Teaching Pastels at Laguna Gloria This Fall

"I've taken several classes before but S'zanne brings new info and insights. I'll take this very same course again." --Lizette, student

In my workshops, students will strengthen drawing and painting skills while discovering and/or fine-tuning their own painting style. I'll work with you one-on-one to facilitate establishing individual daily painting practices or rituals, to increase productivity and instill more confidence and freedom.
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FALL 2011 CLASS SCHEDULE

"1303 Pastels 1"
At The Laguna Gloria Art School, Austin, TX

September 20 - October 18, 2011 (No class on Oct 4)
Tuesday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, 4 sessions

A great place to start! No mixing, no drying. Use pastels to quickly move into the world of painting. Learn the principles of value, color, form and space and see how light affects each. Explore many pastel techniques, experiment with different surfaces. Work from still life and photographs. Enjoy weekly demonstrations and gentle critiques. Surprise yourself.
You can paint!

To register/more info, click HERE.

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"1321 Sharpen Your Color Sense"
At The Laguna Gloria Art School, Austin, TX

October 25, 2011 - November 15, 2011
Tuesday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm; 4 sessions

Pastels help you develop a strong sense of color to create paintings where viewers say "I love the color," no matter what your preferred medium. It's incredible: no mixing, no drying. Learn from demos on making "color work" in your paintings. Enjoy exercises to discover new color palettes instead of those tried-and-true solutions. Then translates this new freedom to your favorite medium. Painting experience in other mediums required.

To register/more info, click HERE.


Frankie's Fall Foliage, 12x12" pastel --SOLD

Fall in love with pastels

Becoming Natasha, 18.5 x 26.5" pastel by S'zanne Reynolds

Course: 1306 Passion for Pastels
Instructor: S'zanne Reynolds, APS member

Pastel is one of the easiest color media and offers quick access to many advanced subject matters. In this beginning class, you'll be painting from master paintings, photos and still life. Gain inspiration from the Impressionists as we follow their journey of understanding color's relationship to light.

Mondays, 9 a.m. to noon, Sept. 27 - Oct 18
Adult Class, 4 sessions, Beginners
Location: The Laguna Gloria Art School

Click here for registration info
Faculty Bio/Info: studiozanne.com

A Testimonial on My Summer Art Classes

"This class was a very positive experience for our 5 year old, Emma. She was excited to go to class every day and was very proud of her art work each day. I was glad to have an itinerary at the beginning of the week and then to see the whole class' work at the end of the week. Also, I was glad to see that they used a variety of materials in the class. Overall it was a great experience for us and we will definitely plan to take classes at Laguna Gloria again."
--Kim

From Peacocks to Piranhas

Peacocks roam the grounds of the art school and would often come to our door completely distracting the kids from class. Sometimes the only way to get them back on track was to ask them to draw the peacocks with crayon and oil pastel...which they did quite well after a quick chalk board lesson on how to draw a peacock. Kids at this age (4-5) are unsure of their skills, but once shown how to draw something, can usually run with it after practice.


Royal dog


Princess self


Whale shark in the moat!?

Crock in Monet's water lily pond ;-)


Royal pooch


Princess self


Castle line drawing


Piranhas in the moat!


Peacock beauty

See Deep Space Sparkle blog for more wonderful lesson ideas!

Kid's Royal Selfhood

Since the theme was Castles, Kings and Queens--we added a royal crown to the children's self-portraits. They got a real kick out of it!












Lesson plan inspired by Deep Space Sparkle.

More kid art

Knight in shining Armor

Sophie's princess self portrait

Interpretation of a Royal Dog


Sendak inspired Monster

Palace at night


Crockodile guarding the castle lily pond


Castle line drawing


Palace on a starry night


Royal Pedigree


Sendak Monster

Special thanks to Patty at Deep Space Sparkle for her inspiration behind most of these lesson plans. I had to alter them somewhat to fit the class theme and the three hour time span, but I would have been at a total loss as to what to teach 4-5 year olds this summer without her help!!!! So, thank you so much Patty!

My new favorite discovery was how much kids love watercolors...just give them a sharpie and then have them watercolor in their drawing--they LOVE it! And clean up is so EASY for me!!!

Kids summer art classes at Laguna Gloria

Piranhas guarding the castle moat


Royal Pooch


Princess self-portrait


Royal pet


Castle Jester Clown Color Wheel

Thanks to Deep Space Sparkle for her inspired lesson plans!

Summer Classes at Laguna Gloria

Self-portrait


Phillipe in Monet's Garden is a great book to go with this exercise.


Self-portrait


Recycled Robot


Royal dog

Thank you Deep Space Sparkle for your lesson ideas!

Awakening Joy

"The supreme art of the teacher is to awaken joy."
--Albert Einstein

Look for my upcoming summer classes for kids at
Laguna Gloria Art School.

Type in my name, S'zanne Reynolds, to find all my classes.

Summer Classes at Laguna Gloria

Fun, fun, fun! Exciting art activities are in store for your kiddos this summer at the Laguna Gloria Art School!

For 4-5 year olds, classes include, Outer Space Art...Castles, Kings and Queens...Art ABC's. Stay "tooned" in for Cartooning classses for 6-8 and 9-11 year olds.

For a complete list of my summer art classes for children, visit the link below and search under my name.

http://austinmuseum.augusoft.net/