Classes, Workshops & Events

We will explore the symbolic interpretations, design elements and color palette of cave paintings discovered by two children in Lascaux France. After learning to see forms and colors, students will reproduce an actual cave painting and finally develop a piece of their own.

Kids and art go together but there comes a time for some when insecurities set in with exclamations of “I can’t draw”!

What happens?

Many times children try to make a perfect replica of something they see in life only to be disappointed with the results. Frustration replaces the fun and freedom they once had! In reality learning to draw is much like playing an instrument. No one sits down and instantly plays a song before first learning the scales. Learning to see with the tools learned and practice of basic elements of design and color are the scales for future success as an artist!

We will study the shifting style of painting by Giotto who bridged the gap between the symbol based Middle Ages to the classical revival of The Renaissance. Giotto was the first in a movement of painters who turned flat iconic images into three dimensional forms by using values from light to dark. Students will do two self portraits- the first in the iconographic style of the Middle Ages and the second using the perceptive use of light to create volume in the style early Renaissance.