Our courses

AGE 3 - 5 YEARS 

Explore different types of art through a variety of mediums (e.g. brush/sponge/finger painting, coloured pencils, markers, crayons/oil pastels, painted paper art, collage).

Focused on building a strong foundtion for drawing and targeting children's holistic development through:

• Improving fine motor skills (small muscle control) and gross motor skills (large muscle control). For example, demonstrating control over the paint brush by painting in one direction in big spaces and inside the lines in small spaces.
• Providing a creative outlet, safe space, and patient educators to guide student's social-emotional growth.
• Guiding language development through the ability to talk about their artwork while identifying mediums, tools, and processes used in painting, drawing, and constructing. 

AGE 6 - 7 YEARS

Developing competence in drawing skills through object drawings and interesting backgrounds.

Introduction to the elements of art focused on providing opportunities to understand the following concepts:

• Line and Shape: use shapes as a guide to drawing their artwork, develop control when drawing different lines and curves
• Color and Value: color mixing using a color wheel and incorporating light and dark colors
• Texture: begin to create implied texture in their artwork with paint and oil pastels (for example, flicking for grass, waves for bodies of water, grainy for sand)
• Space: interpret and create art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details such as background and horizon line as well as learning how to draw according to the size of the paper.

AGE 8 - 9 YEARS 

Students will progress onto the next level and create more complex artworks while incorporating the elements of art. They will explore various artists, develop painting techniques, and improve their drawing through depth perception to create compositions. 

Focused on laying a strong foundation for sketching and other intermediate level mediums.

• Begin to express ideas using the skills, language, techniques, and processes of the arts. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes. 
• Meet the Masters: Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art in order to learn from and recreate their techniques.
• Develop increased control over the paint brush and a steady hand to outline.

AGE 10 - 12 YEARS 

Focused on developing mastery over a wide range of mediums (acrylics, watercolors, chalk, pastels) and becoming increasingly capable as an artist by:

• Investigating the elements of art (colour, shape, line, texture, space, value, and form) and principles of design (contrast, balance, emphasis, proportion, hierarchy, repetition, rhythm, pattern, white space, movement, variety, and unity) in the visual environment as well as using them as a guide to create masterful compositions.
• Preparing students for pencil sketching through observational drawing, still-life sketching, and developing the ability to identify the organic and geometric shapes that make up a composition. 

AGE 10 - 13 YEARS

Fine Arts students are those with prior basic knowledge in sketching and painting techniues OR those that have completed I Can Draw Level 3. All the techniques will be taught according to the age and level (for example, portraits, landscape, seascape, color pencil, charcoals, acrylic, oils, watercolor, chalk pastels)

Focused on preparing students for higher level art projects and concept creation using a variety of mediums.

Term 1: Pen, Ink, & Pencil Sketching

• Improve sketching, observational skills, and shading techniques.
• Use values and relative proportion to create the illusion of depth
• At the end of the term, be able to demonstrate practical use of shading techniques and tonal rendering as an artistic technique. Students will then progress to more complex sketches and incorporate various perspectives in their work.

AGE 13 - 17 YEARS

Students will be provided professional guidance and quality artist materials to create their portfolio. This course is strictly for students with prior knowledge in their chosen mediums.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional/contemporary artistic practices to plan the making of multiple works of art based on a meaningful theme, idea, or concept. 

Bring your reference and recreate the artwork in your own unique style by learning the related artistic skills and techniques.

Students can pick from:

Mediums on Canvas/Artist Quality Papers - Acrylic Painting, Oil Painting, and Mixed-Media. Mediums on Artist Quality Papers - Watercolour Painting, Sketching, Pen & Ink, Colour Pencil Sketching