Month: January 2013

An American Girl’s Animal Party

See the full gallery on Posterous 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 …

Drawing Class + Picasso’s Valuable Self-Portraits

See the full gallery on Posterous 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 …

Museum Adventures Final Tour of Picasso @ the Guggenheim

See the full gallery on Posterous 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.

Art Adventures Creates Infinity Boxes with Yayoi Kusama

See the full gallery on Posterous 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.

Art Adventures Prints with Picasso

See the full gallery on Posterous Students explored textures of everyday objects and overlapping to create prints inspired by Picasso’s guitars.

Picasso’s Organic Shape Shading with Art Adventures Studio

See the full gallery on Posterous 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).  

Picasso’s Black and White tour a hit! Plus…Take-home your own creatively designed book!

Art Adventures Class at the Met Explores Line and Color

See the full gallery on Posterous 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 …