In The Paint

This week my group of 8 to 10 year olds focussed on sculpture. We used paper clay, papiér maché, and plasticene for various projects. However, my favourite project was making monsters out of air dry clay. The monsters turned out great! Here are some monsters before and after they were painted with acrylic paint:

We continued the Time Machine course through week 5 of camp. I had a great group of kids these last two weeks and they created some wonderful pieces.

On the Time Machine theme, we visited different time periods through the magic of PowerPoint. To travel through time we would use a different Time Machine each time. I started the PowerPoint with an image and the kids had to guess either the name of the time machine or the book/tv show/movie that it is from. For example, the “time turner” from Harry Potter, or the “Delorian” from Back To The Future. If a camper got it right, they would receive a prize at the end of the week.

We traveled to the Northern Renaissance and visited Albrecht Dürer; to the 19th century and looked at Cezanne’s work; to the Ancient Greece theatre and were inspired by their theatre masks; and to the 20th century to see Modigliani’s portraits.  Here are some of the results:

Softolium Prints inspired by Dürer's woodcuts.

Cezanne Still Life

Cezanne Landscapes

Modigliani Self Portraits

Masks

I was sick for most of week 3 so I’m skipping to week 4.
This past week and this week we have been travelling through time visiting different art periods. The first stop on our trip was the 1940s Quebec. We looked at the group of artist known as Les Automatistes led by Paul-Emile Borduas and then created our own automatic paintings. The first group of paintings were created with solucryl. The campers started with sponging the paint on. Then they used palette knives. The next steps were using straws to blow the paint around, schpritz bottles to spray the paint on, and finally dripping the paint on from paint brushes.
The second group of paintings are very small acrylics on scraps of canvas paper. The kids finger painted it on.

Stay tuned for more Time Machine art work…