Monday, March 23, 2020
Now that it is Snowing
If you can find a stick and can get outside on your driveway, it's a great canvas! As you can see my colored water didn't freeze but it is changing the snow that falls on it!
Sunday, March 22, 2020
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!
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!
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| a set of colors in a big tray |
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| forms made form freezing colored water in buckets outside a cafe in Montreal (a dependable place for ice and snow!) |
Saturday, March 21, 2020
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 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.
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| crayon rubbing on driveway, vinyl siding and door step |
Friday, March 20, 2020
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
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
Thursday, March 19, 2020
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)
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)
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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!
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Summer Art Camp 2020
Summer Artcamp 2020
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
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| tissue paper collage |
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| games at the park |
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| water play |
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| 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.
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
(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
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