Our Program

The Dripping Paintbrush was created to channel children's natural creativity and curiosity about the world around them and translate these intuitions into visual forms. During each six week course your child will increase their vocabulary, learn to discuss and understand the function of art, and build skills in the following areas:

• Understand and draw basic shapes
• Follow directions
• Learn fundamental art techniques
• Color and complete drawings, paintings, and projects
• Improve fine motor skills
• Increase self-confidence and self-esteem

Core Art Skills

• Fundamental drawing skills (line, pattern, shape)
• Fundamental art skills (composition, balance, scale, proportion)
• Fundamental art techniques (portraiture, perspective, still life, shading)
• Expanded art vocabulary
• Art history
• Color theory and techniques
• Expanded imagination and creativity

Core Learning Skills

• Fine motor skills
• Attention to detail and focus
• Process, order and completion
• Visual discrimination
• Time on task
• Visual/spatial organization skills
• Sequencing
• Expanded image vocabulary
• Persistence and follow through
• Patience, discipline and manners
• Increased self esteem and confidence

Through the process of weekly instruction your child will be exposed to a variety of subject matter, experiment with different mediums, learn artistic concepts and art history, and develop a mastery of the materials. I personally believe that "The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer."   
                      --Ten Lessons the Arts Teach, written by Elliot Eisner
                     Commissioned by the National Art Education Association, (2000)