Week #3 It's All About Painting- Summer Art Camp by Ms. Michelle

Week #3 July 25th and 26th- It's All About Painting

  Friday we created Koi Fish Ponds inspired by Claude Monet. We started by using Tempera Paint and Pastel to do a wax resist to add lines and color into our ponds. Covering the piece of white paper with different colored paints was a lot of fun in itself! While the paintings dried, we cut out lily pads which were green versions of Pac-Man, and added tissue paper for the lily's.

Before moving onto the fish, we asked Alex about this kind of fish because he happens to have a Koi Fish Pond in his yard. Below is Monet's Water Lily Pond which has a Japanese Bridge in it and koi fish lurking beneath the lily filled water.We pretended to be walking over the bridge ( table ) to see what the fish looked like from above. We decided that you could only see the top of the fish when looking down over the bridge and their round mouth opening up as they reached the top of the water looking for food. 

 

Week #3 All about Painting-Summer Art Camp by Ms. Michelle

Thursday July 25th, Eric Carle Inspired Painting Workshop and Pete the Cat Popping Buttons Painting and Collage

Week #3 All About Painting-Summer Art Camp by Ms. Michelle

Monday and Tuesday July 21st, and 22nd Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons To begin I read the book, Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, and James Dean. We drew our own cat ( Pete's New Friend)or I helped the younger ones and drew it for them. Next, we used a small brush and outlined the cat using any color we wanted!

Next, we used the fat brush to fill line the outlined spaces.

Two Cuties!

Pete's Girlfriend "Izzy"!

Week #4 FINAL WEEK for ART CAMP by Ms. Michelle

  Just as a reminder, next week is the FINAL WEEK and we are making Drawing Journals using some recycled materials, then using the completed Journal to Draw in. What will we be drawing?
WHATEVER your heart desires! Really, I'm open to anything..... We have a small group so far and I'm open to suggestions. The Journals just below were created by my sons with help from me. We were up in New York State where my in laws have a cabin and we drew what interested us at the time. I couldn't help but to add photographs of my inspirations for drawing.
    On the other hand, some kids need direction. I will supply them with drawing assignments such as the ones done in the Journals below..

 For example, on a sunny day we could go for a walk in my back yard and drawing from real life.  Or image if we could have any type of animal as a pet, what would he look like?.

As in the journal below, we can draw stuffed animals or other inanimate objects that can be easily set up and used to draw from.

Week #2 Imaginary Animal Shape Paint Around

After students completed their Georgia O'Keefe Enlarged Flowers they listened to the book, Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt. Next we used construction paper to cut and glue our own down our own animal invention.

    Great Job Girls!!

Week #2 Georgia O'Keeffe Flower Painting and More

Painting Inspiration: Georgia O'Keeffe's Poppy 
   After learning a little about the enlarged paintings Georgia painting, we started our own:

Artist at Work: We began with a shape in the center of the flower,

 then moved to the petals, then the background.

Where are the rest of the flower paintings?? Sorry Busy afternoon.....I missed a lot!   After students completed their Georgia O'Keeffe Enlarged Flowers they listened to the book  Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt. Next, we used construction paper to cut and glue our own animal invention.

Week #2 Summer Art Class by Ms. Michelle

July 16th, The Starry Night Painting and Collage

After viewing Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, we began our own artwork by cutting out stars and the moon and placing them on a black piece of paper.

Next, we used regular tempera and pearlescent tempera paint to paint around each star and the moon. 

Windy lines where added in the center and were painted as well. 

Lastly, the girls cut and glued shapes to form buildings for ther own  quiet village.