Fall Classes 2010

Fall Classes 2010 October 4- Dec 17

Afterschool Art Classes for Children

Children will:

Have opportunities to experiment with a variety of materials, be inspired from nature, fine art and each other, learn drawing and painting skills, play, invent with everyday materials, make 2D and 3D pieces, develop a visual vocabulary, begin to understand the Elements of Art: line, shape, colour, value, texture, space, composition, form

Every other week, 3:00-4:30pm or 3:00-5:00pm, Mon, Tues, Thurs or Fri

Grouped by grade level, K-middle school

Monday Kindergarten/Grade 1

5 classes $100, 3-4:30pm

10/4, 10/18, 11/1, 11/15, 12/6

Tuesday Kindergarten/Grade 1

5 classes $100, 3-4:30pm

10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/16, 12/7

Thursday Grade 2/3

5 classes $100, 3-4:30pm

10/7, 10/21, 11/4, 11/18, 12/9

Friday Grade 2/3

5 classes $100, 3-4:30pm

10/8, 10/22, 11/5, 11/19, 12/10

Monday Grade 4/5

4 classes $80, 3-5pm

10/25, 11/8, 11/29, 12/13

Tuesday Grade 4/5

5 classes $125, 3-5pm

10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/30, 12/14

Thursday Grade 6-8

5 classes $125, 3-5pm

10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 12/2, 12/16

Open Studios

Every other Friday, $5 material fee, 3-5pm

10/15, 10/29, 11/12, 12/3, 12/17

Open to all ages, siblings, parents, time to play with materials available

Looking Ahead- Children’s classes:

Winter Classes: Draw and Build -Jan 3-Mar 21

Spring Classes: Mixed Media -Mar 28- June 10

Wednesday Workshops

Class series led by guest teachers, teachers and courses TBA in September

1-5 consecutive weeks in duration

Block Printing Workshop for Adults

Arlington Community Education, meets in the studio

5 Thursdays $65, 7-9pm 9/30- 10/28

Call 781 316 3568 or Arlington CommunityEd.org to register

Birthday Parties and Adult Workshops

Look under pages on this site

Leaf Printing Workshop for Adults

2 Thursdays $50, 9-11am 10/21 and 10/28

Make a leaf inspired set of cards and an accordion book using simple block printing techniques

Send me an email to sign up

Open House

Friday Sept 24 3-5pm

Start the weekend of Town Day with art and camaraderie!

Transform a milk jug into a puppet; make a structure from recycled materials, have a snack and a drink, bring a friend, join a class, sign up for a workshop, pick up a free coupon for Open Studios

To sign up for children’s classes please email me with the following info:

Child’s name, parent’s names

Birthdate and Grade

Class preference

Whether your child is available for the other time slot for his/her age group. If not what other days he/she would be available.

This will assist me immensely if some classes do not fill and I have to shuffle them!

Please sign up by Sept 17 and classes will be confirmed by Sept 24

A final registration package will be sent after Sept 24. Fees due on or before first day of class. Cheques are payable to Ann Wynne. Receipts will be sent electronically.

Fall Classes Posted Soon

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I am back from the ocean!

Stay tuned for information about the fall. After school Fall classes will start in October for children from Kindergarten to middle school. The schedule will be posted in the second half of August. I will have an Open House in September. Look in the Arlington Community Ed Catalogue for the adult blockprinting course I will be teaching.

We had a busy and productive July at A Room for Art. See previous post.

Summer Art Camp 2010

The Summer is for immersion in the Elements: WATER, SUN, EARTH and AIR! So here at a Room for Art that was our guiding principle. Each week was inspired by one of the elements.We played with and made products from related materials. We found or made up games somehow related to our themes. Art projects were mixture of 2D and 3D work.

Week 1 Water

We were lucky to have this theme during this very hot week! Water is Good! Children are drawn to liquid. They play with paint, water, soap as artists and scientists learning about the properties of each. It is very useful for an artist to know these physical properties: water molecules are sticky, water flows down hill, the surface of water has tension, different paint moves differently, there are a finite number of layers of tempera you can apply to a piece of paper with out ripping it(this is tested regularly). Painting as a child is about watching paper and paint interact and being amazed by how the colours, the texture, the layers appear as the brush, sponge, fingers are moved in different ways

-water play with tubes and funnels

-big bubbles using string frames

-ice races

-atomizer games at the park

-blue mix collaborative painting

-tempera paint monoprints on plexiglass

-watercolour and crayon resist fish paintings

-papier mache fish

Week 2 Sun/Light

Light and Shadow play a major role in most art. Anything visual is dependent upon light. This week we played with looking at light: how it creates colours in a soap film, how light travels through transparent materials and does not for opaque, how objects create varied shadows outside and played with a shadow screen by making our own silhouette puppets

-light table free play

-big bubbles

-shadow drawings turned into mixed media paintings: pastel and watercolour

-sun paintings using hot colours

-papier mache suns, read excerpt of science book describing composition of our important star, the sun

-food colour mix

-3D construction with transparent materials

-shadow puppets: create characters from Native tale How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun

-perform the play for parents

Week 3 Earth

The decomposers under rotting ash logs in the back yard were a great inspiration this week. Looking for these tiny, sometimes quick moving, creatures encouraged everybody to look closely. Drawing them was another opportunity to observe. They may be small but they are major players in the creation of soil! They also have fascinating bodies so different from people's. Most artists depend on nature for their inspiration either directly or indirectly.

Using clay as a play medium is a favourite of mine. It allows children to build on a large scale, experiment, stay loose, not expect a finished product, learn about the medium and tell stories. It is kinetic and tactile and tenacious. You can use force with it and it talks back!

-decomposer search in backyard: slugs, millipedes, centipedes, pill bugs, earthworms

-sketch what we find, read A Pill Bug's Life

-read A Log's Life about the recycling of plant material by decomposers

-free play clay- build big with potter's clay, reuse clay

-Read The Salamander Room, model sculpey salamanders

-Paint tempera backgrounds for the salamanders to 'hide in'

-ramps and balls outside (gravity play)

-sew nature journals

-built the earth's surface collaboratively with clay: water, forest, mountains

-plaster casts with clay moulds

-cave paintings like early man: made a rock coloured background with tempera, used charcoal to create a hunted animal

Week 4 Air

We barely scratched the surface of this theme. There is so much beauty in in things that use the air for movement. The wind in the sail of a ship, a bird in flight, a floating bubble, a mobile. we looked at a lot of bird images this week, tried to see the simple shapes that make up the shape of a bird. We played with air through experiments with straws, balloons and streamers. Our big project was the marionette. The construction required a lot of time and unfortunately we only started to experiment with making the marionettes move. I think there is a lot of promise in making functional art, especially the kind that supports the imaginative play of children

-bubble domes on plexiglass- homes for plastic animals

-straw painting- using air to move paint

-worked into dry straw paintings with watercolour and pastel

-bird bas reliefs with cardboard and tempera paint

-air experiments: lift and suction

-sound games

-bird cut paper collages

-papier mache marionettes with cloth bodies- characters that fly

-sew journals called Looking UP- sky sketches, face sketches for puppet

-ramps and balls- giant marble runs

-sky paintings: mix a set of colours- monochromatic blue abstract

Games at the Park: A reason to Run!

-Giant's Cave

-Hawk is Watching

-Car Wash

-Colour Search

-Turtle Egg search

-Element Game

-Bat and Moth

-Oh Deer

-Maple Seed Mix Up

-Birds and Worms

-Hot Potato

-Shadow Tag

-Hide and Seek