Children's Classes
Classes are back at the newly remodeled Art Center!5504 West Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
CERAMICS
Fee includes clay, firings and glazes.
BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE WHEEL (ages 10+)
Roy Kunisaki (RK-1)
Mondays, 7/8-8/12, 4-6pm
$150, Members $120
Learn and improve wheel-throwing, trimming and glazing skills.
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Mondays, 7/8-8/12, 4-6pm
$150, Members $120
Learn and improve wheel-throwing, trimming and glazing skills.
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INTRODUCTION TO CERAMICS (ages 6–10)
Adrian Sandstrom (AS-1)
Wednesdays, 7/10-8/14, 4-5:30pm
$150, Members $120
Learn hand-building techniques by creating imaginary creatures, animals and more. Make pinch and coil pots and experiment with texture.
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Wednesdays, 7/10-8/14, 4-5:30pm
$150, Members $120
Learn hand-building techniques by creating imaginary creatures, animals and more. Make pinch and coil pots and experiment with texture.
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DRAWING & PAINTING
CARTOONING/MODELING SUPERHEROES (ages 7+)
Jennifer Siegal (JNS-1)
Mondays, 7/8-8/12, 4:30-6pm
Mondays, 7/8-8/12, 4:30-6pm
$130, Members $100
Draw, paint and ink cartoons and superheroes. Give your character a name, powers and story and build a cartoon strip. Bring your character to life in a 3-D clay version. Let your imagination run wild! Fee includes clay.
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Draw, paint and ink cartoons and superheroes. Give your character a name, powers and story and build a cartoon strip. Bring your character to life in a 3-D clay version. Let your imagination run wild! Fee includes clay.
Download the supply list
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YOUTH PAINTING & PASTEL (ages 9+)
Jennifer Siegal (JNS-2)
Tuesdays, 7/9-8/13, 4:30-6pm
Tuesdays, 7/9-8/13, 4:30-6pm
$120, Members $90
Explore a variety of painting styles and techniques while working with acrylic paints, watercolors and dry pastels. Learn color mixing, controlling the medium and shading techniques for realistic rendering. Paint a portrait with pastels, create a landscape in acrylic paints and paint a still life with watercolors.
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Explore a variety of painting styles and techniques while working with acrylic paints, watercolors and dry pastels. Learn color mixing, controlling the medium and shading techniques for realistic rendering. Paint a portrait with pastels, create a landscape in acrylic paints and paint a still life with watercolors.
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BEGINNING FASHION DESIGN FOR YOUNG ARTISTS (ages 9+)
Terry Madison (TM-1)
Wednesdays, 7/10-8/14, 4:30-6pm
$120, Members $90
“Project Runway” comes to PVAC! Fashion, sketching, simple pattern-making, hand-sewing, and designing simple doll garments. Make patterns by both draping and flat pattern method. Make several outfits for the doll you bring to class.
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YOUTH DRAWING (ages 7+)
Jennifer Siegal (JNS-3)
Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 4:30-6pm
$120, Members $90
Use charcoal, graphite and colored pencil while learning different shading techniques. Draw your favorite animal, an impressionistic self portrait and a gesture drawing of a summer tree. Use simple perspective to create a futuristic city.
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Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 4:30-6pm
$120, Members $90
Use charcoal, graphite and colored pencil while learning different shading techniques. Draw your favorite animal, an impressionistic self portrait and a gesture drawing of a summer tree. Use simple perspective to create a futuristic city.
Download the supply list
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BEGINNING JEWELRY (ages 8+) NEW!
Jennifer Siegal (TM-2)
Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 4:30-6pm
$150, Members $120
Learn to make earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings using a variety of materials including paper, fabric, wire, paint, paint sticks and then assemble to pieces with clasps, jump rings and wire. Bead stringing will also be included, Please bring any old broken chains, pins, rings or pieces of jewelry that can be made into something new.
Fee includes supplies.
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Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 4:30-6pm
$150, Members $120
Learn to make earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings using a variety of materials including paper, fabric, wire, paint, paint sticks and then assemble to pieces with clasps, jump rings and wire. Bead stringing will also be included, Please bring any old broken chains, pins, rings or pieces of jewelry that can be made into something new.
Fee includes supplies.
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THE ART OF THE STORY (ages 6+ for children and parents together) NEW!
Laurel Koss (LK-1)
Saturdays, 7/13-8/17, 10-11:30am
$120, Members $90
$120, Members $90
This summer enjoy listening to children’s stories by some of the most endearing authors and illustrators. You and your child will delve into art projects based on their stories and mediums. Included are Eric Carle (torn- paper collage), Simon James (watercolor), Jane Yolen (clay), Don Freeman (moveable figure), David Small (colored pencil), and Eric Drachman (chalk pastels). A special and fun time to spend together. Fee includes supplies.
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TEEN/COLLEGE PREP ARTS & DESIGN
STOP ACTION MOVIE MAKING
Jennifer Stillwell (JSW-3)
Tuesdays, 7/9-8/13, 6:30-8:30pm
$120, Members $90
Let’s make a movie! Stop Motion is a fun course for children introducing the art and principles of animated film making by taking a series of still photographs of everyday objects while moving them about to create a movie that will make them seem to "come alive".
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Tuesdays, 7/9-8/13, 6:30-8:30pm
$120, Members $90
Let’s make a movie! Stop Motion is a fun course for children introducing the art and principles of animated film making by taking a series of still photographs of everyday objects while moving them about to create a movie that will make them seem to "come alive".
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ANIMATION
Jennifer Stillwell (JSW-4)
Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 6:30-8:30pm
$120, Members $90
Traditional animation teaches the hand-drawn technique developed and refined by the artists of Walt Disney studios. Students will learn how to create the "Illusion of Life" by drawing a series of still images that will be photographed individually, and then played back as an animated movie.
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Thursdays, 7/11-8/15, 6:30-8:30pm
$120, Members $90
Traditional animation teaches the hand-drawn technique developed and refined by the artists of Walt Disney studios. Students will learn how to create the "Illusion of Life" by drawing a series of still images that will be photographed individually, and then played back as an animated movie.
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FASHION ILLUSTRATION
Don Holmes (DH-3)
Wednesdays, 7/10-8/14, 6:30-8:30pm
$130, Members $100
Develop your own unique style and learn the basics of fashion design. Understand the mechanics of drawing the human figure and create design sketches using markers, colored pencils, watercolor and acrylics. Use negative space and add depth with highlighted shapes. Each class will include “musical” 15 minute line-drawing pencil sketches of faces. Research clothing and fabrics and explore why we are drawn to different trends in fashion.
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Wednesdays, 7/10-8/14, 6:30-8:30pm
$130, Members $100
Develop your own unique style and learn the basics of fashion design. Understand the mechanics of drawing the human figure and create design sketches using markers, colored pencils, watercolor and acrylics. Use negative space and add depth with highlighted shapes. Each class will include “musical” 15 minute line-drawing pencil sketches of faces. Research clothing and fabrics and explore why we are drawn to different trends in fashion.
Download the supply list
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TEEN DIGITAL SUMMER CAMPS
DIGITAL FASHION ILLUSTRATION NEW!
Don Holmes (AC DH-2)
Monday – Friday, 7/22-7/26, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Leading fashion design advertising departments use Adobe Photoshop to capture, adjust and create today’s top clothing manufacture’s ads worldwide... and so can you! Learn to use Adobe Photoshop with a graphic tablet and stylus, to render fashion illustration! Take hand-drawn fashion sketches, magazine photos and digitally auto-traced scans to convert stylized poses into both black & white and full color drawings. Assemble a 3-D mannequin, use actual material swatches and computer generated ideas--the possibilities are endless!
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Monday – Friday, 7/22-7/26, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Leading fashion design advertising departments use Adobe Photoshop to capture, adjust and create today’s top clothing manufacture’s ads worldwide... and so can you! Learn to use Adobe Photoshop with a graphic tablet and stylus, to render fashion illustration! Take hand-drawn fashion sketches, magazine photos and digitally auto-traced scans to convert stylized poses into both black & white and full color drawings. Assemble a 3-D mannequin, use actual material swatches and computer generated ideas--the possibilities are endless!
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GRAPHIC DESIGN DIGITAL ART CAMP
Kristy Jiminez (AC KJ-1)
Monday – Friday, 7/29-8/2, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Learn what it is to be a graphic designer while exploring four software programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign. Students will learn how to use the tools in each program to produce drawings, edit photos, make animations, and create a magazine page layout. Digitally, students will draw, organize and produce images ready for print and the Web. By the end of the course students will have the skills to begin illustrating stories, animating messages, editing photos, and organizing their own literary publication!
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Monday – Friday, 7/29-8/2, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Learn what it is to be a graphic designer while exploring four software programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign. Students will learn how to use the tools in each program to produce drawings, edit photos, make animations, and create a magazine page layout. Digitally, students will draw, organize and produce images ready for print and the Web. By the end of the course students will have the skills to begin illustrating stories, animating messages, editing photos, and organizing their own literary publication!
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VIDEO/FILM PRODUCTION HOW TO MAKE A MOVIE
Mark Doddy (AC MD-1) Monday – Friday, 7/29-8/2, 9am-noon
(AC MD-2) Monday-Friday, 8/5-8/9, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Do you love watching movies and wish you could make one? Learn how in this fast paced Crash Course Film School. Taught by an experienced film maker and video editor, you will learn how to write a story, shoot a film and then edit your film and prepare it on a DVD. The class uses Final Cut Pro Studio on a Mac; however NO Macintosh/Apple experience is required. Learn green screen technique, broadcast journalism, script writing and movie making skills.
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(AC MD-2) Monday-Friday, 8/5-8/9, 9am-noon
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Do you love watching movies and wish you could make one? Learn how in this fast paced Crash Course Film School. Taught by an experienced film maker and video editor, you will learn how to write a story, shoot a film and then edit your film and prepare it on a DVD. The class uses Final Cut Pro Studio on a Mac; however NO Macintosh/Apple experience is required. Learn green screen technique, broadcast journalism, script writing and movie making skills.
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3-D ANIMATION USING MAYA SOFTWARE
Jennifer Stillwell (AC JSW-1) Monday-Friday, 8/5-8/9, 2-5pm
(AC JSW-2) Monday-Friday, 8/12-8/16, 2-5pm
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Ever wanted to make your own 3D animated film and/or game? At Maya Camp you will be introduced to the basics of 3D Modeling, Animation, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering using Autodesk Maya, the high-end software used by Pixar Animation Studios, and top gaming companies.
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(AC JSW-2) Monday-Friday, 8/12-8/16, 2-5pm
$250, Members $220
No early bird discount Ever wanted to make your own 3D animated film and/or game? At Maya Camp you will be introduced to the basics of 3D Modeling, Animation, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering using Autodesk Maya, the high-end software used by Pixar Animation Studios, and top gaming companies.
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