Frozen!

Art Idea of the Day, well actually Night

The temperatures will be below freezing tonight. We haven't had enough snow and ice play this winter so why not make some colored ice? Find as many plastic containers as you can. Add water and food color. Put outside and see what you have in the morning. You may have elements for a sculpture, jewels for fairies or pieces to smash!

a set of colors in a big tray

forms made form freezing colored water in buckets outside a cafe in Montreal (a dependable place for ice and snow!)

Find Some Texture

Art Idea of the Day:

Crayon Rubbings
All you need is a crayon and a piece of paper. There are textured surfaces everywhere inside and outside. Fat crayons are the best for this but any will do. If the crayon has a paper wrapper, peel it off. You will be using the side of the crayon, the whole edge of the cylinder. Lay paper on top of a hard surface, drag the crayon across your paper repeatedly and watch the impression appear! Make layers with different colors! Become a texture hunter.

crayon rubbing on driveway, vinyl siding and door step

Watery Art

Hello to All! I hope you enjoy this warm day.
I spent the morning at Plum Island- big roaring surf, high tide and shorebirds blending perfectly with the waves. There were plovers, gulls and 4 surfers!

Two Watery Ideas:

1 Make Jewels from water droplets and a little food color. Go slow! One drop at a time.
(this careful dropping will get old but it's beautiful to prolong it! When it does watch what happens when the droplets touch each other. The properties of water are putting on a show!)
Dry off your plate and do it again!

2 Wax Resist:
 Another masking technique. Draw an invisible drawing with a candle or white crayon. Paint over with watercolor paint or diluted food color. Watercolor tape works the best but if you don't have any, try other kinds

First Day of Spring

Happy First Day of Spring.

Art Idea of the Day:
Masking! there is a reason masking tape is called masking tape. It can be used to cover an area of paper to protect the original color. Watercolorists do this all the time to keep some of their paper white as they add color.

1 Take a piece of heavy paper/matboard
2 Make a pattern with masking tape
3 Color the whole thing with markers or paint
4 Take the tape off
5 Since it was raining I put the paper outside to see what the rain would do to it! (not much- I guess the markers were permanent)

Time for Art!

Hello to All-

I hope everyone is managing this ambiguous time! There are so many things to worry about and so much time to do so! But there are some silver linings- the way so many people are using the technology we have to stage virtual meetings. I had a choir practice with Zoom last night, did a yoga class my teacher set up on Utube and have long text message conversations with teachers and my sisters. And we are spending more time outside! When I walk in Great Meadows, on the bike path or in the Brackett neighborhood I see so many friends and entire families walking together!

A Room for Art is closed with the public schools, preschools and most businesses. I am still taking registration for Summer Camp with the optimistic hope that the contagion will be resolved by June. But now we wait! 

Speaking of silver linings there is time to draw. It is so easy to think sweeping your stairs or doing the laundry or raking your leaves is more urgent than drawing an egg on your kitchen table!

Simple pencil drawing makes you look for what's light and what's dark. It's light that gives form! That is the essence of making something look like it has volume. I had a teacher that called 2D art trying to portray 3D as illusion making. Painters are Illusionists!

Idea of the day: (not a new idea) Go outside look at a tree, plant, a ball, a scooter. What is light? What is dark? what is in-between? Take a picture or do a drawing.

Yesterday's Idea: ( I am catching up!)

What can you make from T.P. rolls (as many as you like) , string, tape, hole punch and scissors? (maybe markers too) Send me your results!

Summer Art Camp 2020

 Summer Artcamp 2020

tissue paper collage

games at the park

water play

papier mache project

What:
Summer Art Camp is a morning program for 5-11yr olds. Art projects are linked to games, stories, playful physical challenges and experimentation with elements like water, sand, clay, bubbles, earth and air. We do individual and collaborative work with a variety of 2D and 3D materials. The work is inspired by nature, fine artists, the materials themselves, and each other. It’s summer and the aim is to get wet, dirty and immersed in the elements!

When: 9am -12noon

Week 1 June 29- July 3
Week 2 July 20- July 24
Week 3 July 27-July 31

Where:

115 Robbins Rd, Arlington

Camp will be held in the studio down the driveway to the right of the house. Door is on the left. We will also work and play in the yard and at Robbins Farm Park

Approximate Schedule:

9:00 Gathering activity outside and inside
9:15 Meeting and Art Project, free play
10:30 Bathroom and snack
11:00 Walk to the Park, Games (this timing is subject to weather, how much everybody needs an open space to run and the whim of all the artists involved)
OR
Free play at studio

12:00 Pickup at 115 Robbins Rd

Early Pickup: Let me know if you need to pick up your child early. You can come to the park if we are there.

How to contact us during camp:
Studio: 781 646 8880

Ann’s cell: 781 366 5955

Drop off and Pick up: 115 Robbins Rd

What to bring

Bring:
-water bottle
- if raining, a rain coat

Wear:
- hat
-shoes to run in(no flip flops please)
-clothes that can get dirt, paint, glue and more on them(I have smocks)
-sunscreen (please apply at home)

It is also helpful if you eat breakfast and do a bathroom visit before you come to camp! (full stomach, empty bladder)


Snack: I serve snack!

-Mid morning snack of some combination of crackers, cheese, bagels, muffins, yogurt, fruit or vegetables.
-Water for the drink.

Let me know if there are food issues

Assistants:
I will have an assistant with me from 9-12 each day. They will help
me with materials, bathroom runs, cleanup and the trip to the park.


The Art

Visit my blog for pictures of past projects and summer camp archives. It will give you an idea of the materials I use regularly and the kinds of activities we do at camp. During Summer Camp we will do more with the outdoors and nature for inspiration. Each week will have a loose theme to tie the activities together. Some of the projects will produce products that we can play with outside. Some projects will be collaborative and others will simply be art to look at. There will be free time to experiment with materials.

The media will be a mixture of 2D and 3D.

I’ll let you know the themes later! (Not only do I need time to get it altogether, I also think that a theme does not tell a child what camp’s going to be like)

Registration! Please Read-

I am not going to take information by email rather by mail (paper). Send me an email and I will send you the  a registration package that you can drop off or mail. 

 When I receive a complete package your child will be registered.

(This way I won’t chase anyone for contact information or $ and I can think about ART!)

Fees:
$200 per week per child, $50 due at time of registration, balance due on or before 1st day of class
Sibling discount: 10% off total

The Registration Package
-contact information form
-photo and walk release
-$50 deposit per child per week
-cheques payable to Ann Wynne
-mailing address: 115 Robbins Rd Arlington, Ma 02476

Spring Art 2020

In the Spring we bring out all the paint and spend more time outside. Acrylic, tempera, watercolor and mixed media. Our last class will be the traditional extreme painting when we have an outdoor session of marble, splatter and optional body painting. (or any other kinetic invention we come up with). Weather permitting


Classes will meet every other week with a larger gap in frequency for the Tuesday class around the April vacation. The total number of classes in the session is 5. The classes will remain mixed age. (K-Gr 5)

Spring 2020

All classes 3:30-5pm
drop off at studio door down the driveway to the right of the house 115 Robbins

Tuesday 3/10, 3/24, 4/7, 5/5, 5/19
Thursday 3/19, 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14

Fee: $100 for 5 classes

Open Studios: First fridays of the month 3/6, 4/3, 5/1
All welcome, $5 drop in fee, $10 max for families, if you can let me know the day before that you are coming.

To register for classes:
Send me an email with your child’s name, date of birth, your name and class preference. If you have not been with me this fall and winter, I will send you a contact information form for you to fill out and return to me before the first day of class.








Thanks, Ann