Dyed Paper Art
Oil and (colored) water don’t mix, but it does make crazy repetitive designs on dipped paper! After some wet fun, young artists will look at their creations to find shapes, characters, animals, or anything else that comes to them through their imaginations. Their challenge is to create a scene with what appears, using colored pencils.
Perfect for iREAD theme: READ, RENEW, REPEAT
Zentangled Animals
After looking at patterns in nature, young artists will create a unique animal from checkerboards, spirals, weaves and geometric shapes. What bold animal lurks in your imagination?
Embossed Aluminum Design
Take abstract shapes a notch higher by embossing designs on aluminum sheets. We'll use an inking technique to tint it, then extent that design to the border with colored pencils. Get ready to be amazed!
Fantasy Houses
Young artists will explore architectural design with fantasy and surreal elements. Markers and colored pencils along with a bit of imagination will complete the vision. Create your dream house!
Perfect for iREAD theme: READ, RENEW, REPEAT
For children, ages 8 - 13
Jungle Cats Collage
Cut out a lion, tiger, or leopard face and paint it with bright colors. Then make your own patterned stamp pads that will be inked and pressed onto the art. Finish with cut-leaf shapes to create a jungle!
Pop Art Portraits
Bring a contemporary feel to a retro comic book style! Young artists will use in along with colored pencils and acrylic paint to give life to a new Manga-inspired character!
Haunted House at Night
Create a stunning night sky using wet paper and bleed-through tissue paper. Draw a spooky house with black ink markers complete with bats, broken windows and ghosts. Perfect for Halloween!
Upcycled Folk Art
Using crushed aluminum cans, cardboard, and other household objects, young artists will assemble a character and paint a background to create a unique piece of art!
Perfect for iREAD theme: READ, RENEW, REPEAT
Scratchboard Animals
Circles, squiggles, lines and crosshatching. Design an animal in its environment by scratching a variety of textures into an inked surface.
3-color Pet Print
Bring in a photocopy picture of a pet, or use one of ours to make a unique portrait using a print technique of various colors.
Ink & Watercolor Pollinators
Bees, bats, butterflies or hummingbirds! Pick a pollinator and create art that is half grey-tones, and half in full color!
Perfect for iREAD theme: READ, RENEW, REPEAT
Traveling art workshops designed to inspire the young and young-at-heart.
Pop-Up Shark
Investigate the fine art of cutting and folding shapes into 3-dimensions in this pop-up card. We'll finish it off by creating a background scene using markers and colored pencils.
Ocean Life Pastels
Young artists will be invited to render their favorite sea creature in oil pastels. Add a simple or complex background and discover your deep-sea creature in all its glory!
Wildlife Birds
Using a limited palette of acrylic paint colors, young artists will create a wildlife bird of their choosing on a dark background. Discover how many mixed colors you can make from 3 choices and paint away!
25 person limit, 1.5 hours, all materials provided. Most workshops $300 unless otherwise stated.
Underwater Watercolors
Using a wax crayon to outline the design, young artists will paint an underwater scene using a wet-in-wet blending technique in watercolor. Then we'll use a little salt and splatter to give our creation some texture. Creative fun!
Wild Portraits
Are you a lion, tiger or bear? Maybe you have wings of an eagle! Young artists will use oil pastels to reveal a self-portrait of their wilder side!
Pop-Up Butterfly
Flutter into Spring with a paper-engineered card. Kids will make this butterfly pop-up unique using sharpies and colored pencils, and give it a nice floral background.
Optical Illusions
Young artists will learn of Victor Vasarely, known as the founder of optical art. We'll learn how to alter line and shading in order to fool the eye, and create a 3-D illusion on flat paper!
Arctic Animals
Choose an arctic animal from supplied photos and create a collaged design using a variety of papers, both colored and patterned. Continue the look by creating a simple patterned background in colored pencil that suggests an icy environment.
Holiday Cards Print Shop
Gain an understanding of block printing by using various tools and techniques to carve an image onto a styrofoam printing plate. Ink it, press onto paper, and pull a monoprint to be used in crafting a holiday card of your own. Bonus: take home your printing plate to reproduce on more cards!