Private Classes

Larry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:28:45 +0000

Private Art and Handwork Classes with Kathie Young
$50 per hour/includes supplies

Private Art Classes with Larry Young
$65 per hour/includes supplies

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Ornaments, Little Purse, IPod Case Workshop

Kathie Young — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:20:35 +0000

Take some time out to relax for few hours down by the waterfront. Come join our intimate group of felters at my home studio in Harbour Square. You can choose to make Felted Beads, Baby Gnomes, Baby Angels, Star Babies, a little purse, ipod case and pin cushions.

Bead, Baby Angels or Baby Gnome
2 hour course
$50 /includes material

IPod Case or Little Purse
2 hour course
$50 /includes material

2 – 10 students per class
Call to schedule classes.
416-304-0647

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Children’s Art Classes

Kathie Young — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:23:35 +0000

PAINTING
Colours speak a language more universal and archetypal than any spoken word. We communicate non-verbally when we speak and hear colour. The colour medium that is closest to pure coloured light is transparent watercolour. Watercolour painting is therefore the medium of choice for painting or colour therapy. We use either the wet-on-wet or veil painting methods. Wet-on-wet has a loosening and strengthening effect. In this method of painting, liquid colour is applied to moistened paper. Water, the bearer of life, facilitates the movement and intermingling of the colours as they create new colours among themselves. Form flows into being, and can dissolve out of it again. The process remains fluid until we choose to stop and let it dry.

DRAWING
Fairy tales, myths and legends inspire the younger children, who then draw scenes from the stories with brightly colored beeswax crayons. Older children, teens and adults learn the grayscale through charcoal drawing and the more difficult medium of scratchboard. Drawing exercises train fine motor skills, develop hand/eye coordination and have a calming effect on the inner life. Black and white drawing exercises focus on line and form and the dynamic interplay of light and darkness. Pencil drawing, in particular, with its fine, clear line “sharpens” the intellect; our faculty of objective thinking. Drawings using continuous, unbroken lines work with the fluid, formative qualities found in nature. When using broken lines we call upon the will and intellect. Studies in light, darkness and shadow speak more to our feelings. One technique that we use is shaded drawing where light-infused forms are created by applying parallel, oblique pencil strokes, bringing darkness into the light with pencil on white paper. This technique is highly meditative and ego strengthening. Form Drawing with colored pencils calls on the inner intelligence hidden in each human being. In the form of a spiral we have all the directions of space contained in a movement – left-right, above-below, in-out, forward and back. Seeing such forms, the child senses these qualities; they relate him to the past and bring him into relationship with the true and beautiful.

HANDWORK
Younger children work with brightly colored beeswax, while older children and teens model clay. Forming and transforming substance is the central activity of modeling. Older students are encouraged to feel both the outside forces pushing into the material to create concave surfaces, and the inside forces pushing out into convex surfaces. When working with clay, the primary challenge is to bring life into a dead material. Students observe this process in the plant world, immerse themselves in it, then “create the way nature does.” (Goethe)

Ages 5-7
Sundays 10:00-11:00
$100 (4 classes, includes materials)

Ages 9-12
Saturdays 11:00-12:30
$30 per class/includes materials

Kathie Young
416-304-0647
phoenixartsgroup@hotmail.com

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