Request a workshop for your group of 8 or more. Siblings and friends are welcome to register as well. Outside of the dates listed, please send an inquiry through our event request link. All materials are provided. Questions email: information@artlabindy.com
Workshops are held at 1030 South Rangeline Road, Suite 270, Carmel IN 46032. We can visit your site as well with advance notice.
Currently class size is limited to 22 children.
New! Collect all four 2.25 inch fun patches! (Sewing not available until Spring.)
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Painting
Acrylic Canvas Painting Still Life
All age
How do you get started with painting? Learn the names of different types of brushes and what types of marks they leave. Discus a famous work of art and what makes it special. Set up your own still life using vases, flowers and more. Follow along with an instructor following basic rules for painting and drawing while having fun with paint. Included in this workshop is a 9 x 12″ or 11 x 14″ painting. (1.5 – 2hr)
Acrylic Canvas My Pet Portrait
All age
Bring a close up photograph of your pet or a favorite stuffed animal from home. Learn to draw your animal by finding simple shapes and lines. Draw your animal step by step with an art teacher on 9 x 12” canvas. Paint in bright colorful acrylics. (1.5 hour 9×12″, 2 hours 11×14″)
9 x 12″ canvas $20.50/participant
11 x 14″ canvas $22.50/ participant
Whimsical Watercolor – Louise Loves Art
Daisy
Read from the book Louise Loves Art and create an oil pastel drawing of her lovable cat. Paint a drawing in watercolor and create a collage frame for your new work of art. Also create an air dry clay cat face in this workshop. (1.5 hrs)
$20.50 / participant
Watercolor Caricatures
Brownie and up
Pick your favorite characters to draw from Harry Potter to The Disney Descendants. Follow along with an instructor to draw 2-3 caricatures, outline in sharpie and paint in watercolor. This workshop focuses on facial proportions. (1.5 hrs)
$20.50/ participant
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Cork Board Frames
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Design It! Painted Cork Board Frames
Children love to decorate their bedrooms. Paint a framed cork board in geometric patterns (cork on 11 x 14” canvas board). Kids will be introduced to repeat design, contrast and rhythm. Also in this workshop create small air dry clay thumb tacks in whimsical forms including bees or butterflies.
(1.5 hr)
Daisy and up
$25 / participant
Gardens and Flowers
Fairy Garden
All age
Turn a planter of dirt into a magical garden for fairies. Create a house, fence and decorate your garden with accessories made from air-dry clay, craft sticks, gems, pebbles and other assorted materials. Also, create a small fairy for your garden from synthetic flower petals, cloth pins, fabrics and more. Girls will plant seeds in their gardens and we will discuss seed care. Troop leaders use this activity toward your gardening badges, badge not included. (1.5hr)
$20.50/ participant
Fraction Mosaics – S.T.E.A.M. workshop
Brownies and up
Complete a set of two mosaic coaster with colorful square and triangular ceramic or glass squares. Girls will glue, grout and clean their own coasters to take home. Also, we’ll integrate some hands on math concepts. What fraction, percent and decimal of each color used can be concluded? Examples of symmetry will be introduced. Why Steam? STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)+ Art (Creative Thinking and Problem-solving)= STEAM. Included in the workshop is a fun badge. (1.5hr)
$22.50/ participant
Storytelling and Drawing
Comic Artist
Brownies – Senior
Learn about the visual tricks comic artists use to tell stories: showing time, movement through space and drawing figures. Create your own character panel with supporting background images, text and landscape. Ink and color your drawings and share with friends. (1.5hr)
$20.50/ participant
Drawing Badge
Brownie and up
Experiment with skills including shading, perspective and watercolor pencil shading and blending. Set up a still life on a boxed pedestal including flowers, mini bucket and trinkets. Sketch boxed shape in perspective, shade and use foreshortening to draw a bucket container and blend colors within bright flowers. Girls all leave with a watercolor pencil drawing and a fun patch. Badges are not included. (1.5hr)
$20.50/participant
Ceramics
Pottery Badge
Pick from one of the clay projects and make hand- built work of art in clay. You’ll be able to fulfill the requirements for the potter’s badge and earn an Art Lab fun patch. Glaze your creations during this workshop. Pottery will be available for pickup 3-4 weeks after workshop date. (1.75 hrs)
Options:
Cookie Plates and Mugs on the Wheel
Pinch Pot Animal Bowls and Bowls on the Wheel
Animal Plaques and Bowls on the Wheel
Picture Frames or Name Plaques and Bowls on the Wheel
Clay Sea Turtles and Starfish Bowls
Fairy or Toad Houses and Bowls on the Wheel
Valentine Vases and Heart Plaques
Clay Gingerbread Houses and Ornaments
$24 /participant
Add on – create a pot on the pottery wheel $6 / each child (minimum 10 or $60.00)
Fashion
Fashion Designer – Barbie Be Anything
All age
Shirts, skirts and accessories, it is time to design and make special clothes for Barbie or 18″ dolls as we’ll learn what exactly fashion designers do in the real world. Create a circle dress and bedazzle with buttons, pockets and trim. This workshop includes some easy sewing. Bring your favorite doll and let’s go. (1.5hr)
Barbies: $20.50 / participant
18″ Dolls: $25.00 / participant
Draw It Out – Fashion Characters
Learn to use tracing paper to draw your favorite fashions from magazines. Pick and choose your favorite fabrics and glue on your fashion figures. Cut out several figures and arrange them on a background panel. Create a mood board illustrating your fashions, fabric, fabrics and fashion ideas. How do designers and illustrators use mood boards to sell their ideas?
$20.50/ girl
Sculpture
Funky Mosaic Cork Board Frames or Flower Pots
Daisy and up
A totally fun workshop! Children will love playing with this additive mosaic method. Using a variety of materials, broken plates, game pieces, marbles, glass shapes, toys, keyboard letters and more! create a up-cycled, one of a kind and quirky and beautiful art work. Included in this fee is a fun badge. (1.5hr)
$25.00 / participant
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Jewelry
Mixed Media Jewelry
Learn some of the tools of jewelry making including how to use pliers, snips, jump rings and beads. Then create mini works of collage art on dominos, washers painted with alcohol inks and a charm bracelet. Add beads, wire, charms and little stickers. You’ll have all the skills you need to continue making simple jewelry for all your friends and family. (1 hr)
$20.50/participant
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Journey Related
Stuffies – It’s Your Story
Brownies – Senior
Create a make believe soft sculpture creature out of recycled sweaters, buttons, embroidery floss and fabric scraps. Think about what makes you happy and incorporate this into your creature. Tell a story about your life and put a smile on someone’s face. Simple sewing on easy to sew fabrics will be incorporated. (1.5hr)
$20.50/participant
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Holiday
Pumpkin Creatures
All ages
Turn an ordinary pumpkin into a princess, an animal, a monster, a superhero or your own unique creation. We’ll turn colored pumpkins into any of these things using colored modeling clay, yarn, pipe cleaners, felt, tooth picks, papers and paints. Put your pumpkins on display in front of your home just in time for Halloween! Included is this workshop is an Art Lab fun patch. (1.5hr)
$20.50 / participant
Environmental Mixed Media Paintings
All age
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful painter and architect, who throughout his career, was interested in a humane environment that was close to nature. Celebrate Earth day at The Art Lab! Create a 11” x 14” canvas board painting of flowers in the style of Hundertwasser that incorporate recycled materials such as C-D’s, bottle caps and cut paper towel tubes. These mixed media paintings will be painted in colorful acrylic paints. (1.5hr)
$20.50/participant
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