Program for Children (age 9-14)

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.

Artist World
Introduce to students to the world’s greatest paintings and learn about the famous artist and the major art styles throughout the centuries. Experience their painting style, techniques, subject matter, warm and cool colors, composition or materials used.

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.