Final Gallery!

It’s been a great summer, full of drawing, folding and painting and the kids had so much fun at their final gallery!

Throughout the afternoon they continued to make work and add to the collection!

The kids were really excited to see their work on display and they were so proud to show off what they had created! Great job everyone!

A special thank you to our volunteers Ting, Tang, Kelsey, David and Calli for helping install their work and working with them throughout the afternoon to add more art to the wall! Another thank you to those volunteers as well as Pin, Jean, Pat and Haley for being consistent volunteers this summer helping week after week! Thank you!

Sports Panels

We started our last session with the older boys working with paint to create color wheels and sports panels! After mixing their own colors they used their understanding of color relationships and complementary colors to create sport themed panels that really popped!

After creating basketballs and footballs some of the boys recreated fields on panels…

While others focused to creating the players!

 

It’s been a great week 6 so far, see you on Friday for the final gallery!

Bringing Geometry and Art Together

Our last class with the girls involved incorporating geometry and creating personalized tetrahedrons. 

We started similarly to the boys duplicating the triangle to create various shapes including rhombus, trapezoid and hexagon and worked to develop tetrahedrons.

 

Our volunteer to artist ratio was pretty much equal so the girls were able to work one on one to create their own templates and build their forms!

The younger girls joined us for the second half of the class to create their own art and develop 3D shapes of their own!

Our last class is coming up Tuesday with the boys, see you then!

Triangles to Tetrahedrons

We began Tuesday’s class with the 10 to 12 year old boys going over basic geometric shapes taking the triangle and duplicating it to create a rhombus, trapezoid and then hexagon. 

From these drawings, the boys chose a platonic shape to build. They created their own templates and made cubes, tetrahedrons, dodecahedrons and even a 20 sided icosahedron!

The boys were incredibly patient working to build complex shapes and even incorporated their own interests by decorating their shapes about sports! This summer has been a blast so far and our last two classes are already coming up, but until then, see you on Friday!

Painting and Patterns

This Friday we started painting and exploring color theory principles with the 10 to 12 year old girls!

After going over the primary and secondary colors, we learned about analogous colors and tested out blending. After trying a combination of both warm and cool colors we moved onto our repeat pattern design masterpieces!

Starting with a basic square, the girls created their own tiles which they replicated and traced over their papers. They then used their color knowledge to create awesome pieces!

We even had an abstract painter in the bunch!

Here's one of our artists with our volunteer Pin and a masterpiece they worked on together! It was really fun and the girls ended up creating beautifully complex pieces! See you on Tuesday!

Let's Paint a Mural for the Kids!

The fundraising campaign has begun! Over the past 5 months LABnormal has been working with the Frank Callen Boys & Girls Club at Kayton Homes developing a project to provide renovations to their center.

Our goal is to raise $12,000 that will go towards interior renovations and ultimately fund an exterior mural to transform their center. Please check out our indiegogo page for more information and to support our project!

Spread the message with friends and family to create as strong a community supported project as possible!

Crazy about Color!

This Friday started the second session with the 6-8 boys! We started by introducing color and the color wheel!

The boys also associated what they learned about the color wheel with clocks and created their own awesome animation! Thanks to David for helping to put them together!

Next they used primary color relationships to create secondary colors in overlapping color drawings! Their pieces were very creative and some even used folding techniques to make their work even more abstract, great job!

Thanks to Jean, Pin and David for your help with this class! Our second class with the boys will be on Tuesday, July 16, 2013, until then!

All About Color

Tuesday’s class started with introducing the color wheel and learning the primary and secondary colors.

They worked on creating signs about color and designing clock color wheels that were put together to make a clock animation!

A couple girls used their new knowledge of color theory to create portraits using complimentary colors!

Our awesome volunteer Pat helped the girls express their creativity!

It was great to see the kids use what they learned about color in their own pieces! See you on Friday! 

First Shipment of Supplies!

Thank you Art Room Aid supporters, our first shipment of supplies arrived today thanks to your contributions!

We received colored pencils, paint brushes, scissors and glue which will serve as a great base to our supply collection for the rest of the summer!

Thanks again for your support and can’t wait to see what the kids to with all these supplies!

LABnormal+ Summer Arts Program

This past week LABnormal+ was informed that its Summer Art Program had been awarded a grant from the City of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs’ Weave-A-Dream Initiative! 

The money received will provide an immeasurable amount of the support for the program as the supplies it will purchase will truly enhance the experience for the children!

We are incredibly thankful for this support and are looking forward to a successful summer program!

UPDATE: Summer Fundraiser

With school out of session and the Summer Camp starting this week at Kayton-Frazier Boys & Girls Club, the Summer Art Program is just around the corner! We have started a fundraising campaign through Blick Art Material’s Art Room Aid, which is an online community to help raise funds to purchase art materials. We’re looking for as many contributions as possible and we would appreciate your support immensely! Click here for a link to our project page!

Check back for more updates as we get closer to the start of the program and on the status of the fundraiser!

Thanks for your support!

UPDATE: Your contributions through our Art Room Aid Fundraiser raised a total of $220 for art supplies for the Summer Art Program! Thank you so much!

This will provide a great start for a collection that will go towards the great projects we have ahead of us this summer!

Thank you again and stay tuned for more updates on the program!

Giant Children's Day Carp

To follow up last week’s Children’s Day celebration, the kids colored in their own fish scales and created a large carp fish. The children worked really well together to create the fish!