Color Exploration

The last two weeks in painting, students have been reviewing primary, secondary and tertiary colors. They created hue charts and started an abstract geometric painting in which they had to create several tertiary colors.

In preschool this quarter, painting activities continue and students have access to collage materials as well. Exploration is everywhere!

Spring Quarter has Begun!

Painting with charcoal: very messy!



























The first week of the Spring Quarter has been fantastic! This quarter focuses on painting and we began by looking at some of the oldest paintings in the cave of Lascaux. Students made paint from ground up charcoal as we talked about pigments and vehicles (or binders). Next we talked about value and students created value scales with black and white paint. More painting fun to come!

Last Week of Printmaking

Toadsworth's pillowcase



































Silkscreen fun!










Linoleum block prints
















Linoleum block and print















Drypoint and watercolor
















Drypoint and watercolor

















This is the last week of the winter quarter! Final prints were made and in one class we silk screened shirts and pillow cases.
Next week begins the spring quarter. This up-coming quarter is all about painting in the core classes. Sign up for an art adventure! Adult class include ceramics, drawing and photography.

Drypoint, Preschool Art and more..

An artist and his palette















So happy to be painting!















Printing and Etching















Woods, pond and path drypoint



















Drypoint















Winter print















Drypoint print




















Slip casting during the adult clay class




















Incredible clay face




















Making faces









































Print made with recycled lids, popsicle sticks and fingers


































Fine Arts Fund Weekend


Last week was pretty quiet here in the art room! We had snow piled up over the windows and classes canceled. We did manage to continue drypoint this week: several students printed their plates while others continued to etch and sketch (ha).

The preschool class was busy painting with different brushes and printing with crumpled paper.

The younger printmaking students also explored printing with found objects, sponges, and doilies. Today they printed in clay!

On another note: this past weekend was the Fine Arts Fund Sampler and we had about 80-100 people in the art room!

A Little Valentines Fun

This week, we took a little break from printmaking to create cards for the upcoming holiday.
The adult clay class has been working on sculpting large -scale work. Here are some images of smaller works recently finished.

Printing into February

Collagraphs were so much fun, it has been hard to leave them behind and start Drypoint.
The older students began etching their plexiglass plates this week while the younger students etched into foam. The preschool class is also experimenting with printing using a variety of objects, including sponges!