The Creative Process
We think that the process of making art is as valuable as the final product. Our comprehensive curriculum puts the emphasis on exploring and experimenting as much as teaching fundamental art skills and building art vocabulary. Students learn to look closely and identify nuances, to ask questions and to follow their intuition. Through creative engagement with a wide range of media and materials- watercolors, tempera paint, wax crayons, oil pastels, air-dry clay and more, students explore the properties of lines, movement, shapes, color, texture, form and space, while cut-paper and origami art activities help improve their fine motor skills.
TK-Grade 1
Art + Science
A balanced and sequential art curriculum introduces students to the fundamentals of art while teaching art appreciation to improve critical thinking. The program integrates art activities through a variety of concepts from science, math, and geography, to art history.
Art projects involve drawing, painting, and sculpting.
Grades 2-6
Art through the Ages
Drawing inspiration from stylistically diverse art, created around the world since the Stone Age and ancient times, students learn about many ideas, inventions, groups of artists and major movements in art throughout history. The program introduces students to the fundamentals of art and design through the timeline of World Art History.
This class focuses on building the foundation of the world of drawing, painting, and sculpting.
Grades 3-6
Art through the Ages
Emphasis on drawing.
Drawing is the basic language of art. Taking inspiration from stylistically diverse art, created around the world since the Stone Age and ancient times, students learn the fundamentals of art and design through the timeline of World Art History.
This class is designed to introduce students to the use of various drawing techniques, to teach rules of perspective, and help develop observational drawing skills.
Grades 2-6
Digital Art
If you would like to give your student a head start in digital art, this class will provide them with all the necessary tools to express themselves creatively and educate them in the process. We will explore all the features of Procreate app for iPad and students will learn the basics of digital painting, collaging, and animation.
This class requires an iPad with a compatible stylus, and the latest version of Procreate app.
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About Alisa
Hi, and thank you for your interest in the Art of Shapes program! My name is Alisa. I'm a designer, illustrator and art educator. I feel blessed to have an opportunity to work with children and create art for children. I've been teaching art in studio and public school settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now I am happy to share my passion for art with a larger community via our online creative lab.
I've developed the Art of Shapes program to nurture the creative spark in kids by helping them evolve their ability to see, analyze and capture the world around them through the process of making art. The program provides step-by-step instructions and guides little artists every step of the way to developing their drawing and critical thinking skills. As a parent and an art educator, this is a very personal mission for me, encompassing the last 17+ years of my life.
Finn the Hedgehog
To see Alisa's design, children’s book series and illustration work visit alisabloom.com.
