Children and Young Adult Art Classes
Join us in an outdoor adventure! Learn how to draw landscape, natural scenes and architecture by traveling to various sites along the La Jolla Cove. In each three-hour session you will learn how to capture the essence of a landscape or outdoor still life. Miss Ellen will demonstrate the rules of perspective and sighting, and will show you how light constantly changes. We will start with small studies of natural objects using a variety of media including chalk pastels, oil pastels, watercolors and acrylic paint. We will then move on to a complete landscape or outdoor still life. Sign up early; space is very limited! Students meet at the Athenaeum and then walk to the site with Miss Ellen.
Materials: A $30 materials fee can be paid to Christina at the first class meeting.
Be adventurous! Be imaginative! DIG IN AND JOIN THE FUN! Squish up that clay! Explore a variety of projects in basic hand-building with clay, creating large creatures, masks and imaginary environments. There also will be plenty of time on the potter’s wheel for everyone to learn techniques in throwing a pot. Try your hand at abstract sculpture, too. Remember to wear old clothes; this can get messy—yes! But, isn’t that what adds to the fun?
Materials: All materials will be supplied for a fee of $35, which should be paid to Ellen at the first class meeting. This fee includes all clay and supplies needed to create fantastic sculptures and the firing of each work of art. Wear clothes that can get dirty.
This class will give students the opportunity to create unique works of art, as they explore the elements of color and design. Through painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture projects students will learn about the principles of fine art, such as color theory, positive and negative space, and basic design. We’ll also discover the secret behind the creation of tessellations and one-point perspective landscapes.
Materials: $30 materials fee can be paid to Christina at the first class meeting.
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