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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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Drawing from Observation

This week, my home school students drew a still life from observation.  I encouraged them to look for shadows and highlights.

Alana

Thomas and Emily fold tiny paper stars

Novalee

Katherine

Katherine's final project

Drawing forms

Joelle

Ethan

Benjamin

Today my students learned about using shading to create the illusion of form in a drawing.  They were introduced to charcoal and conté crayons.  We set up a still life with a strong side light to help them observe the shadows.... really hard for the younger ones to see!

Continuing the Oaxacan Animal theme...

I carted my Oaxacan carvings into my classes again, hoping it would inspire my students to get really creative.  We used Sculpey clay to create little animals. 

Oaxacan Animals

My collection of Oaxacan animal carvings is a great subject to work from. Students can easily draw their shapes and then get super creative in creating patterns on them!

Novalee

Brie and Novalee

Emily

Alana

Ben

A detail of Madison's supercharged gecko!

Tabitha drew them all!

Helena and Madison

Thomas

Madison, Helena and Emily

Joelle

Benjamin

Finishing up their watercolor paintings

My students painted in their cathedral designs. They learned about color gradations (always something I push!) and mixing. I loved hearing them talk about how fun and relaxing painting is!

James

Micaiah

Travis


Katie

Jonathan

Daniel