Children's Summer Art Classes

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - July 25th, 2012, 1:30 pm - 2:45pm

Robert Livermore Community Center

4444 East Ave, Livermore, CA | 

$125.00 for 6 classes

Art For Children: Paint, Draw & Sculpt
Children's summer art classes are offered in June and July at the Robert Livermore Community Center in Livermore.  These classes are for children ages 5 and up and cover a variety of techniques and mediums.
The classes also introduce styles from the history of art such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Renaissance Art and more, and look at artists such as van Gogh, Rembrandt, Seurat and others.
Students learn painting, drawing and sculpting.
For further information, please visit:
http://childrensartclassesprojects.blogspot.com/

From my Art History for children classes: Celtic-style art

In my Art History for Children classes we learn a variety of styles and art movements from the history of art.  In this class, the students look at Celtic Art and the stylized designs of overlapping, rhythmical patterns.  This is a dragon's head and ribbon pattern, copied from Celtic images seen.

 Dragon's Head and ribbon pattern

(inspired by Celtic Art)

pen and watercolor on paper

7 year-old student

Creation from recycled / found materials

We do a lot of work with found materials in my art classes.  The students love it and are so creative with what they find to use.  Here is a Leprechaun Trap made of a breakfast cereal box, pipe-cleaners, tape, cardboard tubes and some coins (to entice the leprechaun!)

Leprechaun Trap

Found materials

7 year-old student

New studio work form my art students

 

Mixed media collage

by 14 year-old student

Rabbit with Wolf

Oil on canvas

by an 8 year-old student

Egg with chick's beak

pencil on paper

by a 7 year-old student

 
 

Tonal drawing in blue

colored pencil and pencil on paper

by a 7 year-old student

 

Seated man with tv and tv stand

Clay and acrylic paint

by a 7 year-old student

Some work from my Art History for Children classes: Ancient Egyptian Art

 A pyramid made out of a cardboard box with a clay ring to keep it closed 

(taken from an idea from classroom projects by DickBlick)

by a 6 year-old student

Ancient Egyptian-style mummy and staff

Clay

by a 7 year-old student

Exhibition at the Robert Livermore Community Center Gallery Feb. 1 to Feb. 29, 2012

Images of student work from the LARPD exhibition

 Adult student

Watercolor and pencil on paper

 17 year-old student

Oil on canvas

7 year-old student

Mixed media collage

 

6 year-old student

Oil on canvas

7 year-old student

Collage

9 year-old student

Crayon on paper

7 year-old student

Collage

6 year-old student

Marker on paper

6 year-old student

Oil on canvas

13 year-old student

Conte and charcoal on paper

9 year-old student

Marker and crayon on paper

 7 year-old student

 Oil pastel on paper

5 year-old student

Oil pastel on paper

7 year-old student

Acrylic, glitter and tin foil collage on paper

Adult student

Oil on canvas

(Study in chiaroscuro - after Rembrandt)

6 year-old student

Marker and Crayon on paper

7 year old student

Acrylic on paper

16 year-old student

Oil on board

17 year-old student

Watercolor, colored pencil and pencil on paper

7 year-old student

Clay, glue, pastel and paper collage on card

5 year-old student

Marker and crayon on paper

6 year-old student

Acrylic and pencil on paper

Adult student

Collage

8 year-old student

Pastel on card 

(done outside art class)

 8 year-old student

Print-making and pencil on paper

 

7 year-old student

Tempera pointillist-style painting on paper

7 year-old student

Collage, acrylic, pencil and pen on paper

Adult student

Watercolor and pencil on paper

New Student Artwork

 Garden Scene

by a 6 year old student

Watercolor on paper

 Bicycle

by a 17 year old student

Watercolor on paper

Butterfly

by a 17 year old student

Oil on canvas

Botanical drawings from some of my middle & high school level students

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Watercolor still-life by a 6 year old

Pomegranates on plate
watercolor on paper

by a 6 year old student

Working on pop-up Theater book - 7 year old

In the middle of making the theater book ...

Work in progress ...

Charcoal Boat Drawing by a 16 year old student

 Boat in Water
charcoal on paper

by a 16 year old student

Oil Paintings by a 4 & 6 year old

Oil Painting on Canvas

by a 4 year old student in my LARPD class

Oil Painting on Canvas

by a 6 year old student in my LARPD class