Celebrate this holiday year with wonderful cheer!
Tis the season!
Art Ingredients:
*A spoonful of craft,
*A dash of model magic & wire,
*A sprinkle of collage
*A heaping amount of creative fun!
Check out these photos from our flashback Christmas Past Art 2-5’s Projects! (2018)
Again Merry Christmas from Claire’s Creative Family!
We put on our filmmaker thinking caps and became graphic designers to create our own version of a 3D Movie Poster. Frozen 2 was our inspiration this week!
We learned NEW characters… Nature’s elements!(Earth (GIANTS) Fire (BRUNI) Water (NOKK) Wind (GALE.) Click to learn more about this. Art Themes: Opaque vs. Transparent/Translucent; Warm vs Cool colors, plus how movies build Characters- and represent them in advertising.
You can create other collage posters of your favorite movies! All you need is paper, glue, and cut up images of characters & elements in your movie. Add any 2D or 3D thing that reminds you of the movie.
Happy poster designing!
❤️ Stay Healthy + Creative
Everett and Anderson felt inspired by our class to continue mosaic-making even after class!
They used:
Paper
Scissors
Adhesive felt
Felt
But you can use just colored papers, magazines, scissors and glue!
Be sure to make a simple drawing 1st….
Then cover your lines with larger pieces (or Large + small pieces =a pattern)…
Then Fill in your “Empty Shapes” with baby pieces!
SKETCHBOOK COVER DESIGNS-
We record our progress with lines, shapes and pictures throughout the semester in our sketchbooks. Today we decorated them by “shopping” for colors we liked and patterns/ textures that pleased us. We made choices about what went first, then overlapped: “Larger first/smaller last.”
Cutting made simple:
Child:
Step 1: Act like you’re shaking someone’s hand.
Step 2: Thumb in small hole (top.)Fingers in large hole (bottom.)
Step 3: Alligator eats AWAY from you!
Step 4: “Open shut them” – a song we sing. (Or The alligator is REALLY hungry.)Press forward.
Younger:
Adult: hold the (thin) piece of paper -one hand on each side.
(Watch your fingers!)
Pull apart a bit to make it taught. This helps them be more successful!
Gluing made simple:
(with a brush or a gluestick):
1: take your paper you want to attach.
2: Turn it over.
3: Go around the edges.
4: “Cris-Cross” in the center.
5: Turn it over and attach.
Don’t worry that they turn their scissors “upside-down.” They haven’t stretched their “rotation” muscles yet.
We’re working on it!
JUNE ZOOMED by and we had a BLAST! Check out some of our favorite highlights of this 2019 Art Camp season:
 Click Image for a VIDEO of our teamwork IN ACTION!! |
 Great Teamwork during our Stop Motion Animation of our Salt Watercolor Seascape Collage Paintings! Click & scroll to watch our stop motion videos! Our Art Camp Adventurers (Ages 4-9) demonstrated FANTASTIC teamwork skills!
AND our 9 year olds truly shined with their leadership roles, guiding the 4-5 year olds in grouting their Mosaics!
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 Food Art Triptych Seascapes! Using Graham Crackers, Icing, Food Coloring & our favorite candies & snacks |
 Rauschenberg Combines using painting, collage AND sculpture elements using found objects From using glass paints to a multitude of recycled objects and even candy, Week 2 Camp Adventures was filled with unique materials, techniques, Modern & Contemporary Artists! Highlighted Artists: |
Tis the season! These past 2 weeks have been filled with the holiday spirit….of making ART!
Art Ingredients:
+A spoonful of craft,
+a dash of model magic & wire,
+a sprinkle of collage
+and a heaping amount of creative fun
Mix well to make CCA’s Holiday Ornament making and Collage Christmas Tree Decorating!
Check out our festive Art treats HERE!
From All of us at Claire’s Creative Adventures, wishing you a very Happy Holiday Season & a Happy Art-filled New Year!
Welcome to July and Summertime! Happy 4th! As we all prepare for our BBQ’s, beach time & NYC roof top fun, we are also SO EXCITED about all the Art fun we’re planning for our Fall Season.
Matisse Cutout Inspired Bubble Painting
Want an outdoors art project the whole family can enjoy? Try our Matisse Cutout inspired bubble paintings! A popular project during our summer camps AND our Fall after-school program starting in September! Click HERE for more info on FALL REGISTRATION!
Multi-layered Transparency Bubble Sea Painting: Project Tailored for ALL AGES!
All you need:
different color construction paper
watercolor paper
scissors + gluestick + straws
small plastic containers (to mix your food coloring & bubble solution together!)
food coloring
and of course BUBBLES!
1- Mix your favorite color in your bubble solution. Make as many different colors as you like!
2-Using a straw for each color, dip your straw in your “bubble” paint and VERY gently blow through the straw from the other end onto your watercolor paper. (It will take a couple of tries!)
Bubble Painting Fun for both indoors and out!
3-Mix and match “bubble paint” colors!
4- Choose your favorite colors from construction paper and cut out organic shapes!
5-After your “bubble paint” drys, arrange & glue your organic shape “cutouts” onto your “bubble painting”
Summer Camp’s Matisse Cutout Inspired Bubble Sea Paintings!
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Tres Bien Week 1 June Art Campers!
CHECK OUT OUR PROJECTS HERE! (click to view)
Or ALL the Creative Camp fun HERE. (click to view)
Be sure to REGISTER here for Our LAST WEEK OF JUNE ART CAMP:- June 25th-29th AM or PM Camps (9:30-12:30am / 1:30-3:30pm)
Enjoy Stop-Motion Animation Videos? LIKE US on FACEBOOK & Watch HERE!
Byzantine Geometric Mosaics in the Arabic Wing @ The Met!
We had a BLAST learning about art history, contemporary artists & even NYC history for this week!
Robert Rauschenberg inspired Combines!
Daily painting, storytelling through collaging, creating art with found objects & other mixed media and even directing, producing AND animating a short stop-motion film, was all in our mix for the week! So PROUD.
Mondrian Color Mixing City Grids and Color Wheels in French
New Friends with Turner Mood Paintings with Greys and Warm Color Underpaintings
From all of us here at CCA, wishing everyone a grateful, filling and very Happy Thanksgiving!
Stay Hungry for ART!
Our Art Adventurers came up with some silly and interesting illustrations last week! After cutting out different shapes from our textures, we collaged to share a scene and tell a story. What great storytellers and a great way to end our Fall Semester!
