Registration Open for Winter Art Classes!

Children’s Art Classes

                                           at Susy’s Art Spot

In this media art class, children explore their creativity through various art materials and techniques like painting, fabric art, collage, sculpture and more!  In a nurturing environment, students are encouraged to discover how they can use materials for their own unique expression and enjoyment.  Get creative and Have fun!!!

To register contact at Susy at susy248@hotmail.com or

647-889-7677.  Program located near Bloor and Brunswick St.

Kinder Art                                   School Age Art

3-4 yrs old                                  5-7 yrs old

Tuesday, 10:30-11:30                Tuesday, 4:30-5:50

8 weeks – starts Jan 7              8 weeks – starts Jan 15

$160                                              $160

School Age Art                          School Age Art

4-6 yrs old                                 7-9 yrs old

Saturday, 10:30-11:30               Saturday, 2:00-3:00

8 weeks – starts Jan 12            8 weeks – starts Jan 12

$160                                              $160

March Break Camp: March 11-15,  9:30-12 or 1-3:30,  $180

Susy Martins is a practicing visual artist, children’s arts instructor and ECE teacher.  Please visit www.susymartins.ca  

The Collective Gallery...opening soon!

5 days to go until the opening!! Here's a sneak peak at some of the work that will be for sale! Please click on link below to view them.

The Collective Gallery: Colour Your World:     Right about now, with the grey skies and dull weather, we are all in need of a little colour boost....

Masquerading!

To get in the Halloween spirit, this week's class was devoted to making masquerade style masks.  The kids loved making and wearing them!  It was so interesting to see how different and unique each one turned out despite everyone having the same materials to choose from.  Creative expression shining through!

Lazy Day Art Class!

Today,  everyone arrived tired from a long day of school so we decided to put on some Billie Holiday, whip up mugs of hot chocolate and finish our weavings.  It was such a relaxing way to end the day and the weavings look great! Alice even had time to sketch a nest of birds hatching.  

My work featured by Davisville Design!

I am so happy and honoured to be featured in this Interior Design Blog written by Nicola Carroll.  I really enjoyed our conversation about my art process over cups of tea.  Please click on the link below to read all about it!
http://blog.davisvilledesign.com/2012/09/06/featuring-susy-martins-visual-artist/

KIDS ART CLASSES!!!

Children’s Art Classes

Explore the Artist in you!

In this media art class, children explore their creativity through various art materials and techniques like painting, fabric art, collage, sculpture and more!  In a nurturing environment, students are encouraged to discover how they can use materials for their own unique expression and enjoyment, resulting in artwork that truly reflects each little artist.  Get creative and Have fun!!!

For more information or to register please contact Susy at susy248@hotmail.com or 647-350-7737.  Program address 385 Brunswick Ave. (north of Bloor St. and east of Bathurst St.)

FALL: Kinder Art                               School Age Art

            4 – 5 years old                        6 – 8 years old

            Monday 4:30-5:30                 Tuesday 4:30-5:30

            12 weeks - $210                        12 weeks - $210

Classes begin week of September 24, 2012.

Susy Martins is a practicing visual artist, children’s arts instructor and ECE teacher.  www.susymartins.ca

Enjoy some pics from summer's art camp...

Susy Martins: KIDS ART CLASSES!!!

Susy Martins: KIDS ART CLASSES!!!: Children’s Art Classes Explore the Artist in you! In this media art class, children explore their creativity through various ...

The Staining Process

I've started working on a new piece for my woman with flowers series.  It is a combination of quick gestural sketches of the female body with botanical stains that act as an area of release or  of activity in the body.  At times, the stained areas seem to bleed out, perhaps evoking the sense of releasing a painful or dark memory.  In other pieces, the stained areas dance out of the body in joy.
Here's some photos of the beginning of it all, before any painting happens!  The flowers are soaked, the paper is soaked, and finally they are laid down on the areas I've chosen.  Once they dry a beautiful pattern of shape and colour is left behind.  What it will look like is always a mystery.

Woman with Flowers

Woman with flowers is a series of works using quick sketches of the female form in charcoal and dead flower stains that have been painted over.  The sketches are meant to evoke or suggest an area of the body in a fluid, gestural way.  Each one is a different view and presents a different reality, some being light and gentle and others denser and more powerful.  This is a first of the series.  I love working with the contrast of the definite charcoal marks and the soft fluidity of the flower stains and paint.  The final addition was gold leaf cascading down towards the form.

Veil - Hand sown tea bag quilt

Second to my love affair with creating is tea.  Usually creating and a cup of tea go hand in hand.  For a tea drinker like me, a cup of tea marks time in the day....early morning, mid-afternoon or when I need a moment to just breathe with an idea.  It also marks time and moments in life.  This tea bag quilt is made of about 100 tea bags that I've dried, opened, cleaned and sewn together.  It represents the moments of my life at that time.  Some were ordinary, others  exquisitely extraordinary.  It was a time of grieving the loss of someone very close to me and the making of this quilt helped to memorialize it for me.  

  

Collage!