The studio was founded by, Nalyne Lunati, a life long artist with a M.F.A. in painting, who is passionate about what she does. She enjoys passing the torch on to the next generation of artists, art historians, and art connoisseurs through her innovative teaching strategies that incorporate learning skills.
The studio art approach is very hands on as well as educational. Art projects and exercises if taught properly cultivate fine motor skills, visual thinking, creativity, patience, and logical reasoning skills. Once the foundations are covered, the fun really begins as the students have the skill set to be more experimental. Mrs. Lunati's approach fosters creativity by presenting a variety of solutions to a given project.
The instructor is there to share knowledge of technical and conceptual aspects of visual arts. The pillars of visual arts like formalism, color theory, value scale, shading, sketching, contour lines, various painterly techniques, and art history are some of the subject covered in each semester. The focus can change from each semester. A wide variety of media such as acrylic paint, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, pen and ink, ceramics, paper cut outs, and printmaking to create artwork.
Our approach to teaching art is never a "canned" one. Kids Love Art do not use templates that guarantee a predicted result regardless of whether the students puts in an effort or not. Exploration and discovery on the part of the student is more likely to yield a truly beautiful and interesting result than a "canned" project. The class is process oriented where the final product is primarily to document the students' creative process.
A true artist is as a creative person who can make art with any material. Please do not be fixated with just "drawing." Come to the studio with an open mind to be academically train in fine arts. This involves a comprehensive art education which exposes the students to a wide variety of media, a similar approach to a first/second year college art curriculum.
Please read our related pages about Demystifying Art or the Benefits of Art Education.