Grace Roberts is one of my youngest painting students at the Arthouse and very talented and interested in the arts. She came into the arthouse with eagerness to learn as much as she could about art, artists and specific art styles.
This is Grace's second Georgia O'Keeffe study... she almost finished this in an hour! Grace is a very fast and creative painter. She went step by step placing the flower in it's format and composition.
Then she added color washes over each area, giving the flower value and color.
This painting is very mono-chromatic, so she learned about mixing complementary colors and how if you add red to green you can get a shade of green, and if you mix the right amount and add a tint you can create a gray with a slight hue.
She's using acrylic paints which is nice for younger students because they are nontoxic and they also dry very fast.
Grace is ten years old, and I'm so excited for her as an artist and young person. She already has so much talent, and what she could do with that is beyond my imagination! So many possibilities...
Grace finished this painting in about 3 hours (two classes) and is now working on a piece inspired by Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe.
These are some pictures of our Intermediate drawing/painting class on Thursday's 6:30-8pm.
Grace Roberts is one of my youngest painting students at the Arthouse and very talented and interested in the arts. She came into the arthouse with eagerness to learn as much as she could about art, artists and specific art styles.
This is Grace's second Georgia O'Keeffe study... she almost finished this in an hour! Grace is a very fast and creative painter. She went step by step placing the flower in it's format and composition.
Then she added color washes over each area, giving the flower value and color.
This painting is very mono-chromatic, so she learned about mixing complementary colors and how if you add red to green you can get a shade of green, and if you mix the right amount and add a tint you can create a gray with a slight hue.
She's using acrylic paints which is nice for younger students because they are nontoxic and they also dry very fast.
Grace is ten years old, and I'm so excited for her as an artist and young person. She already has so much talent, and what she could do with that is beyond my imagination! So many possibilities...
We're doing fun new things this session for the parent/guardian and child classes. Let us not exclude Fathers and Grand-parents, it's not just a Mommy and me class:) First we have a new Mural painting class. We will work on large scale mural, which will be installed outside as public art the for all to see. Also we offer a Clay class where we use hand building techniques to make multiple sculptures from clay that will will be fired and glazed. In our drawing and painting class we will be working with multiple drawing materials; charcoal, graphite, pastels, ink etc and painting in water colors and acrylic. Finally, the Art Start class is our most popular class, because you get a variety of all mediums, clay, paint, fibers, sculpture, drawing... I hope to hear from you at the arthouse. Come and enjoy making art with our children along with the company of other parents.
