I paid a visit to Jack’s house one day to make a Jeff Koons balloon sculpture with him. Did he follow all of the steps? Did he successfully take on plasterwrap? Well, actually he did… but does that really trump the joy of making art? I think not…
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?! …