Fine Young Artists - Auckland, New Zealand
Art for children, at school, after school
Cover Stories
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Family Flight
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Holidaze
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Iconikiwiana
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It's All About Me
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Juicy Visual Feast
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Making Tracks
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Mystery Garden
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New York Minute
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New Zealand Beach Life
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On Top of My World
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Plant Mania
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Robotika
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Shiney Happy People
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This Land is My Land
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Wild Wiggles & Squiggles
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Where the Wild Things Go
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Programmes
What makes our children's art classes different from other art classes?
All Fine Young Artists programmes have the following common elements:
- An overview of the programme components and structure
- Experiencing a wide variety of different mediums and materials
- An introduction to the history and artwork of our selected role model artists and an understanding of their influences
- Learning the techniques, skills and style used by our role model artists
- Learning additional and alternative fine art techniques and styles but also learning the basics around drawing and painting
- High quality artwork to exhibit and take home to be proud of forever!
Progamme Info
Cover Stories - Mixed Media on MDF Spines
Our artwork is like a stack of books, all written about us, a pile of story books about special moments in our lives, things we have done, places we have been.
We get to design lettering, illustrate, paint and put our own special signature logo onto each book, creating a quirky visual library about ourselves.
Role Model Artists: Peter Gibson Smith and Lynley Dodd
Family Flight - drawing, painting and mixed media
By looking at images, symbols and text that relate to our own families, we create a wonderful and very personalised 'bird flying by' view of a special family place. We draw numerous objects and learn to abstract and create our own design patterns as well as learning painting techniques. This is a powerful and exciting programme.
Role Model Artists: Don Binney and Shane Cotton
Holidaze - Drawing on boxed board
This programme is fully committed to exploring the art of drawing. A kit of common New Zealand holiday memorabilia forms the basis of our complex, mixed media study and the result is reminiscent of a by-gone era.
Role Model Artists: Michael Shepherd and Leonardo Da Vinci
Iconickiwiana - Painting and drawing on board
Through a study of proportion and layout, we transform everyday domestic icons into a painterly statement, using a text border to complete our homage to two Kiwi greats.
Role Model Artist: Nigel Brown and Dick Frizzell
It's All About Me
Painting, Drawing, text on wood panel. This programme celebrates the quirky language and images of childhood. Contemporary graphic qualities of this modern world from advertising, comics and graffiti combine with some fun new painting techniques on a panel that is "all about me".
Role Model Artist: Gordon Bennett
Juicy Visual Feast
We explore many contemprary drawing and painting mediums and look at expressive and detailed fine art techniques. We learn the art of gestural painting, which teaches us to paint in a loose style. We combine realism with abstract design and our colour palette is almost edible.
Role Model Artist: Paul Cezanne
Making Tracks
Mixed Media on canvas - This painted map of a playground is done on loose canvas. We see over and through stairs, ropes, climbing structures and we navigate tracks and paths to and from each playground element. We explore overlaying shapes, illusory space, optical patterning, text and a range of paint techniques.
Role Model Artists: Philip Trustum & Patrick Malone
Mystery Garden - drawing, printmaking and design
We start with a plywood canvas and experiment with fabric and paint to create a mystical garden backdrop in lush, earthy colours. We then apply printmaking techniques to give texture and to create layers and later, using pencils and oil pastels we enhance our foliage and hide within it critters and creepy crawlies of our own design.
Role Model Artists: Richard Kileen and Rae West
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New York Minute - drawing, print making, design and mixed media
Looking at graphic design and contemporary drawing techniques, we create a fabulously finished artwork on a large canvas. We explore all sorts of exciting mediums - print-making, indian ink, blackboard paint, oil pastels, pencils and chalk. With bold contrasts and a neutral colour palette this programme is a dynamic, sophisticated artwork based around the theme "what is happening at a specific time in my favourite city".
Role Model Artist: David Carson
Beachcombing NZ Painting & Drawing on 9 canvas boards.
What do we find when we beach-comb the tide line? A mixture of man-made and natural objects randomly placed by the tide. Textures borrowed from the patterns of nature underlie our artwork. Natural beach objects form the second layer and these in turn are overlaid by found man-made objects to form our third layer. This work is completed on 9 separate canvases that come together to form one masterpiece in the gridded style of John Reynolds.
Influenced by: John Reynolds & Juliet Peter
On Top of My World - drawing and painting
Working on a large canvas we have fun with expressive and realistic painting techniques. We learn the art of gestural brush strokes and layering techniques to that help us create a large luscious landscape painting - our very own slice of New Zealand.
Role Model Artist: Toss Woollaston
Plant Mania
Exploring the rich and powerful colours and quirky tropical plant forms influenced by Claudia Pond Eyley and Pat Hanly we take a detailed look at various painting techniques, the art of perspective and layering to produce a fabulous painting.
Role Model Artists: Claudia Pond Eyley and Pat Hanly
Robotika
Mixed media on boxed wooden panel
The city at night is our backdrop.
Drawing as much on our 2 artist role models, Ted Dutch & Sara Hughes, as on our love of Lego construction, we design our own robots and bring them to life using paint and stickers to create a colourful robotic carnival.
Role Model Artists: Ted Dutch and Sara Hughes.
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Shiney Happy People - drawing, painting and mixed media
Two sheets of perspex form our canvas. Using a bright bold colour palette we create our background onto which we scratch in fine linear detail. We use paints, collage, oil pastels and pencils to build layers between the perspex, creating a truly unique and often abstract portrait of family and friends.
Role Model Artist: Jeffrey Harris
This Land is My Land - drawing, design and painting
This is a very exciting and tactile programme that explores our role as 'guardians of the land'. We work on galvanised corrugated metal as our canvas and use various mediums, effects and many contemporary painting techniques to create a funky and industrial artwork.
Role Model Artist: Ralph Hotere
Wild Wiggles and Squiggles - drawing, painting and mixed media
This is an extremely fun and tactile mixed media programme using all sorts of materials and techniques. We explore and experiment with acrylic gel, indian ink, modelling paste, paint, pastels, pencils, splattering, dribbling, etc. No less than 15 separate artworks come together to form this dynamic, textured masterpiece. This is a great programme for children who love creative freedom.
Role Model Artists: Max Gimblett and Nicky Foreman
Where the Wild Things Go - drawing, painting and design
First we look at drawing animal parts then redesigning our own creative animal characters. We move on to combine these with random everyday objects in different spatial environments. We use a variety of mediums and painting techniques to produce this quirky and intriguing tryptic.
Role Model Artists: Bill Hammond and Hemi MacGregor
