Children's Art Classes

DRAWING, PAINTING, POTTERY, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE & CRAFTS

SCHEDULE & TUITION:

After School & Summer Afternoon Sessions (Year-Round)

Once Weekly – Choose: Mon/Tues/Wed/Thur/Fri –

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm = 4 Two-Hour Classes

$225 per 4 weeks

Summer Camp – 5 Day Weekly Morning Sessions

Mon – Fri. 10 am – 12 pm = 5 Two-Hour Classes

$250 per week

Discounted Packages & Sibling Discounts Available!

Please Call for Scheduling Your Child and Availability

*Miss Kim 619-459-1955

Students enjoy a unique, comfortable home environment complete with backyard patio, garden and ceramics area, and ever changing Mural wall. Our teacher/student ratio is unbeatable and our staff is comprised of talented and experienced artists with a genuine purpose and love of teaching children.

Each tuition includes a Photo Art Journal that each child makes & decorates and is provided with with photo prints of themselves in the creative process to add to their journal in each class. Snack time is also provided for each 2-hour class with Juice, Fresh Baked Cookies, Fruit & Veggies.

We are excited and proud of our award winning programs success since our opening in June 2009. Our parents and students have found it to be a rewarding experience in exploring and creating art. We have watched the unmistakable growth in talent, creativity and confidence in our students and their artwork.

Class content and mediums:

DRAWING:

Training the artistic eye with still life, landscape, nature & animals, plein air, abstractions & reference materials.

Sketching & Shading, Perspective & Composition, Contour Drawing, Basic Figure Drawing, Additive & Subtractive Techniques, Scratch Art & Texturing.

*Mediums used: charcoal, graphite, pen & ink, pencils, markers, paint pens, pastels & chalks

PAINTING:

Learning basic to advanced painting techniques, materials, colors, and creative effects using various mediums, while exploring masters works and styles across time and the globe: still life, landscape, nature, animals, plein air, abstractions and reference materials.

*Mediums used: acrylics, oils, watercolors, tints, sea sponges, windows & walls, etc.

CERAMICS:

Instruction in hand-building, wheel-thrown pottery, glazing & firing, mask making & sculptures.

*Mediums used: stoneware clay, glazes, & decorative accessories

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Outdoor nature and landscape photography lessons and field trips, as well as still life and portrait lessons to learn composition, lighting and pre-production color manipulation.

MURAL & WINDOW PAINTING:

Basic instruction in design, layout and painting techniques for mural and window painting with field trips and special events.

*Mediums used: acrylics, tints & wax pencils

MIXED-MEDIUM:

Exploring artworks by combining an array of mixed mediums including: paints, markers, pastels, decorative papers, mod podge, and a variety ornamental pieces (shells, glass beads, etc).