South Pasadena Classes Los Angeles, CA

Autumn Treasures

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

In this class, children will gather findings of Autumn Treasures in forms, shapes, and colors through drawing, painting, clay imprinting, and making collages.

Painting

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center @ 1506 Mission St‎, South Pasadena, CA

Learn how to create abstract and figurative compositions. You will also learn how to use a brush in different ways. This painting course will take you through the basics of painting in acrylic and watercolor. Come prepared to experiment! We’ll look at colours and how to mix them, different ways of using the brush, working in layers, creating washes and working with the palette knife. When we have had plenty of practice, we’ll create both abstract...

Fables and Folk Tales

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

In this class, students will tap into the world of Fables and Folk Tales, bringing stories to life making masks, puppets, and more. Introducing inspiration from illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger.

Animation Design

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center @ 1506 Mission St‎, South Pasadena, CA

Learn where animation starts, in the hands of an artist! In this class, students will create fun characters and develop a one minute story to animate. They will discover shape design, movement, and proportions to make their characters come to life. Then they will design and color backgrounds, setting the stage for bringing the story all together in a storyboard sequence that will be animated in a digital flipbook. All levels encouraged to participate....

Little Hands - Nature's Elements

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Spring is here! In this class, students will explore, draw, paint and make green crafts with various mediums and nature's elements, creating projects using petals, leaves, twigs and more, with introduction to artist Georgia O'keeffe.

Drawing Academy

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

SPACE Drawing Academy offers a program aimed at students with a passion for drawing who want to build and develop their skills and confidence, and work on personal portfolios. Bringing the 2D & 3D world of art together through drawing and sculpture, students will explore 2D drawing foundation through traditional materials and techniques, then take their drawings off the page and turn them into a 3D sculptures. Line, form, texture, shape, value...

21st Century Art

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Young artists will create fun and unique art projects based on contemporary art. Using inspiration from artists like SWOON, Nick Cave, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close and Shepard Fairey, we will explore paper, pens and paint to create pieces of personal expression, environmental awareness, geometric pattern, and fantastic works of imagination!

The Path of Story

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center @ 1506 Mission St‎, South Pasadena, CA

Looking to kick start your writing? Find what you want to say, in prose, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction?  Through exercises and prompts, listening and sharing, you’ll write short pieces that can spur you to continue on your own. Either way, you’ll get an imagination-to-pen workout.

Portraits (ages 9 - 12)

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Portraits may seem like challenging, but portrait artist Paige Emery makes it fun and easy! We will learn how to break down the fundamentals for all ages to understand. Self-portraits, portraits of friends, character portraits and more will be created through all sorts of mediums such as drawing, painting, ink, and collage. This class will be a one-of-a-kind experience to learn how to make your own portraits in your own unique way!

Mindful Drawing

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

This class is designed to cultivate a mindful, open and spontaneous practice of drawing based on contemplative repetition, clarity of vision and surprise. Students will be introduced to new techniques for generating non-representational drawings through patterned mark-making designed to shift the process of drawing away from premeditated control and toward free-flowing spontaneity.  As these techniques are mastered, they will be combined with...

Summer Arts Lab: Architecture in Action

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Design your own house, imagine a city of dreams, and create a model skyscraper on Mars.

Summer Arts Lab: DIY Modern Design

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Learn from modern aesthetics how to design and create personal art you can wear and use in your every day life, such as custom t-shirts, jewelry and décor.

Summer Arts Lab: Art & Music

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Discover how both music and art are created through rhythm and pattern, producing different responses and emotions. A range of different materials and styles of music will be explored to create inspired works or art.

Summer Arts Lab: Clay Zoo

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Come make your favorite animals, both real and fantastical, using a variety of air dry and polymer clays. This 3D art form encourages us to think about structure, shapes, and forms.

Summer Arts Lab: Art in the Garden

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Using local garden and park life for inspiration, we will create art projects capturing the enchantment and mystery of Mother Nature.

Summer Arts Lab: Creative Writing

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Give your imagination a place to play! Students will get a chance to write for fun, and learn new ways to make their stories come to life.

Summer Arts Lab: Foolish Projects

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Come create impossible objects and foolish machines that inspire a sense of whimsy and delight. Artists and engineers, inventors and tinkerers welcome.

Summer Arts Lab: Figure Drawing

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

An introduction to figure drawing techniques and concepts, with an emphasis on representational drawing and expression. Working from live models, students learn to communicate mood, emotion and thought through line, gesture and image. Beginners and more advanced students welcome.

A Winter Garden

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Creative Writing

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Come learn what makes good stories tick, draw us in, and turn the page. We will use writing exercises and prompts to get our brain juices flowing, and learn how to create compelling characters, plots and settings. Students will create personal portfolios in addition to a group zine.