Bugs and Butterflies
Buffalo Arts Studio (click for link to website)
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Saturdays
April 10 – May 15
6 weeks
10 AM – noon
EDU Room 506 B
Ages 11 – 14 yrs
$100
Becoming A Naturalist
Buffalo Arts Studio (click for link to website)
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Mondays
April 12 – May 10
5 weeks
6:30 – 8 PM
Ages 16 & up
$75
Mixed Media Drawing
Buffalo Arts Studio (click for link to website)
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May 17 – June 14 (Mondays)
5 weeks
6:30 – 8 PM
Ages 16 & up
$75
This workshop is for all levels and presents drawings as a creative process to practice focus, mark making, and hash out ideas. Students will be creating a series of drawings with the use of paint, stencils, color pencils, thread, watercolors and inks. The intent of this workshop is to explore and loosen up your art making through testing out a variety of materials on multiple sheets of paper. A still life will be set up as a starting point for creating images by observation. Then warm up into making works based on imagination, filling the page with lines, shapes and colors. The instructor will share her techniques of building layers and experimenting with drawing tools to gradually develop with each work. A series of small 5 by 7 inch drawings on paper become a way to exercise your artistic expression. At the end of the workshop, participants will have created a series of mixed media works on paper. This class is limited to 6 students to allow for socially distancing, masks will also be required.
PAST WORKSHOPS
Becoming a Naturalist
This week long course on becoming a naturalist includes color pencil drawings, watercolor and collage. Find the joy of nature by collecting plant specimens and observing animals in their natural habitat. Discover the wonders of hand-printing leaves selected outside your house. Fill your sketchbook with observational drawings from an insect collection (provided by the art instructor), create lovely illustrations of flowers and discover how to draw birds. Experiment with glue, wax resists and salt to develop your skills in watercolor. And collage of a birds eye view of a landscape, sourcing images of remote places via google photos.
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Youth ART CAMP: Becoming a Naturalist, ONLINE
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 13021
Patterns on Fabric
Weekend workshop, 18+/ All Levels. Develop new skills and explore the possibilities or repeat patterns and multiple colors to create boutique textile designs over one weekend. This workshop covers screenprinting fundamentals while exploring the impact of repeat patterns to create your own hand-printed fabric to take away. Additionally, participants will create a collaborative fabric pint. Screenprinting is a versatile process that can be used for fine art or commercial projects beyond this workshop.
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Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Community Arts Education Program, Utica, NY 13502