Art Lessons In-Person and Online
Keep your Young Artists engaged and learning
In-person Art Lessons; Wednesdays and Fridays after school... and Saturday Mornings:
The lessons will be located at Dunbarton Fairport United Church located at:
1066 Dunbarton Road in Pickering. L1V 1G8
The kids will be working with various art media, including watercolours, charcoal, oil pastels, and of course graphite and colour pencils. Supplies will be included in the term and enrolment is limited to 8 students per class.
Every Art lesson includes:
- Step-by-step shapes instruction showing how to build complex shapes from simple ones.
- Art Techniques for Media being explored: (colour blending, textures, and value patterns)
- Plenty of opportunity for young artists to add their own ideas, and choose their own colours.
This provides enough guidance to let the kids feel mastery and enough freedom to allow their natural creativity to shine through. Having new artworks from your children every week is also a real pick-me-up for parents' busy lives.
Let your children enjoy these weekly art lessons... Ms. Judith continues to teach her students to create fun art projects that they are proud of. The lessons are relaxing and offer a safe and fun activity that keeps the learning momentum going....
Keeping Young Artists Happy and Learning!
Your child can learn to do this too!
Your child can learn to do this too!
Your child can learn to do this too!
Learning to make art is a big skill, not unlike learning to read. Children need foundational skills to learn how to read and write.
Art making also has foundational skills that can be taught. I have twenty years of experience teaching children and adults the foundational skills for drawing, painting, and sculpture in a fun step-by-step format that fosters a sense of mastery.
My favorite part of the lessons is when my students proudly show their parent or guardian their artwork and their adults are genuinely delighted and surprised with their work.
Many of my student's homes are decorated with framed class projects.
Thank you for your interest in my art lessons! Peaceful Happiness... Ms. Judith
Trial Lessons
Your child can learn to do this too!
Your child can learn to do this too!
Zoom trial lessons are free.
I am delighted to offer my art lessons on zoom.
Please consider trying out one of my Zoom classes for free... Both children and adults will be pleasantly surprised at how much fun we are able to have.
Keeping your young artists learning and engaged will be a great way for them to keep positive and happy!
Please call me at 905-839-7816 to arrange your free trial.
Benefits of Art Lessons
Your child can learn to do this too!
Benefits of Art Lessons
Art is fun. It helps kids and adults be calm and happy...
Making art helps people to slow down and become more aware of the beauty of their visual surroundings.
Art making improves:
- Observational skills
- Manual dexterity
- Spatial perception
- Body awareness
- The capacity for sustained Focus
- Confidence
- Patience
- Memory
You also get beautiful works of art to take home, frame and hang proudly on your wall.
Art Skills
Art Techniques and Mediums
Benefits of Art Lessons
Drawing is the foundational skill for my art lessons: Every lesson starts with assembling the shapes... Then we will walk through the steps of applying various art media ...
Art skills we develop include:
- Shape Finding.
- Simplification
- Placement
- Proportion
- Perspective
- Shading forms
- Blending and gradations
- Hatching and textures
- Qualities of light
- Colour theory
- Value patterns
- Lettering
Art Techniques and Mediums
Art Techniques and Mediums
Art Techniques and Mediums
Using high quality, non-toxic art supplies, your young artist will learn to create art using the following mediums:
- Graphite Pencils
- Colour Pencils
- Charcoal
- Oil Pastels
- Watercolour Painting
- Paper Mache
- Pen and Ink
- Mixed Media
Not all media used every term, but these are the art media and techniques used in my lessons... Each project will take 2 to 3 weeks to complete, depending on the complexity of the project...
Judith's Teaching Style
Art Techniques and Mediums
Art Techniques and Mediums
Put a dot in the middle. I always start the lesson the same way. Often I will ask the kids: "What do we do first?" They'll all yell out... "Put a dot in the middle!"
And so it goes, first the dot, then a line, this side of the middle, this long, and at this angle... Put a smile and a frown around that line and we will have an oval in the right place, angle and size. I start all of my art lessons with shapes ...
Put the shapes together in the right way and boom - a duck that looks like a duck... Kids love that, adults love that; and that is how we start every lesson.
Rates
Beginning with the End in Mind
Thank-You Notes
In-Person Class: All Art Spark Levels...
- 90 minute class: $25 + hst/class
- 8 student Maximun
- Supplies Included
- Masks Required
- Location: Dunbarton Fairport United Church. 1066 Dunbarton Rd. Pickering, Ontario, L1V 1G8
In-Person Acrylic Creations Class
- 2 hour class: $16 = hst/class
- 18 students Maximum
- Masks Required
- Location: Dunbarton Fairport United Church. 1066 Dunbarton Rd. Pickering, Ontario, L1V 1G8
Thank-You Notes
Beginning with the End in Mind
Thank-You Notes
Dear Ms Judith,
Thank you! Thank you for teaching me lots and lots of Art. It helped when we are doing art projects in school. I hope you are having a very wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! I hope you had a very good year. Your art classes are sooo very fun and good. Everyday I couldn't wait until Wednesday would come... Just thank you so much for everything you've done... I just can't write or say how thankful I am of your art classes and for teaching me and making me better at art! I hope to see you next year... Have a merry merry Christmas and a happy New Year... Ethan (9 yrs)
Beginning with the End in Mind
Beginning with the End in Mind
Beginning with the End in Mind
Picasso once said:
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
I sincerely believe that Mr. Picasso is right. Kids get art intuitively.
The goal of my teaching is to give my students the art making skills and confidence they need to allow their creative natures to flourish into adulthood...
Registering for the Right Class
Registering for the Right Class
Beginning with the End in Mind
I try to keep kids in the same age group together: I can be flexible, but try my best to avoid putting my youngest students with the older kids.... They need different teaching styles... If you have any questions about the most appropriate class for your child, please call Judith at: 905-839-7816.
Art Spark Beginners: 6 to 10 yrs
The beginners class is actually for my youngest students. For this group I will simplify the lessons a lot and give them shorter tasks to address the smaller attention span...
Art Spark Kids: 8 to 14 yrs
Kids at various art skill levels all in the same group. Everybody does the same lesson. For the kids who are more inexperienced I'll simplify it. If I have very experienced kids in that same group, I'll give them more creative scope. The important thing is that the attention span and ability to understand is at a similar level
Art Spark Youth: 12 to 18 yrs
This class is taught closer to the way I teach adults. This group will have more complex set of instructions and longer demos. They will have more creative freedom to choose their references.