FABULOUS FACES!

The Fabulous Faces 
of Summer Arts Camp 2017!

Every year on our first day of Summer Arts Camp we celebrate our beautiful selves.

We call it DOODLE ARTS DAY.

And, the first doodle we do is our "selfie!"

We sketch an abstract ~ modern arts style ~ drawing of ourselves with a black Sharpie marker.  

Then we paint it with vivid watercolors.

And we see what happens.

Some of these silly Camper Kids got carried away and painted their pets...and other sweet creatures.

Every face {and creature} and every child unique.

Their art continues to amaze us.

Expressions that made us laugh.
In a very good way, of course.

We love this first day of Summer Arts Camp, as it allows us to really see how each child expresses his or her self. 

Some of these fantastic Camper Kids, even went further and made selfies using just Sharpies.

We thought that they all were GREAT!

This is our fifth and fabulous year of Summer Arts Camp.  It was wonderful to have so many of the Camper Kids return and we so enjoyed meeting new creative souls.

Until next time!

SUNSHINE AFTER A STORMY DAY

Hello sunshine!

Thinking that these bold, mosaic-styled watercolor sun faces bursting with color, will be a Summer Arts Camp project this June on Mexican Arts Day.

{This one made by Matthew.}

What do you think?

Join us in June to create your own sunshine and find out what else we will be doing on Mexican Arts Day...one of our favorite arts days!

SPRING BREAK...PICK UP A BOOK!

Spring is here

and

spring break is upon us.

Yay!

Where will you travel?

What will you do?

We here at the SAC campground are heading to the shore, as I am sure many of you may be too.  It'll be good to wiggle our toes in the sand, splash in the sea, make some seashell creatures, and escape this yellow fog of pollen around here, don't you think?

But whether you take the bus to a big city or cruise to the coast, you will want something fun and creative to do during your break.

 

Better bring a book with you...

...because we know 
that at least one of you
will be

B-O-R-E-D

at some point
and
will not know what to do
with all your free time.
Right?

So why not pick up book?
No, not to read, but to tear out the pages, use them as your canvas, doodle an image or scene and paint it.

Grab a black Sharpie, some watercolor paints, a cup of water, and a paint brush and go at it.  The printed words make a charming background to the paintings.

This has always been a very popular Summer Arts Camp project, and thanks to the Friends of the Library who so graciously donated stacks and stacks of old books for us to use we are never out of paper.

Now, what to do with all that free time you will have this summer?

Hmm...
That's not hard to figure out.

Join us in June for some creative fun at Summer Arts Camp!

Registration begins on April 1st ~ no fooling.

{That happens to be a very special day around here at Summer Arts Camp headquarters.}

All the information and FAQs you need are on the side bar to the right.

Just click.

Happy Spring.

We will see you in June!

SWEETER THAN SUGAR

Each year during Summer Arts Camp, we celebrate the arts of our world.

This year for International Arts Day, we created a project that I have been wanting to do with the Camper Kids for a long time...

Mexican sugar skull masks!

 

With a rainbow collection of Sharpies, pretty papers, flowers, feathers, beads and baubles, and a pile of mixed media...

...sweet as sugar skull masks were taking over!

  
Each mask reflected the personality of each Camper Kid in a crazy sort of way...

Each, unique, creative, and thoughtful.

All wonderful!

With some time to spare, we then made our very own Mexican tin engravings.

When the panels were complete we strung them together with colored wire and beads so we could hang them up.

 

Some sweeter than sugar Camper Kids!

NOT A SINGLE FISH OUT OF WATER

Hello!

Summer zipped by too fast, didn't it?  I know that many of our Camper Kids were on their way to the beach after their week here at Summer Arts Camp, however, all of the Camper Kids enjoyed a little "ocean time" while they were here in June.

OCEAN ARTS DAY was one of the highlights of Summer Arts Camp this year.

During Week One we created sea creatures from recycled plastic bottles and papier maché, using layers of pastel blue tissue paper and home made paste, which resulted in a family of octopuses.

These eight legged squids were adorned with seashells on their heads, google eyes, and glitter on their tentacles and when they swam into our "saltwater aquarium" for a photo, they were as handsome and glamorous as could be.

While the octopuses were happy in the aquarium, the Camper Kids started sailing away and painted saltwater-colors works of art.

Using black Sharpies to sketch their sailboats on the sea and saturated watercolors for color, the boats started floating on the waves.

Some sprinkles of salt on the wet watercolor paint, added a textured effect, much like sand in the sea.

Love all the color!

By Week Two there was not a single fish out of water.  We continued our OCEAN ARTS DAY, but with a different project...

...a Fancy Fun Fish!

Painting with acrylics this time instead of watercolors, the Camper Kids went wild and painted fabulous tropical colored fish on paper.

We stuffed them {the fish, not the Camper Kids} with paper and added a ribbon so that they {the fish} could hang as a mobile.

This school of Fancy Fun Fish got all A's!