• 2024 Kids Summer Art Camps

    I’m looking forward to moving forward with a beautiful summer and know that your children will love this opportunity to create and find confidence in their artistic ability. I have wonderful lessons ready and hope your children can join us this summer! When and Where? 6 – 8 Year Old Art Summer Camp Welcome to…


  • New website and domain

    We’re excited to present the newly redesigned website and new website address. The new website is designed to load faster and be easier to navigate. In addition, instead of the website address being KindredArtStudio.com, it is now KindredArt.com which is shorter and easier to remember. If you aren’t already signed up for our newsletter, you…


  • Free Creative Workshops 2021

    I am teaching again at the Bozeman Public Library. Sign up below to get a spot or to find your child another class. I will be teaching a class for children 6-8 years old and a class for children 9-12 years old. The workshops are in August 2021.


  • Facebook Live Tree Kangaroos Art Lesson for All Ages

    Join the art lesson for all ages on Wednesday April 8th, 2020 at 11:30 am Mountain time on Facebook Live!


  • 2017 Kids Summer Art Camps

    I’m looking forward to moving forward with a beautiful summer and know that your children will love this opportunity to create and find confidence in their artistic ability. I have wonderful lessons ready and  hope your children can join us this summer! I have found a beautiful place to host art camps. The historic school…


  • Q is for Queen (4-5 and 6-8 year old class)

    Q is for Queen, I had a great time with this lesson. The kids came into the classroom ready to learn about Queen’s! I cant help looking at these drawings and smile… First we worked on our handwriting….lower case q’s. Wearing our Tiara’s of course! Once the face was drawn in children decided on the…


  • Drawing lesson- Unicorn

    U is for Unicorn This was another Magical lesson. The we read the book Claire and the Unicorn  Then all the kids passed the Unicorn around and looked at it. We observed that a unicorn mane can be any color, pink purple, green really whatever they come up with. This is a great way to encourage…


  • Painting Lesson-Panda

    Pandas! Giant pandas are on the brink of extinction, with just over 1,000 pandas left in the world. Scientists are hoping to increase the wild panda population to 5,000 by 2025. Bamboo is the most important plant in a giant panda’s life. They spend at least 12 hours each day eating bamboo. Pandas grasp bamboo…


  • Drawing Lesson- Banyan Tree

    So I wanted to do a fun lesson with Oil Pastels. They can render very rich deep colors and I am always fascinated at the results. Banyan tree is a huge tree with very extensive branches. It is said that at one time more than 10, 000 people can sit under its shade at one…


  • Dinosaur-Drawing Lesson

    This was a pretty cool lesson. Dinosaurs. A fun part about drawing the Dinosaur is the opportunity to draw angle lines. The spikes on the back, the teeth, claws, tail spikes. It all makes it interesting, and I have to admit the process of drawing a pattern or angles such as spikes is just plain…