New Art Classes After School in Burrillville

Winter Sunset

Classes start January 8,  2014 and continue for 5 weeks. We will be creating lots of fun projects!

After School Art!

Fun printing projects and making small books!

                                             New Classes starting November 6

Solar Printing

Printing with the Sun.....one of the many kinds of prints we'll be making this fall in the Art Classes that started today. They're a lot of fun and combine art with photography and science. 

Fall Art Classes starting September 25!

Fall Art Classes Starting Soon!
We'll be painting, drawing and putting the art work into handmade books using lots of color, found objects and imagination!
Classes for ages 5 & up
Burrillville RI

Art Classes in Burrillville

Animals in Art Class is this week with lots of painting, drawing and more! Lions, tigers, bears, cats, giraffes, elephants and imaginary tigerasauruses????

Next week Oceans: Splash! We'll be painting and drawing creatures of the deep and maybe doing a little splashing ourselves!

Watercolor and Plastic!

Here are some beautiful and fun techniques to try with watercolors and plastic wrap. Instant texture!

Both were painted using lots of colors. The bottom painting was worked into with colored pencil to add shapes and emphasize the lines created by the wrinkling of the plastic wrap. This technique is a favorite in my painting classes! Hope you're inspired!

Birds, Butterflies, Flowers and Mandalas!

Birds, Butterflies, Flowers and Mandalas! These are some of the subjects of these beautiful art works created by my students and exhibited at the Art Show and Opening May 30, 2013.

MATISSE AND HIS GOLD FISH

This spring, several of my classes created these beautiful paintings inspired by Henri Mastisse. Here is the lesson for you to try.

Can be adapted for any age group

Look at the paintings of Matisse. He painted the indoor surroundings in his apartment in Paris many times. That included his bowl of goldfish. 

Time:              1 to 2 one hour classes

Visuals:           Examples of art work by Matisse.  

Materials:      12 x 18 white paper with some weight such as drawing or construction

Pencils

Oil pastels (or crayons)

Sharpie markers (for drawing on foil)

White glue

Scissors

Aluminum foil (4” x 8”)

Line drawings or pictures of fish

Step One:      Draw fish on foil, allowing the marker to dry before touching.  Add lots of patterns and colors to your fish. Cut it out and put it off to the side.  

Step Two:       Next, holding the large white paper the tall way, draw the shape of your goldfish bowl in pencil. Will it be short or tall?  Draw it so the sides are close to the edge of your paper. Use oil pastels and outline the bowl and color the water inside. Draw details in the background such as a table, patterned wallpaper, a picture on a wall, or a chair. Use complimentary colors next to each other (blue and orange, red and green, or purple and yellow).

Step Three:  Arrange all the fish inside the bowl finding the places they fit best. Create a sense of balance that is not necessarily symmetrical.  One way you can do this is by placing the large fish on one side balanced by two smaller ones on the opposite side.  When you are pleased with your arrangement  pick up each piece of foil and add dots of glue to the outer edges.

   Think of a title for your picture. Write this on  the back of your artwork.

The most beautiful thing we can experience

is the mysterious.                        Albert Einstein

                                         Student work inspired by
                                         Paul Klee's Poem Painting

A Visit to the Museum

A great thing to do on these cold winter days is to visit an art museum...to take in the many colors, varied lines, hundreds of subjects, ideas and ways artists work and respond to their environment. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence was bustling with people looking and even taking notes on what they were seeing when I visited yesterday. Van Gogh, Martin, Monet, Cassatt, Soto, Rothko, Frankenthaler and Pollock are just some of the many artists works found in this beautiful jewel of a museum. We even heard a live classical concert echoing through the museums hallways and galleries. Check it out for a worthwhile way to spend a  winter's afternoon!

                                                                       Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees
                                                                       Vincent Van Gogh

Upcoming Winter/Spring Art Classes

ART CLASSESl AFTER SCHOOL AND SATURDAYS! Winter 2013

Sponsored by Burrillville Parks and Recreation

EXPLORING ART AND GREAT ARTISTS-SATURDAYS

Burrillville Recreation Center, Lodge Rd, Pascoag RI 02859

11:00 – 12 noon -Ages 5 to 8   and  12:30 – 2:00 – Ages 9 and up   

Fee: $12 -includes materials

January 19      Meet O'Keefe                                  April 20   Meet Audobon

February 16    Meet Van Gogh                                May 18    Meet Kandinsky

March 16        Meet Matisse

ART AROUND THE WORLD- AFTER SCHOOL

Grades K - 5   Wednesdays 3:00 – 4:30 pm

LEVY ELEMENTARY                               February 27 – April 3 (no class 3/20)

STEERE  FARM  ELEMENTARY           April 24 – May 22

Fee:$45 for 5 weeks – includes all materials

Your child will be introduced to the foundations of drawing, painting and sculpture in an ENGAGING creative environment. Students will have FUN creating original art work and inspiration will flow from the great artists of the times!

Email delljon@aol.com to register

Image File for Inspiration

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

From time to time I will post ways to keep you inspired .......with ideas, pictures and words so that when you hit a dry spell in coming up with a creative project you will have a file of different ideas to get jump started again.
So one that I find really helpful is to make an Image File.

•  Tear out pictures from magazines
• Make copies from books or the internet
• Save a card, menu, program, map or anything that attracts you and that you love.

 Keep these papers in a file or huge envelope. Post some of them on a board that you hang in your creative space. You can continually add to this file. Let me know if you have any other ideas to add to the image file.