for Classes!
Johns Creek, Georgia 30097
Phone 770-623-8448
Fax 770-623-6695
E-mail oceeinfo@bellsouth.net
Sign up for
Summer and Fall classes*!
Summer Schedule
Fall Schedule
*Online registration for
summer and fall classes will be available by May 15.
NEW CLASSES AT OCEE!
YOUTH:
- Engineering for Young Explorers
- Multi-Media for Home-schoolers
ADULT:
- Painting for Absolute, Complete, Total Beginners
- Strategic Painting
CERAMICS STUDIO: OPEN STUDIO SCHEDULE
From 3/17 - May 16
Monday: 9am-7pm wheel,
9am-12pm hand-builders
Tuesday: 9am - 9pm wheel,
9am-12pm hand-builders
Wednesday: 9am-5pm wheel,
9am-9pm
hand-builders
Thursday: 1pm-9pm wheel,
9am-3pm / 5pm-9pm hand-builders
Friday: 9am-5pm wheel,
9am-5pm hand-builders
Saturday: 10am-2pm wheel,
10am-2pm hand-builders
We are now offering Early Release Art Parties! Join us for an exciting afternoon in our new mixed media, early release art parties! Come get your hands dirty while experimenting with different media and techniques to create one of a kind work of art! Art Parties will be held on Fulton and Forsyth County Early Release School Days. Grades k-5. Click here for more details and registration.
Help out the Earth and Ocee Arts Center by recycling certain materials! Bring in your used ink cartridges, clean yogurt cups and plastic containers, baby food jars, cigar boxes, condensed soup cans, and dry cleaning plastic. Your contributions will help us raise funds for the arts center, as well as supply our classrooms with extra containers for art supplies. Ocee Arts Center and Mother Earth will thank you!
Ocee Arts Center is also available for:
- Homeschool Classes
- Teacher Recertification Classes
- Special Needs Classes (Youth and Adult)
Spring Session Dates:
March 10 - May 9,
2008
Summer Session Dates:
May 27-August 28 (for specific class dates and times, check the class details pages.)
Fall Session Dates:
September 8 - October 31
Upcoming Shows:
PORCELAIN AND TULIPS:
An exhibition of fine ceramic art by Marissa Hudson and Tyler Francisco.
MARCH 28 - MAY 2
Opening Reception: March 29, 6:00-9:00pm
Spring 2008 Student Show
Come check out what Ocee art students have been up to! Works from youths an adults from drawing and painting to clay and photography will all be displayed on Saturday, May 10 from 6-8pm.
Art Tips
from the New Creative Artist by
Nita Leland
Design Strategies:
1. Explore the design in your sketchbook. Does it need a delicate touch or an explosion? Look for a subject's gestures, the descriptive contours. Note important details.
2. Identify your concept, theme or idea. Every composition should have a strong design emphasis based on this. The decisions you make from here on out will depend on it.
3. Determine design dominance to reinforce your concept. Do you want: cool colors, restful horizontals? Curving lines, hot colors? Dynamic angles and oblique lines? Large shapes or intricate patterns? Sensitive colors or strong values?
4. Choose a format that enhances your expressive idea. Use creative variations of design formats. Make distinctive choices in your layout. Have your design interact with the edges, forming interesting negative areas.
5. Develop a design plan. Make big shapes by combining several small shapes. Arrange lights and darks in an effective value pattern. Use your sketchbook to try different plans.
6. Determine the focal point. Place it a different distance from each edge. Plan rhythm, repetition, color and pattern to direct the eye to your focal point. Arrange your greatest contrasts of color and value here.
7. Plan a distinctive color scheme. Use the expressive quality of color and count on dominance to support your concept.
8. Decide on the medium and technique that will pull everything together.
