Saturday Art Adventures Fall 2025

~ Now Accepting Enrollment ~
Registration for FALL 2025 Classes

To register or for questions, text (preferred) or call Miss Lani’s cell: 774-563-3069 or email the Children's Art Studio shastinaart@gmail.com

Click here to download a PDF of the Fall 2025 courses.

All Saturday Art Workshops are for children ages 4-13 (multi-age class) from 1:30-3:45.

$55.00 per child for each workshop

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September 13: Monkey Business: an article to share

Jane Goodall tells a journalist, Stephan Pincich, about her pioneering work with chimps. We are going to study, what she says about zoos and the importance of dogs for human contentment!

Chimps and dogs… like in the story of Henrie and Rickie will be sketched and with ink we’ll “pen them in,” just NOT force them in! HA, yes to Goodall’s teachings. Yes to pooches—freedom to be.

September 20: Wild Things

Artist Aaron Curry’s vividly hued work joins modernist forms and cutting edge cool, evoking everything from dangles to spectors. Let us “sneak a peek” at this skateboarder- artist’s hands as his creations telegraph his irregular edges and contours, interesting forms. He draws everyday! We shall join him!

September 27: Lead The Way

We love pooches—fidos! Pretend we have been asked by a well-known pet company to be their artistic designers— because children understand animals needs—to create 16 “buys”, gifts for dogs.

So here we go… some ideas… A cactus toy, named Mungo; a pendleton cuddler bed; a leather bead leash; a FURDO dog camera; a canvas leather “artful collar;” triple beds in corduroy; a doggie throw blanket; a set of triple balls—ARE YOU THINKING—THIS IS FUN! Chappy would love these ideas… we are on a roll, for pooches!

Bring a dog bowl—we shall paint it, too! Shall we BARK for it is a blast to create for others …

October 4: Chocolate and Art—It is an art party like none other!

“The reason I love chocolate: it makes me happy! The reason I love art: it makes me smart!” Words spoken by one young artist… Yes!

Young artists will enjoy painting with chocolate syrup and making homemade ice cream and chocolate candy bark of course! Fun. Hilarious. Edible Art, you might say. It is a tradition… and a sweet creative endeavor. We have repeated this adventure for six years—yum, yum!

Goofy, messy—an art, edible, art attack!! All we need is Mootisse and Pigcasso, the children’s story, to round out our crazzzzy day!

October 11: Pissarro’s Love of The Harvest Time

This is a special artist, for Miss Lani viewed a vast collection of Pissarro’s art, in Madrid, at the Prado Museum! An experience she will hold very dear, always, as she recounts for you—his genius! Extraordinary impressionistic style of layering paints!! The texture of his canvases—match the depth and gravity of his large heART!

He is known as Camille Pissarro, the French landscape artist, and was particularly fascinated with pastoral orchards and farmlands. He loved to showcase the people who tilled the soil and worked the fields at harvest times. His positive altruism to paint the beauty, of the hearts of the people, at work, motivated him! He strongly held the view “that not one was greater or lesser than anyone else…” Pissarro’s proactive behavior was influential and gained new attention for justice and equality for the working class in France. Impressionism evolved with Pissarro who painted until his passing in 1902. We honor him today.

October 18: Lobsters, Oysters, Cherries, and Pearls

Oh my—not only is the paint application of this 59” x 67” painting by Cecily Brown a blizzard of brush strokes, it is a still life that demonstrates “energy”—relentless energy!! Realism—abstractions are laced like they are in a conversation! We’ll decide how to develop a still life of our own—perhaps with less extremism.

The artist has carefully been chosen for us, however, because she reminds Miss Lani, of El Greco, and with his mastery, we are asked by Brown, to look more slowly and appreciate her ideas. She credits many other artists besides El Greco for her hyperactivity and passion for art making! An interesting and curious day is ours for examination and reflection.

October 25: Let’s put on Van Gogh’s Straw Hat!

A non-stop run of Van Gogh’s exhibits has taken place internationally since 2001! Now in Boston through September 7, so many seek to discern more about this amazing artist. Please know—children, this summer, in our studio in June, we used art tools in one of our classes that evoked a sensitivity to his crisp shapes, agitated clouds, windswept wheat, and cyprus trees!

We will try to increase our understanding of Van Gogh’s rhythmic reed pen drawings— dots, squiggles, loops, and staccato bars standing for color and brush strokes!! Amazing we might say, the expanses of marks! Yes, your lines, your sketches, by your own hand, your lines… to date, that we have captured often, 21 marks to create your “original” works… Van Gogh would be happy for you!! Yes!

November 8: Keith Haring: Art is For Everybody!

The BROAD Museum in Los Angeles showcased Haring’s works several years ago. The 1980s artist worked as if there was no tomorrow! Sounds like a man we would like to learn with, and indeed we have held his inspirations close at hand. Thousands of his works, ranging from large murals to comic strips, to designs for snowboards, skateboards — his imagination holds “no bounds”!

Remember this is the artist that showed us that a set of 3 lines, radiating from a figure, indicates movement, with more lines (marks) added, to suggest emotions like exuberance and sadness. The art of radiant urgency—perhaps. Witty, brevity! Yes!

A pop artist… we shall study his maze-like visions—and remember, after covering ¼ of a canvas, he, often stopped, for he was satisfied. Do not feel that a painting has to be vast… simple visions have merit!!!

November 15: PROTECT, PRESERVE, RESTORE …

Our friends, upstairs in our 1820 House (where our studio is located) have taught youth to love our environment. The Upper Valley Trails Alliance helps all of us blaze new trails. We shall invite Randy Richardson, development office, to visit us. We are going to create on canvases that reveal “our love for paths”—trails that honor our Earth! Her richness is special and our special day is “to her” our respect.