Spring Art Classes at
Fine Arts for Children and Teens' ARTbarn Community Studio
1516 Pacheco St.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
At the Pink Church Art Center
Join us for a Spring of exploration, creating and FUN!
at our ARTbarn Community studio! All classes are $150 for a 6-week session and
include all materials and a snack.
Scholarships are available.
Contact Elizabeth at 992-2787 or email
program@factsantafe.org for more information or to register!
For 5- to 7-year-olds
Tuesdays, January 31st - March 6th, 2012
3:30-5:30pm
Fun with Line, Shape and Color with Tara Santini
Students will use basic observational skills to learn about shape, form and composition while creating images using basic techniques of line, shape and color. Students will also work on creating patterns, drawing objects from life, and experimenting with mediums from watercolors and oil pastels to tin.
For 8- to 10-year-olds
Tuesdays, March 20th - April 24th, 2012
3:30-5:30pm
Exploring Portraits with Tara Santini
Students will take away a greater knowledge of portraits and how to create an image of their own face and facial features as well as well as the face and features of others. Students will explore various different mediums as they create portraits that portray expression and feeling.
Spring Break Camp
for 5- to 7-year-olds
March 12th - March 16th, 2012
from 8:30am-12:30pm
$125 for 5 days, cost includes materials and a snack
Students will learn about the elements of the color wheel, color mixing and painting techniques while using the color wheel to explore secondary and more complex color through acrylic and watercolor paintings.
Teen workshops
2nd Saturday of every month
1-5pm
$10 per class
Saturday, February 11th from 1-5pm
Create your own Crib with Tara Santini
Do you have a dream house, or even a dream room? Do you have a passion for design? In the "Create your own Crib" workshop, students will explore basic architecture floor plans and design elements whole creating their own floor plans for a house, room or structure, gaining an overall understanding of blue prints and floor plans.
Saturday, March 10th from 1-5pm
Observational Drawing with Jonathan Cohen
Have you ever wished you could draw something the way you see it? In this four hour workshop, students will practice drawing from direct observation. Lesson will focus on studying objects and breaking them down to basic shapes. We will use pencil, charcoal and ink media on paper and practice using full value ranges. Techniques of cross hatching, shading and contour line drawing will all be explored. Artists will be given all the tools and techniques needed to begin drawing an arrangement of objects from life, one of the fundamental skills of great drawing.
Saturday, April 14th from 1-5pm
Book-making and Altered Books with Tara Santini
In this workshop, students will have ample opportunity to explore the various aspect of book arts, including book-making and altered book design and construction. Students will learn how to design and create their own books with various materials and mediums and will have access to books that they can alter to make their own unique altered book works of art.
We will have a Saturday workshop on May 12th, 2012 from 1-5pm, but the topic is still TBD.
Call Elizabeth at 992-2787 or email program@factsantafe.org for more information or to sign up your child for Spring ARTbarn classes
