Getting Silly With Surrealism

Discover surrealism and try your hand a creating your own surrealist art!

Have fun exploring Surrealism through playing games and making art. You might even discover something about your dreams or subconscious thoughts along the way! Artists will learn about art techniques such as automatic drawing, exquisite corpse, and frottage.

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Getting Silly With Surrealism
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1 Your Guide

Amber Santos Learn more about me

Amber Santos is an art educator and artist with over 25 years of experience, including 15 years in online education and creating 65+ activities for the HomeLearners Network. Her multidisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in her German heritage and reclaimed Métis and Anishinaabe culture, blending paper craft, beading, textiles, and eco-conscious gardening. Amber’s curriculum combines technical fundamentals like colour theory and with somatic, wellness-centered art practices. A painter and muralist with an on-going studio practice, she also spent seven years curating the Nelson International Mural Festival of which she is a co-founder.

When I'm not making art, find me listening to music on full blast in the kitchen, dancing and making food for my family:)

2 Materials Needed

Basic drawing supplies (including pencil crayons or crayons) and paper, scissors and glue, magazines or newspapers that can be cut out of.

3 Learning Focus

  • Communicating
  • Collaborating
  • Creative thinking

4 Registration

You’re selecting a Realtime Single A one-time Livestreamed Activity led by a qualified Guide.

5 Best Suited For:

Stick figures of varying sizes waving

My age is between 9 - 12

Yellow and blue gear

All experience levels are welcome.

Child and mother stick figure standing

I can do this independently.

An open book

All reading levels are welcome.