Art Camp Activity!

Lupe's Sunset

These past two months have flown by like a flock of hungry seagulls! Since school let out for the summer, I have been offering Art Camp via ZOOM to continue the fun. Some of the really engaging art projects we worked on this summer included: designing and building structures from recyclables, and drawing self-portraits of ourselves wearing safety masks. Two weeks ago we painted sunset cactus silhouettes.

Genesis' Sunset

Yeckson's Sunset
 

Last week we had six students show up to art camp- a record! Our lesson was taken directly from the free family art lessons the wonderful Richmond Art Center has been offering on Thursdays. I believe they will be offering one more lesson: https://richmondartcenter.org/event/family-make-10/, next Thursday, July 30, 4-5 pm.

Adrian's Sunset

Here is the lesson:

Take a piece of printer paper and fold it in half. Open it up, and for two minutes, draw 4 separate doodles on each panel of the paper. Don't try to draw anything specific. If you want to, you can close your doodles by connecting the first line with the last line.

 Next, choose one of your scribble drawings to expand/add details to/ turn into a character. Then give it a name. As you can see, I chose my scribble on the right, since it looked like a parrotlet. So I added a few (not too many!) details.

Finally, on a new piece of paper draw your character within the context of a setting that you'd like her/him to be in. Add a story if you'd like. As I was drawing my brick wall, I thought it would be fun to add a little texture to the bricks. I found an incense package that had a cool ridge pattern on the cardboard sleeve that contained it. I used this to create my texture for the bricks. (I got carried away, and added the same texture to the tree trunk and the crows!)

Sophia H's doodle guy Rosie

Adrian's doodle guy Dinner Bones