REGISTRATION FOR WINTER-SPRING SEMESTER STARTS ON DECEMBER 1, 2022.

This course is teaching all important art fundamentals and all common art materials to kids of various levels. If your child wants to draw, paint and sculpt realistically from real life and imagination, it is the right choice. For drawing in cartoon style, check

Sketching for Kids.  

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Each lesson covers an important art concept, needed for fluent representational drawing and painting. It is combined with an 2-3 minute intro to a cultural phenomenon: a style, and epoch, or a single artist. Students get to create their original artworks from scratch within the guidelines of the topic. Each topic can be adjusted to a variety of levels, from beginners to advanced.

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We start a lesson with a short lecture and demonstration (live in studios, pre-recorded for online lessons). Teachers provide advice, help, correct the digital image of a student's work, explain what works in particular cases and what does not, and why.

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This class is ongoing, students can join anytime. Important concepts like drawing humans and animals, nature, and architecture are repeated every 1-2 months, each time associated with a new topic and art material. Topic rotation is 2-3 years. Art materials we master: acrylics, watercolor, pastels, pencil, markers, clay.

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Sample instructional video:

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WINTER-SPRING 2023 CURRICULUM:

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January 2-8, 2023  Profile portraits of Renaissance. Study of facial features and figure in profile. Making a drawing. 

January 9-15, 2023  Profile portraits of Renaissance. Painting and working with textured paper. Mixed media. 

January 16-22, 2023  Chinese New Year. Sculpting a new year symbol.

January 23 - 29, 2023  Study of hands. Color pencils.

January 30 - February 6, 2023  Introduction to shading. Drawing shadows from toys. Pastels.

February 7 - 12, 2023  Painting flowers for Valentines day. Learning about a-la-prima watercolor technique. 

February 13 - 19, 2023   Understanding Renaissance perspective. Drawing a room and a street.

February 20 - 26, 2023 Architecture Basics: understanding such concepts as a column, a portico, a dome, an arc. Drawing a building.

February 27 - March 5, 2023 Introduction on the history of costume. Drawing a costume from reference or imagination. Day 1: compositional sketches and drawing

March 6-12, 2023 Introduction on the history of costume. Drawing a scene with costumes from reference or imagination. Day 2: Painting. Acrylics.

March 13 - 19, 2023 Painting sky and waves: inspired by Willam Turner. Acrylics

March 20 - 26, 2023 - Designing a vehicle, a ship, or a space ship. Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci.

March 27 - April 2, 2023 Portrait of a pet. Intro to animal anatomy. Day 1. Pastels.

April 3 -9, 2023- Portrait of a pet. Intro to animal anatomy. Day 2. Pastels.

April 10 -16, 2023 Drawing feet, designing a shoe.

April 17 -23, 2023 Live sketching session. Students sketch each other. Pencil, charcoal, markers.

April 24 - 30, 2023 Sculpting a composition inspired by porcelain figurines. Oven-baked clay.

May 1 - 7, 2023 Portrait of mom. Day 1: learning to draw a face in 3/4 view, starting a painting.

May 8 - 14, 2023 Portrait of mom. Day 1: finalizing a painting.

May 15 - 21, 2023 Creative compositon: illustration to a favorite book or a scene from a dream. Day 1: Compositional sketches, starting a project.

May 22 - 28, 2023 Creative compositon: illustration to a favorite book or a scene from a dream. Day 2: Compositional sketches, finishing the project.

KIDS 8-12 YRS schedule for Winter-Spring 2023