June 27

Our Cowgirls coral their herd of horses.

Cacti made from clay, toothpicks and acrylic paint.

As I mentioned yesterday, we are doing the tempera-batik today but instead of using the India Ink which was called for in the instructions, we are using diluted black acrylic paint. My mom experimented a little bit and in the end the paintings turned out great. 
The campers created little cacti that we made by molding clay and sticking in toothpicks pieces, and they loved that. We have our own My Artz Desire Cactus Garden. They also played with toy horses while we got ready for the next craft.

One of the other crafts we did was sand-scapes (landscapes of the desert) -with inspiration from Georgia O'Keeffe. Check out her museum website.  Basically sand paper "painted" with glue and colored sand poured on it, the finished pieces look pretty and it was a really good craft for younger kids because it's so simple. 

Our final project was decorating terracotta pots.  We used paint markers instead of paint brushes because it dries quickly and it's easier to control. This was when we used the Native American symbols I found for my mom yesterday. 

A Sunday Afternoon by Seurat

Our next Summer Art Camp will begin on July 16th, and the theme will be Up Close And Personal. We will study impressionism and Pointillism, we will do self-portraits and thumb print art. 

It will probably be a couple of days until my next post because we are taking a break (or maybe a few weeks) but I will keep going.

Thanks for reading.