FREE! Kids Online Art Class – 6 Lessons
Carla Sonheim, author of “Drawing Lab,” would like to invite you and your kids to join us for a week of creativity and fun. Carla is joined by artist-teachers Lynn Whipple and Diane Culhane and they have created six video lessons for kids of all ages. All you need are some basic art supplies and less than an hour a day!
Class Itinerary
Lesson 1: Picasso Dogs with Carla
Lesson 2: Crayon Resist Night Sky with Diane
Lesson 3: Leaf Printing with Lynn
Lesson 4: Nature Faces with Lynn
Lesson 5: Oil Pastel & Pain t with Diane
Lesson 6: Modigliani Portraits with Carla
Tempera or acrylic paint, markers, crayons, watercolors, pencils, oil pastels, imagination and sense of fun!
Collectively, Carla Sonheim, Lynn Whipple, and Diane Culhane are professional artists and educators who teach all ages.
NUTS & BOLTS
Here’s how this online class works:
• Each day during the week of class, you will receive an email with a reminder to visit the class blog for that day’s lesson.
• A password-protected blog dedicated to each class will serve as our clubhouse and where you will find all the class materials as they are uploaded.
• A facebook group will be created for you to (optionally) share your paintings, and enjoy and learn from the artwork of others. (However, if you are shy about posting your art, we are always available to look at your work via email.)
• The class materials will be up and available forever.
• Upon registration, you will receive an email within 48 hours confirming your sign-up. On the Friday before your session begins, you will receive your class codes and a “test” video to make sure you can receive/view everything (if you can view the above video, you should be able to view the class videos).
FAQs – If you’ve never taken an online class before and would like to know more about our online classes, click HERE.
Online Children’s Art Classes
Our classes are structured as closely as can be to our in-studio sessions, providing fun, focused projects for kids small and large. Adults may join as well. Kids will interact online through our Zoom Online Studio. At each session we will create new masterpieces – some based on famous artists and others that we’ll make up together!
Online Class Schedules
Already registered? Enter our online studio here.
Please Note – Regular classes will not be held on the following holidays:
Rosh Hashanah: September 16
Yom Kippur: September 25
Italian Heritage / Indigenous Peoples Day: October 9
Veterans Day (observed): November 10
Thanksgiving: November 22 – 26
Christmas Break: December 23 – January 7
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: January 15
Use this button to access our Zoom Online Art Studio a few minutes before your session starts. You’ll enter our online waiting room, and an instructor will admit you once the class starts.
More Information
Class Structure
We will greet each child as we admit them to our online studio. Wendy will be there as usual and will lead each session the way we do in the studio. Each class is interactive, and children will receive guidance the whole way through each project. Through video and audio sharing, we can look at all our young artists’ work as they watch our instruction for as creative an online experience as possible.
We will complete one project during each online session for ages 4 – 6. Some of the 7+ class projects might take two or more sessions. Since these will be mixed aged classes, the older children will be given options to take each project to a higher level.
Please be sure your child attends only an age-appropriate class as per our schedule. They will enjoy it more if it is on their level!
Art Supplies
Below are the art supplies you’ll need for our online classes. If you don’t have some of them, no worries. We will make it work for you!
Pencil, Eraser (Pink Pearl or any other)
Markers – At least one black marker.
Paper – a 12”x18” sketchbook is good but if not, 9”x12” is fine too
Scissors
A watercolor set. Any brand is fine.
Tempera paints or acrylic paints if you have them
Two paint brushes – 1 small and 1 larger
Oil Pastels or Crayons
Glue Stick and/or Elmers White Glue All
Any other art materials you might have around the house, i.e., newspaper, tissue paper, glitter, buttons, gemstones, etc.
Additional supplies can be ordered from blick.com, saxarts.com, or, of course, amazon.com.
Accessing the Online Studio
If this is the first time you’re using Zoom on your computer or tablet, give yourself 15 minutes before your first class to click on the “Enter Online Studio!” button above and follow the prompts to download the software.
Once Zoom is set up, joining an online art session is as easy as clicking on the “Enter Online Studio!” button about five minutes before the appropriate class time. Please make sure your Zoom name is easily recognizable and matches the name under your registration. Otherwise, it will be difficult to know who you are and we may not be able to admit you to the class. The Zoom name window should open the first time you use Zoom if you need to edit your name.
Because we hold all our classes in the same online studio, you can access the studio the same way for every class.
Once the session begins, you will be able to see the instructor on the screen as well as all the other students in the session. The instructor may mute participants’ microphones to prevent distractions and background noise (from pets, phones, etc.), but you will always be able to unmute yourself to ask questions.
