Category: Recorded Class
The Rumriver Art Center records many of its free virtual classes. These free classes cost the art center at least $150 per class. We feel its important to offer these free creative outlets. The Rumriver Art Center depends on donations to continue these free classes.
Rodrigue Blue Dog Drawing Project
In this project we Canjun Artist George Rodrigue’s iconic Blue Dog as our inspiration for our drawing project. We take you step by step to draw your Blue Dog. The materials you need are drawing paper, pencil, eraser, sharpie, and some materials to color with. You can use pencils, crayons, pastels, watercolor, paint ect to… Read More
Watercolor Birch Tree Project with MaryLeah
In this project MaryLeah Marshall of the Rumriver Art Center teaches a fun watercolor technique to make birch trees. MaryLeah uses a piece of a cut credit card a straight edge brush to apply pigment on 140 cold press watercolor paper. Material needed for the project; – 140lb Cold Press watercolor paper – small strip… Read More
Richard Holzschuh Haunted House Drawing Project
This Rumriver Art Center lesson focuses on the Element of Art of line and texture. We use Richard Holzschuh’s amazing drawings for our inspiration. To create our Holzschuh project we use pencils and sharpies on heavy duty drawing paper.
Perspective Lesson – “The Scream” by Edvard Munch
For today’s Blog Post I am using one my favorite paintings the Scream by Edvard Munch. In this lesson we use Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” to learn about the element of Art of Perspective. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter who frequently used a vanishing point in his paintings. In this lesson we a… Read More
Spring Flower Color Project
This project helps us work on our primary and secondary colors. The Spring flower project helps us focus on warm and cool colors.
Mexican Sun and Moon – Warm/Cool Color Project
We did a color art project using the Mexican Sun/Moon to focus on warm and cool colors.
Monet Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge Watercolor
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to outdoor landscape painting. Monet was best known for his waterlilies paintings and the Japanese Footbridge over a lily pond in his private… Read More