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An American Girl’s Animal Party in 5 easy steps!

Step 1:  Bring your American Girl

Step 2:  Design jewelry to match your Girl.

Step 3:  Make a portrait of her to frame.

Step 4:  Sculpt her a creative animal and it’s surrounding environment from lots of cool materials!!

Step 5:  Put it all in a perfectly packed and sized gift bag to discover more activities at home!

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Students used shading techniques to create 3D form on their own faces, in the reverse (using the paper as shaded negative space, instead of a source of light.) We had the opportunity to see Picasso’s work in Picasso Black & White at the Guggenheim, and this exhibit explores many concepts from class!

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We had our final Picasso tour before the exhibition closes on Jan 23rd!  Children thoroughly enjoyed our time together exploring Picasso’s unique signature profiles, values, drawing techniques and abstraction, as well as the always popular scratch art for “Head of a Horse” study.

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Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s piece Fireflies on the Water, exhibited in her restrospecive at the Whitney Museum this past summer, students built their own infinity boxes exploring perspective and repetition.

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Students explored textures of everyday objects and overlapping to create prints inspired by Picasso’s guitars.

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Students expressed their creativity by using shapes and values to build organic animal forms just like Picasso’s drawings on view @ the Guggenheim exhibit (closes tomorrow).  

Children thorughoughly enjoyed our time together exploring picasso’s unique signature profiles, values, drawing techniques and abstraction… as well as the always popular scratch art for “Head of a Horse” study:)  Join us by visiting our website for a list of dates and times… 

-Yonina @ the Picasso exhibit @ Guggenheim.

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During our Art Adventures class tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we focused on lines with David Smith’s “Becca” and Robert Rauschenberg’s “Winter Pool.”  We then looked at color with Ellsworth Kelly’s “Spectrum V.”  Before we finished, we stopped at Robert Ryman’s painting to look forward to an upcoming project that will explore monochromatic painting!