With a printout of face dimensions, pencil, eraser, sharpies, cray-pas on their side & a canvas… 
Discuss contrasting colors, opposites, around and behind +types of lines and shapes. Use examples from Alex Katz to the Fauves to African Masks!
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Feb. 1: Build & Emboss your very own functioning Dali Clock. Parent-Child Workshop
Surrealism and functionality come together while you create your very own Dali-inspired clock! Using metal embossing techniques, these clocks will be designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s works, complete with base and stand.
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
4pm-5:30 pm
Ages 6 and up.
$75 pp.
@All Souls Church
1157 Lexington Avenue @ 80th Street
Spaces are limited. Register now.
DIY Chritstmas Tree Project for Kids
Picture an outline of a fir tree, star on top, colored in, on poster board or foam core… Poke holes with a pencil. Take colored Xmas lights and push through the openings! Voila!
Make a large tree, and buy the shortest lights:) Color it in with markers using repeated strokes or scribbles. Have fun with your kids. Put it in a window. If you try it, send us pics to post!
Yves Klein’s lines for kids
Can’t wait to share this with our 3-5’s today! Basic lines may seem rather basic and unimportant to focus on, however, recognizing and purposefully implementing them into desired outcomes is really the key to any drawing.
Murikami Superflat Goes 3D for Kids
Takashi Murikami provided us with a multitude of learning opportunities!
Takashi Murikami is from Japan. He loves “Superflat,” a word he made up! It means colors and shapes look flat on a page, not round. In this piece of art, we made Superflat go 3D: With a sphere… but the only way you can tell from the front is to notice the light casting shadows and shapes having perspective.
Students learned about working larger to smaller, a technique used in painting, as well as contrast, form, perspective, pattern and optical illusion.
Tours and workshops your child will surely enjoy!
New York City is an amazing resource for modern and contemporary art! As a fine artist, as well as an art teacher of children for 15 years, I have found the question, “What is Art?” a never-ending one. Hence my goal- to demystify artists and their processes in language children can understand and adults can use. Art-making is full of choices, which builds a stronger child having made them. I founded Claire’s Creative Adventures over 12 years ago to explore the processes of artists which children may encounter in museums, galleries, or on a walk and to have the tools to decipher and imagine what the artists are thinking. Developing these critical thinking skills and imagination is paramount to a well-rounded child who may approach all of their endeavors with such joy and confidence as they do art!
Becoming a learner with your child can be a stimulating experience! In these workshops and tours, adults learn age-appropriate art language and directed questions as well as techniques artists use to create.
Upcoming Museum Adventures Tours:
December 6th, 2013 Impressionism for Kids and Families. (Register by Dec. 3rd. Limited spaces.) Ages 6-12 years.
1:30-2:45pm/ 3:45-5pm
January 10th, 2014 Line, Shape and Balance. Create a Calder and David Smith, exploring texture & line with metal & wire. (Register by Jan. 7th. Limited spaces.) Ages 3-12 years.
1:30-2:45pm/ 3:45-5pm
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (This is a private group.)
- 1.25 Hours of specialized museum time for children ages 3 -12 (3-9 kids at a time.)
- Unique take-home tour art projects with a wide variety of materials and a gift bag.
- Tour artist & leader for the adventure!
- Includes multiple projects with myriad materials and a tote bag.
2 Parent-Child Workshops:
Dec. 7th Parent-Child Venetian Mask-Making, create a disquise for NYE! (Register by Dec. 4th. Limited spaces.) Ages 5-12 years.
Create the perfect disguise for any party or just to decorate and hang! During this class, these striking Venetian masks will become colored, adorned with myriad feathers and jewels and able to wear! Both parent and child will make their own mask.
Jan. 11th Parent-Child DALI Clock-Making in Metal! (Register by Jan. 8th. Limited spaces.) Ages 6-12 years.
Join Artist Claire Munday to create your very own Dali-inspired functioning clock! Using embossing techniques on metal, clocks will be designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s works.
@ All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington, 10075
Damien Hirst-Inspired Halloween Fun!
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- Path for a brave soul…
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- Einstein particularly loved it!
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- Damien Hirst-Inspired Halloween 3D Project
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- From 2’s-12’s loved this project
I’ve been wanting to do this Damien Hirst kids project for a few years, it just took a while to get it down for both the very young hands to feel successful, as well as to engage older kids. What worked well was that they could add as many details as they wanted, or work for a little while and still have a nice piece to take home. A lot of prep work though! But all worth the excitement it created, and the imaginations it inspired.
Homemade Costumes: Parents Who Went the Extra Mile!
Jack’s fascination with transportation left his parents in a difficult situation. Are front-loaders sold at costume shops? WW1 fighter planes?
My mother used to sew our costumes, but who does that anymore? Well, you don’t necessarily have to… These creative parents decided to BUILD them. Cardboard is easily found, but as Jack’s parents concluded, making correct armholes so that Jack could maneuver his candy-gathering was of utmost importance.
Way to go Jack for being relentless in your costume dreams! … and he’s only 6! Perhaps the fact that Jack’s dad worked for the MTA had something to do with it?
By the way, these costumes even articulate! I’m so excited to see this year’s costume: The Intrepid!
This Sat. 4pm… Movie Set-Making for Kids and Adults!
Register now: Art Adventures Parent-Child class Sat. Nov. 2nd from 4-5:30 pm. ClairesCreativeAdventures.com
We are so excited to have professional scenic artist Cliff Gokenbach teach us the secrets of how artists create for the movies. He can’t tell us about the new Spiderman he’s working on, but he can help us make any imaginary set we can dream of! Here, he’s gone to Venice…
This Friday 3:45pm: Children Can Experience Color & Mood w. Impressionists @ the Met w. Hands-On Projects!
Post Halloween blues? This Friday from 3:45-5pm, kids can create Monet’s mood through color, Van Gogh’s swirling lines in metal and hide Rousseau’s animals in the jungle… In our Friday Met Children’s Tour, ages 6 and up. Artists of all ages will love the projects and come home with a goodie bag…. full of art! Not candy! (Adults welcome to participate.)
Visit www.ClairesCreativeAdventures.com/register
