Art Squeeze Workshops

In recent years I've had a lot of fun providing monthly drawing workshops for children ages 8-12.  My own children participate as well as a mix of Dutch and international children.  I like to incorporate drawing skills such as perspective, light, and shadow, and use of negative and positive space into a varied and fun 1.5-hour-long session.  It's always educational as well as entertaining!

This group (above) is from the 2014-2015 school year.  Here below are some images from 2015-2016.

A bit of perspective drawing.

Here we are creating self-portraits.  We used paper frames to focus on the negative-space around the head.  It's a little trick to make a shift to the more-spatially-focused right brain function: we first draw the shape around the head.

By the end of the self-portrait workshop it was easy to tell whose drawing was whose.  

My son insisted on wearing his night-vision-goggles in his portrait.

On a warm sunny day we took our workshop outside for some drawing "en plein air."

The students took the time to really look at the world outside and draw it on paper through their own eyes.

Sometimes the perspective is better when drawn from up in a tree!