Long Island Academy of Fine Art

Often the tools used to create and facilitate art get overlooked. In this course, the unsung heroes of great art get to shine as the tools themselves become the artwork! Well investigate all things paper, from pulp to book. Students will make booklets using various bindings, and pages of beautiful handmade paper. These are skills they can take home and build on for future handicrafts!

This is the perfect workshop for young artists who love cartooning and anime but are ready for the next step, as well as the young traditional artist who is looking for a figure drawing introduction with a twist. Many character designers for video games and animation use a synthesis of observation and invention in order to create successful characters. Likewise, in this class artists will draw the clothed figure in motion with accurate proportions, foreshortening, and shading techniques, while jazzing their drawings up with inventive costumes, hairstyles, and anything else artists want to add to individualize their figures. This class will be both fun and informative!

This unique class is a remix of our very popular painting animals program. Your child will learn how to combine 2 or more animals in creative and exciting ways, while focusing on observational techniques like proportion, perspective, and shading. In class, students will also be introduced to a variety of media, including colored pencil, watercolor, and oil pastel. The studio will provide animal photo references. Photo references of your favorite animals and your beloved fur babies are welcomed!

Young Artists will create their own presentation books from scratch, and fill it with exciting adventures and original storytelling. Well learn about character-building, environment creation, and how to put together an effective narrative. Already have some characters and stories swimming around in your mind? Nina will help you bring them to life with step-by-step the tips and tricks of a professional illustrator.

Your child will be delighted to learn sophisticated skills they wont get anywhere else in an uplifting atmosphere with other like-minded young artists. This week we will use various methods of printmaking, including mono prints on Gelli pads, wood block with safety tools, and two different versions of etching with a real etching press. Printmaking history and fundamentals will be taught and discussed in a casual, hands-on way. Time permitting, well also have a few mini-sessions in paper-making and book-binding.