Finishing up their watercolor paintings

My students painted in their cathedral designs. They learned about color gradations (always something I push!) and mixing. I loved hearing them talk about how fun and relaxing painting is!

James

Micaiah

Travis


Katie

Jonathan

Daniel

Fall classes at CFS Co-op

Classes are underway with this group of Poway homeschoolers. I was inspired by the Nova program "Building the Great Cathedrals" so I planned my lesson around it. I had the kids design their own cathedrals. Here they are transferring their designs to a sheet of watercolor paper.

Daniel

Katherine

Poway Art Camps

The afternoon sessions of art camp provide a great opportunity for students to delve into projects and experiment with new media. Here they have been sketching in Old Poway Park and are transferring their designs to a canvas which they will paint.

Francesca

Art Camp week 2

A fun week. One of my long ago students was my assistant.

Art Camps week 1

Art camps are off to a great start! Quite a few returning artists this week. It is wonderful to see these kids growing up and mastering things they struggled with when so young!

Unfortunately, I left my camera over night in our classroom and someone swiped it along with all my pictures from the 1st week of camp! Silly me.... I never even considered that possibility.

I was able to get a few on our last day using my cell phone. Sorry about the quality, it's not a smart phone!

Brooke and her recycled bottle cap snake.

Erica's first canvas painting.

Erin's mask

Keely sporting the shirt she tie dyed and her mask.

Art Start Art Camps

Summer camps sign up is now underway!

Information about Art Start Art Camps in Poway can be found online here and about my "Design and Mixed Media" Camp at Scripps Ranch Swim and Racquet Club here. Be sure to look to scroll down to see photos from last summer's camps. They are so much fun!

Spring Break Art Camp

Spring Break Art Camp starts on Monday!

Here's what I've planned:
draw in sketchbooks (provided),
make clay plates,
masks,
tie-dye shirts,
paint a fauve style painting in acrylics on canvas,
Draw, draw DRAW!

CFS Art Classes

Here are some of this year's students and their projects:

McKenna

Joel

Tim

Shannon and Micah

Art Start upcoming classes

New classes coming up at Old Poway Park in Poway:

 It's All About Color

Perk up your dull winter days creating art with dramatic color!  Young artists will explore color theory and apply it to supercharged projects in a variety of media:  water color, markers, clay, and pastels.  Artist Susan Bainbridge will set each student off to a brilliant start using directed drawing techniques.  Class size will be small to allow individual attention for each student.

Classes meet each Monday February 22 to March 29
    Art Start I for ages 5-6 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
    Art Start II for ages 7-14 from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m.
To register and for more info, visit Poway's web site here.

Coming April 5-9 - Art Start Spring Break Art Camp!

Origami!

In my classes I like to introduce students to origami. A documentary, Between the Folds, will be airing on PBS Dec. 8 showing the recent, incredible expansion of origami as an art form. Some of it can be seen on YouTube. I strongly encourage my students and families to see this. The constructions folded from a single sheet of paper will blow you away!

Fish, fish and more fish!

While the clay pots made the previous week were drying, this week's class drew underwater scenes using markers. I encouraged then to look for and add details from their photo references.

Jonathan really succeeded in creating a sense of depth in his drawing.

Alyssa and Emma

Abby and Esther worked as a team.

Matthew accepted a lot of challenges in this, like drawing that gnarly football fish!


Andrew... he hid since he ALWAYS has to make a super goofy face for the camera.

Meaghan concentrates on getting that coral just right!

Drew developed lots of textural patterns.

Finished birds

Stuart, Morgan and Ethan with their finished bird designs.

Fall classes underway

I just started teaching three Poway CFS homeschool classes. This week's lesson dealt with color - using graduated color blends in color pencil to enliven an artwork. We drew birds as a jumping off point. They really got into it!

Daniel

Joel

Monica

Morgan

Joel

Jonathan

Emma

Stuart

Matthew

Ben

Ethan

Travis