2nd week at Art Start Art Camp

Julia and Isabella collaged their sketchbooks

Bailey, Isabella and Julia wishing Emily a happy birthday!

Impromptu birthday balloons

Ashley

Joshua

Art Start assistant Sarah supervising snack time with Isabella

Lucy, Ashley and Maya

Antam

Lauren and Lucy weaving beads

Annika

Sarah helping Sarah with origami

Maya

Maya

Lauren

Kaila

Friends Jason, Samuel and Brandon

Sarah grouting her mosaic

First week of Art Start Art Camp in Poway

Keely and her creations

Gabby making a wallet

Louie's Wallet

Ava and her birds

Keely and Daniella chilling in the big trees

Christina's pastel drawing

Finishing off the day making beaded animals

So sad.... these tree limbs are scheduled to be cut down by tomorrow!

Caroline's mosaic

Keely and Daniella

Camila

Pastel art airing out after being sprayed with fixative

Daniella and Camila tie-dying

Ava, Rachel and Daniel

Quinn

Cade, Jacob, Collin and Matthew

Finding a corner for origami

Project planning

It is so much fun creating samples of projects for art camp such as this mosaic frame which the full day campers will be making!

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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

Clay Class

My group of Christian homeschoolers made clay crosses since Easter is coming up.  I'll show their finished projects in a couple of weeks after they've been painted and fired.  Here is what they did with their leftover pieces:

Thomas made an owl from his scraps

Thomas's owl

Madison and Tabitha playing around with their leftover clay

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