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Grades 1 & 2
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23. Printmaking – KidsART B
FEB 16 – 20 • Young artists will have a blast learning how printmaking works and creating their own sets of images. Stations make it easy and keeps everyone moving as they draw ideas, make printing plates from styrofoam, then add ink, and print them onto paper. Then they start over again.
Grades 3 - 5
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23. Portrait in Color – Foundations B
FEB 16 – 20 • This is one of two lessons about portraits. Today everyone will work on accuracy, while also learning how observation helps accuracy more than anything else. There is a memory drawing game and an oil pastel copy of a Van Gogh portrait.
Grades 6 - 12
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23. Portrait in Color – Foundations B+
FEB 16 – 20 • This is one of two lessons about portraits. Today everyone will work on accuracy, while also learning how observation helps accuracy more than anything else. There is a memory drawing game and an oil pastel copy of a Van Gogh portrait.
Grades 1 & 2
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22. Elephant Day – KidsART B
FEB 9 – 13 • Everyone loves elephants! Artists learn how to draw a cartoon version, which also helps them learn how to simplify. Then they will have a chance to draw and paint more realistically, and in the process learn how to mix blacks and grays.
21. Rainbow Flowers – KidsART B
FEB 2 – 6 • Students learn how the concept of harmony applies to visual art just like music. A flower is drawn from reference and painted as a spectrum in watercolor for color-wheel flowers. The arrangement of the colors is used to show harmony, along with some games of harmony color designs.
Grades 1 & 2
Grades 3 - 5
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22. Drawing & Sculpture – Foundations B
FEB 9 – 13 • Students use clay to create various sculptures and then draw them. This exercise create connections in the brain between what we see, what we know, and what we touch, making it easier to draw accurately.
21. Opposites Color Journal – Foundations B
FEB 2 – 6 • Students learn how to mix darker and muted shades with every tube-color on their palette. Using opposites, or complimentary colors on our printed work-page, they’ll use small amounts of colors in combinations that produce the most vibrant and realistic shadow colors and neutrals.
Grades 3 - 5
Grades 6 - 12
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22. Drawing & Sculpture – Foundations B+
FEB 9 – 13 • Students use clay to create various sculptures and then draw them. This exercise create connections in the brain between what we see, what we know, and what we touch, making it easier to draw accurately.
21. Opposites Color Journal – Foundations B+
FEB 2 – 6 • Students learn how to mix darker and muted shades with every tube-color on their palette. Using opposites, or complimentary colors on our printed work-page, they’ll use small amounts of colors in combinations that produce the most vibrant and realistic shadow colors and neutrals.