DANVILLE — It helps to have a big imagination as a child in an art class.
“Art is a wide open field — as far as your imagination,” said art teacher Eileen Dunavan.
Saturday morning’s art class for children ages 6 to 14 at the Danville Art League studio, 502 Sherman St., focused on abstract art and lots of geometric shapes.
Eight-year-old Wynter Haas of Danville had about the biggest imagination.
Her painting focused on doubles — two suns, two clouds, a two-headed person with four legs, a tree and a treasure chest.
“(The person) is always getting twisted up to get to the treasure chest,” she said.
Other paintings also used lots of circles, squares and triangles.
Herrick Anderson, 10, of Oakwood, used black paint to color in a cat and red paint to color in a man. He also drew cat food in a bowl and a car using all geometric shapes.
Sherene Hall, 14, of Danville, drew numerous overlapping rectangles, squares and diamonds. She colored them in using different shades of blue, but also was to use a little red to have “a random little thing.”
“I really like art,” the North Ridge Middle School student said.
Elsewhere around the tables, Samantha Christison, 8, drew lots of stars.
Her painting wasn’t the only colorful thing about her. Her fingernails also were painted pink and green.
Dunavan, who also is the art teacher at Holy Family Grade School, showed the six youths how to make colors lighter with white paint and make straight lines with the paint brush and asked them to name the primary and secondary colors.
Last week the youths drew faces, another project this month will be stretching colored wire to make their family.
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