October 22nd: Topic: Balance: Eerie Equilibrium: Ghosts, Pumpkins, and Dark Magic 13-18 project: Eerie Equilibrium: Ghosts, Pumpkins, and Dark Magic: Students will design symmetrical, ornate labels for fictional potions (e.g., poison or love potions) using aged parchment techniques and calligraphy. They’ll explore balance, typography, and decorative motifs to create a vintage aesthetic. 10-12 project: Eerie Equilibrium: Ghosts, Pumpkins, and […]
October 29th: Topic: Seasonal: Vintage Horror Posters 13-18 project: Vintage Horror Posters: Students will create their own scary movie poster based off of media like vampire, zombie, and various classic monster movies from the 50s-80s. They will have a focus on composition, design, and color all while being creepy and creative with their movie concept. […]
November 5th: Topic: Movement: Witch’s Flight & Animated Spells 13-18 project: Witch’s Flight & Animated Spells: Students will use diagonal brushstrokes, palette-knife streaks, and background blurring to make the witch appear to race across the canvas. The focus will be making the subject of the painting look like it is in motion through various techniques. 10-12 project: Witch’s Flight […]
November 12th: Topic: Texture: Dragon Scales and Wings 13-18 project: Dragon Scales and Wings: Students will draw a dragon portrait with a focus on textures by drawing details in their scales, wings, and eyes. We will use various mediums to achieve the different desired textures that students wish to create. 10-12 project: Dragon Scales and […]
November 19th: Topic: Texture: Van Gogh Inspired Skies 13-18 project: Van Gogh Inspired Skies: Students will create a painting with heavy actual texture using their paint and mediums. They will also use heavy implied texture by using painting techniques that were used by Vincent Van Gogh. They may create an image of any of their […]
December 3rd: Topic: Beginning color theory: Warm and Cool Elemental Creatures 13-18 project: Warm and Cool Elemental Creatures: Students will discuss color theory and how cool and warm colors convey a feeling like icy and hot, respectively. Then they can choose which creatures to portray and give them ice and fire elemental designs while focusing […]
December 10th: Seasonal Winter Crafting Topic: Winter Inspired Art 7-18 Winter project: Students of all ages will create a painting inspired by images of the Deer Mother myths, other winter mythical creatures, and Yule. They can be inspired by these stories and add their own details to customize their painting to make it their own. […]
January 7th: Topic: Beginning color theory: Illustrative Color Wheel 13-18 project: Illustrative Color Wheel: Students will be given a blank color wheel template. Then, they will use the template to fill in each piece of the color wheel with various drawings that match the color that is represented in that section of the wheel. They […]
January 14th: Topic: Color theory: Color Theory in Pop Art 13-18 project: Color Theory in Pop Art: Students will discuss pop culture in how pop art intersects with popular culture. Discussions of pop art throughout history, like Andy Warhol to K-Pop posters, will inform the subjects that students will choose to depict. We will have […]
January 21st: Topic: Color theory: Monochromatic Lofi Backgrounds 13-18 project: Monochromatic Lofi Backgrounds: Students will discuss lo-fi-art that has a nostalgic, grainy feel. Then, they will choose a scene that they want to create and a base color to use in their entire piece of art. After choosing their base color, they can use various […]
