Sunday, March 9, 2014

Newsletter-Issue3 March 10, 2014

Art by Giada Studio  Issue 3, March 10, 2014

Hello everyone and welcome to Art by Giada Studio’s newsletter!!!! Each issue will features some news, Arts events, featured artists, my weekly art schedule and more. www.artbygiada.com
                                                                                       
                                                                              
                                  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Local
Arts events
of the week
 

Recycle, Reuse, Re-Craft  Lake Wylie Public Library, Lake Wylie, SC - Play games made from household materials and make crafts using recycled items! Grades 6-12. Limit 25. Call 803-831-7774 to register, starting Feb. 25.  Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 5:00 PM
 
Free Wednesday Evenings  Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC - Both locations of The Mint Museum offer FREE general admission from 5-9 p.m. each Wednesday.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/search_results?&page=2&category=zvents_event#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/search_results?&page=2&category=zvents_event#storylink=cpy


Superhero Tryouts
Fort Mill Public Library, Fort Mill, SC - Complete challenges to become a superhero and earn a superhero certificate, trading card, name, and superpower! Grades K-2. Call 803-547-4114 to regis ...
Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 3:30 PM'

Skinny Heel Charity Shoe Calendar Event
Thursday, Mar 13 6:30p to 9:00p  Charlotte, NC
12 local people from community chosen to take a picture wearing their favorite shoe. Each picture is taken anonymously and styled like an editorial page. The community votes on best image and winner gives money to their selected charity! Winner revealed at "bottom-only" runway show on Thur, March 13, 2014 at Shu-1426 S Tryon St. Visit www.ifsaonline.com for details.

Read more here: http://events.heraldonline.com/charlotte_nc/events/show/369693220-skinny-heel-charity-shoe-calendar-event#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/search_results?&page=3&category=zvents_event#storylink=cpy


 
DKI Acting Academy of South Charlotte and Union County
Friday, Mar 14 6:00p to 7:00p  Ages 12-17
DKI Acting Academy is open to all students ages 12-17 who wish to explore, and expand their speaking, acting and auditioning skills.
Our Acting Academy is an excellent way for middle and high school students to explore and expand their acting and auditioning skills through our accelerating drama activities and performances.

Read more here: http://events.heraldonline.com/charlotte_nc/events/show/330292403-dki-acting-academy-of-south-charlotte-and-union-county#storylink=cpy
 
  
                  
 

                                Featured artist :  SUMITRA NAIR
 
Sumitra Nair is a second grade student in the French immersion program at Waddell Language Academy. She loves  art, especially sketching, and sculpture. She enjoys adding fine details in her drawings and loves coming to Mrs. Giada 's classes!  When she isn't drawing or sketching, Sumi  loves to read, play the piano and learn different facts about plants and animals. Her favorite colors are purple and blue. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
 

 

 


Art by Giada Studio availability -Week of March 10

Art by Giada


        Morning


 


Afternoon


Monday 03


         Open


 


 
Open

Tuesday 04

             Full


 

Open

Wednesday05

          Open


 

open

Thursday 06

               FULL


 

open

Friday 07

               full

 

Open

Saturday 08

                 Open


 

Open


 
Private lessons are  $50 per  90 minutes class  per  student.
Semi-private: (2 students) $25 per 90 minutes class  per student --siblings $20
Small groups (3-5 students) $15 per 90 minutes class per student--siblings $10
(The teacher does not organize or fill the group classes)
 
 
  Arts  around us : Photographer Katherine Leonard
 
photo via Katherineleonardcreative
 
 
  “I never want to lose the moment. It’s why as a photography educator I advocate taking pictures with phones or cameras.  Whatever the tool, it is the experience of tapping into the environment with a deep observing eye that makes picture-making so powerful for me.



    Living surrounded by trees, I interact with this world using my lens to narrate my impressions. Light through trees, seeing otherwise hidden objects and bringing them to life through my pictures deepens my connection with nature and brings me great joy.” - Katherine Leonard
 
 
 
 
 

   

Katherine Leonard, MS, is a creative professional now living in Lake Wylie, SC. Katherine brings with her over twenty years experience in the Arts, centered mostly in New York City and San Francisco. With her Master’s in Psychology in 2005, Ms. Leonard created a cutting edge program for at-risk and special needs youth, using “Photo-therapy” as a learning tool.

    Ms. Leonard opened a teaching studio, KL Creative, in the summer of 2012 and just completed her second summer of Photography Camps for Kids in Lake Wylie. She opened a show called “The Best of Summer 2013 in Pictures” in September at Bagel Boat in Lake Wylie to showcase the finest work of her students.

    KL Creative is a studio space located at the River Hills Marina for youth and adults to learn photography skills and expand their creative palette. Owned and operated by Ms. Leonard, its mission is to help people of all skill levels and ages take more powerful and personally satisfying pictures through one-on-one lessons and group workshops. 

KL Creative Visual Arts Camp
Summer 2014
 
This summer KL Creative and Katherine Leonard, M.S., are proud to announce a creative collaboration with Ms. Rose Grigg, a Nationally Board Certified Art Educator with a BA in Fine Arts from Coastal Carolina University and an M.A.T. in Art Education from USC. “Both Rose and I have 20+ years experience in our respective fields and are excited to share our passion for the Arts and working with youth in KL Creative’s newly expanded summer camps.”
 
The photography and art sessions will each explore themes of landscape, nature, still life and portraiture. The photography pods will draw from master photographer’s examples with a focus on iconic styles, techniques and taking more powerful and personal pictures. Daily practice includes shooting on location, editing and printing. The art sessions will mirror themes explored in photography, using a variety of art forms including printmaking, drawing and sketching, paper & found object collage.
 
Together KL Creative will offer full days of camp from 9:00am-3:00pm on the following highlighted weeks. June 9-13, June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11, July 14-18, July 21-25, July 28-Aug.1, August 4-8 and August 11-15.


 
 
 


 

Friday, February 28, 2014

Art by Giada Newsletter -Issue 2 March 3rd ,2014

 
Art by Giada Studio  Issue 2, March 3rd, 2014

Hello everyone and welcome to Art by Giada Studio’s newsletter!!!! Each issue will features some news, Arts events, featured artists, my weekly art schedule and more. www.artbygiada.com
 
                                                   
Special Arts events
Fort Mill YMCA:
 One-Act Workshop – beginning March 11, 4:00-5:30 pm) Grades 5-9 with Michele Talley
Explore Medieval History – March 28, 6pm-8pm & Saturday, March 29, 9am-1pm; Grades 3-7 with Michele Talley
KL Creative:  
Visual Arts Camp-River  Hill  Marina  in  Lake Wylie- Summer 2014
KL Creative will offer full days of camp from 9:00am-3:00pm on the following highlighted weeks. June 9-13, June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11, July 14-18, July 21-25, July 28-Aug.1, August 4-8 and August 11-15.
KL Creative also offers  photography instructions through out the year.
 
 
 
                           Featured artist :  CHASE MAIER
 
Chase truly lives his art! He has a high developed sensibility for architecture and design areas. He may start out drawing a simple building on paper and progress to building complex three -dimensional structures that exist only in his imagination. He  wants to be an architect when he grows up. He truly loves music and geography.
 
 

 

 

 
Next week's Art by Giada Studio availability -Week of March 3rd

Art by Giada


        Morning


 


Afternoon


Monday 03


          FULL


 


FULL


Tuesday 04


          Open


 


Open


Wednesday05


          Open


 


open


Thursday 06


          FULL


 


FULL


Friday 07


         Open


 


Open


Saturday 08


         Open


 


Open


Private lessons are priced at the hourly rate of $50 per hour for one student.

Small groups (3-5 students) $15 per hour for one student --siblings $10

 (The teacher does not organize or fill the group classes)
 
 
  Arts  around us : Brad Spencer sculpture in bricks
 
photo via Brad Spencer


North Carolina artist  Brad Spencer creates  stunning sculpture  out of a most common material —bricks.
the first brick sculptures that we know are of the period of ancient Babylon. The Ishtar Gate for example was constructed around 575 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, and it is made ​​of fired bricks and decorated with animals made ​​in glazed bricks.  You can find Brad Spencer 's Art in
downtown Gastonia, at the new South Street pedestrian plaza ,
 in Black Creek Greenway, Cary, NC ,
Downtown Greenville, SC  and  Winston-Salem, NC
 
Photo : Detail of a lion found along the processional way from Ishtar Gate into the city of Babylon. 
 
 Mrs. G. 'S  project of the week- GUMBALLS -drawing/painting tips
 
1- you need to choose  a subject for your painting  where the colors and geometric shapes are easily recognizable.  For example a transparent container containing colored gumballs , which are round and  easy to draw.
2- Preliminary drawing  is done in charcoal  or light purple pencil .Not in pencil because it hard to erase off canvas and can show through paint.
3-  when you are ready to paint , take a clean cotton rag ( an old T-shirt) and  remove excess charcoal . What is left is  the basic outline of your drawing. A faint drawing that you can begin to paint onto.
4- cover the entire canvas with a light neutral color -- light yellow-light blue ....(your foundation of the work)
4- Paint your background first (  negative space/the space around your object)
5- Paint your object (positive space) with basic colors (the colors you see the most )
6- find your light source
7- add shadows and light to your basic colors using complementary colors ( ex. if the color of the gumball is red the shadow will be green-- green and red are complementary colors)
8-add details
9- it is ok to make mistakes! don't get frustrated because  your painting doesn't look like the object before you! When we paint /draw  we are not trying to reproduce the object before us  but rather we are trying to understand it. We are trying to communicate what we see and feel on canvas. 
10-I would love to see your amazing art work. Please send them at artbygiada@gmail.com and I will post them here and on my FB page.