Saturday, August 11, 2012

Scenes from Art Start Art Camp - Aug. 6-10

I have the best assistants!  Sydney is a former student.  Here she's helping the kids fold their shirts for tie-dye:



Jake came up with his own scheme to fold his shirt.  I had to push him when applying the dye to get it deep into all those folds but it actually turned out great!


The class all created watercolor paintings of butterflies:
Bryce
Jackson
Sara
Kate
Sara
Jane
Cami
Kate
Claire
Emmy and her finished watercolor
Kate, Nathan and Ian's paintings....gorgeous!
Nathan made the coolest fighter jet.
Best friends Jane and Jackson rocking their new tie-dyed shirts!
Emmy enthralled a group while she showed Sam how to draw Voldemort!
Ian got super creative thinking up cartoon expressions!
Jacob and his Galacta Knight drawing. 
Didn't their masks turn out great?
Jake and his camo mask
The full day campers focused on jewelry making and t-shirt upcycling as well as painting a beach scene with acrylics:
Erin and Emmy working on bracelets.  Emmy went on to made earrings for all the class!
Sophie and her scrabble tile necklaces




Friday, August 10, 2012

Upcycling t-shirts

This week's full day campers had so much fun with bags of t-shirts I've collected from thrift stores. 

First, they made infinity scarves using the bottoms of t-shirts as shown in this super easy tutorial. They tie dyed them and wore them in spite of the extreme heat we've been having.
Caroline
Cami
Sophie also resurrected one of the shirts and gave it new life with some dye:

Caroline and Sophie were also game to try weaving a rug using a hula hoop for a loom like this one in this tutorial which makes it look waaay too easy.  They ripped up strips to make loops to weave.


They almost finished before time to go home!


Emmy used some of the scraps to make ninja masks for the Nathan and Bryce who had learned to make ninja stars.   Bryce said he felt like a real ninja!


 Sophie even made an outfit for her friend Julia from the remnants left from her weaving!