art @ the park 2025 schedule
You are welcome to drop off your artist or stay and observe/participate.Art demos and instruction will last about 20 minutes with remaining time allotted to exploration and experimenting with techniques and materials and playing tag at the park.
RATE: $20 per artist, or $30 for two (sibling or friend) cash/venmo @saritacrich due at the park.
LOCATION: Manoa Park, at the main pavilion closest to the Ka’aipu and Lowrey entrance.
PLEASE BRING: clothes you don’t mind getting messy
FLEXIBILITY: Sometimes we reschedule depending on weather. Sometimes we adjust our location at the park. Call/text 909-996-5403 when you arrive if you can’t find us. Thank you for being flexible!
Jim Dine Hearts
Wednesday, February 5, 12, 19, 26
3:00 PM 4:00 PM
HonoluluUnited States (map)
Every Wednesday in February, we’re studying American pop artist Jim Dine. He painted hearts, hearts, and more hearts! Working with acrylics, tempera paints, watercolors, chalk, and oil pastels, we’re drawing inspiration from Dine’s following pieces Confetti Heart 1 (1985), Four Hearts (1969), and The Big Wall of Hearts (2002) to create our own colorful heart art.
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
image source: https://www.artnet.com/artists/jim-dine/confetti-heart-1-a-tuntM0QoTlP1Eab6wdJL3w2
image source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dine-four-hearts-p04226
image source: https://www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com/exhibitions/84/works/artworks43/
Fuzzy Bears in Sweaters
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
We’re using crayons to turn scrap paper into fuzzy bears wearing painted sweaters.
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
Bubblegum Christmas Tree Forest
We’re working with tempera and acrylic paints and cut paper to create a wintery forest using basic shapes and my favorite unconventional painting tool to create snow. Wear clothes that can get messy!
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
Bears Under Stars
Creating collages of bears with wintery skies. Using watercolors, tempera and acrylic paints, and cut painted paper.
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
Potato Penguins
ONE SPOT LEFT
We’re practicing print making with unconventional objects: potatoes and cereal box stencils! We’ll talk about symmetry and crayon resist techniques while drawing snowflakes and painting watercolors over crayon drawings. We’ll print our penguins with tempera and acrylic paints. This session is FREE. Happy December!
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
Image credits: https://ps162qyoungartists.weebly.com/first-grade3.html
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
3:00 PM 4:30 PM
Manoa Park (map)
Celebrating fall (one more time!) with the book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves. We’ll use tempera and acrylic paints and oil and chalk pastels to create Fletcher, and a painting-with-no-brush method to create the background. We’ll finish this piece with painted paper leaves.
Text/email Sarita to sign up: 909-996-5403, sarita.rich@gmail.com
Funny Face Pumpkin Patch
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
3:00 PM 4:30 PM
Manoa Park (map)
We’re counting down to Halloween with the story, PICK A PUMPKIN by Patricia Toht and using tempera paint, cut paper, and oil pastels to create pumpkins with festive Halloween faces (or not).
Text Sarita for availability and sign up: 909-996-5403
Eloise Ranouf Landscape
Monday, September 30, 2024
3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Manoa Park 2790 Kahaloa Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822United States (map)
We’re celebrating fall with tree collages! Eloise Ranouf is an artist whose nature-inspired patterns appear on printed textiles and greeting cards. We’ll look at some of her tree designs as inspiration for our own painted paper scenes. We’ll be using tempera and acrylic paints. Note: acrylic paint may stain clothing so wear clothes you don’t mind getting smudged.
Text Sarita for availability and sign up: 909-996-5403
Line Animals: Turtles
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Manoa Park 2790 Kahaloa Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822United States (map)
We're creating drawings of turtles and discussing how line and pattern add interest and texture to our work. We'll explore these materials: watercolors, markers, crayons.
Text Sarita for availability and sign up: 909-996-5403
Reverse Coloring Adventure
We're going on a reverse coloring adventure! We'll paint first, then add lines later as we explore how to create reverse watercolor pages with the wet on dry technique. This a relaxing and fun activity that allows artists to create unique designs with watercolors and pens.
Text Sarita for availability and sign up: 909-996-5403
Line Animals
We're creating drawings of fish and discussing how lines and patterns add interest and texture to our work. We'll explore these materials: watercolors, markers, crayons.
Text Sarita for availability and sign up: 909-996-5403
