Day Five (week 2): Last day & Art Show

So the morning was spent finishing the weavings, doing sand molds of our feet to represent our art journey and making an accordion books for our journal entries. Whew! We will all sleep well this weekend. Happy art making!

Day Four: Something's Fishy

Beginning with the idea of a journey and landmarks, the children focused again in yoga and creative writing to spur on their adventures.  Using local maps, collages were created as the base for their journey paintings; water colors and land marks were placed.

Day Three (week 2): Dodgy Paintings

Field Trip!
Although the day was cloudy, it was the first day that it wasn't pouring. We piled into the van with paper, buckets and paint (no paint brushes!) and headed to Dodge Point. We brainstormed what we could use to paint if we didn't have any brushes. Our finger Points! We looked at how the horizon lines divides the image and that we are looking at colors, not objects. The only rule was that we had to cover the page. The artists found themselves very quiet and observant.

Day Two (week 2): Weaving

So, one thing that moving can guarantee is cardboard. Lots of it. Summer art camp has been such a great reason to break down and up cycle all of these brown boxes. Next up... cardboard looms! We created oversized cardboard looms to weave fabric strips that we donated from a variety of sources.

In creative writing Ms. Ali spoke about how storytelling is like weaving, that ideas move around and through one another creating a tight unit. We carried this into the art room. The idea is to get weaving and have the looms and materials available to weave with throughout the week.

Day One (week 2): Tie Dying

During our after lunch walk, we gathered sticks and stones to use for some tie-dying. The first layer of color was created by tying stones into the fabric, followed by a light colored dye bath.

 

Tomorrow we will tie the fabric around sticks and soak one half of the fabric to create a horizon line. These pieces of fabric will be the surface for some stinky printing to come!