Freehand School of Art

Summer art camps have begun at Freehand, and our young artists are already making masterpieces! These beautiful fabric quilts using the Japanese technique were made by this week’s campers. For this project, we learned about and had a blast choosing fabric from our scrap pile. Great work, campers!

Collagraphy is a printmaking process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate to create a plate. In the spring term, our grade 4-6 class learned about this printmaking technique. We designed and created our own relief printing blocks using cardstock, string, and cardboard, and stamped our blocks onto painted paper with block printing ink. These unique collagraph prints were made by Amelia T (Gr4), Hadley A (Gr6), Amelia C (Gr4), and Maitê B (Gr4). We’ll be learning about printmaking in our art camps this summer. Visit our website to register.

Do you recognize the characters in this panel? It’s Neji, Naruto, Kakashi, and Sasuke from the anime/manga series ! This character collage was made by Grade 5 artist Cate Z in our spring . If you know a young artist who enjoys anime and manga, check out our “Favourite Fandoms” week of summer camp. For this week, we’ll be creating art based on our favourite characters, franchises, graphic novels, and movies. Visit our website to register while there’s still space! www.freehandart.ca

What are you growing in your garden this summer? Our are growing lots of colourful root vegetables! We can tell that these gardens are healthy due to all of the lovely worms! These tempera paintings with printmaking were made by Noelle W (SK), Valerie Y (JK), Emma B (JK), Bella T (JK), Madison H (SK), and Cai W (SK). This project was a great way for our youngest artists to work on their spatial awareness and to learn about ! Fantastic work, everyone.

Fall class registration is now open and our “Start With Art” classes fill up fast. Visit our website to register for your preferred class while there’s still time!

Our studio just had a makeover! We’re ready for summer camps with beautiful shiny new floors! Visit our website to register for one of our 11 weeks of camp programming.

Here at Freehand, we are constantly impressed by the talent of our young artists. This drawing of a hand holding a melting ice cube was made by Grade 7 artist Clémence D in our Saturday class. Hands are notoriously difficult to master, and Clémence rose to the challenge! We hope you’ve found a good place to display this on your wall, Clémence.

Check out these paint stick sunsets by our ! These paintings are a beautiful reminder of how colourful our world is. This summer we are offering two weeks of camp celebrating all the colours of our planet. Technicolour Week (June 22-26) and World of Colour (Aug 31 – Sept 4) are both great opportunities to explore colour through art. Visit our website to register for Technicolour Week or join the waitlist for World of Colour.

It’s spring migration season for our avian friends, and the city has been treated to a colourful array of winged visitors over the past month. These acrylic bird paintings on canvas were made by Harvey L (Gr4), Spring H (Gr5), Pasha C (Gr6), and Jasmin N (Gr5) in our Monday Grade 4-6 class. This project helped our young artists learn how to draw on a grid and paint using layers. We’ll be doing projects like this all summer in our . Visit our website to reserve your spot while you still can!

Here at Freehand, we love art camps! Summer is the highlight of our year with 11 weeks of art camp programming. Each week of camp has a distinctive theme, and every week is a chance to explore a wide variety of artistic mediums. We create, explore, have a whole lot of fun, and make new friends along the way! These adorable “snail house” paintings were made during our final PA Day camp of the year, and are just a small taste of the type of projects summer camp will have to offer! Visit our website to reserve your spot in our summer art camps.

that use their long, colourful beaks to dine on difficult-to-reach tropical fruit? Their beaks can be up to 4 times the size of their head! Our Saturday Grade 1-3 class used painted paper to create these beautiful toucan collages. Great work, Leni S (Gr2), Philia F (Gr2), Aiden L (Gr2), Lucy P (Gr2), Ross B (Gr2), and Liza C (Gr1)! Spring term is now officially finished, but are fast approaching. We have a great selection of camp themes this summer, including 3 different animal weeks for all the animal fans out there! Visit our website to register.