Lobster Prints Mommy and Me Class

Today we sang the "Lion Hunt" song and read a book, "Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: (and Other Things Not to Do)" by Judi Barrett. In the book we learned to not hold hands with lobsters. Great funny book that the little ones will love! After our story we made our lobster prints using watercolors, acrylics, and stamps (our own hands for claws, foam cut out for the body, romaine lettuce end for tail, and tp roll for background underwater flowers for texture). Try it at home and check out our beautiful lobsters!

Tweens and Teens Emotional Self Portrait Class

19 tween and teen campers from Paradise Farms Camp came to do a special class with me - Emotional Self Portraits! We talked about famous artist portraits such as Romare Bearden and Andy Warhol, how emotions look, color choices that evoke certain emotion, how to draw the human head — it's proportions/formulas and finally we went over materials we could use for our own portraits. We used pencils, oil pastel, acrylic paint, watercolor, cut up magazines, yarn, papers and more. Check out how great they did in such a short time of 2 hours. Pretty amazing stuff:)

glitter

using heat gun to dry paint
before adding another layer

mixing paint to get just the right color

Summer Camp July 2012; Printmaking

We spent 2 weeks experimenting with printmaking. We made a book as well as some loose larger pieces. You will see many monoprints, collagraphs, etchings, silk screen, stamping, collages and mixed media. I've shown the boards for each child from the art show and will also post movies of their books as I finish editing them. Enjoy!

Jake's ART!

Frankie ART!

Lola ART!

Lulu ART!

Sofie ART!

Zara ART!

Devin's ART!

Printmaking, Bookmaking & Collage Summer Camp

Etching with monoprint background by Divya

Students learn the art of printmaking techniques such as etching, monoprint, marbleizing paper, stamping, and collograph. They will be using a printing press, hand press, as well as some old-world techniques. Their finished prints will be incorporated into collage and a finished hand-sewn book.

Collographs: Created with materials (yarn, paper, string, etc)
collaged on cardboard, sealed with glue and printed

Etchings on left and etchings with monoprint background to the right

Marbleized paper and incorporated into cover of our sewn books of prints

Monoprints created by painting on plexiglass and run through press

Silkscreens

Stamping with natural materials and stamps the children made

Collaging using extra prints and drawings

Here’s what we did at ART CAMP this week: Hands On ART! and StoryART!

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

Our campers were ages 3-5 years old and had a LOT of FUN!

In Hands On ART! we made a book that was based on our handprint. See some of the cool handprint animals and objects we made below.

In StoryART! we read story books this week and made a craft to go with each.

10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle

Brown Bear by Eric Carle

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by James Dean

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by James Dean

Handprint Crabs

Handprint Dinosaur

Handprint Flower

Handprint Heart

A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

Handprint Catepillar

Handprint Monsters

The Owl Who Became the Moon by Jonathan London

Handprint Peacock

Handprint Sheep

Handprint Ship

Princess Dinosaur by Jill Kastner

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry,
        and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood, Audrey Wood

Handprint Tree

Warhol Handprints

Sunshine! Mommy and Me

Sunshine was the theme today to celebrate the coming summer season. We use watercolors to create a background and then used our gooey paint covered handprint over and over again to make the sunshine.  Our book today was "Beetle Bop" by Denise Fleming.

Reminder: Next week Mommy and Me classes start at 10:30!

Giraffes Can't Dance! Mommy and Me

Today's theme was "Animals!" We sang our standard Lion Hunt song, read "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae and made masks so we could all be dancing giraffes. We used crayon, scissors, glue, yarn, paint and paper.