Children's Class Descriptions at Artsplace in Cheshire
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Children's Drawing Classes
All kindergarten and elementary-aged students are required to take beginner and intermediate drawing classes as a prerequisite to some other classes. Skills learned in these foundation classes are essential to the Artsplace program. Our children’s drawing curriculum is as follows:
Beginner Drawing
Includes contour line, flat color, texture, mirror image, negative space and volume drawing. Media are Flair pens and markers.
Intermediate I Drawing
Reinforces beginner concepts with more detailed projects including some shading and volume drawing. (Prerequisite: Beginner Drawing)
Beginner Drawing
Includes contour line, flat color, texture, mirror image, negative space and volume drawing. Media are Flair pens and markers.
Intermediate I Drawing
Reinforces beginner concepts with more detailed projects including some shading and volume drawing. (Prerequisite: Beginner Drawing)
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Children's Specialty Classes
Cartooning & Comics Class
Bring your characters to life! Learn the basics of creating dynamic expressive characters and share your imagination with the world. Make brand new characters or redesign old ones! You will learn how to tell a story with your characters by using techniques like shape, motion, and color. For all skill levels.
Bring your characters to life! Learn the basics of creating dynamic expressive characters and share your imagination with the world. Make brand new characters or redesign old ones! You will learn how to tell a story with your characters by using techniques like shape, motion, and color. For all skill levels.
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Experiment with Mixed Media Class
Come use your imagination as you experiment with many kinds of art materials to make beautiful creations. We’ll use watercolors, colored pencil, printing ink, colored papers, markers and craypas to create wonderful art! |
Experiment with Mixed Media
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Harry Potter & More in Clay Class
Refine your sculpting skills creating fascinating characters, such as Hagrid, Fang and Buckbeak the Hippogriff. You choose amongst your favorite characters. Sculpey clay, wire and fabric will be some of the materials used.
Refine your sculpting skills creating fascinating characters, such as Hagrid, Fang and Buckbeak the Hippogriff. You choose amongst your favorite characters. Sculpey clay, wire and fabric will be some of the materials used.
Let's Keep Painting Class
Continue to increase your painting skills by learning how to mix more colors! You’ll experiment with both watercolors & acrylics and complete still life and landscape paintings in this fun class. Open to new and repeating students.
Continue to increase your painting skills by learning how to mix more colors! You’ll experiment with both watercolors & acrylics and complete still life and landscape paintings in this fun class. Open to new and repeating students.
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Lions, Tigers & Bears Class
Do you love animals? We will use photos of various animals as the inspiration for paintings, collage, sculpture, drawings and more! Imaginary animals are also allowed! |
Lions, Tigers & Bears
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Magical Pet Companions Class
Needle-felt magical pets that can be your companion to help you get through your studies and adventures. Your pets can be pocket sized to accompany you anywhere. Soft wool will be sculpted with a special barbed needle.
Needle-felt magical pets that can be your companion to help you get through your studies and adventures. Your pets can be pocket sized to accompany you anywhere. Soft wool will be sculpted with a special barbed needle.
Manga/Anime Class
Work in black and white to create animé-style characters before you delve into color. You will develop confidence in figure drawing by working on your own project. Independent study is encouraged.
Work in black and white to create animé-style characters before you delve into color. You will develop confidence in figure drawing by working on your own project. Independent study is encouraged.
Manga/Anime
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Manga/Anime
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Manga/Anime
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Musical Theatre Class
Students will learn songs and short scenes from a variety of musicals of the 20th century, including “Singin’ in the Rain”, “The Music Man”, “Oliver”, “Peter Pan” and more.
Please note: This class is held in Nelson Hall at Elim Park, 140 Cook Hill Road, Cheshire.
Students will learn songs and short scenes from a variety of musicals of the 20th century, including “Singin’ in the Rain”, “The Music Man”, “Oliver”, “Peter Pan” and more.
Please note: This class is held in Nelson Hall at Elim Park, 140 Cook Hill Road, Cheshire.
Play with Pastels Class
Learn the basics of painting with pastels. Some projects will use glue to create 3-D reliefs around the objects before filling in with bright pastels.
Learn the basics of painting with pastels. Some projects will use glue to create 3-D reliefs around the objects before filling in with bright pastels.
Stuff You Can't Do at Home Class
Learn a new technique each week and work with plaster, glue guns, resin, wood burning tools, etc. that require space and are frequently messy. Wear old clothes or bring a smock. Create incredible art!
Learn a new technique each week and work with plaster, glue guns, resin, wood burning tools, etc. that require space and are frequently messy. Wear old clothes or bring a smock. Create incredible art!
Stuff You Can't Do at Home
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Stuff You Can't Do at Home
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When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth Class
Use colorful Sculpey clay to create your favorite dinosaurs in landscapes with volcanoes from this exciting time period.
Use colorful Sculpey clay to create your favorite dinosaurs in landscapes with volcanoes from this exciting time period.
Wonderful Watery World of Art Class
Do you enjoy the ocean? Students will create visual projects that have to do with the sea, including 3-D fish, watercolor paintings, porthole drawings, fancy foil fish, underwater drawings and more!
Do you enjoy the ocean? Students will create visual projects that have to do with the sea, including 3-D fish, watercolor paintings, porthole drawings, fancy foil fish, underwater drawings and more!
Wonderful Watery World of Art
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Wonderful Watery World of Art
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