Summer 2024 Classes

Each lesson will begin with drawing and finish using a variety of media such as colored pencils, charcoal, pencil, oil pastels, chalk pastels and paint.
Students will learn about different artists and painting styles, how to incorporate the elements of art into each piece of work and how to properly use the artistic medium.

They will complete a variety of pieces including landscape, still life, abstract and wildlife. At the end of each week there will be a pop up art show featuring their work. Students will store and bring home their work in homemade portfolios.

The week ends with a pop-up art show on Friday, 11:30-12:00.

This five-day class is perfect for the student that enjoys drawing and painting and can be taken multiple weeks.

Procreate is known as one of the most powerful illustration tools for a mobile device. This drawing app turns your iPad into a versatile mobile art studio packed with everything you need to create professional-level artwork.
This Digital Art class will show you all the basics of working with Procreate and Zen Brush on the iPad. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to draw and paint with Procreate and Zen Brush, the digital drawing app used by both professionals and enthusiasts. Digital media is an amazing tool to incorporate into traditional media such as printmaking, painting or mixed media.

Students who have taken this class often begin work in the studio on their tablet for planning pieces or they will import work into the program and add digital layers on top of it to create a mixed media piece. It is also a powerful tool to be used for school projects or creating graphic design projects. This class is perfect for beginners or students wanting to become more proficient with the app and can be taken multiple weeks.

Students must have their own iPad and iPencil with the Procreate and Zen Brush app installed.

In this project oriented course students will be guided through the various stages of creating an original comic book, including: script writing, character design, thumb nailing, penciling, inking, page structure, panel composition, and storytelling. There will be a focus on creating believable environments in your artwork, through detailed instruction on perspective and props as well as an introduction to basic perspective and comic book anatomy.
We will also utilize these same techniques in creating a superhero “self-portrait”, developing 2D “puppets” and backgrounds using the student’s own uniquely original characters.
If the student is also taking the morning drawing and painting course they are welcome to bring a lunch and stay through the lunch break.

Using the idea of the everyday, we will create mixed media artworks involving, but not limited to, collage, printmaking, painting, and drawing. Taking simple everyday activities, images, objects, and materials we will create artworks that speak to the theme of the everyday with new and fresh perspectives. Students will learn to layer different media for an expressive depth of color, texture, transparent qualities, and transition of subject matter. Participants will learn to construct magazines of paper to be incorporated into handcrafted books with traditional sewn bindings. Experimentation is encouraged!

This process is referred to as TAB, Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Open Studio is an art education approach that puts students at the center of learning where they will learn how to incorporate the elements of art through projects of their choosing. This class uses a large variety of traditional media. They are encouraged to treat the studio as their own and move beyond comfortable limits with the guidance and expertise of a professional artist/art educator.

Students will learn to play songs on handbells, boomwhackers and rhythm instruments, and will learn basic music theory. As a grand finale for each camp, students will perform a mini recital for the parents on Friday at 4pm.
Students attending the morning Drawing and Painting class are welcome to bring a lunch and stay through.