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Kid's Art Camp Summer 2010

Call 508-627-4881 to register in advance

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June 28 – July 2

MondayStill Life Drawing - Contour with markers and crayons

TuesdayPick a partner and do portraits of each other, using pencils, crayons, paint

Wednesday – Self Portraits using pencils and crayons, as well as (if desired) collaged pieces and/or a symbolic element for likes and interests - i.e. spaguetti for hair etc

Thursday – Landscapes (at wharf, watercolor, weather permitting)

Friday – Landscapes using collaged color paper

  

July 5 – July 9

Monday – Figure /Ground - Sketch to paint!

Tuesday – Self Portraits - Drawn and painted.

Wednesday – Watercolors! Plein air @ Memorial Wharf  (weather permitting)

Thursday – Animals! - Land, Air, and Sea - Inspiration from Audubon, local artist Andrew Moore, Old Masters.

Friday – Landscape Silhouettes!

 

July 12 – July 16

Monday – Monoprinting! Landscapes, Seascapes. Looking at Edward Hopper, and MVAA artist Sheila Fane.

Tuesday – Watercolors! Plein air @ Memorial Wharf  (weather permitting)

Wednesday –Mapping! Map the Island and your home.

Thursday – Abstraction - Painting and drawing to music. Looking at the works of  Kandinsky, Klee, Miro and Mondrian.

Friday – Flowers and Bugs! Pastels with charcoal wet and dry.

 

July 19 – July 23

Theme: Art from Around the World

Monday – Mexican maracas made of paper plates, dried beans or popcorn. Will need paint, crayons etc, stapler, streames optionalComposition and Figures in Space - Mary Cassat, Edgar Degas inspire with pastels.

Japanese Gyataku or fish printing (bring white tee shirt)

Wednesday – African inspired masks using cut milk bottles, paint, streamers, atc

Thursday –Greacian pottery design pieces

Friday – Chinese landscape paintings (examples shown)

 

July 26 – July 30

Theme: Art inspired by Martha's Vineyard

Monday – Outdoor watercolor projects at the wharf (weather permitting)

Tuesday – Make your own MV post card or trasure map

Wednesday – Create your own map of Martha's Vineyard. The Kids will be shown an actual map and will be free to elaborate from there

Thursday – Painting rocks to make creative paperweights from Martha's Vineyard beaches. Turning a plane rock into a sea creature, or anything the kids find inspirational

Friday – Create your own Martha's Vineyard flag! Using paint, collage techniques etc.

 

 

August 2 – August 6

Art with paper

Monday – Marbleized paper using a few rectangular bins of water, colored chalk

Tuesday – Folding accordion books (children may use the paper they made the previous day if desired)

Wednesday – Patchwork quilts. Examples of traditional American quilts shown to inspire the construction of the kids' own versions of paper --learning about geometric patterns

Thursday – Paper mosaic project. Using construction paper, any of the marbleized paper that is left from Monday, magazines, newspaper etc

Friday – Art with tissue paper in the style of children's book illustrator Eric Carle (examples of his work shown)

 

August 9 – August 13

Monday – Scrimshaw (traditional Vineyard carving in plaster)

Tuesday – Styrofoam printmaking

Wednesday – Paul Klee "scratch art"

Thursday – Batik -- wax painting and dyeing on paper

Friday – Lantern for illuminatipn Night (may need to move depending on date)

 

Saturday - August 14 – Children's Art Workshop Summer Show at the Gallery!

 

August 16 – 20

Monday – Looking at Monets's "Lilly Pond" and useing it as an inpiration point to create watercolor pieces

Tuesday – Hokusai's "lillie pond"

Wednesday – Matisse

Thursday – Van Gogh

Friday – Klimt

 

August 23 – 27

Monday – Setting the Stage - Design and build a small stage after looking at theater and opera sets.

Tuesday – Watercolors with Wax Resist.

Wednesday – Alternative Techniques! - Painting, printing  and collages.

Thursday – Puppets! Strings attached - animal and people puppets.

Friday – Paperweight Rock Painting!


Call 508-627-4881 for more information or to register in advance

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