Creative Workspace

LVA Artist Claire Krueger helps young artists set up a creative workspace at home with the right tools and inspiration.

Making Puffy Chalk Paint

Instructor: Christin Brown
Audience: K-6
Supplies needed: Flour, water, shaving cream, food coloring

Picasso Portrait Project

Design a Picasso portrait with items from around your home.

Who was Picasso? What was Cubism? Cubism is a style of art which shows us all the different viewpoints of a person all at one time. It is called Cubism because the shapes in the art work were made of cubes and geometric shapes. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started the Cubism movement. When you look at a person’s face, what all can you see?

Instructor: Christin Brown
Age group: 10 and up
Supplies: Heavy duty foil, Cardboard, Masking tape or scotch tape, Pencil Washable markers or Sharpie markers, Black Sharpie

Monochromatic Collage Card Project

Explore creating a collage in a monochromatic color scale. The finished collage can be sent as a card to a lucky recipient.

Monochromatic is an art term used to describe the use of one color with a variety of shades. In this project, we use collage as a media to explore the various shades of one color.

Instructor: Shawna Dellecave
Audience: All Ages
Supplies needed: A magazine with colorful pictures, scissors, glue stick, paper, envelope.

Georgia O’Keefe
3D Flowers Project

Inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s beautiful flower paintings, work with color and markers to create a three-dimensional, organic flower still life.

Watch colors blend into each other, like they are melting from the desert sun. Look up Georgia O’Keefe, a wonderful female, American artist and you will understand why we are talking about the desert sun, and flowers!

Instructor: Christin Brown
Audience: 6 and up
Supplies needed: Coffee filters, Washable markers, Scissors, White glue, Construction paper (any colors), Spray bottle filled with water, Rubbing alcohol (optional), Small cup for rubbing alcohol (optional), Water dropper or medicine syringe to apply rubbing alcohol (optional)

Create A Zine Project

Zines! What are they, where did they come from, why make them?

Learn about and make a zine, maga”zine”, (get it), about a subject near and dear to your heart. Make them, share them, sell them, give them!

Instructor: Claire Krueger
Audience: Ages 11 and up
Supplies: Stapler (optional), Scissors, Bone folder, or a pop sickle stick or a ruler, Pencils, Eraser

Monet Water Lilies Print

Get creative with veggies and flowers, inspired by the famous painting!

This would make a great Mother’s Day present!

Instructor: Christin Brown
Audience: All Ages
Supplies: Vegetables, Celery, Lettuce (old veggies that will work for you), Flowers, Rubber bands, Ruler, Heavy paper or water color paper, Bright paints, Styrofoam plate for a palette (or something that works for a palette), Newspaper to protect table surface, Rags or paper towels

Dreamcatcher Art Project

Create a Zentangle Dreamcatcher

A dreamcatcher is a Native American symbol of protection. Let's take that inspiration and create our own web of safekeeping using zentangle pattern drawing.

Instructor: Amanda Thompson
Audience: All ages
Supplies: Anything you draw on (paper, cereal box) or with (pencil, markers). 2-3 round objects of different sizes for tracing circles.

Vocabulary:
Abstract art – art that does not show things that are recognizable, like people and landscapes. The artist uses color, texture and shape to achieve their desired effect.

Primary Colors – any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be made by mixing.

Thoughts: Can you name the three primary colors?

Mondrian Art Project

Create colorful abstractions that recall busy city streets using matchbox cars and lego wheels.

Make art with paints, primary colors, Hot Wheels and inspiration from the images of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist known for his bright abstract paintings.

Instructor: Christin Brown Audience: all ages Supplies Needed: White paper, *red, yellow, blue black tempera paint or poster paint, palette knife, plastic knife or putty knife, styrofoam plate (something for a palette) toy cars or toy wheels.
Or – if you don’t have paints you can use white paper red, yellow and blue paper, black marker, glue stick, scissors, ruler, pencil

*Tempera and poster paints will wash out of your clothing and wash off of your toy cars and wheels.

Veggie Print Mandala

Create a meditative mandala by printing sliced vegetables

Learn to print using vegetables, about patterns, repeating shapes, creating a designs in a circle, cutting rectangular paper into square Embrace the inconsistencies in printing

Instructor: Liz Foley
Audience: All ages
Supplies needed: Drawing paper (thicker than copier paper) 12x18, Scissors, Cardboard to put under paper as cushion, Water color paints, Palette for paints (cookie sheet), Container of water Paint brushes, Vegetables cut In cross section – potato, onion, carrot, celery

Optical Illusion

Cross contour drawing, create depth in a drawing by changing the direction of the lines.

Create a line drawing with three objects that shows depth. Learn about optical illusions, practice changing lines to create depth. Use contrasting colors to create emphasis. A straight line doesn’t show depth, a change in angle equals a change in plane. Change the line, create depth. The more lines across, the more detail appears, and the more understanding of the space

Instructor: Liz Foley
Audience: All ages
Supplies needed: Pencils Paper – 8.5 x 11, copy or drawing paper you can work larger, but that is up to you! Black pen or Fine tip markers – colored Sharpies are good!

Accordion Books

Create an accordion book using basic supplies you have at home? We'll construct and illustrate our own book, discover technical and mixed media know-how, and use our imaginations.

Instructor: Claire Krueger
Audience: All ages
Supplies needed: Paper -Pencil/eraser -Scissors -Glue stick and/or white glue -Drawing materials -Cardboard -Crayons (optional) -Watercolor (optional)

Tunnel Book

Instructor: Ehren Reed
Audience: All ages
Supplies needed: paper (construction, printer paper, card stock, even cereal boxes!), scissors, glue stick or glue, drawing materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils). Optional: old magazines, other craft materials or embellishments.

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