The girls in Canadian Artful Adventures completed their skate paintings this week (all but one!) They did a wonderful job and their final touch was a little bit of silvery glitter for their skate blades!
Feb022015
Jan262015
Weekend Winter Classes Jan.25
My Canadian Artful Adventures classes worked on hard on drawing and then painting a complicated skating/or hockey painting this weekend. We used our previous knowledge mixing tints/shades to apply it to this painting. This class will take another session to get completed so I’ve posted the almost-finished works. The...
Jan222015
Spring 4,5 yr old Class Just Added!
Storybook Critters 4,5 yrs 4 Sundays-April 12th-May 3rd Time: 3-5pm Cost: $100 In this class, children will get to explore a variety of traditional art media from acrylic paints to clay. Each class will focus on building skills in drawing, painting and fine motor skills with a focus on having fun!...
Jan182015
First Day of Winter Classes 2015
Today, the Canadian Artful Adventures class learned about the Group of Seven artists and their fascination with our Canadian wilderness. They learned about the word “landscape”. Each student then experimented with colour by making tints of a colour.The students added a bit of white to blue and saw how light...
Jan042015
Happy New Year!
Art in Your Backyard had a lovely first year in 2014. I started to offer classes in the Stittsville and surrounding areas community after being away from art teaching for 6 years while I was busy making children! I really enjoyed getting back to it! It was a lovely spring and fall series...
Nov242014
Let it Go-Series
The first class of my Let it Go series happened on Saturday. This great mix of princesses painted their own Royal Self-Portraits. Glitter, jewels and all! Next week we’re painting with puffy paint to Build our own Olaf-inspired Snowmen! 1 2 3 ►
Nov242014
Things That Go!
In this vehicle inspired class we vroomed all afternoon. We used paintbrushes only twice-once when we covered our painted paper sheets and once when we covered our canvases. The rest of the class -we stamped, scraped, sponged, drove cars, printed tracks, splattered, cut and glued. It was a great...
Nov212014
Chagall PD Day Pictures
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Nov142014
Dr. Seuss Workshop Dates Added!
Check out the “thinks we will think up in these” Dr. Seuss workshops where we’ll get messy and wild! See Page at side bar!
Nov132014
Oh the places we’ll go!
As I’m getting ready for the last class of the Storybook Masterpieces series, I had a think. Oh the thinks you can think if only you try! It’s difficult not to feel inspired when you look at the history of Dr.Suess, his art, his life. I’m thinking that I...