Museum Adventures took Lauren Pohl, founder of Kidz Central Station, on a tour for 4-5’s to visit a list of artists tailored to young learners: Rosenquist, Yves Tinguely, Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly. In just one tour (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), we learned about advertising, color and everyday objects (Rosenquist), discovered lines in …
Month: February 2014
Children of various ages enjoyed making works from Chamberlain’s crushed car sculptures, Oldenburg’s “Soft Sculptures” and Ellsworth Kelly’s color fields! A walk through William Kentridge’s “Refusal of Time” ended our tour teaching us about stop-motion animation. (A great app to download to your Iphone or Ipad, to make your own stop-motion animations is called Vine.)
Mondrian’s Grey Tree has inspired our line development in our early learners: Straight, Curved and Angled. 2 Versions: Color mixing with B/W, then with all primaries, white and NO Black! As grey can be mixed both ways… Great book to go with this lesson: The Wizard Grey!
“Delightful, interesting, thought provoking…moving” -What they’ll say about your child’s performance! The Young Actors PlayShop: Ages 6 – 12 Saturdays 10-11:30 am On-Camera Commercial Audition Technique: Ages 7 – 16 Saturdays 1-2:30 pm For Course Descriptions, click here. Register by end of March! Classes begin April 5th. @ All Souls Church 1157 …
Cold dreary days looking out of my window inspired the use of vellum and a basic color-mixing lesson using copies of his animals to draw or trace, color and overlay with colorful blues, pinks and yellows to make the secondary colors… Hey color aficionados- Why is it you can still make a rainbow with pink?! …
Visiting artist Gosha (http://www.FineArtsandYoga.com) taught us so much about what it means to be Sanguin, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic- very new concepts to all of us! Each one is different, has a different color and how each difference relates to physical traits in the face. Our students were able to try the Blue and Green- …
While learning about color mixing, 3-8 year-olds have fun constructing colorful stuffed “Soft Sculptures.” See slideshow:
Create the perfect disguise for any party! Italian mask-making is a unique art, and carefully planned with lots of fun materials. During this class, you will you will design, paint, and adorn your very own striking Venetian mask with fancy jewels & exotic feathers, right along with your child. Male masks will also be available. …