artKids after-school art and drawing workshops focus on building children's drawing and observational skills - the fundamentals of all art-making - in a fun, supportive, confidence-building environment. Using the elements of art and principles of design, children are taken on a journey of art-making, exploring different mediums through the lives and works of famous and contemporary artists, while encouraging individual artistic choices. artKids teaches children there are no mistakes or flops in art, only 'flopportunities'! By adding, deleting or re-imagining their art, children learn how to solve problems using creative-thinking skills, much sought-after in today's workplace.

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Each class begins with a drawing warm up activity as drawing skills are the foundation of all art. We cover a wide range of mediums - pencil, charcoal, chalk and oil pastels, watercolour and acrylic paints, clay, sculptures, collage, etc - over the course of a term, giving kids the opportunity to explore and experiment. Each fortnight we focus on a particular skill, technique or artist movement/artist and our project choices derive from that. There is scope within the projects for children to follow their interests. For example, for our cartoon drawing enthusiastics, they are challenged to bring their cartoon style into the project medium or art movement. We often find what kids like to do by them telling us what they do NOT want to do!   See our Frequesntly Asked Questions section for more information.