Tag: art classes

Facilitating Creativity

A lot has happened in the past month, so much I haven’t had time to keep up with writing about it all!

I taught two faculty paint nights as team building workshops! Both went extremely well and everyone left feeling like an artist! First we painted a lighthouse, because Ridgely is a Baltimore County Lighthouse School, we each hung our paintings up in our classrooms. The second party we painted cherry blossom trees, which were more for our houses.

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I also taught a dream catcher workshop at my friends yoga studio Life in Balance. There were 12 people in attendance and each created their own unique dream catcher!

There was also a birthday painting party! Lots of middle school girls painting circle designs, or any designs they desired! Each piece turned out awesome, and the girls had a blast!

There has been lots of painting going on!

Tags Art, Art Class, art classes, Art Education, Art Studio, Arts Integration, create, creative balance, Dream Catchers, girls night out, paint night, painting, painting party, raine dawn, students, teaching, Wine, wine and painting

Existence Southern York

Life in Balance

I recently had the pleasure of attending a yoga and paint night at Life in Balance Yoga, with Misty Stillman and Traci Kelly. It was my first time ever attending, and it was the first paint night that I went to and wasn’t the teacher!

We started the evening with a nice easy and releasing yoga session. Misty was awesome, the tone and pace of her instruction were perfectly matched. It was my first yoga class as well, I usually do Yoga with Adriene on YouTube, but I must say there is something very magical about being in a yoga studio with other people.

After yoga we enjoyed some food and wine, and socializing before we got started on our painting. When it was time to paint Traci took over and the creating began. I knew what the painting was going to be before hand, and I had already felt like I wanted to do mine a bit different. Traci was more than happy to let each of us work as we pleased. The other ladies stuck with the painting style Misty and Traci picked out, but I changed mine a bit.

The evening was relaxing and fun. I had a wonderful time all around! Thank you ladies for hosting such a wonderful evening!! Check out Life in Balance Yoga on Facebook!

<3 Namaste

Tags Art, art classes, Hanover, life in balance, meditation, painting, Pennsylvania, relaxing, yoga

Art Class Southern York Wine and Painting Party

Learning to Paint…

Ive decided to go at the paint nights from a little different angle. Instead of covering up our mistakes with wine, we will learn to paint and then create our own masterpiece using the techniques! My most recent endeavor is “Learn to paint: Tree edition”. I created multiple examples of how we can blend colors to create different skies, and use dark values to create silhouettes in the foreground.

The next Learn to Paint session is on October 11th, 2015 from 2-5 at The Stone Mill 1792. We will be exploring blending colors, and making trees. I hope those attending will bring ideas for their piece so I can assist them in creating something they’ve always wanted.

Tags Art, Art Class, art classes, Art Education, Art Studio, blending, colors, create, creative balance, Creative Balance Studio, learn to paint, painting, sunsets, trees

Art Class Existence

Hampton Mansion

I took my GT 8th grade art students to the Hampton Mansion. Our school is named after the family who built the mansion! The students took an hour tour of the mansion and then were able to be artists for the day. They created beautiful works that will be entered into the Hampton Mansion Juried Art Exhibit.

When I asked the students how they felt about being able to be an artist for the day, they responses were amazing. They discussed how vital it was to be able to have freedom and time to create. They all asked if we could do it more often.

Here are some photos from our day!