Art Camps in Poway week of July 9

Just finished the first week of art camps in Poway with an enthusiastic group of artists...somehow they ended up all being girls!  Here they are with their works in progress:

Riley

Ashlyn

Lauren

Molly

Julia

Breanna

Jenna

Sidney and Abby

Brynn

Madison

Annie and Molly

Caitlyn

Naseem

Hannah

Sofia

Jenna and Hannah

Payton

Payton and Ashlyn

Naseem

Abby

Sidney

Julia

Riley

Assistant Sarah teaches a group how to fold origami

Annie

Brynn's totem inspired by Niki De Saint Phalle

Annie and Jenna's totems

Art Camp at All-Star

Today we upcycled old t-shirts I picked up at a thrift store.  The kids we thrilled to get to do tie-dye again this week.  Unfortunately, we ran out of time and didn't finish our beach paintings...will have to start earlier tomorrow!

Kali and her drawing are such a riot of color!

Erica helps Melody weave a beaded lizard.

Connor worked hard to get the perspective right on his drawing of the Titanic.  He did a great job!

Art Camp at All-Star Academy

This week we cast masks on the students' faces.  I was so pleased that the five year olds were excited to do this (sometimes they are too scared)!  We are also painting a beach scene with palette knives and acrylic paint.  Once again the youngest ones amazed me. 

Angela arranges the pens chromatically.  Wonder how long that will last?!

Kali paints in the sand on her beach

Erica paints her sky

Last day of Art Camp

Just finished my first week of Art Camp at the All-Star Academy and what a fun week it was!  Some of the girls got all excited when they saw their tie-dyed shirts and asked if they could dance.  Sure!  I loved their spontaneity.  Amazingly, they calmed right down and got to work in their sketchbooks.  Didn't their shirts turn out great?

Jessie, Angel and Kelly dance it up!

Jessie, Erica and Angela

Britney and Jessie

Karim

Kenna

Angela used up her left-over paint to create a poster for me.  Awesome!

Art Camp at All-Star Academy

I love my job!  This is my first Art Camp at the All-Star Academy.  Several of the students were just 5 years old which I don't have in the camps I teach in Poway.  They were quite capable and brought a level of innocence and enthusiasm to the class that I've missed.  For instance, Kali, shown painting with watercolors below,  exclaimed with a look of amazement on her face, "it's soooo beautiful" as one color would run into another.  

Here are some pics of the students painting and showing off their watercolors and one of Keira applying dye to her tie dyed shirt. 

Erica

Kali

Karim

Keira

Kelly

Britney

Kali

Kenna

Keira dying her tie dye shirt

Art Start Art Camps are coming to All-Star Academy 
in 4S Ranch San Diego!

Clay, Watercolor and More!                       
M-F  June 18 - 22 from 9:30 - 11:30 am for  ages 5- 10                        

• Create a clay project inspired by Mexican suns. 
• Design and paint a large watercolor of butterflies and insects.
• Tie-dye - bring in a white cotton t-shirt. 
• You will be given a sketchbook to load up with incredible drawings. 
• Origami and other crafts will be explored.

Mask Making, Acrylics and More!                       
M-F  June 25 - 29 from 9:30 - 11:30 am for ages 5- 7
or 1:00 - 3 pm  for ages 7+                                   

• Cast a mask of your own face. Paint and decorate it in your own unique manner.
• Paint a beach scene using acrylic paints. 
• Tie-dye - bring in a white cotton t-shirt. 
• You will be given a sketchbook to load up with incredible drawings. 
• Origami and other crafts will be explored.

To sign up contact:

10760 Thornmint Road, 

San Diego, CA 92127

info@All-StarAcademy.com

Tel: 858-356-7751

Group Painting with kids at All-Star Academy

What an awesome day!  The All-Star Academy had an open house/carnival and invited me to lead a kids art activity to help promote my upcoming camps.  

I decided to start a collaborative project in mixed media.  I needed to keep it simple for kids of all ages, as well as their parents, so I chose a circle theme,  inspired by Kandinsky's circle paintings. 

I set up a table and invited everyone as they came in to create mini circle 'paintings' in oil pastels on 5" squares of sheer paper.  I asked them to either make concentric circles or  over lapping circles  and to completely cover the paper in strong color.  These will be layered in rows onto our painting after an underpainting is created.  Mixed media is all about layers...layers peeking through layers!

I wanted to give them an opportunity to experiment with several techniques so I set up stations for a few kids at a time to help start the underpainting.  One table had magazine images which could be collaged onto the gessoed plywood panel we were using.  Another table had several containers of acrylic paints thinned with clear painting medium (to keep them translucent). 
The kids REALLY enjoyed the kinetic experience of sweeping paint across the canvas and watching it drip.  Jacob even grabbed a second brush and painted with two hands!

As a bonus for the littlest kids, I set up a couple of easels for tempera painting since the supplies were already there.  I was reminded of how much I enjoyed painting at arts festivals as a kid!

Check out this short video of the young artists participating: Group Painting Project.

To be continued................

Spring Break Art Camp

We had a few last minute cancellations so Art Camp was super small!  Made for more one-on-one with the kids.  Here are a few photos of the class:

Bella in the park between projects.

AC drawing with glue

Aiden creates a monster

Bella

AC

Kyuho

Kyuho and his Pokemon dragon

The kids rocking their tie dyed shirts