Spokane Art School Summer Art Classes for Kids
Children
Abstract
Animal Rain Stick
If you love
mask making this is a class for you! Students will explore paint and drawing abstract animals. Create a supper
cool mask and then turn it into a colorful, original Rain Stick!
Color Your World
Put down the eraser and be free! Mistakes are the tricks
that help us figure out our own kooky, crazy, artistic “style”. So, get out
your imagination and get ready to explore the artist in you!
Let’s Paint
Come in and create a fun project and finish it up with
paint. We will explore color mixing, drawing and look at the art of someone
famous!
Acrylic
Painting
An
introduction to the highly forgiving, versatile medium of acrylic paint.
Basic Book Binding
Basic book binding will show you many ways to bind paper or
other materials into a book or scroll or just something fun to peer into like a
tunnel book. You can bind unique books of collected things or family histories
or photo albums or calendars or personal journals or records or… it is fun to
make blank books for friends too. You can also create a large number of things
with the techniques of book binding such as slip covers, folios, boxes and much
more.
Basic
Drawing
An
introduction to the skills of drawing for people who have not taken formal art
classes and may need to attain confidence in their drawing skills.
Basic Mask Making
Basic mask making will start you out with six ways of making
masks you will make yourself. We will show you several dozen more masks from
around the world in fun short slide shows. Masks have many uses from ritual to
safety and we will talk about some of the ways masks are most commonly used and
try our hand at masked reader’s theater
Create your own Graphic Novel
Students will learn basics of creating a graphic novel
through visual storytelling, how to write dialogue and pace the script,
character studies, visual research for costumes and places and props, pencils
to inking and other ways to create the drawings, and perhaps most important,
how to reach your audience.
How to Create Picture Books
This class is adapted from my college level course filled
with easy and surprising assignments that will have you creating picture books
just for fun and maybe profit whether you think of yourself as an artist or a
writer or both.
Oil Painting
The
techniques and skills of the time-honored medium of oil painting.
Paper Cutting Workshop
Learn the basics of paper cutting from folding to design.
Pop-Ups and Other Mechanical Paper Art
This class will give you basic Pop-Up skills and patterns to
make your own Pop-Ups for cards or books or gifts for family and/or friends.
Each week’s curriculum is unique and we will focus on different techniques.
Watercolor Improvisation
Sign up for the day you can come or sign up for as many as
you like for the whole summer coming when you can but this painting experience
ends August 20th though it may come again this fall.
This is a course for those of you who only want to
experience the joy of painting without subject or plan but spontaneously with
shapes of color and line and form. We choose watercolor as out medium because
it can be so spontaneous. We will seek to live in the moment of painting, an
active mediations, to discover the color of our feelings and the movement of
our thoughts.
Preregistration is a required for all
classes
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