Kids Love Our Fun & Creative Workshops!

All summer long and for special school-year weeks, we enrich our world-class classical drawing and painting curriculum with engaging lessons in clay and paper sculpture, art history, figure drawing, portraiture, cartooning, and much more! Whether it's your first time at Art Steps or you're already stepping toward mastery, there's always something new to learn! Enrollment opens in the Spring!

Choose the Summer Workshops tab or the School Year Workshops tab below for details and registration information:

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SCHOOL YEAR WORKSHOPS

Calling all artists, ages 4-18! Sharpen classical art skills while having FUN! Individualized, age appropriate instruction lets young artists of all skill levels immerse themselves in a full week of drawing, painting, and sculpting what they LOVE!

WORKSHOP LINKS

NOTE: To collapse/expand individual workshop descriptions, please click on any workshop title.

Storybook WorkshopAges 4 - 7

Calling all little artists! This multimedia workshop is especially designed to meet your child's early developmental needs. Students learn a wide variety of media to draw, paint and sculpt their favorite characters from books! Singing songs and playing games between short periods of quiet focus keep kiddos having oodles of fun, every step of the way!

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Under the Sea Clay WorkshopAges 6 and up

We are all fascinated by the beach, the sea and ocean creatures. In this workshop, students will have a great deal of fun learning to draw, paint, use traditional additive sculpting techniques with clay, and use paper construction to create sea life. Projects will include learning to make a clay sculpture sand castle, design your own sea monster and more. Students will be able to share their new artistic abilities with friends and family, and have ocean friends to take home.

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Anime & Cartooning WorkshopAges 7 and up

Learn to create original Anime characters, including your personal favorites! Basic cartooning principles are taught by breaking images into whole shapes before drawing them. American and Japanese cartooning are taught alongside proportion and anatomy. Fun meets quiet focus to keep students returning year after year!

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Cartoon Clay WorkshopAges 7 and up

In this hands-on studio workshop, students are taught using a step-by-step process from inception to the finished piece. Students learn to sculpt and paint some of their favorite cartoon characters, as well as learn how to make the 3-dimensional houses they live in together. Through quiet focus, students get excited to see their characters come to life while learning basic sculpting methods. Multiple materials and techniques are introduced in this workshop designed to inspire skill-building, and memories to last a lifetime.

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Perspective WorkshopAges 8 and up

Learn the amazing trick of how to make one-point perspective work in any drawing, any time! Once students feel comfortable using this technique, two-point perspective is introduced for a new level of sophistication. Advanced students may even attempt 3-point perspective. Subject matter and media depend on the student's skill level and interest, so beginners are welcome. Minecraft fans may enjoy making imagery based on their favorite game. This concept is fundamental to all types of art from cartooning to design to classicism, so serious art students are encouraged to join. Perfect for teens!

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Portraiture WorkshopAges 9 and up

Have you ever wondered how to draw faces? Do you love drawing different kinds of eyes? Then the Art Steps Portraiture Workshop is for you. A professional artist will guide beginners through advanced artists in learning to measure accurately in order to draw faces from different angles, practice noses, ears and mouths with realistic shading, do a detailed color study of an eye, and complete an impressive full color portrait!

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