We took inspiration last week from Alexander Calder’s mobiles and stabiles to create our own version of these Kinetic Art sculptures! We learned all about our line and shapes family: creating straight, curved and angle lines in our wires & pipe cleaners. Then connected these lines to our shapes! We were then introduced to the …
Category: Art Adventure
This past week was all about HEART in our ART …..with Tie Dye exploration! We practiced practiced & practiced- folding and tying fabrics using a very special technique that revealed a vividly colorful heart in the center. SEE MORE of our Hearts (& OTHER SHAPES!) HERE
We explored Abstract Art, the difference between warm and cool colors & decoupage when creating our Abstract Mosaic Paper Paintings! While our Mini Art Adventurers created Heart Cards, Our older Art Adventurers created more abstract landscape work… CHECK OUT ALL THE HEART in OUR ART HERE!
We are quickly approaching our Spring Semester @ CCA! So for our last full week of January, we continue to let the Winter season inspire our Art Adventures- creating Snowscape Value paintings with our 5-7yo Art Adventures ..and Snow(wo)man Clay Sculptures with Found Objects for our Mini Art Adventures! Whether it’s the weather, nature, found …
You can use almost anything to make art….even from ingredients in your pantry! Our Art Adventure took us to the kitchen this week, where we found everyday spices such as cinnamon, turmeric, paprika and even cocoa powder to create different color paints. Just mix in increments with white tempera paint to achieve the desired tone, …
Our Art Adventures had us revisit a favorite artist of ours: Robert Rauschenberg! We normally know him for his Combines (click for more), but this week we were introduced to his Elemental Paintings – paintings made with unconventional materials like dirt, clay, gold, grass, …etc. Students chose materials from nature and/or human made, chose their color paint, …
From all of us here at CCA, wishing everyone a grateful, filling and very Happy Thanksgiving! Stay Hungry for ART!
Last week was all about Cave Art! This two day project included creating stamps from model magic and drawing with new materials. Exploring lines and shapes and even tracing our hands with craypas and pastels. Our Mini Adventurers finished the day “painting” cave art animals with natural elements:
Last week our mini’s class had so much fun exploring the imagination with our visiting artist, Dino O’Dell- It was a day filled with music storytelling and monsters! Thanks again Dino! This week, our Studio class takes a turn as we invite visiting artist, Katie Grammes to give us a fashion history lesson through …
Visiting Artist, Dino O’Dell will share with CCA Mini’s Art Adventure’s class his wonderfully creative songs, stories and illustrations! We will take one character from his celebrated story, Zara and the Broken Spaceship and recreate our own versions with collage, fine motor skill challenges and of course- thinking and being silly! When Dino heard about what …