We are SO doing this!

Art Night: Mural Madness!

Last week's Art Night was so much fun! Let's do it again!

Art Night: Mural Madness!

Friday, April 8, 6:00 - 8:00

Ghent United Methodist Church has agreed to let us paint the walls! 

We will recreate Paul Klee's "Castle and Sun" in the hall outside the studio and then 

make one of our own to take home. And of course, there will be pizza.

$30 per child age 4 to 11

10% Sibling or Church Member Discounts Apply

Hit me up at otlartstudio@gmail.com!

Art Night with Robert Rauschenberg

Just got back from spending a couple of hours with some amazing little artists! We learned about Robert Rauschenberg and created "green" assemblages using cereal boxes as our ground. We also ate pizza and had a ton of fun!

We mixed our own green to paint our 'green' art.

Apparently blue, yellow & black make "Army green" even if you live in a Navy town.

The different approaches of young artists is always fascinating to me. This was created by a 4-year-old.

This 11-year-old's work includes several 'concepts', as she put it: a path of germs, a mangrove tree and spaghetti on a table.

Art Night Now 'Green' AND Gold

Sign up for Art Night and get a lucky, golden art coin for the local Art-o-mat!

Art-o-mat originated in Winston-Salem where there are LOTS of old cigarette machines. What do you do with them? Retrofit them to dispense art! Artists from all over the world create original works that are vended through these machines for the price of a $5 golden token. You could get a sculpture, painting or even jewelry!

Norfolk's Art-o-mat is at Ms.Magoo's House of Style Salon (No, I'm not making this up) located in the Hague Towers. Here are the rest of the details:

Art Night: Go Green 

(and get some Gold)

Friday, March 11, 6:00 - 8:00

Kiddos: Make a cereal box assemblage using "green" materials and the color green. Enjoy cheese pizza, juice boxes and have fun!

Parents: Have two whole hours to do whatever your grown-up hearts desire!

$35 per child age 4 to 11

10% Sibling or Church Member Discounts Apply

Only 4 spots left so let me know quick!

Art Night - Go Green!

The first Art Night is coming! 


Get your 'green' on Friday, March 11 from 6:00 - 8:00. 


Kiddos make a cereal box assemblage using "green" materials and the color green. Enjoy cheese pizza, juice boxes and have fun! Parents have two whole hours to do whatever your grown-up hearts desire! 
$35 per child age 4 to 11. 10% Sibling/Church Member Discounts Apply. 


Only 8 spots left so let me know quick! otlartstudio@gmail.com

Same Project/Different Kids

There are many things I love about teaching art, but right there at the top of the list is how individual children interpret the exact same project. There are developmental aspects, of course. We simply don't have the same attention span, fine motor or abstract thinking ability at four as we do at ten. And then there are the unique personalities that come into play.

This project was based on Kandinsky's Farbstudie Quadrate. The children were given oil pastels and told to make concentric shapes in various colors. They could pick the shape.

This little guy is four, and as you might guess, his name starts with M.

Here is how a six-year-old interpreted the project. She felt the need to put black lines between each area. She also carefully planned out her colors, making all the center dots first, then coming back and placing an oil pastel in each block for her next color. After she used those to make a second ring, she continued her process of placing all the oil pastels as markers then adding rings.

Here is the most traditional interpretation, by a ten-year-old rule follower.

And last the renegade. This young lady, age eight, had her own, fabulous agenda!

"...and here is the moon."

Why is the process more important that the product? This is why:

 

This was a Mark Rothko exercise. You know, big rectangles of color. In the beginning there were rectangles, I promise. The artist, age 4, penciled them in and started painting them. Then the process took over and next thing I knew, voila! As she painted the bit of yellow in the corner she said, "and here is the moon." She enjoyed herself immensely and she can tell you a bit about Rothko to boot!