Current Lessons
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Grades 1 & 2
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6. Cut Flowers – KidsART
SEPT 21 – 25 • Students use drawing skills to create a jarge vase and flower collage with mixed media: Oil pastels, kraft paper, cutting, and glueing. Composition is worked on as they apply the shapes they’ve drawn and cut.
Grades 3 - 5
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6. Finish Landscapes – Foundations
SEPT 21 – 25 • Students will finish painting their landscapes with atmospheric perspective (depth) by working their way down the canvas, top to bottom, which is also distant to close.
Grades 6 - 12
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6. Finish Landscapes – Foundations A+
SEPT 21 – 25 • Students will finish painting their landscapes with atmospheric perspective (depth) by working their way down the canvas, top to bottom, which is also distant to close.
Grades 1 & 2
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5. Chicken Day – KidsART A
SEPT 14 – 18 • Students have fun with a playful subject, underscoring the idea that “the joy of an artist will be evident in their finished art”. The concept of Air Shapes is revisited. Students learn to draw on “both sides of the line“, and draw the air inside a vase handle. Oil pastels are used to finish in color, and there is a dance break too!
4. The Other Side of the Fence – KidsART
SEPT 7 – 11 • This is a great lesson for learning a basic concept for drawing accurately, but without the students getting bogged down in lesson concepts. When drawing it helps artists to be able to draw the air shapes (negative shapes) that are in-between other things. It doubles the information available for accurate drawing. A fence is used to plant the seed of this concept, and to make a striped colorful painting. Then we use it as a background for another project: a unique-looking black-line painting over it that looks like ink line art.
Grades 1 & 2
Grades 3 - 5
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5. Landscape & Distance – Foundations A
SEPT 14 – 18 • Students will choose from a set of landscape photo references, and paint in acrylics on canvas. They’ll learn to show depth by using atmospheric perspective, working from farthest to closest, and top to bottom. Two color techniques are used: 1) mixing colors from other parts of the painting into each color for harmony, and 2) Color splitting. The lesson takes 2 weeks.
4. Accuracy Puzzles – Foundations A
SEPT 7 – 11
Students will work on deconstructing a diagram of an image, working on it like a puzzle. Beginning with the Frame first, they learn how to work on the rectangular proportions, before moving to the second step, Big Shapes. Details are added last, completing the 3 Steps to Accuracy.
Grades 3 - 5
Grades 6 - 12
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5. Landscape & Distance – Foundations A+
SEPT 14 – 18 • Students will choose from a set of landscape photo references, and paint in acrylics on canvas. They’ll learn to show depth by using atmospheric perspective, working from farthest to closest, and top to bottom. Two color techniques are used: 1) mixing colors from other parts of the painting into each color for harmony, and 2) Color splitting. The lesson takes 2 weeks.
4. Accuracy Puzzles – Foundations A+
SEPT 7 – 11
Students will work on deconstructing a diagram of an image, working on it like a puzzle. Beginning with the Frame first, they learn how to work on the rectangular proportions, before moving to the second step, Big Shapes. Details are added last, completing the 3 Steps to Accuracy.