Late-Summer TSA Art Camps Still Open for Registration!

TORONTO SCHOOL OF ART truly comes to life in the Summer while Youth Art Camps are in session!  Our young artists take over the studio and explore a range of media, develop lots of work to take home at the end of their experience, and go on excursions to contemporary art museums, galleries, and artist-run centres for inspiration.  

TSA has TWO more one-week art camps left for Summer 2014.  Spots are still open!  Choose to work in sculpture or painting, both have elements of drawing and sketching as part of the projects.

To register, click on the course links below to reserve your spot online immediately, or contact the office to assist you. 416.504.7910 | [email protected]. 

Feel free to stop by during office hours: Monday-Thursday, 9am-6.30pm, Friday, 9am-5pm. TSA's Summer Youth Coordinator works directly with our campers and arrives at 8.30am to meet them in the studios.

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694 Sketch and Sculpt (Ages 10-13) | (SU'14) - Tina Oehmsen-Clark

| Monday, August 11 - Friday, August 15, 9am - 3pm |

This course is designed for 10 to 13 year-olds and will offer a variety of materials (wood, paper, wire, clay etc.) to build, construct and sculpt 3-dimensional objects, sculptures and masks. The process of idea finding as well as documenting the finished art work will be done through sketching and drawing using various media (charcoal, ink, markers, etc.), including working in a sketchbook. Through demonstrations and examples, the students will learn a variety of techniques as well as historic and contemporary context.

Instructor: Tina Oehmsen-Clark

Dates & Time: August 11 to 15, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 3 pm

Tuition fee: $320 | Materials fee: $40 

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR | Tina Oehmsen-Clark

Having studied art and education at the University of Hamburg, Germany (Master of Fine Arts and High School Teaching Diploma), I have been working with Youths and Adults of various ages in school- and private institution settings since the early Nineties, as well as following my own art practice. Teaching has always been an important part of my being an artist -- it is not a "day job;" rather a place to exchange ideas, communicate, inspire and be inspired.

I believe that an understanding of our world, an acceptance of different cultures, and exploration of contemporary and historic art forms, and a recognition that the unknown is to be welcomed and not to be rejected are essential in creating and understanding art and culture.

In a world run by technology I find it essential, especially for tweens and teens, to explore their imagination with a hands-on approach to build a creative mind. In a praxis-oriented classroom/studio situation I show and present images and films, as well as take the students out to museums and galleries in order to connect their own work with historical and current ideas and approaches. I feel lucky and privileged to assist them in the process of understanding the importance of art and finding their own voices.

695 Painting Explorations (Ages 10 - 13) | (SU'14) - Val Magarian

| Monday, August 18 - Friday, August 22, 9am - 3pm |

A course focused on exploring materials and techniques in acrylic painting. This will include painting with washes, transparent layers, impasto, staining and adding mediums to acrylics. The class will also explore mixed media approaches and painting on various surfaces including a range of papers, wood and canvas (both gessoed and raw). Students will work from observation as well as respond to imaginative and abstraction-based prompts. They will be exposed to a range of modern and contemporary artists, whose works will help fuel their own explorations. Projects are open-ended, designed to incorporate the approaches of other artists, though to always stem from students’ own creative choices.

Instructor: Val Magarian

Dates & Time: August 18 to 22, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 3 pm

Tuition fee: $320 | Materials fee: $65

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Daily plan

• Each day new modern and contemporary artists will be introduced.

Monday

Morning

• Ice breaker games 
• Demo: Paint handling-washes, transparent layers, impasto, different types of brushes
• Activity: Make a collection of paintings on paper, focusing specifically on paint handling. Images of artworks that we will learn more about in later class sessions will be dispersed around the room. Your task is to create your own artworks that are loosely based on these. The images are simply starting points for your own experimentation. Explore the image (or a part of the image) using paint handling techniques that are quite different from the original artwork. Is the painting impasto? Washy? Tightly controlled? Painted loosely? Painted with or without transparent layers? Try painting yours in a way that is quite different from how the original is actually painted. Your final artwork does not have to resemble the original.  Some of your results will inspire you, some may simply seem strange. This is experimentation. 

Afternoon

• Reflection: The group will display our morning discoveries. Which of your experiments, or your classmates experiments are especially interesting to you?
• Demo: color mixing and color relationships
• Activity: Create a painting with a limited color palette. Choose one of these ways to limit your colors. 1) Create a set of colors on your palette that are closely related to each other 2) Create only two colors, though you may also mix those two together to come up with variations between the two. Will these two colors be similar or very different from each other? 3) Create only three colors, though you may also mix these together to create other variations. Your subject matter is of your own choosing, you may work from the paintings you made this morning, from observation, or from your own imagination. You may make multiple works, each time limiting your color palette in a different way, or make one longer painting.

• Reflection

Tuesday

Morning

• Field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario
• We will look, both independently and as a group, at works in the collection in order to find techniques or subject matter that you would like to use in future paintings. Each person will take notes and sketch from artworks in the gallery.

Afternoon

•  Independent painting incorporating ideas from the museum
• Each person will work with acrylic on gessoed canvas, incorporating their ideas from the museum. Some may wish to sketch ideas for their painting first. These can also be finished the following day.
• Reflection

Wednesday

Morning

• Demo: Surfaces- Yupo paper, gessoed canvas, raw canvas, and wood, plus how they respond to different paint handling techniques
• Free exploration with a variety of surfaces
• Activity: You will be given packets to browse through that give more images and information about a few of the artists we looked at the first day. Each packet includes a few prompts that relate to that artist’s way of working. Students are welcome to browse at their own rate and choose a prompt they are interested in taking on.  These prompts will relate to the concepts behind the artwork, so your final work may visually be quite different from that artists’. Prompts will cover a range of approaches from abstraction to social commentary.
•  Reflection

Afternoon

• Demo: Mixed media with acrylic paint- photo transfer, collage, drawing materials
• Activity: Continue using prompts from morning. Whenever you are ready you may switch to new prompts and try mixed media approaches

Thursday

Morning

• Activity: Painting from observation- still lives. Our goal is to observe the subtleties of color and to depict forms accurately.

Afternoon

• Demo: Mediums that can be added to acrylic paint for a variety of textures (molding paste, acrylic flow release, clear tar gel, sand)
• Activity: Create a new painting using observation while playing with texture. You may look back at your still life painting in order to create a changed version of it, paint another observational painting, or create a painting that mixes observation and imagination.
• Reflection

Friday

• Each person will wrap up previous projects or create new works from ideas you would like to explore further. Throughout the course, as well, you are welcome to stay longer with particular ideas you are especially interested in. You will participate in all demos and group reflections, but can chose to stay on particular processes or concepts for longer periods.

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SUMMER CAMP BEFORE/AFTER CARE

Does your child require before and/or after care during their TSA Art Camp?  Please make arrangements in advance by contacting the office. 416.504.7910 | [email protected]

Morning Care (Monday - Friday): 8.30AM - 10AM

Afternoon Care (Monday - Friday): 3PM - 5.30PM

Fee: $10/hour