Vivid imagination of youths and rational thinking of adults, excellent memory and instant creativity, this amazing age has all the learning benefits you can imagine. Sometimes it's hard to believe how much a kid of this age can learn during one two-hour lesson.
Only... if he or she is interested. Luckily, art history provides an endless source of interesting stories and objects, not to mention masterpieces of all kinds! So after several years of experiments we developed a method, that combines practical art lessons with a kid-friendly study of art history.
Each lesson is dedicated to some epoch and starts with a short lecture, briefly touching on philosophy, history, and art of that period.Then we focus on some art phenomena that happened during that time, and for the rest of the lesson we study it in practice.
Semester 1:
Art of Ancient Asia
- Week of September 2, 2019 - Decorating a Chinese Vase (study of symmetry, markers/watercolor)
- Week of September 9, 2019 - Sculpting a Dragon
- Week of September 16, 2019 - Eastern Brush Painting (brush control exercise: trees and mountains)
- Week of September 23, 2019 - Eastern Brush Painting (brush control exercise: people and animals)
- Week of September 30, 2019 - Autumn Japanese Landscape (paper cut out)
- Week of October 7, 2019 - Indian dancer (study of human proportions, pastels )
Art of Ancient Europe
- Week of October 14, 2019 - Sculpting a Greek Mask
- Week of October 21, 2019 - Dancing skeletons: Halloween-inspired study of human and animal anatomy
- Week of October 28, 2019, and November 4, 2019 - Roman murals (realistic painting, two days)
- Week of November 11, 2019 - Medieval Astrology: Drawing a Zodiac Sign (markers, watercolor)
- Week of November 18, 2019 - Madonnas of Renaissance: Painting of a mother and a baby
- Week of November 25, 2019 - Thanksgiving: Native American Thunderbirds
- Week of December 7, 2019 - Medieval VS Renaissance Perspective
- Week of December 14, 2019 - New Year/ Hanukkah / Christmas Cards - Printing