Art Class Schedules

Buzzzzzzzz, let’s follow the lines of a fly, and practice our drawing skills. Holding a drawing tool and making purposefully lines is a great start to art! Max Ernst is known for painting of a war-torn Europe, but he also painted the colorful flight patterns of a fly!

Hans Hoffman will inspire our study of shapes and colors. What happens when colors and shapes overlap? This day of art will inspire the scientist in all of us!

It’s time to get physical! Dale Chihuly’s enormous glass sculptures have a distinct look and feel. We will achieve these bright colors and stretched shapes using paper, paint, and string. If you can pull, you can make exciting art!

Did you know we love maps here at AT4K? Let’s look at the interesting History of Mapmaking from Ptolemy to GPS. Maps for trade routes and maps for treasure, of course! We will crumple, rip, glue, and paint as we imagine the adventurers of past and present. 

If you love autumn, then I bet you love the MOON… but why? What is your favorite moon shape or phase? More importantly, how have artists painted it throughout the years? Let’s look at some famous painting of the moon and paint our own moons.  

Contemporary artist Sandy Skoglund creates Installation Art and photographs her surreal scenes. What do you think about “Revenge of the Goldfish?” Let’s make fish art to fill a room just like Sandy Skoglund.

Spiders get a bad wrap this time of year… they are NOT spooky! Just ask Louise Bourgeois: she honored the spider as an industrious weaver, just like her mother. We are making clay spiders with 8 spindly legs this week.

Have you been noticing the colorful leaves? Please collect your favorites and bring them to class. We are turning them into art, but maybe not the way you are expecting… Howardena Pindell loved hole punches in her artwork. Let’s make a fall-inspired glue drawing sprinkled with the colors of the autumn trees.

Celebrate randomness: drip art inspired by a fly. Max Ernst is known for painting of a war-torn Europe, but he also painted the colorful flight patterns of a fly! Also: “grattage” experiments.

The drip paintings have dried, and the randomness and chance of last week needs some decisions from the artist! We will enhance with added colors, shapes, and purposeful marks to finish our Max Ernst painting. Check out “Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly” 1942-47.

It’s time to get physical! Dale Chihuly’s enormous glass sculptures have a distinct look and feel. We will achieve these bright colors and stretched shapes using paper, paint, and string. If you can pull, you can make exciting art!

Let’s learn about Totem poles. Who made them and why? We will create our own stacked wooden sculpture after careful planning.

Part 2 of our Totem pole project: We will add paint to our miniature totem poles to create symbols and stylized animal images, just like the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.

Contemporary artist Sandy Skoglund creates Installation Art and photographs her surreal scenes. What do you think about “Revenge of the Goldfish?” Our lesson this week will focus on creating the illusion of three dimensional space with a repeated image. Stamping with paint and oil pastels will add color!*

Howardena Pindell loves hole punches in her artwork. Let’s learn about her motivations and look into the windows of her artwork. Let’s begin a multi-media self-portrait that is not the usual self-portrait!* 

Have you been noticing the colorful leaves? Please collect your favorites and bring them to class. Howardena Pindell loved hole punches in her artwork. Let’s make a fall-inspired glue drawing sprinkled with the colors of the autumn trees. (Also time to finish week 7 portrait!)

Have you every contemplated the flight of a fly? Before Max Ernst painted a war-torn Europe, he created a drip painting that celebrated randomness, then added patterns and order. Let’s drip paint and create a similar work of our own!

The drip paintings have dried, and the randomness and chance of last week needs some decisions from the artist! We will enhance with added colors, shapes, and purposeful marks to finish our Max Ernst painting. Check out “Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly” 1942-47.

 It’s time to get physical! Dale Chihuly’s enormous glass sculptures have a distinct look and feel. We will achieve these bright colors and stretched shapes using paper, paint, and string. If you can pull, you can make exciting art! (Shading and drawing skills.)

Totem Poles part 1- We will learn about the significance of totem poles, where they are found and why they were made.  We will design and plan our own totem design, and begin shaping plastilina clay for a subtractive sculpture.

Totem Poles part 2- carving into plastilina clay. Using tools and our plans from last week, we will carve and shape the images and designs for our very own totem pole.

Contemporary artist Sandy Skoglund creates Installation Art and then photographs her surreal scenes. What do you think about “Revenge of the Goldfish” and the other animal and food installations? Let’s translate her surrealist style into a fantasy drawing that shows depth and space. Can we repeat one animal or object and make it appear near and far?

Howardena Pindell loves hole punches in her artwork. She also created a compelling self-portrait depicting herself surrounded by family memories after a car accident that took away her short-term memory. Let’s learn about her motivations and look into the windows of her artwork. Let’s begin a multi-media self-portrait that is not the usual “self-portrait!” 

Part 2 of Howardena Pindell’s multi-media creation. Using unusual mediums and holes and images, we will finish up our very personal expression of who we are and where we are going.