Purple Twig

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. 

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. 

The last half hour of this class the children will work independentlly with materials they choose from the studio, yarn, wood, cardboard, paint or more drawing. 

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. 

All materials will be provided for this online zoom weaving class. You will learn the tabby stitch, soumak stitch, looped tabby stitch, rya knot, lark’s head knot and  how to add tassels to different kinds of weavings and wall hangings. This is great for either a beginner but we will also have some new projects for those who have taken the class before. 

After registration we will contant you with a prefered colored scheme for your weavings and try to provide the materials you desire. 

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, slab pots,  animals and faces. 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.  

Be prepared for some mess. Okay a lot of mess.  Using a variety of paper mache mediums the kids will create cacti, animal masks, flying machines and more. 

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.