Maya, Age 6, AM Middle Kids
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Michael Sinnes, Age 8 | |
Maddie, Age 5AM Big Kids
Paper, markers
"There are so many smiles because I like them. The clouds are smiling because they are nice and it matches the outline of the picture."
Using the teacher's Mona Lisa cartoon for inspiration, Maddie created her own unique portrait. In her interpretation, the subject has a huge grin, matching the artist's cheerful and giggly personality. After discussing ideas with the interns and her classmates, she added several details, such as clouds and a rose, to her piece. Finally, she decorated the picture and frame with smiley faces!
-Sophie, intern
Angela- 6
Mid-kids camp
materials: colored construction paper, crepe paper, stamps
"My favorite part was using the stamps. I have big stamps at home too!"
Angela worked very hard to make her project her very best. She spent a lot of time making sure each strip of paper was weaved in correctly. She enjoyed picking out the colored paper and using the stamps to enhance the over all effect of the weaved paper.
-Allison, Intern
Amelia, 9
Big Kid Camp
'Shapes on Stained Glass'
Plastic tracing sheet, tissue paper, construction paper, mod podge
"I liked this project because it was an easier way of making stained glass, and with a twist of adding shapes. I liked how even though there was a certain way to do this we could be creative with our designs and how we put the tissue paper together"
Amelia coated each side of tissue paper with mod podge, and placed each piece onto plastic tracing paper. She chose her colors, and overlapped as she pleased. It was her idea to use the outlines of shapes as oppose to the whole shape. She helped her classmates make similar designs as well. And of course, no masterpiece would be complete without a frame!
Sam, 6PM Big Kids Camp
Materials: Acrylic paint, double textured paper, water, straws
"As I was painting I felt proud of my work, and I knew it was going to look perfect. I knew it would turn out beautiful. I mostly used pink, purple, and yellow– all of my favorite colors. I love my painting."
Sam was very involved in her project, and was constantly bouncing ideas off of her classmates. She used many of the paints provided, and placed each color in a specific section of the paper, before blowing the paints together with the straw to create a splatter effect. Sam also smeared some of the paint to create various designs.
-Genna Intern
Materials: Acrylic paint, double textured paper, water, straws
"As I was painting I felt proud of my work, and I knew it was going to look perfect. I knew it would turn out beautiful. I mostly used pink, purple, and yellow– all of my favorite colors. I love my painting."
Sam was very involved in her project, and was constantly bouncing ideas off of her classmates. She used many of the paints provided, and placed each color in a specific section of the paper, before blowing the paints together with the straw to create a splatter effect. Sam also smeared some of the paint to create various designs.
-Genna Intern
8/11/15
"I like this a lot, it makes me want to start a garden- because I love flowers!"
-Allie, 4 (Little kids camp)
The kids were encouraged to use forks and paint to create the impression of a tulip in the grass. Using forks they mixed together paints of various colors and pressed it down on plain white paper, leaving a tulip-like impression, this seemed to be the most difficult part of the project for most of the kids. After they created the flowers, they used popsicle sticks dipped in green paint to make stems, which seemed to be the easiest part because "it was all just straight lines". Then whatever was left over of the green paint was used to make grass, which ended up being more of finger painting than fork painting.
"I like this a lot, it makes me want to start a garden- because I love flowers!"
-Allie, 4 (Little kids camp)
The kids were encouraged to use forks and paint to create the impression of a tulip in the grass. Using forks they mixed together paints of various colors and pressed it down on plain white paper, leaving a tulip-like impression, this seemed to be the most difficult part of the project for most of the kids. After they created the flowers, they used popsicle sticks dipped in green paint to make stems, which seemed to be the easiest part because "it was all just straight lines". Then whatever was left over of the green paint was used to make grass, which ended up being more of finger painting than fork painting.
Jackson says:
"All my flavors are inspired by mario- the top scoop is peach flavoured with a princess peach topping and the second to last is mint flavoured with a mario topping."
Week 8 of art camp the kids made their own version of ice-cream cones. It was great watching them get in touch with their creative side, coming up with their own crazy flavors and toppings for their unique ice-cream cones. To make their ice-cream cones come to life, they used crayons and water colour. All in all the kids had a mouth watering fun time coming up with these pieces.
Mid-Kid Intern Areej Shafique
Avery, 4
"Hippie"
PM Little kids camp
Materials: liquid water color, glue, construction paper
"Hippie"
PM Little kids camp
Materials: liquid water color, glue, construction paper
"I like my painting because it looks like tie dye and it reminds me of hippies!"
During this project, the children were asked to crumble up white pieces of paper and paint the paper (while still crumbled), unfolding it gives tie dye effect, as the paint went into only certain parts of the paper! Some kids actually found great difficulty in this but a lot of their problems caused their projects to be more creative. Avery picked some of her favorite colors and did her best filling the paper.
This is what she found to be most difficult in the process of making this project: "The hardest part about this project was filling in all of the white spots on the paper". But it got much easier, when the paint dried the children cut the different sheets of various patterns and colors and made them into collages.
This is where Avery felt she had more artistic freedom: "The easiest part and my favorite part of it was putting it all together".
Once she was finished she found enjoyment in watching and helping other students out, almost as if she was one of the teachers!
~Lily, intern
During this project, the children were asked to crumble up white pieces of paper and paint the paper (while still crumbled), unfolding it gives tie dye effect, as the paint went into only certain parts of the paper! Some kids actually found great difficulty in this but a lot of their problems caused their projects to be more creative. Avery picked some of her favorite colors and did her best filling the paper.
This is what she found to be most difficult in the process of making this project: "The hardest part about this project was filling in all of the white spots on the paper". But it got much easier, when the paint dried the children cut the different sheets of various patterns and colors and made them into collages.
This is where Avery felt she had more artistic freedom: "The easiest part and my favorite part of it was putting it all together".
Once she was finished she found enjoyment in watching and helping other students out, almost as if she was one of the teachers!
~Lily, intern
This is Awesome!
Markeim Arts Center main gallery transforms into a studio for Summer Camp. Exhibits continue- and all are welcome!
Here are some interesting things we're doing at Markeim Summer 2015.
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