Children & Youth Lessons

Learning • Seeing • Interpreting...
Students will learn step-by-step fundamental skills of drawing, painting and understanding color. As students’ skill levels increase, so will the challenges of each new project. In addition to learning technical and artistic skills, students gain patience, focus, pride and confidence in their work. They come to see it is completely possible to set and realize their artistic goals.
A wide range of mediums and techniques and projects will be explored, including:

  • Charcoal Drawing • Pen & Ink
  • Pencil Drawing • Water Based Oil Pastels
  • Collage • Painting with Tempera

Visuals of painters, past and present will be shown to help
students understand different methods of painting and techniques - from abstract to realism, expressionism to pointillism and everything in between. Learning from the work of other artists can provide invaluable insight and discoveries of the individual qualities of the artist. Studying their version of the way color and style, lines and perspective are used can inspire and reflect on their own work.

 

Girl Painting

 
 


Boy Sketching

Some of our many projects through out the year include:

  • Still Life
    Working with a variety of three-dimensional objects, study composition, positive and negative space and the effects of lights and dark on form and volume.
  • Figure Drawing
    Working from a clothed model, to capture the action and essence of a pose. Quick sketching with charcoal and pencil.
  • Collage
    A variety of material glued to a surface such as mat board, cardboard, foam core, etc. Learning to use different textures to create different designs, compositions and patterns.
  • Pencil and Pen Ink Drawing
    Studying shading and crosshatching, different line
    qualities and textures and how light changes patterns
    and form, looking from different angles.
  • Self Portrait
    Draw from photos of self and study placement of features and shapes

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YAC Young Artist Competition WINNERS

 
           
     
Young Artist Competition