Last day of Art Camp

Today all the campers painted their clay projects and masks.  It was such a busy time that I wasn't able to get photos!  The ones that stayed for the afternoon printed their tie dyed shirts with the designs they created earlier in the week and chilled making shrink art.

Jean and Ellie's shirts

McKenzie making shrink art

McKenzie's shirt

Brooke and Jasmine attach jump rings to their shrink art while Elie looks on.

Watercolor and more!

In today's class the kids watercolored their parakeets, inspired by a painting by Kaylor Nuth.  They seemed to find the process relaxing and enjoyed letting the water disperse and mix their colors!

Keira creates color blends

Sophia and her painting 

Cousins Caitlin and Hannah

Later the full day campers made duct tape wallets:

Ian

Brooke and her wallet

Caitlin, Hannah, Maddy and McKenzie look at their photos on this blog.

Printmaking at Art Camp

This week I introduced my afternoon class to an easy method of creating "plates" for printmaking, using tagboard.  In the past, I've had kids use lino-cutters on rubber blocks....much more professional, but no matter how much you stress safety techniques, someone always gets hurt.  Today, they pulled their prints. They really enjoyed the printing process and were thrilled to see the results of their efforts.

Maddy, Caitlin and Ellie ink their 'plates"

Maddy and Caitlin

Jean's "Nerd Love"

Spring Break Art Camp

First day of camp. What an awesome group of kids!   To get them comfortable drawing in their new sketchbooks, we started off with a directed lesson on fish, using molas for inspiration.  They also made clay tiles and sculptures.  Look at them concentrating!

Brynlee

Lexi

Hannah