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Please be aware that these classes are not Arts & Craft Classes. Your child will not be sticking down mosaic tiles and cutting up ribbons (except when creating a mixed media piece!). Whilst those activities are great for recreation and art therapy and for our toddlers learning fine motor skills, our Children’s Art Classes are focused on teaching children how to use different mediums to communicate visually. For this purpose, we teach them the foundations in drawing, painting, clay, printmaking and mixed media.
Teaching the fundamentals
When you learn to draw, to paint, to create a print, clay or mixed media piece you need to learn how to handle the tools of an artist and how to see. The latter is every bit as important as the former. As an artist, you need to look for and seek understanding of what you see. You must be trained to observe accurately using the 7 elements of art:
- Line
- Shape
- Form
- Space
- Texture
- Value
- Colour
Read more on the 7 elements here
These things must be in the artist’s mind before he/she even starts to record what he/she sees, then he can interpret the forms and shapes before him/her in terms of the medium he/she intends to use – clay, pencil, pen, paint, etc.
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