Classes for Kids & Teens (Gr. 3-10) - July 2010
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July Classes How to Register & Policies
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Cartooning & Illustration (Gr. 3-6)July 5-9, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Learn to draw fun and unique cartoon characters and creatures. As you create your own comic strip, you will learn how to draw funny faces, strange aliens and hilarious animals. Create your own action book using animation techniques.
Landscape Painting (Gr. 6-9)July 5-9, 9:00 am-12:00 pm This course is for students who enjoy the beauty and excitement of the outdoors. Using a variety of materials, including an assortment of paint, pens, pastels and papers, participants will venture outdoors to create preliminary landscape sketches. The class will revisit these sketches in the studio to arrive at a completed landscape painting.
Acting for Film & TV (Gr. 4-8)July 5-9, 9:00 am-12:00 pm So you've always wanted to be on television! Well get ready to strut your stuff during this fun-filled week. From improv to monologues and scene study, students will explore acting for the camera in this supportive workshop geared to the beginner or more advanced student. Young actors will receive a DVD of their work within a few weeks of the completion of the class.
Drawing & Painting (Gr. 3-6)July 5-9, 1:00-4:00 pm While experimenting with an exciting variety of the artist's tools, media and techniques, students will learn to explore and trust their imaginations and creative instincts. Working from still life, photographs and images from art history, students will be introduced to drawing and painting fundamentals and techniques. These include line, value, shape, pattern, texture, shading, highlighting, colour perspective and collage. Young artists will further develop their artistic skills while discovering their own personal style.
Clay Masks & Puppets (Gr. 5-9)July 12-16, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Create your very own, unique mask and puppet. Looking at various examples of traditional masks through history, students will design and build their own unique clay versions. Clay sculptors will also dive into the world of puppets and design and create a useable puppet during the course of the week. Students will learn various techniques of working with clay. Hand-building techniques will be focused on – slab, coil, pinch and modeling. Put the finishing touches on the work with your own designs and patterns using bright, colourful glazes. No previous experience is necessary.
The Clay Circus (Gr. 3-6)July 12-16, 1:00 am-4:00 pm Come one, come all and enter our Big Top! Explore the fantastical elements of the circus and design and create your very own and unique trapeze artist to hang from your ceiling. Clay sculptors will also dive into the world of circus animals and sculpt their own circus creatures. During the course of the week, students will learn various techniques of working with clay. Hand-building techniques will be focused on – slab, coil, pinch and modeling. Put the finishing touches on the work with your own designs and patterns using bright, colourful glazes. No previous experience is necessary.
The Drama Workshop (Gr. 4-8)July 12-16, 1:00-4:00 pm For the budding performer or the young actor wanting to learn more about acting in a fun and supportive class setting. Improvisation, theatre games, developing characters and using voice and movement make up this dynamic week of acting. The class will work together to create a special presentation at the end of the week, to showcase skills and talents, for friends and family.
Painting Portraits (Gr. 7-10)July 19-23, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Discover your own personal style and individual expression while learning the techniques needed for creating a portrait painting. Learn how shape, dimension, measuring properties, shading/highlighting and colour mixing apply to the human form. Subject matter will include drawings, photographs and a live, clothed model. Model fee included
Photography & Mixed Media (Gr. 3-6)July 19-23, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Young photographers will learn the basics and fundamentals of photography as they develop confidence in what and how they see with a camera. Students will have the opportunity to have fun and explore photography with a still camera alongside other media and techniques, like painting, collage and photo transfer. Students must bring their own camera (disposable camera is acceptable), film, and proof prints to class.
Drawing & Painting (Gr. 3-6)July 19-23, 1:00-4:00 pm While experimenting with an exciting variety of the artist's tools, media and techniques, students will learn to explore and trust their imaginations and creative instincts. Working from still life, photographs and images from art history, students will be introduced to drawing and painting fundamentals and techniques. These include line, value, shape, pattern, texture, shading, highlighting, colour perspective and collage. Young artists will further develop their artistic skills while discovering their own personal style.
Architecture: Design & Create Your Own Space (Gr. 4-9)July 19-23, 1:00-4:00 pm Imagine a place to call your own! Using multimedia techniques, students will explore the fundamentals of architectural design: bringing his or her unique idea of what a special space would be like, from an abstract concept to a clear representation of that idea in model and drawing form.
Exploring Musical Theatre (Gr. 3-7)July 19-23, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Students will enjoy exploring drama and musical theatre in this performance-based week. Using improvisation, drama exercises, vocal and dance studies and script work, performers will develop and work on creating a final show for their last class. Parents and friends will enjoy the final presentation, which will incorporate popular numbers from musical theatre, in a truly unique and inventive presentation.
Jewelry Design Workshop (Gr. 4-8)July 26-30, 9:00 am-12:00 pm If you've always wanted to design your own jewelry and accessories, this workshop will provide the opportunity to bring many techniques and materials together in a fun and unique way. Learning to work with wire, beads, metal, found and natural objects, students begin to understand the process from ideas to the finished piece.
Painting & Mixed Media (Gr. 4-8)July 26-30, 1:00-4:00 pm The use of colour and painting techniques are the focus in this mixed media class, where students will create vibrant and imaginative 2- and 3-dimensional works of art. Students will playfully explore an exciting combination of tools and materials while focusing on fun painting techniques like painting alla prima, sgraffito, glazing, scumbling and impasto. Colour mixing, blending, contrasts and harmonies are considered, while students learn about the tools associated with tempera, acrylics, watercolour and gouache paints.
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