Drawing Clubs: Reflection Portraits, Bob and Round Things - Thankyous 2012=2013

Drawing Clubs: Reflection Portraits, Gesture Drawing and Round things ...were a fun way to finish the school year! Here are some excerpts: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We drew ourselves in the mirror...well actually ON
mirror, then we drew ourselves FROM the mirror in a few ways.

This is Bob. Tuesday's Artists made Bob.

So they could draw Bob.

 

We all drew Bob. 

 

...and we drew round things like Marbles and balloons in many different ways:

 

 

 

 

 

We drew marbles on Mylar and stuffed animals in motion
and tried to fill a jar of marbles too...

 

  

Our very last Wed. drawing studio, so calm you wouldn't
guess we were also getting ready to show our work!

 Round treats at our show.

Thank you to Arryn and Heather for donating smocks for our painters. Thank you to Heather for her continuing time, great thinking and repurposeful materials...and her yummy muffins! Thank you to Brian and Tawny for our Beaver sticks and tubes!! Thank you to Stacy and the kids for joining us on the Feb. PA Day. Thank you to Kristen of Edible Arrangements for donating containers, boxes, printer and computer time, and other excellent materials. Thank you to LaDawn for all the treats!Thanks to Krystii and Maylynn for sharing their expertise, insights, ideas, talents and enthusiasm. Thank you to all our ArtClub Artists for their energy, efforts and input into making each studio interesting and fun for all - and thank you to all our artist's parents for for sharing your talented children with us and coming to all our shows!! 

2012-2013 PADay Camps were a lot of fun

Halton PD Days All-Day Art Making Funis available for the following days:
October 5th
(Not so Still Life)
~Thanks Everyone!
November 23rd (Changing Colours) ~Thanks for a fun and festive day!
February 1st
(New Symbols & Odd Shapes)
coming up:
April 26th ~ Sights and Sounds of Spring
$48.
9-4 pm with am/pm extended care available($6)

Email or call Sylvie at 905-639-8545 to register.

Drawing and Folds, Spirals and Numbers

Casual Tuesday studio working out some ideas about spirals, folds, lines, and numbers.

Link to Vi Hart's "Doodling in Math Class" channel. We love Cat Slug...

Vi Hart @YouTube

Next week we can work on Origami "drawings" and look at forms and patterns we see in the nature around us. With and/or without precision (in our own ways!)

Shading a Sphere (Tuesday Discussion and Wednesday Fun)

We will continue drawing, and colouring our marbles, bubbles, balloons and balls next studio by trying to create 3-d shaded versions! (Tues. and Wed.) 

**credit: http://pd.scisdragons.net/msart1/2011/09/22/sketchbook-assignment-5-spheres-composition/

Below is an excerpt of a lesson, from ArtProjectsForKids.org,  that shows us a quick way to approach and better understand shading a sphere: please note that in step 3  the darkest shadow is slightly in from the shaded edge. This is due to reflected light and helps to define a sphere's 'edge'. 

Spheres in Space 

Learning how to turn a circle into a sphere can be lots of fun if you use an outer space theme.

1. Die cut presses and heavy mat board were invaluable for making quick circle templates. I created 2" and 3" templates with circles cut out of the middle so .....
(click here to read the whole short lesson)  from the blog:Art ProjectsforKids.org

If a sphere is suspended, do you think it would still have a reflective area in it's shadowy zone? If a sphere is actually a 'Gas Giant' and not a solid at all, would it reflect light in the same way?...Next studio we'll look for different zones of shadow and reflection in our different spheres and try to render a sphere using line, shade, colour choices, intuition, creativity, and our erasers.

The Tuesday Channel -stop-motion workshop

Our Channel for YouTube is MyFreshorange. We will post all our work to that channel to share. I will burn CD' s of your work to take home as well. Thank you all for working so hard on your animations! They are fun and funny and very well done - Congratulations!

Last Afterschool ArtClub for this school year!!

Our last ArtClub Afterschool session this school year will be
a six-week Drawing Club starting May 15th, 2013.

 

Please call Sylvie at 905-639-8545 to register - or let me know when you see me!  Registration for a minimum of 6 studios is preferred - but Drop-In is also available($25.) All materials provided and discounts are available for siblings.

Spring Sky Palette and Paper Nests - Spring Artclub Jr. Week 2

We were missing a few of the art crew but worked on our group painting just the same(you two can catch up next week).   We painted SKY using a shared, and Spring specific, palette of colours.  We could talk to each other through our work... 

 or create something independently, but because our theme was the same and our colour choices started out the same, we created a very connected group of paintings with subtle and unique inventions and conversations. Great job!

We also did a craft project: Paper Bag Nests!

We talked briefly about the difference between the terms Art and Craft...and some possible differences between a craft project and an art project. We each made our own nests carefully following the basic directions - and we each had fairly unique results. We decided to fill our nests with things that would make it special - and we chose feathers, pom-poms, paper scraps and other soft materials.

In between our nests and our sky: Next week we will start to work on inhabitants of Spring and paint our "eggs" and stones to see where they might fit in.

The Tuesday Channel - Week 1& 2 - stopmotion animation.

 

 Week 1: We started our animation session with a quick 2-D individual project using a media of our choice, and limiting ourselves to thinking in terms of 4 shots...although some of us did need to do more where it became necessary for our idea.  Great work from everyone! You are all very accomplished at getting your ideas out onto quick storyboards(see below for storyboard templates and more info); and at considering and figuring out the essential animating challenges that come from figuring out how to tell a specific story visually and in motion. We shared thoughts on how there are lots of tricks involved in getting us to believe what we're seeing. Here are some stills:

We got two anims. shot week 1 and managed to shoot the rest of your work last week. We'll use these to quickly review how to use our software: we are using iKitmovie mostly, we'll try MonkeyJam, a bit of powerepoint if you're interested, and look into a few in-camera and iphone effects and apps.

 

 

 

Week 2: We started planning our group animations this week - storyboarding and brainstorming for what we would like to see happen.  We did some great drawings and even started working up our clay for claymation. Remember we can add 3-d elements or create a 3-d animation this time.

Here are two different templates for storyboards to download and print.

Storyboard 1

Storyboard 2

Remember: You're scenes aren't necessarily the # of frames on a page. You can use several pages to work out a story.  Keep in mind simple is better to start. Each page is a sequence. You can break out each main scene - which is really a main action and a single background(more or less)- from your storyboard into a storyboard of shots you'll need, details, tricks you need to create with your characters to fool the eye, and materials/props and actions needed to make your shots work in animation.  We are limiting our animated productions to at least 2 main scenes - with as many shots as we need to build each scene.  
If your character is travelling to different places or gets around a lot, you can think about how to best create multiple backgrounds and also think about how to creatively transition to each.

Here are some of the links for reference from Week 1:
Whiteboard 1
SquishyFishy
Gulp **"Largest" stop motion
will post a few more shortly.

FYI Links

Here is a link to Tiff kids.

To download a free copy of MonkeyJam,  click here to go their website.

And a reminder:  Click here to learn about and download SCRATCH, FREE programming software for kids from MIT 

Nests from found materials - Spring Artclub Jr. Week 1

We started this Spring Session making nests and bread dough eggs. Nest making broke into a few groups and individual projects and each nest had to pass the shake test.

 

Very inventive and creative designs. We talked about our larger group nest collaborations and have decided to make them in smaller groups. More on that to come.

Listening, Spirals and Springtime

2012 FreshOrange Studio

This is  a link to some online listening activities from
Exploratorium | The museum of science, art and human perception at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123

 

This is a link to a fun online version of the graphical game Kaleidograph.