Janet Lawson, MFT | January 7, 2012
Fabulous first meeting of the new Autistry Puppet Workshop led by Courtenay Bell and Melissa Diaz-Infante! The students made stick puppets of themselves. Over the next couple of months they will make several types of puppets, build a puppet theater and stage, and write/perform/film several short puppet plays. Lots of fun!
Dan Swearingen | November 5, 2011
Finding her path through art www.Petaluma360.com In Julia Pozsgai’s bedroom is a large purple chair. Though she made it herself out of heavy cardboard, its tall back, exaggerated zig-zag design on the back and feet, and royal purple hue make it look more like a whimsical throne than a large piece of cardboard. [see more] [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 25, 2010
Many of our students have wanted to work on stop-motion animation videos and we encourage these projects. If the student is completely new to film making we usually like to do a quick start-to-finish stop motion production so everyone gets a good feel for the flow from production, editing, render, to YouTube. Here are three [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 24, 2010
Andrew likes making projects that make people laugh when they see them. He particularly liked buildings found in this great book California Crazy. We spent a couple days tagging pictures across many sources and then I photographed his choices and we printed them out and sorted them on the floor. This technique really helps because [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 23, 2010
Our son Ian became interested in martial arts a couple years ago and at the beginning of this year we enrolled him in Kung Jung Mul Sul (Korean royal court martial arts, related to Tae Kwon Do) classes nearby. As a project, Ian wanted to build a diorama of his Dojang (Korean counterpart to a [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 22, 2010
Ryan is another of our railroad-minded students and he chose to model a railroad yard. We used a classic John Allen Timesaver track plan and we added an Atlas turntable at one end. We built the layout on a block of pink foam-board and glued 1/4″ plywood on the sides and bottom making a light [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 21, 2010
Corey loves movies and movie-themed projects. His last project was a mostly scratch-built diorama of a scene from the movie Milk. Taking a bit of a break, Corey chose a Polar Lights kit of the Mystery Machine van from the old animated series Scooby Doo. The figure painting was perhaps the hardest part of the [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 20, 2010
One day Sarah was working on making figures for the first time using polymer clay. Breton decided to try making figures too as they were following along in a book. Breton’s first foray into polymer sculpture was The Elf. Having made an elf, Breton wanted to make a small world for him. He decided the [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 19, 2010
This is a quick progress update and a state-of-the-project report. Erik is one of our railroad-minded students. In the spring we brainstormed ideas by collecting and organizing photos of scenes that Erik liked. We found several trends in the photos that Erik liked and the one we focused on was trains in and around Sausalito. [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 21, 2010
Rinny has completed her first project which is a video promoting her book Sweet Wishes From Oz. She did a great job on this and it is her very first video project. Her book may be purchased at Oz books from the Cowardly Lion—Baum and More!
