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
Parties are only being held offsite. We would be happy to come to your home, place of business, community center or other.
Earn a fun patch for your troop, while supplies last.
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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
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)
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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
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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