2023 Art Explosion Spring Classes & Summer Camps

Bethel Park Community Center

Art Explosion Spring Sessions 2023

Enjoying the Season of Spring with Art

(Ages 4 - 7) 

Join us for a fun 6 week session exploring the wonderful season of Spring, letting it inspire our artwork.  Children will learn about artist Joan Mitchell, letting her abstract flower paintings inspire our spring paintings.  We’ll collect nature items incorporating what treasures we find into our nature collage and creating a still life drawing of them.  Children will use a variety of materials like markers, paints, colored pencils, pastels, and watercolors to name a few.  All materials are included, and children will take home their masterpiece at the end of every class.  Come join us as we have fun learning about our world and the wonderful world of art. 

• Dates: Mondays March 6 - April 10
  
  
• Time: Mondays 5:15 - 6:15pm
  
  
• Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center

• Ages 4 - 7
  
  
• Cost - $65
  
  
• Instructor - Sue Ralston

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Celebrating the Season of Spring with Art

(Ages 6 - 12) 

Join us for a fun 6 week session where children will explore what is happening in nature during this amazing season letting it drive our artwork.  We’ll learn about artists like Ansel Adams, Paul Cezanne and Joan Mitchell letting her abstract flower paintings inspire our spring painting.   Children will enjoy a nature collection incorporating their findings, collected items into our spring nature still life, sculpture and collage.  We will use a variety of materials like tempera paint, pastels, markers, colored pencils and watercolors to name a few and all are included.  Children will take home the artwork they create after every class.  Come join us as we have fun learning about our world and the wonderful world of art.

• Dates: Mondays March 6 - April 10
  
  
• Time: Mondays 6:30 - 7:30pm
  
  
• Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center

• Ages 6 - 12
  
  
• Cost - $45
  
  
• Instructor - Sue Ralston

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Art Explosion Summer Camps 2023 Bethel Park

Getting Outside, Nature’s Journaling & Field Sketching
Ages 6-12

Children will have fun in this four-day camp, sketching outside, learning about, observing nature, and then capturing it in our sketchbooks.  We’ll play games, finding the caterpillars and getting the bees home while we observe these items in nature and draw them in our sketchbooks. We’ll learn art techniques looking at positive/negative space, capturing items to scale and quick sketching.  We’ll observe birds, working with shapes to draw and learn ways to show movement in our artwork. We’ll have fun experimenting with Plein Air Painting and learn about artist who use this method.  We will use a variety of materials, sketchbooks, pastels, watercolors, water brushes, colored pencils and tempera paint.  Come join us as we have fun getting creative and playing games while we learn about our world and the wonderful world of art.

• Dates: Monday June 19 - Thursday June 22
  
  
• Time: 1:30-3:30pm
  
  
• Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center

• Ages 6 - 12
  
  
• Cost - $85 + $10 materials fee
  
  
• Instructor - Sue Ralston

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Celebrating the Summer with Art
Ages 4-8

Children will have fun in this four-day camp playing games, sketching outside, learning about artists, drawing and painting some of our favorite summer places and activities.  We’ll talk about Eric Carle and his beautifully illustrated books, then set out to create our own hungry caterpillar.  We’ll visit the seashore through pictures and draw our own seaside picture that was once visited by dinosaurs.  Children will use a variety of materials like markers, colored pencils, watercolors, tempera paints, scissors to name a few.  Everyday we will spend some time outside sketching, weather permitting, playing games and creating a picture that the children can take home that day.  Come join us as we have fun enjoying the summer and learning about our world and the wonderful world of art.

• Dates: Monday July 10 - Thursday July 13
  
  
• Time: 1:30-3:30pm
  
  
• Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center

• Ages 4 - 8
  
  
• Cost - $85 + $10 materials fee
  
  
• Instructor - Sue Ralston

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Celebrating the Summer with Art
Ages 6-12

Children will have fun in this four-day camp playing games, sketching outside, learning about artists, drawing and painting some of our favorite summer places and activities.  We’ll learn about artist Kathryn Glowen and her mixed media artwork The Secret Garden, letting it inspire our secret garden masterpiece.  Children will visit the seashore through pictures. We’ll learn about artist Archibald Thorburn, and let him inspire our seagull seaside picture and our collage seashells.  Children will use a variety of materials like colored pencils, markers, pastels, watercolors, tempera paints, scissors, and appliques to name a few.  Every day we will spend some time outside sketching, weather permitting, playing games, and creating a picture that the children can take home that day.  Come join us as we have fun enjoying the summer and learning about our world and the wonderful world of art.   

• Dates: Monday July 17 - Thursday July 20
  
  
• Time: 1:30-3:30pm
  
  
• Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center

• Ages 6 - 12
  
  
• Cost - $85 + $10 materials fee
  
  
• Instructor - Sue Ralston

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Ms Sue's Art Class on Bethel Park Community Channel & YouTube!

Watch Ms. Sue's Butterfly Art Class featuring Vincent van Gogh

During this challenging time Bethel Park Community Center graciously video recorded Sue's Vincent van Gogh's Butterfly Art Class!  Check Bethel Park's Community Channel schedule for viewing on your cable TV or watch the class on Bethel Park's YouTube's channel here:

Watch Ms. Sue Show How to Make Art with Common Recycled Materials

Check Bethel Park's Community Channel schedule for viewing on your cable TV or watch the class on Bethel Park's YouTube's channel here:

Art for Sale & Craft Shows - Spring 2023

 Upcoming Art & Craft Shows

Artwork & Photography Displayed and Sold

Weekend March 17-19 2023

24th Pittsburgh Arts & Crafts
Spring Fever Festival
https://www.familyfestivals.com/spring-fever-festival

Monroeville Convention Center
209 Mall Blvd.
Monroeville, PA. 15146
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Saturday April 29, 2023
10am - 3pm

Glenshaw Century Club
Spring Craft Fair
http://www.glenshawcenturyclub.bravehost.com/

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
1719 Mount Royal Boulevard
Glenshaw, PA 15116

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Friday & Saturday May 19 & 20

Indiana Garden Club May Mart Expo
https://indianagardenclub.org/may-mart

Friday May 19 9am-7pm
Saturday May 20 9am-4pm

S&T Bank Arena
White Township Recreation Complex
495 East Pike
Indiana, PA 15701

Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Art for Sale

Date Palm

Swamp Milkweed

  Hackberry Tree

Aster

Aloe Vera

Graphite Cactus

Persicari a Longiseta

 Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

 Nature Photography by Jim Ralston

Visit https://jamesralston.smugmug.com/ for more!

Visit jimralstonphoto.photoshelter.com for more!