Live Online Summer Art Programs
for Teen Artists
Prima Materia Institute is offering incredible online summer art programs for young artists, entering grades 6 – 12. Explore your creative side this summer and get to painting! Enroll early – space is limited.
The first art program starts on June 28th, 2021.
Scroll down to see art programs and to register. Students can register for one or all the programs. Register now. Space is limited.
Each theme-based art camp will be taught live from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. The first camp starts on June 28th, 2021. The last camp starts on August 9th, 2021.
Each week, a new art program will introduce teen artists to the techniques of painting and drawing in the form of stimulating practice, teach them professional techniques, and engage their mind in learning, to help them build confidence and encourage them to apply their imagination.
Designed by Olya Losina, a professional artist and co-founder of Prima Materia, these programs will help young students build artistic skills, fuel their love for art, open their minds to how to use ordinary art materials in new ways, and express themselves in a variety of styles. Participants will learn how to see and think like an artist and will have a blast making serious art.
These weekly Summer Art Programs at Prima Materia Art Institute are led by Ms. Nikusha Beatty, professional artist, teacher, history-fashion-music-language-design enthusiast, who has taught hundreds of beginners and advanced artists to paint, draw and speak about art. Each weekly program will be packed with learning new tips and unusual art projects that participants will be able to take to completion. With thorough instructions, demonstrations, and step-by-step guidance, teens will produce professional-quality artwork.
Each online camp can be done with the supplies you already own. A list of art materials will be available if you need to purchase more supplies. All the art supplies can be ordered online through the link provided, scroll down to view.
All the pieces created during the program will be displayed in the online exhibition with an art reception on Friday evening at the end of each week, and parents, family members, and friends are invited to view the work and enjoy critique and discussion.
Throughout the week, participants will receive tips on how to talk about their work and the techniques they practiced in the art program. It will be a great way to conclude the hard work they put into their drawings and paintings.
Furs and Feathers – Painting Pet Portraits
June 28 – July 2 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
Dogs, possums, frogs, cats, canaries, hamsters, ducks, and pigs – and whoever else you take care of or share your home with – create their portraits on canvas or paper. Choose any five of your favorite animals (domestic or wild) that you’d love to learn to draw or paint, and create their likeness with the five professional techniques; on each day of the week, you’ll practice a new technique.
Space is limited.
Welcome to the Jungle
July 5 – 9 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
Paint the lush jungle on canvas and populate it with exotic birds and animals, large and small, real and imagined. In this workshop, you will learn how to use reference material, such as images of wildlife, and create a painting bursting with creative freedom. As colors of fur and feathers change depending on whether they are in the light or shade, you will learn the techniques for how to create depth and darkness that hide animals and how to bring sunlight to illuminate the inhabitants of the jungle – to be seen in their full multicolored glory.
Space is limited.
Grand Budapest Hotel – Making Movie Sets
July 12 – 16, (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
For five days, you will become an artist-designer in a film studio. Think this might be a fun career in real life? Then definitely try this special art program! Create movie scenes in color, by learning how to draw a three-dimensional space in one-point perspective and populate it with people, also drawn by you. Discover a special technique that makes it easy to draw movie sets from imagination.
Space is limited.
Aliens in our Oceans
July 19 – 23 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
The ocean is like a real-life museum of the most extraordinary creatures. In this week-long art program, you will recreate the underwater world using scissors. You will start off by creating a background in full color. Then you will color papers for cut-outs; the special color-mixing instructions will help you produce complex and sophisticated colors. Then you will use your scissors to create the elaborate world of Poseidon, the Tzar of the Sea, with jellyfish, corals, crabs in seashells, seaweed, school of sparkling fish, monster-like beasts that glow in the dark, sunken ancient ships, and lost treasures.
Space is limited.
Raindrops on Flowers and Plants
July 26 – July 30 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
Paint a flower that is covered in sparkling diamonds of the morning dew! In this art project, you will learn how to paint flowers, and how to add raindrops to its leaves and petals. A tulip, rose, poppy, or morning glory? You can pick your favorite flower. Even if you never tried to paint before, you will enjoy the technique that will make it surprisingly easy and fun, – and if you are already an experienced painter, you’ll bee ahead of the game.
Space is limited.
Make It Work – All About Fashion
August 2 – August 6 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
Get your designer hat on and design contemporary fashions with futuristic and extravagant silhouettes. Invent your dream look. Try your hand at fashion design for a runway show. If you ever thought of a potential career in fashion design, are interested in creating fashion illustrations, entering a t-shirt contest, or adding to your portfolio of drawings, in this week’s program you will learn how to “make it work”.
Space is limited.
Surrealism- Where Imagination Runs Wild!
August 9 – August 13 (Monday thru Friday)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
$180
Create a surreal landscape under the guidance of the Master, the eccentric Salvador Dali himself! After you get inspired by his art (we will review many of his pieces), your mind will become a fountain of ideas. Add your wild ideas to his techniques – and you have the recipe for success!
Space is limited.