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An in-classroom or afterschool art education program for upper elementary students. This is the same program we have been using in the studio for years with great success.Now we bring it right to your school!

Carefully sequenced projects and exercises give each artist the skills they need to draw anything they see!
Small groups of only 12 students provides lots of personal attention.
Age appropriate instruction means all artists work comfortably at their own level.

We start with #4 pencils and your own sketchbook, building our skills with 3-D Boot Camp. Then we branch out into color with pastels and oil crayons, drawing still life objects, landscapes and portraits. As the year moves on, we'll work on printmaking, scratchboard and acrylic painting. Every art project builds on skills we learned in our first weeks. Pencil and charcoal

pastel
oil crayon
scratchboard
acrylic painting
3-D sketchbooks
still life
landscapes
animals
portraits

The GGYS Approach to Drawing with Older Children

Most children stop drawing at about age 6 or 7, when they begin to compare their drawings to the work of their peers. Without some basic drawing instruction, it can be daunting for children to draw the things they see, or the things they need to draw for school projects. But drawing is really very simple and easy to learn!

We start with the very basics – a #4 pencil and geometric solids. We learn all the tricks to make a flat drawing seem three-dimensional. With those building blocks, we can learn to draw anything we see.

But that is just the beginning of the adventure! Then we can begin to add color and texture by using pastels and oil crayons, drawing our same familiar objects but now each drawing becomes more personal and unique!

Drawing is much like playing a musical instrument – the more you practice, the better you get. The more we draw, the more we CAN draw. It won't take very much time at all before students are drawing new things on their own – and that's our goal!