired by Matisse and representational collages inspired by the Dadaist movement.  Students will learn elements of design and composition. All materials will be provided and ready to be picked up before class begins. 

This is a family class for a family of 4. We will work with you to make coil pots and the many forms they can take. This is a 2 part class. The first class we will form our ceramic piece and the second class we will glaze them. You will have a choice of glaze colors you would like to work with. I will provide materials to be picked up before class including glazes. You will then drop the pices off to be fired.