workshop

Lil' Elves Gift-making Workshop

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Monday, December 19Lil Elves Gift-Making Workshop

3 to 8:30 PM 

Drop Off & Dine available from 5:30 to 8:30

Enjoy a nice dinner out in SoCo while we keep your lil' Elves busy and creative making one-of-a-kind gifts.

Paint a mini-canvas

Create a keepsake by bending paper

Mold an ornament from clay

$10 per person per hour. For each additional sibling add $3 per hour. Grilled cheese kids meal from Iron Press can be purchased. Children must be 4+ years old. Two hour minimum. Parents agree to stay within SoCo or the OC Mix.

Each of the following restaurants at South Coast Collection are offering discounts or other specials for this Drop Off and Dine program. Coupons available when you check-in with your child. Shuck Oyster Bar, Pueblo, The Cheese Shop, Iron Press, Timakira, We Olive. (Special discounts good only night of 12/19/16.)

Author & Illustrator, Kelly Light, to Lead Workshop at the Center!

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Kelly Light is the author and illustrator of the picture book Louise Loves Art.  It is a story about the importance of creativity in all its forms. Louise loves art more than anything; it's her imagination on the outside. She is determined to create a masterpiece—her pièce de résistance! Create your own pièce de résistance on Sunday, March 8 from 3 to 5 PM as author and illustrator Kelly Light leads a one-day only workshop at the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, 3321 Hyland Ave., Suite A, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Admission is free and open to the public, but reservations are a must. Call 949-669-7793 x 20107 or email Sasha@ChuckJonesCenter.org for more information and to RSVP. This program is appropriate for ages 7 to 12. 

Kelly will talk about the connections between cartoons and children’s books. How she used what she learned in animation to write and create characters that may be still on the page, but alive to the reader.  How acting with your pencil can put personality into your drawings.  

Together, doing drawing exercises with character prompts, the children can create a character of their own and a short story board to start them on their own creative journey. 

Kelly Light also loves art, especially cartoons. Growing up she loved watching cartoons and drawing cartoon characters. She went off to art school determined to start a career in animation which lead to working as a character artist for cartoon licensing. She spent a very long time drawing some of the most beloved cartoon characters, including the characters created by her favorite artist of all time, Chuck Jones.  

It was a chance meeting with Mr. Jones that sparked the desire to create her characters. Years later, Louise was created and published and is now a seven book series that hopes to inspire kids to be creative and pick up their own pencils and draw out their imaginations. 

Louise Loves Art will be available for sale that day and Ms. Light has agreed to sign copies purchased at the Center.

The 12 Principles of Animation Workshop #3 - Staging 7/20/13

The 12 Principles of Animation workshop series is a 12 part program designed to instill artists of all skill levels with the fundamentals of animation. Workshops take place once a month, and our next workshop is right around the corner! On July 20th, 2013, our 3rd workshop will take place at the Center, focusing on the effective understanding and use of staging within the realm of animation. It will be a great opportunity for artists of all backgrounds and skill levels to develop a stronger grasp of the field of animation, while having fun at the same time!

Please contact Sasha Advani for more information, or if you wish to sign up!

12 Principles of Animation: 1 - Squash and Stretch

Our brand new Animation workshop will feature 12 monthly classes featuring instruction on animation techniques. Animation Professional John Ramirez will lead a workshop discussing one of the most important principles in animation, the "Squash and Stretch". It gives a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects and it can be applied to simple objects like a bouncing ball, or more complex constructions like a character. A figure stretched or squashed to an exaggerated degree can have a comical effect. Many organic objects in animation have a degree of squash and stretch.Join us every 3rd Saturday of every month for a new principle! Cost: $57 per workshop, includes materials.

To register for this class, contact Sasha Advani (949) 660-7793 x107 or Sasha@ChuckJonesCenter.org

Join us for Drop In and Draw this Saturday, February 9!

Stop by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity this Saturday, February 9 for Drop In and Draw! You can grab a pencil and sketch a loveable Chuck Jones character, like Wile E. Coyote or Pepe Le Pew. Not comfortable sketching your own Chuck Jones character? Then grab a "Color Me Creative, Volume 1" coloring book, created by our own Linda Jones, the daughter of Chuck. We've compiled some of Chuck's original sketchings all in one book! Not hot on drawing or coloring? How about crafting a Valentine's Day card? We'll provide some V-Day materials so you can create a card for your Valentine.Anh Tran, one our creative and artistic volunteers, will help guide you in finding your creativity! She's a graduate from Cal State Long Beach and has fieldwork experience in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Recycled Art. Her professional experience includes Pottery Instruction, Graphic Design, participation in a Mural Project in Stanton, CA and an illustration collaboration with musician Sean Nemey.

Drop In and Draw, Saturday, February 9 from 9:30a-12:30p

Chuck Jones Center for Creativity @ 3321 Hyland, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Questions? Contact Sasha Advani at Sasha@ChuckJonesCenter.org or (949) 660-7793 x107