Ages 10-14
Kendall Youth Classes: Ages 10-14
These beginner-level courses feature exciting programs created to help students ages 10-14 explore their creative talents and to challenge them to think, design, build and create.
Following is a list of classes Kendall offers for ages 10-14. Check schedule of classes to confirm date, time, and availability.
ABSTRACT PAINTING
Find out how some of the famous abstract painters were inspired. Try their techniques with acrylic paint and mixed media on canvas.
ACRYLIC PAINTING
Learn about colors, mediums, surfaces, and create your own paintings using the medium of acrylics. Still life, portraiture, and abstraction will be explored.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
From sea to shining sea, you will learn to draw and paint the people, landscapes, and animals of America. You will focus on building foundational drawing and observation skills while learning sketching, shading, design, composition, color, and vocabulary.
ART IN ACTION
Make your figurative drawings come to life! With an understanding of past and present artists’ techniques and styles, you will explore a wide range of interests from natural fluid movement to expressive, exaggerated motion. You can choose to work with either cartoon characters or realistic figures.
BEAD IT
Design your own patterned beads using polymer clay. Then use your beads to create one-of-a-kind jewelry that you can wear or give as a gift.
BEGINNING VIDEO GAME CHARACTER DESIGN DAY CAMP (Ages 10-13)
Learn how professionals developed the video game characters and worlds you love. In this class you will develop the tools and skills necessary to design and create stories and characters for video games – from concept to layout, from rough sketch to final drawing. You will leave this class with an illustration of a fully realized world, inhabited with characters of your own design, ready to build into games of any genre. Note: You will not be using Adobe Flash in this class.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Design and illustrate a favorite story that you’ve read or written. Using basic drawing and illustration techniques, you will learn all of the steps to help you create a finished piece suitable for the bookshelf.
BOTANICAL DRAWING
Learn about flowers and plants while drawing them in black, white, and color.
BRUSH WITH HISTORY
Try your hand at painting, while studying art history. Styles to be discussed include: Impressionism, abstraction, and expressionism. The medium of acrylic paint will be used.
CAMERALESS PHOTOGRAPHY
Discover how to transfer images into paper or fabric with a non-traditional camera that you will design and build. Add the element of color to these images with a variety of materials and techniques.
CARICATURES
Learn to see and draw the face in an exaggerated style in pencil and ink with line and half tones. Capture a likeness in a humorous way. Create mood or expression with a simple twist of the pen. Draw yourself or use photos of famous people.
CERAMICS
Create your own hand-built sculptures and functional art pieces. Use glazing and panting techniques to add finishing details.
CITYSCAPE DRAWING
Learn how to draw street scene, buildings, castles, and fantasy environments using the principles of perspectives.
CLAY WORKS
Feel your imagination with clay! Clay’s basic pinch and slab pots will be your beginning projects, followed by sculptures and other activities with clay. Firing and glazing will add the finishing touches. No previous clay experience necessary.
COLLAGE
Create exciting compositions through the implementation of mixed media including papers, markers, crayons, oil pastels, glue, etc. You will learn to create harmony and balance through the use of pattern, texture, line, and color.
COLORING ON THE COMPUTER
Learn all the different ways of adding and changing color on pictures and coloring your own drawings on Photoshop. Each class you will learn a new digital coloring technique while spending the other half of class working on a color project of your own.
COMIC ANIMATION
Develop an understanding of the various steps and processes involved in the creation of a feature animation. Exercises will include working with storyboards, flipbooks, and painted images on acetate. Prior comic drawing experience is required for this course.
COMIC BOOK CREATIONS
You will layout a page with your favorite comic book character and learn techniques such as stippling, crosshatching, inking, and x-ing off spaces. Then transfer your drawing to the computer. Apply color using Adobe Photoshop, and add text bubbles to complete your comic strip.
THE COMIC SOLUTION
Create your own cartoon action characters and comic strips, using basic drawing techniques in a variety of styles.
THE COMIC SOLUTION II
Continue to work with ideas and techniques from the Comic Solution I. Experiment with the use of color and black and white media, as you develop your own unique style.
COOL, CRAZY AND CREATIVE CARDS
Create expressive cards for your friends and family using a variety of supplies. Techniques will include collage, found objects, stamping, and paper sculpture.
CREATING COMICS FROM START TO FINISH
Go through the entire professional process of making a comic and create the best piece of art you’ve ever made. In this class you will learn the basic skills of drawing proportion, perspective, and expression. Using these skills, you will choose a character from your own imagination or from popular culture. From this, you will create a series of small layout sketches. Then you will create your final artwork, moving from pencils, to ink, to full digital color and text on Adobe Photoshop.
CREATIVE WRITING FOR THE COMIC ARTIST
Looking at comic books as examples, learn to write text that will correspond to images that are only in your mind. Through a series of writing exercises, you will learn how to properly break down the text to individuals in the story and how to describe an environment that has not yet been created on the page. The majority of class time will be spent writing text, with minimal instruction on drawing.
DISCOVER PRINTMAKING
Discover the possibilities of making more than one copy of your artwork by learning about this graphic media art form. Variations in ink, paper, technique, and layers of printing will enable you to create colorful monoprints, carve images into linoleum blocks and print colorful multiple-plate images. You will have the opportunity to produce an edition of multiple prints.
DOLLHOUSE MINIATURES
Create miniature accessories that can be used in a dollhouse. Projects will include designing wallpaper and floor covering; making “over stuffed furniture” out of fun fabrics, and working with colorful clay to create pictures for the walls and other household accessories.
DRAWING THE BASICS
Develop basic drawing skills through observation of still life, landscape, and people. Work with pencil and charcoal to solve the problems of line, value, form, space, and texture in a composition.
DRAWING WITH COLOR
Learn how to add color to your drawings with colored pencils. Experiment with blending and mixing techniques as you create portraits, still life compositions and landscapes.
DRAWING WITH PASTELS
Play with color using soft pastels. Learn basic techniques for color application and composition.
DREAMSCAPES
Dig into your subconscious. Learn about artists who used their dreams as inspiration to make art based on fantasy. Use a variety of media including clay, paper collage, and watercolor to bring your wildest dreams to life!
DRUM MAKING
Build your own playable drums from found objects and learn about drumming in various cultures. Enjoy playing your drums with your classmates.
EQUINE ART
Explore man’s earliest observations of the horse, and those created by later cultures including modern interpretations of this stately animal. Paint, draw, or sculpt your own equine creations.
EXPLORING SCULPTURE
A beginning sculpture experience, this class will stretch your imagination from two dimensions into three. Create a variety of sculptures, experimenting with mixed media such as clay, plaster, wire, wood and paper.
FASHION ILLUSTRATION FOR YOUNG DESIGNERS
Learn to put your fashion ideas on paper. Learn to render a variety of fabrics and costumes in proportion.
FIBER ART
Learn about fabrics and artistic techniques from several cultures. Explore design techniques including batik, yarn, weaving, and tie-dyeing.
FIGURE DRAWING
Experiment with different approaches to drawing the human figure with a variety of media. Problems of composition and proportion will be explored, using clothed models.
FIGURE PAINTING
Learn to paint the figure in a realistic way using oil or acrylic paint. Problems of proportion, composition, value, color, and mood will be your focus.
FOUND OBJECT ART
You might think it’s just junk, but is it potentially a piece of art? In this course you will learn to take the ordinary to another place. You will study examples of junk art by famous contemporary artists, and then create your own works incorporating a variety of painting and printing methods including collography, monoprinting, rubberstamp printing, and embossing. Students should bring five items they consider “junk” to the first class, i.e., gum wrappers, cardboard, banana peel, soda can, paper scraps.
GOOGLE PAINTING
Using mixed media, you will find images on the web to use as sources for your painting. The electronic images you choose will serve as references, collage materials, and conceptual starting points for your work. Using computers and paints, you’ll explore different directions, all with the goal of learning visual language and invention.
GRAPHIC GRAFFITI
Interested in urban and contemporary art? You will be shown images of graffiti art that are being created by several local and national artists. You will learn to develop your design skill, and will create works of art on large and irregular surfaces.
HOW TO DRAW DRAGONS
Explore the legends and myths surrounding dragons and how they are represented on television, in books and movies. Then, learn how to illustrate these gigantic creatures using pencil, ink, and colored pencil.
HOW TO DRAW MONSTERS
What makes monsters so monstrous? Explore the history of monsters in legends and myths, and find out how they are represented in books, television, and movies. Then, learn how to illustrate these enormous creatures using pencil, ink, and colored pencil.
HOW TO DRAW PIRATES
Explore the legendary world of pirates and pirate ships. Create your own original pirate character complete with name and history.
IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING
Study the work of Impressionist painters like Cassatt, Degas, Seurat, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, and Pissaro. Use specific art works as sources for inspiration on your own works. You will use acrylic paint, oil pastels, and more.
INTERMEDIATE DRAWING
Continue to enhance and fine-tune your basic drawing skills. Experiment with various drawing tools and techniques in the creation of gesture and still life drawings.
MAD ABOUT MOVIES
Go “behind the scenes” with past and present day movies to take a closer look at how professional artists use their skills to develop and create different worlds, creatures, heroes, and villains. Then develop and draw your own characters based on what you have learned.
MASK MAKING
Make a variety of colorful and decorative masks using unique materials while learning about the cultures that inspired them.
MEDIEVAL MADNESS
Travel back to King Arthur’s Court. Use perspective techniques to create medieval castles and fortresses complete with moats, drawbridges, arched corridors, and more.
MIXED MEDIA
Combine the elements of drawing, painting, and collage to create unique effects on various surfaces.
MOSAICS
Design mosaic art to be used alone as a decorative object or to embellish a piece of furniture for your room. Use tiles, stones, beads, and more as you let history guide you with this ancient art form.
NARRATIVE COLLAGE
Using themes from your own life and materials such as photos, fabric, thread, letters, and paint, create a collaged composition that is your own personal visual history.
NATIVE AMERICAN ART
Learn about the Native American culture. Design and construct a totem pole, mask, clay pot, and much more.
OBJECTS ALL AROUND US
Learn fundamental drawing skills using objects as your subject. From musical instruments to pumpkins, shells, lanterns, and stuffed toys, your focus will be on shape, shadow, and light.
ORGANIC MECHANICS: GARDEN ORNAMENTS IN MOTION
Learn how to harness the wind in the making of sculptural creations that display movement when placed outdoors. Techniques of suspension and balance will be explored, using wire and weather-hardy materials and designs.
ORIENTAL PAINTING
Discover the art of the orient! Using watercolor, learn to combine Chinese, Korean and Japanese folk art styles to represent landscape, bamboo, flowers, and other oriental subject matter.
PAINTED FLOORCLOTHS
Using acrylic paint, design and create a one-of-a-kind 2×3 foot canvas floor cloth to put on your bedroom floor or display on a wall.
PAINTING ARCHITECTURE
Take a walk around town with a sketchbook, then translate one of your drawings into a painting, using either oil or acrylic paint.
PAINTING BASICS
Begin with the basics of painting as a framework on which you can build your skills. Acquire finesse in your paintings while focusing on gradations, sfumato, color, temperature, accuracy, and edge variety. Oil or acrylic paints are acceptable.
PAPIER MACHE SCULPTURE
Explore three dimensional construction, working with papier mache. Use found and created materials to sculpt animal, human, or abstract forms. Visit the Art Museum’s galleries for inspiration.
PARADE OF POSTERS
Learn how to combine colors, letters and shapes to create catchy and effective posters. Skills learned in this class can be applied to designing advertisements for school plays, sporting, and social events. You will have the opportunity to enter your poster in a statewide competition.
PASTELS WITH DEGAS
Learn to use the medium of pastels to enliven your drawings. Observe the Impressionist master Degas and learn about effective pastel layering. Learn how pastel drawing can be a useful technique for preliminary studies before creating paintings, or how pastel works can be a finished product. Subject matter will include the figure and still life.
PEN, INK, AND WATERCOLOR
Using pen, ink, and watercolor, this class will teach you to have fun creating compositions while learning to paint with additives such as salt and alcohol to create the illusion of texture. Watercolor papers and other materials will be explored as you expand your technique and confidence with these mediums.
POP ART
Talk about the work of Pop artists such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenberg, and Ruschka, and then create your own masterpieces. You will work with tempera, batik, watercolor, molding putty, and even school photos.
PORTRAITURE
Learn to draw portraits like the masters. Study works from art history, and create your own by studying a live model. Proportions of the face, head, and neck will be emphasized.
SCRATCH THAT
Scratch on copper to learn the art of repoussé. You will also work on scratchboard to develop other unique works of art.
THE SUNDAY COMICS
An advanced class in comic art, emphasizing color technique and application. Working with finished drawings, you will introduce the element of color to your work, using colored pencils and inks.
T-SHIRT ART
Tie-dying is not the only way to create unique T-shirt designs. Learn techniques like rubbing-out, marbling, stamping, photography on fabric, and more! Six shirts will be completed and are included in the supply fee.
WATERCOLOR
For the beginner or more advanced watercolor artist, learn basic techniques, then experiment with special effects such as sponging, splattering, masking out, and scrubbing to create your own beautiful watercolor paintings.
WILDLIFE AND NATURE
Create colorful, expressive art pieces with the medium of pastel, looking at wildlife and nature resources.
Questions?
If you have problems or questions, contact us at 616.451.2787 ext.2012.
