NEW:ART HISTORY FOR JUNIORS
Due to popular demand...Early Masters is creating a special winter after-school class for the younger set. (Kindergarten-grade 2)
It’s an intro for the little ones with lots of focus on artists (Vincent! Picasso! Frida!) that will capture the minds and hearts of your budding Bonnard. We’ll discover artists and get messy creating our own masterpieces. Let those imaginations soar!
Early Masters Lite? No way ---we’re just tailoring it to the tiny tykes!
(ages 5.5-7)
Thursdays, 4-5pm
Starting March 25th.- April 22nd.
(No class on April 1)
$80.
Modern Masters: The Collection of the Fabulous Ms. G
Here’s a chance to get acquainted with the most famous modern artists of all time! We’ll create stunning masterpieces and learn to love the modern world like the fabulous Ms. G.
And just WHO was this Ms. G? Well, she shopped for modern art like some women shop for shoes. Peggy Guggenheim was a lady who liked the finer things in life...like world class paintings and sculpture. So when your dad goes down with the Titanic, what’s a girl to do? You go to Paris and befriend avant-garde writers and artists and start a life that spans the most exciting and volatile years of the 20th century. She lived life to the fullest and acquired works by Giacometti, Chagall, de Chirico, Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, and Mondrian ... to name a few. She was also hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement with Mr. Action Jackson himself, Jackson Pollock.
This is going to be a real eye-opener and tons of painting fun.
Mondays 4-6pm
March 22-April 26 (no class March 29)
$175
Many kids already know the names...Degas, Renoir, Monet, Morisot...but by the end of this session, they’ll pick out of Monet from a Manet...oooooh, mais oui!
Lillies, haystacks, ballerinas...need we say more?
We’ll dabble in cadmium yellow and cerulean blue and swish around in ultramarine and emerald green. Dreamy.
Tuesdays 4-6pm
March 23-April 27 (no class March 30)
$175
---Minimalist Morning : Create your own Rothko!
Saturday morning cartoons? Not on April 10th. We’ll be busy in the studio listening to jazz and classical music, while painting magnificent “color fields” in the style of Mark Rothko. Rothko often conveyed quiet, thoughtful, emotion through large spaces of a single color. He believed in the emotional power of color and the ability of the painting to be able to exist without realistic pictures.
Oh yeah, we'll be eating plenty of donuts too. Can't get too uppity on a Saturday morning!
Saturday April 10th
9:30am - Noon
$50
BRAND NEW! WEEKEND AFTERNOON TECHNIQUE CLASSES
We are very excited to present our new Techniques classes beginning March 13! These classes (each 90 minutes long) will focus on very specific techniques in both drawing and painting. Not ONLY will your child get to know incredible artists, but he/she will delve into the techniques that they’ll use over and over. Our own Miss Dorielle (a fabulous artist herself) will be on hand to gently guide your child through all the fine points like optical blending, washes, cross-hatching, and working with a palette knife. As always, we use only high-quality art supplies.
These are very special workshops not to be missed!
Each class is $30.
Special package - four class series: $105.
DRAW LIKE A MASTER: March 13/14, 20/21
-March 13: Picasso Faces
-March 14: van Gogh Landscapes
-March 20: Matisse Faces
-March 21: Da Vinci’s Inventions
PAINT LIKE A MASTER: APRIL 10/11, 17/18
-April 10: Impasto With Vincent
-April 11: Pointillism with Seurat
-April 17: Watercolors with Georgia
-April 18: Color with Matisse
MAKE A MATISSE PERFUME
FLACON FOR MOM
Glass is your canvas! Make a gorgeous perfume bottle for mamma inspired by Matisse...that’s Sophie Matisse by the way, great grand-daughter to Henri. Sophie is a wonderful painter in her own right. Recently, she painted 50 perfume bottles for a famous perfume house. (all numbered and very swish) Which gave us the idea...wouldn’t our Early Masters have fun with this?
And what better way to spend May Day.
Saturday, May 1st
9:30-Noon.
$50 (Mighty-O’s included:)
SUMMER CAMPS!
Early Masters summer camps are always very popular, and classes fill up quickly.
Schedules will be posted soon, but in the meantime here is a sneak peak at what we will be offering:
VINCENT and Friends. ok, he didn’t have many friends but he did have contemporaries.
Barefoot in the Park: IMPRESSIONISM
SPLAT! EXPRESSIONISM EXPLORED
AMERICAN IDOLS: AMERICAN ARTISTS AND THEIR GREATEST HITS.
USING THE POWER OF ART TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Back in the 1900’s women didn’t play basketball or hockey, they often had chaperones when going out, and they wore loooooong skirts that covered their ankles.
They also couldn’t vote!
In this exciting three-hour workshop, we’ll look at what it means to have the right to vote. We’ll examine political posters from the past, with a focus specifically on The Women’s Suffrage movement, and women’s right to vote in Washington State.
And here’s the really exciting part...
We will design our own posters and, if your child chooses to do so, they may enter their fabulous artwork in a contest sponsored by the Secretary of State. The theme is “Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices” and it honors the centennial celebration of women’s right to vote in our state.
Children must be in grades 4 or 5 in order to enter the contest (but all kids ages 7-12 are welcome in the class) and the winning art will be featured in the 2010 Washington State Voters’ Pamphlet. Approximately 3 million copies of this pamphlet will be distributed throughout the state in 2010.
How cool is that?
Note: The original artwork is entered so we will make a high res copy of your child’s artwork to keep.
March 27th
9:30 - 12:30