Fall Youth Arts Program
Studios on the Park and the Avalon Foundation are proud to present an exciting series of workshops for young adults. Sign up and celebrate creativity this fall!
Scholarships available. Click here for an application.
FALL Offerings for Youth
PRAA Drawing & Pastel for Kids
with Joy Krull
Drawing Session: 4 Thursdays, September 9, 16, 23, & 30: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Pastel Session: 4 Thursdays, October 14, 21, 28 & November 4: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Join Joy Krull for her Drawing & Pastel for Kids classes in the Showroom this Fall. The cost of each session is $55 plus $10 materials fee. To register, call Kim Snyder at 805.450.3148.
About the Teacher
Joy Krull is a professional artist and art instructor for the Emeritus College at Cuesta Community College. She moved to the area in 2000 from Orange County where she taught at Saddleback College, Irvine Valley College, Coastline College and several adult education departments in that area. Joy works and teaches in a number of medias including oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor and drawing. She has been accepted and won awards in numerous exhibitions and has been accepted in a number of national competitions including “The Artist Magazine” and Winsor & Newton competitions. Since moving to Central California, she has also been accepted in local juried exhibitions. Joy studied painting with Robert E. Wood, Rex Brandt, Millard Sheets, George Post, Daniel Greene, Chen Chi and Ray Vinella.
Impressionist Sunflower Painting for Kids
with Anne Laddon
Part 1: Saturday, September 11: 9 am - 12 pm
Part 2: Saturday, September 18: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 8-12
Fee: $30 includes both meetings & all materials
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Artist Anne Laddon teaches how to paint sunflowers like the Impressionists! In Part 1, draw and outline sunflowers from a still life set up in the classroom. Then in Part 2 learn color mixing and painting with acrylics to complete your masterpiece!
Creative Clay Class for Kids
with Earthsea Pottery
Part 2: Sunday, September 12: 9 am - 11 am
All Ages
Fee: $55 includes all materials for Part 1 & Part 2
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Part 1: Make a pinch pot, a coil pot and a nature bowl using leaves and seed pods to press into the clay for texture.
Part 2: Learn how to glaze your bisque fired pottery pieces.
For kids of all ages. No experience necessary.
Printmaking Youth Art Party
Sunday, September 19: 4 pm - 5:30 pm
All Ages
Fee: $10 for materials
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Experience the joy of printmaking in this fun youth art party! Participants learn about the classic printmaking technique of relief printing to produce multiple copies of the same image and then make their own prints using linoleum.
Plein Air Quick-Draw Walkabout Workshop
with Carol Timson Ball
Saturday, September 25: 9 am - 12 pm
Ages: 8-14
Fee: $15 including materials
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Explore historic downtown Paso Robles and your creativity on this unique walkabout workshop with pastelist Carol Timson Ball. Learn about the Plein Air tradition as well as how to quickly capture the unique shapes and colors of the Paso Robles landscape.
About the Teacher
After a long career in Graphic Design, Carol Timson Ball is excited to be working in the fine arts. Her preferred medium is dry pastel, using Wallis Pastel Paper mounted on foam board. If she is in the studio she uses her own photographs or sets up a still life. Carol loves color and the dynamics of light and shadow and how they play out in a painting.
