Program for Children (age 6-10)

Drawing, Painting and Printmaking
Discover composition, design, and color theory and art history as you create art using pencil, charcoal, acrylic, watercolor, oil pastel, chalk, pen, collage and ink. Develop visual perception and explore natural forms, abstract concepts and still life. Combine drawing, painting and carving to create unique works of art. This course also provides the observation and the imagination.

Mix Media & 3D Sculpture
Create two- and three-dimensional projects using Acrylic, watercolor, pastel, chalk and a variety of found objects. Study pattern, texture and color while learning to use clay, wood, fabric, paper and other materials in unconventional ways.

Cartooning
Invent images in a variety of media including color pencil, pastel, and marker and paper cut-outs. Create funny faces, animals, monsters and comical backgrounds while learning the tricks of the cartooning trade. Create stories with cartoons and experiment with movement, depth, color, line and point of view. Explore character development and use mixed media to make exciting backgrounds, flip-books, shadows, textures, patterns and special effects.

Plasticine Animation ( Claymation) (Age 8 to 14 )
Each student will sculpt their own character out of plastercine. The class will collaboratively develop a story which will be animated in clay using stop motion photography. The end result will be a claymation movie which can be watched on a computer or DVD player. 

Claymation by Kathy Whitney from greenapple on Vimeo.

Mini Sculpture (Ages 6 to 10)
Students will explore their personal vision with clay. Children have a strong sense of touch and can “see” with their fingers. Thus, working with clay is very visceral and expressive. Various techniques will be covered such as sculpting, hand building with slabs, bead making, coiling, and texturing. For the sculpting component, students will be asked to make their two favorites animals into one. They will draw a rough sketch first and then be shown how to translate their 2d drawing into a small 3d sculpture. They will then make a clay container to store their sculpture in. They will either paint the finished pieces with acrylic paint or use coloured sculpey.Skills sets covered: 3 dimensional thinking (structure, shapes and forms). Learning how to break objects down into their basic shapes (sphere, cone, square, pyramid). Texturing and using pattern.