Sunday, July 10, 2011

Summer Art Camp...

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This past week I taught art camp with my 3rd - 5th grade students.  The morning session was Painting and Printmaking and the afternoon session was 3-D Art.  I used a lot of ideas from my fellow bloggers.  A big thanks to http://plbrown.blogspot.com/http://barbarasthoughtoftheday.blogspot.com/http://elementaryartroom.blogspot.com/http://sleepyheaddesignsstudio.blogspot.com/, and http://mrsmanzellastudentartgallery.blogspot.com/ for ideas and inspiration!!!

Here are a couple of pieces completed during camp.  Check out my school blog for more pictures....  http://dundeeart.blogspot.com/

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Landscape of the courtyard at the high school.  Water-soluble oil pastels, watercolors and gouache. 
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Folk art painting inspired by artist Karla Gerard.  Thanks Sleepyhead Design Studio. Students painted with tempera and acrylic.
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Paintings inspired by Wayne Thiebaud.  We used acrylic and modeling paste. 
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Group Mural inspired by circle painting.


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Crayola air dray clay.  Unfortunatly a lot of the sculptures broke.  Has anyone else ever had trouble with this kid of clay? 
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Wacky sculptures with model magic and wire (a Dick Blick lesson).  I never realized how well the primary colored model magic mixes.  I wish it wasn't so expensive. 

This coming week I will be doing the same classes but with 6th-8th grade.  I hope to share their projects soon.

5 comments:

  1. Wonderful collection of art work. I love the group mural. One of my camps made big mouth fish with air dry clay. We had problems with pieces breaking off too. I will definitely make adjustments when using the clay next time.

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  2. This is so great! I love the Karla Gerard-inspired painting. I've had problems with that kind of air dry clay breaking at the joints where two pieces were put together .. :(

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  3. Cool projects! fun fun. I had a terrible time with Crayola air dry clay as well. I had purchased about $100 worth of it. I called them and they sent me $100 worth of gift certificates for Crayola projects. I would call and complain. If enough people do, maybe they will reformulate. I'm done with air dry clay though, I have not found one that is strong and doesn't break.

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  4. Some fantastic work here - I really love the Group Mural - it is so bright and happy and just 'sings'. The folk art inspired by Karla Gerard is great - I will have to look her up. Thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas.

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