In this session, Mark will guide you through painting a charming garden patio scene step by step. You'll learn techniques for layering color, creating depth, and capturing the warmth and vibrancy of natural light. Whether picking up a paintbrush for the first time or returning to an old passion, this is your chance to unwind, experiment, and let your creativity blossom in a supportive, stress-free environment.
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Join us for this first week of camp as we turn the spotlight on contemporary artist Nick Cave. Cave is most famous for his Soundsuits, a series of wearable works of assemblage. Part costume part sculpture, these works are whimsical, bright, and other-worldly. The campers will love Cave's sensibility of play and performance and his use of found objects!
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Join us this week as we turn our spotlight on the renowned work and life of Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquin Torres Garcia. Like Torres Garcia and his fellow Constructivists, we will break our subjects down into building blocks of shape, colors, and symbols. Some of our blocks will be drawn, some painted, and some will be wooden blocks put together to make people and towns!
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This week we take a deep dive into the self made worlds of French artist, Niki de Saint Phalle. Saint Phalle was self taught and her work is still considered by some to be "outsider art." She is perhaps most well known as one of the few female sculptors ever to work on a monumental scale. She also made assemblage work and film, and she was a prolific illustrator. Her work is colorful, child-like, and mythical and sure to spark the campers' creative fire!
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