Tag: watercolor

SPRING HAS SPRUNG FOR ART IN THE PARK

What a beautiful week to make art in the park…Central Park! We made like an Impressionist and went en plein air for our 6-9’s Art Adventures. Our challenge: to paint a landscape outside using a combination of 3 materials- pencil, craypas AND watercolor.  

The Winter Snow was our theme this week for Art Adventures: From Salt dough Snow Mama & her babies (with our 2-5 year old classes) to Winter Wonderland Salt Watercolor Landscape exploration (our 8-11 year old class)! It was a fun snow art day for all ages.     

Happy Hanukkah! …with Kandinsky + Color Theory

The holiday season is in full swing! In celebration, we played with color.     Our Art Adventurers explored color mixing by making their own age appropriated color wheel with watercolors! Primaries, Secondaries, Tertiaries…oh my!         We then took inspiration from the Bauhaus painter, Wassily Kandinsky & created our version of his …

Happy Halloween!

Le Finale! The Day has arrived with our Spooky but fun Giacometti Plaster wrap sculpture Haunted Scenes! Ghosts & Spiders & skeletons (sculpted of course!) …oh my! We arranged and constructed our Halloween scenes with our suspending spooky Giacometti inspired heads! Have a spooky but creative Halloween!!

Spooky Art Preview for HALLOWEEN!

Our Giacometti inspired Plaster wrap Head Sculptures are slowly coming alive. mwhahaha! This Week we painted our spooky heads & sculpted even spookier art for our big Halloween scene building next week. Here is a sneak peak! Stay tuned

Summer Heat + Beach time + Watercolor + Salt = ART!

We’re preparing for our upcoming school year and making art everyday! A favorite at Art Adventures, we’re taking our abstract salt watercolor paintings a step further with beachscapes! Tailored for multiple ages, all you need is watercolor paint, brushes, water, salt and a trip to the beach! Check out some salt water color beach “painting …

Seeing ART then Making ART from Africa with “Indigo dye”, Patterns, & Silhouettes

Exploring Lines, Shapes, and Color with our Mini’s Class

Our 2 year old Art Adventurers jumped right into curves, zigzags and straight lines in last week’s project. Continuing to develop those fine and gross motor skills, we played with crayons and liquid watercolor to create these “magical” wax resist watercolor paintings. Try it at home! All you need are crayons, watercolor paints and a …

Au Revoir Spring 2017

Thank you Art Adventurers for another wonderfully creative year! We had a blast for our final days in the classroom and at Central Park with our visiting artists! Making and playing the African Djembe with Mr. Ross & creating watercolor landscapes with Mr. Banks. Merci Beaucoup and tres bien! See you at Summer Camp and …