Short and Sweet

Be sure not to miss the latest and greatest mural on display in a few weeks at our One Year Anniversary Art Exhibit! Seen above are Sophie and Ming working on their leopard paintings created by combining simple geometric shapes. Nice work guys!! They are not even in Kindergarten yet and are becoming SO proficient in their drawing and observational skills.

These paintings will be incorporated into the mural, inspired by Henri Rousseau, being created as a unified effort by all of our students here at FMAA.

We are extremely proud of all our students and can't wait to showcase their hard work and creativity! We hope to see you there!!

Details:

Where: Flying Machine Art Academy, 140 Balboa Street

When: Sunday May 23rd, 1-3pm

our website: http://www.flyingmachineartacademy.com

contact information: mollyleith@me.com

Flying Machine Art Academy ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY Student Art Show

Dear Parents and Dedicated Fans!

Please note!!! Due to a number of art projects that must be included in our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY Art Show, we are pushing the date of the exhibit forward to Sunday, May 23rd from 1-3pm. We hope you can still make it!!

What: FMAA ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY Student Art Exhibit!!

When: Sunday, May 23rd from 1-3 pm

Where: 140 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94118

Thank you for your patience with this important scheduling adjustment. We look forward to seeing you there! Please invite your friends!

Best wishes,

Molly & Corby Leith

Paul Klee, Watercolor and Value

Paul Klee

Known for his wonderful use of simplified shapes and amplified color, Paul Klee ( 1879 - 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. Both parents were musicians as was he, although his future led him successfully in the field of painting and drawing to become an instructor at the Bauhaus, a famous German art school started in 1919 to initiate the combination of arts and crafts in one institution.

Klee's artwork was widely recognized for two things: color and simplicity. Athough it is hard to categorize precisely what style he used, he was certainly influenced by, and recognized as, one of the original cubists of the cubism/futerist movement.

Below are some of our kindergarten students having fun creating their own simplified portrait inspired by Paul Klee's famous Portrait of a Man.

Experimenting with color's endless possibilities and delicate radiance, we had our older students create graded washes, or a series of colors from their darkest to lightest value, essentially honing their brush control and value with watercolor. This was then applied to a picture of their choice, simplified to its essential compositional elements as in Klee's Tunisian Garden's below...

One of our students was able to create over 32 different greens using only blue and yellow ( ok and a touch of brown) for just one painting. Could you?

For more information about Flying Machine Art Academy, please visit our website at

http://www. flyingmachineartacademy.com