Edmonton home school art class Jan/Feb 2012

YOUTH ART CLASSES Home School and After School at The Paint Spot

Instructor Margot Soltice 

Margot is an Edmonton-born and raised and has been largely a self-taught artist. Spending summers residing at Pigeon Lake was a huge contributor to Margot's creativity, and remains her inspiration today. Margot's work is multi-faceted. She enjoys playing with a variety of different mediums including watercolour, pen and ink, acrylic, mosaics, printmaking, clay sculpting and multimedia. Margot is happy to discuss the curriculum or needs of students. Contact her at barnswallow@xplornet.com For registration please call The Paint Spot : 780 432 0240.

HOME SCHOOL CLASSES

Ages 6-12, Thursdays 11 AM -1 PM (please send a lunch)

Ages 12-18, Thursdays 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM

AFTER SCHOOL CLASS

All ages, Thursdays 4 PM – 6 PM (Please send a nutritious snack)

$99

Term 2: Winter 2012 THURSDAYS January 12-26 and February 2-16

In the second term of art classes, children will expand on concepts learned in the first term while creating imaginative projects using textiles and sculpting methods.

Jan 12 Batik: this project will be carried over into other classes due to fabric drying times. Age appropriate materials used to interpret a poem into a visual story.

Jan 19 Paper mache: this project will be carried over into other classes due to paper mache drying times. Construct paper mache on a form to be later used as a canvas for a landscape

Jan 26 Soap sculpting: natural forms 

Feb 2 Wire sculpture: creating 3D from 2D  using wire.

Feb 9 Chalk Pastel drawing: on black paper- Student’s choice of subject, learning colour, shading, and mood

Feb16 Found object printing on paper Beautiful art materials and advice to inspire creativity!

Supply List: (20% Paint Spot student discount) Hard cover, coil sketchbook with heavy paper 3B and 3H pencils Eraser, white or kneaded

Pencil sharpener