Art Camp - WK 1 - afternoon class's last day

The afternoon class grouted their mosaics. What do you do when you have a bucket full of leftover grout? This is where imaginations and creativity took over. These girls made fairy homes and hid them about the park. The trees provided many great spaces for this! I can't wait to see if any are still there next week.

Francesca's mosaic frame

(L-R) Claire, Emily and Sarah with Francesca on fence behind.

(L-R) Emily, Sarah, Emmy and Lily

I think Lily made this for fairy campfires.

Katie's fairy house with yard.

Francesca's royal fairy homes.

(L-R in back) Emmy, Emily,Sarah, Caroline (L-R in front) Francesca, Katie, Lily and Claire

Art Camp -WK 1 - Last Day

Caprice, Hannah, 'Kenzie' and Brooke - friends made in art camp!

Snack time. The teenaged boy is Nathan, my assistant. He was a student several years ago.

Francesca paints her clay sun

'Kenzie' and Hannah. Kenzie came all the way from Florida to art camp!

Pascal working on his mask

Art Camp -WK 1 - Tie Dye

Amazingly, kids still like tie-dying so we do this in every art camp.

Keely, Nicole and Aiden (with the snake he beaded)

Katie -some how she got this to match her hair!

Delaney

Art Camp -WK 1 - Silk Painting

Here are some of the finished silk paintings. Don't these kids look really proud of their creations?

Mackenzie

Delaney

Hannah and Brooke

Pascal

Caprice

Art Camp -WK 1 - Silk Painting

Here the students are tracing their designs onto silk using a resist:

(L-R) Caroline, Sarah, Claire, Lily, Emily and Emmy

(L-R) Delaney, Francesca, and Maddie

Pascal

Art Camps - Week 1

First week of art camp! We started off with clay and drawing in sketchbooks.

Claire

Caroline, Sarah, Francesca and Lily experiment with clay

Summer Art Camps 2009!

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The City of Poway has started registration for the Art Start Art Camps! You can register online here. If you have a creative child in the north San Diego area, check this out! Here's a link to photos from a past art camp.

Spring Break Art Camp - last day

Today the students finished their masks and painted their ceramics. Brooke and Daniela are trimming the edges of their masks:


Summer painting her mask:

Brooke painting hers:

And Austin with his:
Daniela and her Dad showing off the shirts she tie-dyed.

The kids were all such eager and capable artists. It was a wonderful week!

Spring Break Art Camp

It's been a while since I offered an art camp during Spring Break. Now I remember why.... LOW enrollment! This week I taught an exceptionally small group esp. since one of the kids ended up sick and had to drop out. The kids were genuinely glad to be there and thanked me all day long for every little thing I showed them, so it was a great week for me!

Here Austin and Daniela are casting Summer's face:
We also drew camels, inspired by some embroidered ones from India. The focus was on pattern which the kids created using changeable markers:

Last class at Old Poway Park

This week, the Poway class finished up their Pop art paintings using oil sticks.

Their suns were fired and ready to be taken home:

The class then worked from photo references. Their challenge was to combine 2-3 references into one drawing. They all did great with this! Some ended up on the floor:

above: Bria, Rachel, Saisha, Brandon and Ginjireh

Clay Classes

Lauren, Joseph and Hannah work on clay suns

"Yay! Clay!" That's what the kids say when they hear we are going to do a clay project. Here they are makings suns from slabs that they've rolled. An important technique they learn in this lesson is how to attach additions to a piece and secure it so it doesn't fall off. After a bisque firing, the suns are painted with glazes and then fired again.

Art Start "It's All About Color" class in Poway

Ginjireh and Eden make creatures

I had designed this lesson with this color class in mind....the students created color splotches using just the 3 primary colors. It's definitely a "process" oriented experience. The kids have so much fun squishing the paint together and discovering what new colors they come up with. Here you see them crafting aliens and creatures with their splotches.

Watercolor Churches

above: Abigail, Theo, Daniel, Kelton, Canyon, Sarah and Alicia. Paintings by Sarah Wester and Daniel Pierce.

This week, the CFS classes finished watercoloring the churches they designed in the previous weeks. They learned how to use a wet-in-wet watercolor technique as well as how to apply a graded wash.