Art Fundamentals for Kids (8-12) (Live Online)

This course is teaching all important art fundamentals and all common art materials to kids of various levels. If your child wants to draw, paint and sculpt realistically from real life and imagination, it is the right choice. For drawing in cartoon style, check Sketching for Kids.​Each lesson covers an important art concept, needed for fluent representational drawing and painting. It is combined with an 2-3 minute intro to a cultural phenomenon: a style, and epoch, or a single artist. Students get to create their original artworks from scratch within the guidelines of the topic. Each topic can be adjusted to a variety of levels, from beginners to advanced.We start a lesson with a short lecture and demonstration (live in studios, pre-recorded for online lessons). Teachers provide advice, help, correct the digital image of a student's work, explain what works in particular cases and what does not, and why. ​This class is ongoing, students can join anytime. Important concepts like drawing humans and animals, nature, and architecture are repeated every 1-2 months, each time associated with a new topic and art material. Topic rotation is 2-3 years. Art materials we master: acrylics, watercolor, pastels, pencil, markers, clay.​Materials we provide for in-studio classes, and recommend for the online lessons:​Paint:set of acrylic paint (at least these colors - black, white. red. blue. yellow, green. brown, orange, purple). Recommended brand - Basics by Liquitexwatercolor paint, preferably in dry pans form. Recommended brand - Artist’s Loft by MichaelsSet of soft pastels. Recommended brand - Artist’s Loft by MichaelsDrawing Medium:regular HB pencileraser - optional: set of graphite pencils of different softness (2H, H, B, 2B, 4B etc)colored pencils. Recommended brand - Prismacoloroptional: markers. Recommended brand - Copicsliners or sharpie pensTools:brushes - flat and round (pointy). Use separate brushes for acrylic and watercolor paint.wooden clay sculpting toolspaper plates for mixing paintwater bucket or cupscissorsglue stickClay:Air-dry clay - white. Recommended brand - CrayolaOven baked clay - white. Recommended brand - SculpeyModeling clay - multiple colors. Recommended brand - ClaytoonSurfaces:painting boards or mixed media paper, 8’’x10'’ or bigger - good for acrylic paint, coloring pencils, markers and graphite pencils.canvases, 8’’x10’’ or bigger - for acrylic paint onlywatercolor paper, 8’’x10’’ or bigger - for watercolor paintsketchbook or loose sketch paper (printing paper is ok) - any sizeconstruction paper (multiple colors), 11’’x14’’ or bigger