Saturday, August 11, 2012

Art Camp

This week McKinley has been going to an Art Camp organized by another mom in the ward.  It is every day from 9:30-12:30 and we each take a turn hosting the day.  It has been lots of fun for her! 


Art camp day painting by the Goodwives River in Darien, CT next to Elizabeth.
 Today was our turn since we are going to be out of town for the next two weeks and then school starts. 
I taught them about using warm and cool colors on the color wheel.  They did a self-portrait, then an acrylic water-drip painting, lunch of pizza muffins, flowers using pastels, sunprints, and finished off decorating owl cupcakes.  It actually worked out perfectly to have it on a Saturday so Kent could take the boys off to do something out of the way. 

The sunprints were my favorite today.

2 comments:

Jen said...

Sunprints? Do tell how to do them! that looks like something my kids would love!

Heather said...

Hey Jen, if you check this again....I ordered the sunprint kit from Amazon. It's easy to follow. You use the special paper, put things on top of the paper (flowers, weeds, anything), lay the clear acrylic on top, and let the sun shine on it for about 1-2 minutes. Then you hurry and rinse the paper in water to stop the processing and let it dry. It was a lot of fun!