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"The goal is to assist children in becoming vocal creative thinkers, innovators and positive risk takers. Because our future relies on each generation to make things better. - Mrs. McColl
Understanding The Importance of Art for Children
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1. Art promotes creativity. Creativity is the ability to think outside the box, to string two unrelated ideas together in a new way. Solutions to major problems and breakthroughs of all kinds are linked to creativity. 2. Art encourages neural connections. Art is an activity that can employ all the senses––sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste––depending on the activity. 3. Art builds fine motor skills. Using a paintbrush, drawing dots and lines, mixing colors, cutting with scissors, controlling a glue stick or squeezing a glue bottle, kneading and rolling playdough, tearing paper--all of these tasks require increasing amounts of dexterity and coordination, yet they are so fun and rewarding that children want to do them over and over. As kids engage in art activities over time, their fine motor skills improve 4. Art develops problem-solving abilities Open-ended, process-oriented art is nothing but an endless opportunity for making choices, coming to conclusions, second-guessing decisions, and evaluating results. 5. Art helps kids understand themselves and their world. Children absorb incredible amounts of new information, and they need to process what they have learned in a safe, reflective way. When we encourage our children to explore art, we encourage them to master themselves, their bodies, and a variety of tools and techniques. Art gives them many ways to express themselves. 6. Art helps kids connect. Art is an equalizer, helping create a common ground for children who don’t know each other and who may or may not be interested in the same things. It can help people of all ages, races, abilities, and even languages engage in a shared (and generally mutually loved) activity. When more than one student is in the session it is a great time for students to review one another's work in a small, informal critique. Constructive criticism teaches everyone more about what and how we see other's work, and it encourages the proper way to give and receive positive feedback; building proper communication skills. sources: The Artful Parent |
Basic Drawing great for new students (light sketching, repetition, line quality, inking, color pencil shading)
Classical Drawing (capturing distances, angles and more) Abstract Art brush strokes, experimenting with color, motion art styles (Jackson Pollack) Acrylic Painting (brush styles, paint brushes maintenance, color theory, grid method transfer, pointillism and more) Cross Hatching (classical drawing, simple hatching, cross hatching) Block Printing (graphite transferring, block carving, high contrast design, ink printing, mounting) Manga (manga face proportions, character design, body proportions and more) Graphite Drawing (Advanced Classical Drawing, graphite shading, stumps and tortillions, eraser shields) Portraiture (facial proportions, compressed charcoal, vine charcoal etc.) Oil Pastel (application, color mixing) Still Life (composition, drawing from life, shape/form, light theory and rendering, training the eye) Papier-Mache (requires extra creativity to design a hybrid creature) Clay (requires extra creativity to design using tools to attach forms) Interior Perspective (advanced drawing techniques of buildings interior and exterior) Students learn Vanishing points one and two point perspective Students will also learn other perspective techniques throughout other project series. This project is specifically for interiors of buildings and structures) more options coming... |
When more than one student is in the session it is a great time for students to review one another's work in a small, informal critique. Constructive criticism teaches everyone more about what and how we see other's work, and it encourages the proper way to give and receive positive feedback; building proper communication skills.