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Drawing in Steps

Expressive Art for Seniors Mondays 3-5pm Sunshine ADC Draw what you see. Start with simple objects (like the classic bowl of fruit) or common objects and progress to more complicated subjects — an intricately shaped table, for instance, or people's faces. The better you get at drawing real-life objects, the better you'll eventually be at putting ideas on paper. reference:    

Kindness

Illustrating Kindness Sunshine ADC Expressive Art Monday Nov. 13, 2017 World Kindness Day isn’t just about adopting all the children from your local orphanage – it’s about the little gestures of kindness too. Helping others can restore a sense of humanity, not to mention giving you that warm fuzzy glow inside. Kindness Day was born when a collection of humanitarian groups came together on November 13, 1997 and made a “Declaration of Kindness”. Likewise, on Kindness Day everyone is encouraged to make a similar declaration. Donating books, food or clothes to your local community is a great way to celebrate. However, pledging to commit just one act of kindness is no less worthwhile: hold the door open for a stranger, compliment your neighbour on their collection of garden gnomes, let your partner have control of the TV remote for the evening. However you decide to celebrate remember that the best thing about Kindness Day is that it doesn’t cost a thing! Here are a few illustra...

Apple Season

Sunshine ADC - Expressive Art Apple Season Monday, October 16, 2017 Drawing Series 3-5pm Fall has finally arrived, which means it’s time to embrace the changing colors of the leaves,  refocus our goals as the weather becomes crisp, and of course, celebrate apple season! Crisp, sweet, refreshing, and true symbol of fall, the flavor of an apple freshly picked from a tree is  one of the best things on this earth! Apples also provide our bodies with lasting energy,  plenty of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Amazingly enough, there are over 7500 varieties of apples worldwide. Some are great for eating right from the tree, others are perfect for baking, while others are praised specifically for the juice and cider they create. 

Fall 2017 Activities

EXPRESSIVE ART THE LEAF _FALL 2017 Sunshine ADC EXPRESSIVE ART POP ART - Fall 2017 Series Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Larry Rivers...