Winter Session 2015

Printing! 
As we leave our footprints in the snow this season we will experiment with different printing materials and methods. Almost anything can be a block (something you ink, press paper and get an impression from) -plexiglass (mono prints), styrofoam blocks, found objects, rubber, wood or your own hand! We'll combine prints we make with other media like watercolor or collage

block printing over watercolor

 Logistics
-Classes are every other week, with some interruptions. Please mark your calendars! 

-All classes are 3:30-5pm except the Architecture Course which is 3:30-5:30pm. 

-5 classes $100, sibling discount 10% off total.

-To enroll, send me an email with class preference and second choice. If I don’t already have it, your child’s date of birth. 

-I will send confirmation soon. Classes will run if I have at least 3 students. 

-New families I will send paperwork. Please bring fees and paperwork to the first class!

Schedule:
Tuesday K/Gr 1/6, 1/20, 2/3, 2/24, 3/10
Tuesday Gr 2-4 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 3/3, 3/17
Wed Gr 3-5 1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/11
Thursday Gr 5-8 2/5, 2/12/ 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 consecutive thursdays (starts when the architecture course ends. You can take both!)

AND The Architecture course with Eileen!

Middle School Architecture with Eileen Murphy McNamara
4 consecutive January Thursdays: 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 3-5pm

townhouse models

Come join Eileen, artist, painter, architect and educator for a hands on exploration of architectural concepts. The 4 class workshop will include visual and drawing exercises, building challenges, and model making. How does it feel to be a building? Think like an architect, see negative space and take a stab at solving Arlington’s own building/planning challenges!

Enroll soon. Max 6 students
Fee: $100

shadow painting with tempera

Fall Art Classes:

Classes will be Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday 3:30-5pm, every other week with a few exceptions because of holidays and my work at Habitat. I will also send weekly reminders about the upcoming week's classes.

5 class session is $100 cheques payable to Ann Wynne
Fees due first week of class
To register send me an email with your child's name, date of birth, preference for class and and other availability. I will confirm by email that you have a spot in that class.

This Fall I'm going to start with collections of natural materials and see where the objects take us. Rocks, sticks, shells, seed pods, fungus...We'll move on to found objects which to means 'anything' to me. (Chatchkes- correct my spelling if you know yiddish) dolls, stuffed animals, shoes, toy cars, nuts and bolts, hats... I will be asking students to bring in a collection(if they have one) or if they would have fun collecting one. We'll draw, paint, build, make books and hopefully we will all will be surprised at what happens!

Grade 5-8
Although the projects for all classes will use similar materials the older class will be different as follows:
-each class will start with a drawing exercise (visual fitness!)
-each student will keep files of his/her work: Finished(I like it!), To be Finished (It needs something), To be made into something else (I don't like this) This will be an attempt for students to reflect and make more decisions about their work.

Here's the schedule. My age categories are an attempt at grouping like ages but they are flexible. Mostly I want to offer classes that will fit your child's schedule. So let me know if it doesn't work for you. As always if you see errors let me know!

Tuesday K/Gr1
10/7, 10/21, 11/4, 11/18, 12/2

Thursday K-Gr2
10/9, 10/ 23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/11

Tuesday Gr 2-4
10/14, 10/28, 11/11*, 11/25, 12/9
*Veteran's Day- class is ON

Wednesday Gr 3-5
10/15, 10/29, 11/12*, 11/19*,12/10
*note these 2 are consecutive

Thursday Gr 5-8
10/16, 10/30, 11/13, 12/4, 12/18

Artcamp 2014

Week One
Big and Small
-draw from an ant's perspective
-watercolor and permanent marker insects
-collage figure out of proportion
-big tempera creature painting

Week Two
Creatures Real and Imagined
-papier mache creatures: recycled materials armature using masking tape, papier mache wrapping, paint with tempera, accessories added with glue
-accordion books with sets of creatures, colored pencil and marker

Week Three
Story Inspired Art
-Press Here by Herve Tullet: tissue collage
-Eric Carle: mono prints using tempera and plexiglass (paper for collages)
-Are you my Mother, Eric Carle: collages
-Swimmy by Leo Lionni: styrofoam sheet printing
-The Big Orange Splat by Daniel Pinkwater: drawings of dream houses

Week Four
Art That Moves
-shadow paintings
-homemade slides
-shadow puppets
-splatter and marble painting, tempera painting
-Picasso faces: watercolor and crayon resist

Extreme Painting
No matter what our age most of us humans love water. We are drawn to substances in their liquid state. Water is what we are predominantly made of and its presence is necessary for all life. No wonder children who are good at focusing on essential matters like eating, sleeping, running, jumping, playing love liquids! Water squirts, spills, splashes, seeps, sticks, and takes the shape of any vessel you put it in. It comes in many states and is infinitely changeable. So when it comes to paint, it is also no surprise that children love it also. Not only is it a liquid but it comes in different colors! Like water paint has fantastic properties to explore. Different paint behaves differently and children quickly learn this as they play.
The painting we do in the spring, that has become known as extreme painting, is all about getting to know what tempera paint can do. It also satisfies the ever present desire in most children to make things move. Flinging paint on a surface and witnessing the surprising results never loses its appeal. Not everyone appreciates Jackson Pollock's canvasses but few can deny that his process looks fun!
Marbles as objects are beautiful things and as they make their pathways through wet paint they take on another life. They become the painters and the children the witnesses (with a little bit of input as the movers of the tray).
As for body painting, all you have to do is see a child paint their arms and legs blue and witness the delight, enthusiasm- the transformation and you will know it is good! I have seen sweet girls paint their hands black and their inner witch comes to the surface. Boys turned to spots or stripes jump and growl as the animal emerges. I am not an anthropologist but their has to be something universal and primal in body painting. It is involved in so many rituals that give meaning to cultures. In my driveway we are light in ritual and heavy in paint!

What we did last year: A summary Fall 2013, Winter 2014 and Spring 2014

Fall 2013
PRINT
-print with tempera paint and and found objects
-homemade stencils from hardtack, tempera with rollers
-styrofoam sheets, textured and printed with block printing ink
-collographs- matboard assemblage with acrylic medium

Winter 2014
BUILD 2D-3D
-collage
-assemblage with cardboard
-3D paper
-matboard stabiles, planes in space
-big grey clay

Spring 2014
PAINT
-pastel and watercolor resist
-watercolor and collage using one magazine image, surrealist theme
-accordion books, collage and marker
-shadow apintings
-extreme painting- splatter, marble and body