Inspired by artist Dona Nelson @ the Thomas Erben Gallery and @ the Whitney Biennial 2014, as well as the Gutai movement we studied last year @ the Guggenheim Museum… This contemporary artists inspires: exploration of negative space, use of various painting tools and body, building composition and contrasting materials and lines! And sewing on canvas?! They’ll love …
Wow, there’s just too much to know about this city! I’d better sharpen up the facts, before I get my NYC tour guide licence this spring to hone in on what’s to know about people, art and architecture-providing ADULT tours with flair! Ps- this was made of wood!
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 …
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- …