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The Best Combination of Acrylic Paints to Have Fun and Make Great Paintings!(Post)
The Golden Acrylics Explorer Set will take your painting to a new level! Welcome to our first blog post! I'm very excited to show you my favorite product that we currently have in our store. In fact
Regular Sketching is Not Just About Becoming a Better Drawer(Post)Even ten minutes a week of regular sketching can make you a better artist!At Kate's Art School, I'm making more of an effort to encourage sketchbook usage in every class and at more ages. Sketchbooks
Achieve Better Sunlight in Your Paintings(Post)Understanding color temperature and how warm colors and cool colors work, can dramatically help painting light and shadows. Watch this video for a short tutorial to see how students are accomplishing
Adults: Join Us This September for a Class, or Two!(Post)We have three stellar adult classes coming up, and you'll definitely want to be in at least one of them!Drawing FoundationsThursdays, September 22nd-October 13th; 5:30pm-7:00pm This class is for the
Learn Color Temperature(Post)Using color temperature will help take your paintings from good to great! Color temperature is a comparison of how warm or cools colors are in relation to each other. The warmest color is yellow, an
What does a successful student at Kate's Art School look like?(Post)At Kate's Art School we offer a formal, yet welcoming, art education. Our goal is artistic autonomy. Students learn the tools, techniques, and processes of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, mixe
Printmaking: Collagraphy(Post)During our last unit of weekly youth art classes, we explored printmaking in multiple forms. The majority of our kiddos said it was their favorite unit of the year! We tried block printing, monoprinti
The Group of Seven: Canada’s Legendary Landscape Painters & Their Algonquin Inspiration(Post)Did you know that Algonquin Provincial Park was a favorite painting destination of the Group of Seven, Canada’s most celebrated landscape artists? Their work, characterized by bold colors, e
It Matters To Your Artist That Our Summer Youth & Teen Classes Run Twice(Post)Take every class you can, as often as you can.When it comes to Youth and Teen Classes, we run our yearly program, much different than our summer program. Let me first start out by saying that I absol
Kate’s is Thoughtfully Put Together(Post)"Observe the child, follow the child:" this is one of the big tenets of Montessori education. It’s also one of the things that I have thoughtfully put into my own curriculum here at Kate’s Art School.
Algonquin Plein Air Painters Retreat(Post)Recently, we packed up for an unforgettable retreat deep in the heart of Algonquin Provincial Park for our Painters Retreat! We traveled about 7.5 hours across the border, heading for our 5 day home b