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<\/p>\nOctober and the harvest season offers such an abundance of\u00a0artistic opportunities, they overflow into November. This month we’ll be experimenting with paper mache mask making, skeleton studies with Bones McJones, pumpkins and scary stuff, and culminating at the end of the month with the Great Halloween Candy Challenge.<\/p>\n
Artists really learned a lot from doing the trike. Jim thought they should do the smaller skeleton on the trike, but they’ve had enough trike for now. Enjoy these awesome tricycle paintings and scroll down for the class schedule.<\/p>\n
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THIS WEEK Wed, Oct 6, 3:45-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Advanced Art Thurs, Oct 7, 4-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Down & Dirty<\/strong> NEXT\u00a0WEEK Wed, Oct 13, 3:45-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Advanced Art Thurs, Sept 30, 4-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Down & Dirty<\/strong> October and the harvest season offers such an abundance of\u00a0artistic opportunities, they overflow into November.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-lessons","category-student-work","category-schedule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9-30-lila.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nyYC-1qL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5481,"url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/falling-into-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":0},"title":"Falling into Art","author":"heidimayo","date":"September 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Our skeleton Bones Jones bit the dust down cellar, so I have replaced him with his rich uncle Bones McJones, an anatomically correct professional skeleton with all 206 bones in the right places. 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\n<\/strong>Tues, Oct 5, 4-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Down &\u00a0Dirty<\/strong>
\nAmy
\nBrooke
\nGraeme
\nCaroline
\nroom for 2<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sarah
\nMegan
\nJack
\nEmma P
\nSophia<\/p>\n
\nChar H
\nLila
\n<\/strong>Faith & Elizabeth (every other)
\nroom for 2<\/p>\n
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\nTues, Oct 12, 4-5:30\u00a0\u2013 Down &\u00a0Dirty<\/strong>
\nCaroline
\nAmy
\nBrooke
\nGraeme
\nroom for 2<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sarah
\nMegan
\nJack
\nSophia
\n(no Emma P)<\/p>\n
\nChar H
\nLila
\n<\/strong>Izzy
\nElena
\nroom for 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"