Winter Break Camp: New Year Glow
Winter Break Camp Day 3 – New Year Glow: Fireworks & Celebration Painting with Jessica Mahan
Monday, December 28
9 am – 12 pm
Ages 5 – 12 yrs
Minimum Students: 5 / Maximum Students: 16
$59 CAE Member / $65 Non-Member
Celebrate the New Year with a bright and exciting painting full of fireworks, glowing skies, and festive energy. Students will create a night scene bursting with color, learning how to paint light against dark backgrounds to create a glowing effect.
We’ll explore movement, layering, and expressive brushwork while designing unique firework patterns and colorful skies. Students will be guided step-by-step and encouraged to experiment with their own color choices and designs.
In addition, students will sculpt small celebratory shapes such as stars, fireworks bursts, or symbols of the new year.
Students will:
• Learn how to paint light against dark backgrounds
• Explore movement and expressive mark-making
• Practice layering to create glowing effects
• Sculpt simple celebratory forms
They will walk away with:
• One completed New Year painting
• One or more small clay sculptures
What to bring:
• Clothes that can get messy
• Water bottle/snack
Instructor
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Jessica MahanJessica Mahan is a professional acrylic and oil painter and an art teacher with a degree in Art Education and Secondary Education. She previously taught art in the public school system for 7 years, has been a professional artist for 8 years and loves sharing her love of art with others through classes, workshops, retreats and paint at home kits. She is in awe of the natural world. Nature has the ability to wake up her mind to the present moment, sparking ideas and insight. The resulting paintings are vivid, emotional, playful and dreamlike. Her art practice helps her slow down and notice the world around her by examining shapes, colors, movement rhythms and light. She often uses symbolism and thinks of her work as visual poetry. Outside of art, she loves travel, yoga, nature, music and hanging out with her dog.
