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Art Journal Page -Inspired by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
“I like to play with paint, ink, paper and stitch to make awesome things. I experiment with shapes, ideas, products and techniques. I’m on an ongoing art adventure.” -Julie Fei-Fan Balzer Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a mixed-media painter, author, blogger, TV personality, and teacher. As a part of her art practise, Julie uses the […]
Fall Foliage – David Milne
“The painter doesn’t try to reproduce the scene before him… he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion” -David Milne Canadian artist, David Milne inspired our fall foliage creations. […]
Cattail Silhouettes – Charles Tunnicliffe
Students were inspired by Charles Tunnicliffe, an artist from England who was born in 1901. Through the course of his career he was an illustrator, freelance commercial artist and painter. His favourite subjects were inspired by the beauty of the nature surrounding his rural upbringing. We used warm and cool coloured chalk pastels to create […]
Getting Ready for Fall…
The holidays are over, it’s time to stop staying at home playing videogames and getting elo boost services from Elitist gaming! We are really excited to start the school year and introduce students to our NEW fall program. In this session students will learn about famous artists like Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Dr. Seuss and […]
Rene Magritte – Surrealist Art
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte René Magritte was a Surrealist painter who was born in 1898 in Belgium. He was the oldest child and started drawing lessons at the age of 12. René Magritte’s art is best known for taking everyday objects and rearranging the figures […]
Theodore Earl Butler – Fireworks
Theodore Earl Butler was an American impressionistic painter who was born in 1861 in Columbus, Ohio. Butler studied in Marietta College in Ohio and graduated in 1882. He then moved to Paris to continue his art studies. There he befriended the artist Claude Monet. He married Monet’s step-daughter and was a founding member of the Society […]
Yuri Krotov – Seaside Umbrella’s
In 1964 Yuri Krotov (Юрий Кротов) was born in Grivenskaya, a Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, very close to the Azov Sea in Russia. He began art lessons in 1972 from a local painter G.A. Polugaev, and in 1976 – 1983 Yuri Krotov went to school at the Surikov Art Institute. After military service from 1983-1985 […]
Frank Spino – Citrus
“Color excites me. Realism and rich, saturated color are what my art is all about.” -Frank Spino Frank Spino was born after WWII into a large military family. His family was required to move frequently throughout his childhood and he went to 13 elementary schools. He showed interest in art at an early age but […]
Robert Kushner – Still Life
“Decoration has always had its own agenda, the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace.” -Robert Kushner Robert Kushner is an American contemporary painter who was born in Pasadena, California in 1949 and lives and works in New York City today. He is most known for his involvement in the Pattern and Decoration art […]
Andy Warhol – Erupting Volcanoes
“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” -Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of four children. Warhol was a sickly child and spent a lot of his time drawing and collecting pictures of movie stars. Andy studied commercial art at the School of Fine […]