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Grades 1 & 2
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25. Artists’ Choice Day – KidsART B
MAR 2 – 6 • After having total freedom of choice to create a watercolor painting, Students then get to choose even more fun art projects. Stations are set up around the room and young artists have lots of opportunities to create and explore new ideas. There is even a fun and active art game. It’s a very fulfilling day of project fun!
Grades 3 - 5
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25. Complemented Animals – Foundations B
MAR 2 – 6 • Complementary colors are used for a 2-week project: a colorfully expressive animal painting in acrylics on canvas. Students will choose an animal, draw it, and will then use expressive complimentary colors to paint a bright and unusual work. The colors may be natural compliments, such as a brown (orange) animal and a blue sky, or unnatural compliments, such as a red and green zebra.
Grades 6 - 12
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25. Complemented Animals – Foundations B +
MAR 2 – 6 • Complementary colors are used for a 2-week project: a colorfully expressive animal painting in acrylics on canvas. Students will choose an animal, draw it, and will then use expressive complimentary colors to paint a bright and unusual work. The colors may be natural compliments, such as a brown (orange) animal and a blue sky, or unnatural compliments, such as a red and green zebra.
Grades 1 & 2
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24. Snakes & Spirals – KidsART B
FEB 23 – 27 • Students will have fun making bouncy spiral snakes with their own designs by drawing on our printed pdf snake templates. Then everyone is introduced to clay with play-doh for a warmup, before moving into an 3D project of an animal that they’ll be able to take home next week.
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 1 & 2
Grades 3 - 5
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24. Expressive Self Portrait – Foundations B
FEB 23 – 27
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 3 - 5
Grades 6 - 12
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24. Expressive Self Portrait – Foundations B
FEB 23 – 27
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.