Art in Motion

Last week we did bodies in motion. People are always moving around, and it’s good to learn how to capture gesture.  We’ll do another figure class before we move on to faces. But we’re all hearts and roses this week

Weekly Update

The students did a great job with the perspective lessons. Now, on to figures and faces. Dig these awesome artworks, and scroll down for the CLASS SCHEDULE CLASS SCHEDULE If you are on the list, I expect that you are coming,

Perspective Plus!

Last week we paid attention to one-point perspective. It’s an important lesson to remember about how the horizon and vanishing point impact a composition, and keeping things like buildings, trees, windows and doors logical sizes, and parallel with the page edges.

Mastering

Over the past few weeks we’ve been learning from masters like Franz Marc, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Isaac Levitan, Paul Cezanne, Johannes Vermeer, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Katsushika Hokusai, Pablo Picasso, and Georgia O’Keefe.  We could study the masters

Learning from the Masters

We have a lot to learn from the masters, and last week we looked at a lot of masterworks, and the self portraits of a bunch famous masters. It’s not surprising that there were hardly any female painters back in

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and Welcome back! We did upside-down Santa the week before Christmas, and the kids are hoping for more upside-down work in future. It is a great way to take the brain out of the art-making operation, and get to

Holiday Art

Last week students made seasonal artworks for cards. This week is upside-down Santa based on the works of Mike Beeman, my favorite Santa (and bird) painter. Making upside-down paintings is a wonderful exercise where we look at colors, values, and shapes

Christmas is Coming!

Always visit here for the weekly updates. With that late Thanksgiving and a snow day last Tuesday, we’re in a big rush to get ready for the holidays. This week we’ll be doing more card designs, and next week Upside-down

‘Tis the Season

I had a wonderful week off.  Now here come the holidays, and it’s already time to start making greeting cards!  Over the next few weeks, artists can make artworks as designs for greeting cards. I print them out, and each

Turkey Time

The students made some wild and awesome turkey paintings last week. Enjoy these Grade A turkey products, and scroll down for the schedule.   CLASS SCHEDULE THIS WEEK – Fall Free Draw, the only requirement is that it has to have a