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Anytime Art Projects
Here at Art Village, we do much more than just “Paint Your Own Pottery”. Here is a list of the other projects you can do while you’re here. And many of them can be done in one day. Also, while you're visiting us, feel free to look for inspiration on our bookshelves to help make these projects your own. They also make great party activities. Download our full menu here.
Daily Studio fee is $4.95 a day for kids and $6.95 for adults |
 Painting Panels
Price: Studio Fee + panel
(5x7 = $3, 8x10 = $4, 11x14 = $5, 16x20 = $6)
Release your inner painter. Choose a prepared painting panel and paint it with acrylic paints. Panels are standard frame sizes so it’s ready to take home and frame. You are limited only by your imagination.
 Mosaics
Price: Studio fee + surface size (5x7= $5) (8x10 = $10)
Create a beautiful mosaic from ceramic pieces. Simply plan your design, glue the colored pieces of tile on the base and grout.
Tie Dye
Price: Studio fee + $5 plain t-shirt
Bring in a t-shirt, or some kind of fabric to be tied and dyed. Or purchase an Art Village T-shirt here at the shop.
T-shirt Painting
Price: Studio fee + $5 plain t-shirt
Decorate your own unique shirt and create a painting that you can wear everywhere. Take your original painting to go!
 Aztec Soap Carving
Price: Studio fee + $2 per bar of soap
Aztecs carved wonderful creatures and events in stone. Explore their style of creating art using soap as your medium. Make your own sculpture inspired by the way Aztecs documented their lives. (This project can be done using other subject matter as inspiration i.e. Egyptian, Native American, Eastern, etc.)
Japanese Windsock
Price: Studio fee + $4 per windsock
Using a paper bag and acrylic paint, you design and assemble a spectacular Japanese windsock. You’ll be surprised how cool your windsock will look.
 Polymer Clay Covered Containers
Price: Studio fee + $10 per container
Polymer Clay is easy and fun to use. We have the clay, tools, and oven right here at the studio. Cover a small container with vibrant colors and patterns using polymer clay.
Didgeridoos
Price: Studio fee + $5 per didgeridoo
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago. Make your own from PVC pipe and decorate it with paint, markers and other media. Download project sheet here.
 Mexican Metal Tooling
Price: Studio fee + $5 per metal square
Using a medium called tooling foil create interesting metal wall hangings Inspired by Mexican art.
Rainsticks
Price: Studio fee + $4 per rainstick
Enjoy the soothing sounds of a rainstick created by you. Use it to call the rainy weather to come your way, or to relax. These are wonderful instruments unique to the items we place in and on them. This project may be more challenging to younger artists.
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Relief Sculpture Carving
Price: Studio fee + $5 per carving surface
Explore Egyptian Hieroglyphics, using pictures to illustrate our thoughts instead of using words. Using drywall boards as your carving surface, experiment with carving. (Any subject matter can be used as inspiration for this project)
 Mayan Masks Wall Hanging
Price: Studio fee + $2 per mask
Using cardboard pieces, you can create a 3 dimensional Mayan mask wall hanging. This project can be a bit challenging for younger artists. Download project sheet here.
Bath Salts
Price: Studio fee + $5 per jar
Create your own array of fun bath salts. These also make great gifts.
Make Your Own Sketchbook
Price: Studio fee + $7 per sketchbook
Design a custom hand painted cover and assemble together your very own artist sketchbook. Learn the fundamentals of creating a simple book, along with adding your own flair of style. It’s a wonderful, original, book to hold all your drawings and paintings.
 Crayon Etching
Price: Studio fee + $3 per sheet of paper
Enjoy the process of making your own scratch-through-art. We will explore colors, layering them upon each other to establish a blend of beautiful color wonderment.
Japanese Sumi-e Painting
Price: Studio fee +$3 per paper
Explore the fun of Japanese painting using ink and watercolor washes. Find a new you with the use of ink!
 Artist Trading Cards
Studio fee + $2 per card
Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art created on 2 ½ X 3 ½ inch card, small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. Cards are produced in various media, such as pencils, pens, markers, watercolor, acrylic paints, paper media in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc. The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold. Start your collection today!
 Watercolor Cards
Studio fee + $2 per card
Use various watercolor techniques to create beautiful watercolor cards that can be used for Scrapbooking & journaling, bookmarks, gift tags, matting for photos, magnets, cards, postcards, Artist Trading Cards
 Monster Dolls
Price: Studio fee +$7 per doll
Design your own monster doll. By using a pattern you design yourself, you’ll create your own fabric dolls filled with shredded paper. Then paint your doll to give it personality.
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Painting The Masters Projects
Be inspired by one of the Great Master Painters. Choose a work of art by looking through our art books and recreate the painting or make your own composition by using the style of the artist. Here are some names of famous artists to get you started.
Price for these projects: Studio Fee + panel (5x7 = $3, 8x10 = $4, 11x14 = $5, 16x20 = $6) |
Kandinsky Art
Kandinsky called many of his most spontaneous paintings “improvisations” Through the use of fabric assemblage and paint, create your own improvisation.
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh liked to use thick paint and vibrant colors to express emotion of everyday subjects. Experiment with using quick brushstrokes and bright colors to express your emotion.
Seurat: Pointillism Painting
Discover the fun of small dots! Using a small brush dab dots of color to create a detailed image and reconstruction of Pointillism, a style of painting used by artist Seurat.
Mondrian Painting
Mondrian liked to paint with primary colors of blue, yellow and red. Experiment with working with geometric shapes and simplified colors to create a painting.
Impressionists
Monet, Degas, Pissaro, and Renoir used soft almost blurry techniques of impressionism. Try to paint the impression of your surroundings using fast brushstrokes to capture the moment.
Chuck Close Painting
Chuck Close is known for his giant lifelike paintings of ordinary people. Working from a photograph, use a graphing technique to enlarge an image that you can draw or paint. |
Georgia O’keefe Painting
Work in the fluid lovely and graceful style of O’keefe. Her style was very soft. She is known for painting close-ups of flowers. Be inspired to paint your own close up painting of an everyday object.
Warhol Pop Art
Andy Warhol used items from popular culture in his artwork like Campbell Soup cans and pictures of Marilyn Monroe. He often made patterns by repeating an image over and over again. Find an ordinary object and create a work of art by repeating it.
Salvador Dali Dream Paintings Collage
Salvador Dali painted in a style called surrealism. His paintings were very dreamlike and symbolic. Using photos and drawing and painting materials, create a dreamlike painting full of strange and bizarre imagery.
Edvard Munch - Things that make us scream
Learn about the artist Edvard Munch and his famous painting “The Scream”. Create a drawing of the screaming man and draw items that make you want to scream.
Matisse Cut-Outs
Matisse liked to make paintings from flat colors. Use cut shapes of paper to create a colorful composition. |
Collage & Mixed Media
Mixed media is art that combines various visual art media such as paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a “mixed media” work. Many interesting effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Found objects can also be used. Using many types of media can allow you to really explore your creativity in unique ways. |
Mock Stained Glass Masterpiece
Flat Fee: $12
This is a very simplified way of creating a unique mock stained glass piece. No intimidating tools to be afraid of, just bring yourself and your creativity for this unique project.
Fabric Assemblage
Flat Fee: $12
Excellent art is not just made from paints. We explore fabric as a medium to create vibrant collages that appeal to both the eye and touch. Feel free to bring in fabric you have to add to your creation.
Mixed Media Painting
Flat fee: 12
Life is full of accidents, we explore placing paint onto paper and layering with different media. Be prepared to find the artist within; through the help of all materials of ink, charcoal, paint: create a wild and one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Create Your Flag
Flat Fee: $12
Create your very own flags. These flags can represent you as a unique individual composed of mixed media objects, fabrics as original as you are.
African Drums
Flat Fee: $16
Using found objects and other materials, create your own African Drum
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Memory Boxes
Flat Fee: $14
Capture your life, document it! Expore yourself and create a box unique to your personality and experiences. Collage, draw, paint, print to create your individual box. Feel free to bring your own images to use.
Altered Books
Flat fee: $16
Take a book and cut, tear, glue, fold, paint, add to, collage, create pop-ups, and anything else you can imagine. Add pockets and niches to hold tags, rocks, ephemera, or other three-dimensional objects to create a finished piece of art.
Symbolic Collage
Flat Fee: $12
We will be focusing on a themed piece of artwork. Exploring the joy of painting, glue and other mixed media. We are inspired by the artist Jasper Johns.
Klimt Mixed Media
Flat Fee: $12
Klimt’s paintings are very detailed and amazingly gorgeous. We will be dissecting his work and recreating them using mixed media; collage, painting, etc. Much fun will be had exploring Klimt.
Dream Catchers
Price: studio fee + $5 per dreamcatcher
Create a Dreamcatcher to allow your good dreams to pass through the holes and to trap the bad dreams in the web, where they perish in the light of dawn.
Card Making Collage
Price: Studio fee + $2 per card
Let your creativity flow and design your own line of cards. Use assorted materials out to create your own fun unique and individual cards. |
Paper Mache
Explore the versatility of paper mache. These are usually a two day projects. The first day you assemble your sculpture and cover it with wet paper mache or use masking tape to piece it together. The next day, when it is dry, you paint and decorate to finish your masterpiece.
Price: Flat fee $15 per project. |
Pinatas
Everyone loves a party! Create your very own pinata for your next get together. Anything goes. Turn your favorite cartoon character, friend, family member, pet into a work of pinata art.
Gargoyles
Gargoyles are the subject matter-you decide on the style & how eery! Finish it off by covering it with a sandy texture. Add a little flair to your room with your very own Gothic creature of papier mache!
Cartoon Heads
Choose a cartoon character and construct a 3 dimensional paper mache replica to have of your own.
Crazy Creatures and Pet Monsters
Create your own pet monster-no feeding necessary! Assemble your unique outer space creature or other monster sculptures using mixed media: be inspired by movies, dreams... do not limit yourself. Bring in pictures of your favorite characters and create them in 3-D!
Pulp Sculptures
Using blended paper pulp, squeeze and mold a unique paper sculpture.
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Animal Masks
Bring out the animal from within! Through the joy of papier mache, we will be creating a unique mask of your favorite wild beast!
Holiday Decorations
Create your own holiday home decor in paper mache. Halloween jack-o-lanterns, costumes, or creepy creeatures, Thanksgiving centerpieces, Christmas decorations, and ornaments.
Boxes and Containers
Using a cardboard structure, create your own unique box or container to keep your secret stuff.
Party Lights
Using tissue paper and colored glue, create cool party lights that can be strung and hung outside or as Christmas tree lights.
Home Decor
Paper mache is so versatile you can use it to create all kinds of home decor such as lamp shades, clock bases, vases, frames and more. |
Clay Projects
There are so many things to make with clay. You are limited only by your imagination. Clay can be pinched, coiled, added on to, and carved away from, to form any shape. Come in and see where your imagination takes you. These projects may require a second visit to Art Village for painting with our glazes or acrylic paint. Price: Studio fee + Clay
Firing Fees
The first firing (Bisque firing) is included in the purchase of the clay.
The second glaze firing is an additional fee per piece depending on size.
$2 small • $4 medium • $6 large
Items of unusual size are determined on an individual basis. |
Clay Masks
Masks are not just for Halloween! Create your own clay masks. Whether they be real or imaginary.
Clay Teapots
Care for a spot of tea? Make your very own teapot! Explore the elements that make up an original ceramic teapot!
Ocarinas & Whistles
Let your heart sing out by creating your own Ocarina whistle. As used in ancient civilizations, we too, will be using clay to make our musical instrument!
Clay Wind Chimes
Create pieces of hanging sculpture to assemble into a beautiful wind chime. Once fired, the chimes can be painted with acrylic paints and hung as a beautiful lawn decoration.
Boxes
Using clay slabs, create a box with a lid. Add embellishments to make a truly unique
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Clay Relief Tiles
Using slabs of clay, carve and build up designs and patterns to create a beautiful tile.
Garden art
garden sculptures, planters, flower pots, garden markers, gazing ball stands, birdbaths, fountains
Figures
Create animals, people, creatures, and other sculptures
Vessels
Such as Pinch Pots, Mugs , Bowls, Jars, Coil pots
Home Decor
Lamps
Candle holders
Clocks
Vases
Holiday Decor
Jack-o-lanterns
Haunted houses
Ornaments
Jewelry -beads, pendants |
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