Summer Art Day Camp Programs
ANIMAL DRAWING: Campers will learn to draw and paint their favorite animals from dogs and cats to icky toads and snakes through the use of color, shading, composition, and perspective. We will use Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo and many more as our inspiration. In this workshop campers will utilize Pencils, watercolor pencils, markers, and pastels .....sponging, spattering, and soft wash techniques to produce a series of masterpieces as they create animals in a whole new light. Part of this camp will be outdoors for drawing animals in their enviroment.
Instructor; Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $0
NATURE ART JOURNALING: Nature is a open canvas as we walk outside to find our subject. We will draw plants, animals and bugs that we see along the beautiful Rum River. Observational drawing is a tool that encourage looking closely and recording what you experience. The campers will create a nature journal of their very own and head outside to draw about what they see, hear, smell and wonder. Students will have chance to use different mediums to create their vision. This camp will be outdoors for entire camp rain or shine.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Material Fee; $10
HAND-BUILT POTTERY/SCULPTURE: The hand-built pottery/clay sculpture classes will take students through process of working with clay, using under glazes and glaze. Different glazes and techniques will be incorporated into this workshop. Clay is an exciting and magical material. In clay sculpture class children will learn the art and craft of clay while having fun and exploring their creativity. Hand-built pottery is a unique program offering a total hands-on experience while learning the techniques of shaping clay into Pinch Pots, designing and constructing Slab Projects, building unique Coil Vessels, Clay Decoration, and Glazing. Come learn the art and craft of clay.
Instructor; Franny Hyde
Materials Fee $25
WATERCOLOR Watercolor is delightful, fresh, exciting, messy, delicate and tender, all at the same time. It is an enormously popular painting medium and has been since the nineteenth century. The most brilliant quality of watercolors is transparency and in this workshop students will learn how to use it in their watercolor paintings. We will learn how to use the palette, how to mix color in order to have the right shade, and a lot about brushes and brushstrokes. We will also take our watercolor outdoors for a nature painting. In this camp we will learn a lot about composition, light and form, tonal painting, and negative space.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $10
ACRYLIC PAINTING: Acrylic paint is a very versatile medium. It can be used in thin washes like watercolors or in thicker strokes similar to oils but with a quicker drying time. Acrylic painting introduces the beginning art student to the basics from how to handle the paint and its tools to introducing techniques used by professional artists to produce beautiful paintings. We use masters like Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso and many others as inspiration for our work. Each student will complete two to Three paintings during the week.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $25
MYTHICAL BEASTS: In this workshop campers will be able to create dragons to Unicorns and more. We will explore the fantasy of Mythical beasts. Campers will be able to create their own mythical beast or mix a real animal and mythical beast together. We will use pencil, paint, pastels and more to create our mythical beast.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $0
FINE ART MIXED MASTERS: Mixed Masters camp uses Rembrandt to Picasso as our inspiration. Each day we will use different materials and techniques to create artistic projects that stimulate the imagination. Students will experience drawing, watercolor and acrylic painting along with art outdoors along the river.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $20
BIRDS AND BUGS: Campers will learning and creating art using birds and bugs. We will use birds and bugs we see outside to the ones that can only be found in the rain forest. This camp will use some observational drawing to encourage looking closely and recording what you experience. Campers will use drawing and watercolor to create their work.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Material Fee: $0
Paper Mache (8/6 to 8/10)
The Paper Mache class gives the students the opportunity work with paper mache medium to create several projects. Artists like Picasso, Miro and Warhol are used to inspire the students projects.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials: $20
MIXED MEDIA FINE ARTS: Campers will learn how to use different mediums together to create their work. Each day we will use different materials and techniques to create artistic projects that stimulate the imagination. Students will experience drawing, watercolor and acrylic painting along with art outdoors along the river.
Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials Fee: $20
Single Day Workshop - July 2, 3,5, and 6
With the fouth of July falling in the middle of the week, we will offer single day workshops the week of July 2nd. The workshops will include Acrylic painting, Mixed media, Watercolor painting, and bugs and birds. The single day workshops have a morning and afternoon session. The cost is $20 per session. Instructor: Larry Weinberg
Materials: Acrylic painting has a $5 material fee.
