Art Camp Progress

Art Camp Progress

We're half way through the first session.

And how's it going you ask? 

Week 1 Looked Like This

 

Color Wheels were created as we learned how to take the three primary colors and create any color with them. 
 

 Color charts were created as we saw what colors showed up by mixing colors together.

Here's a little video as we started our paintings.

 On to Week Two

We studied brushes and brush strokes today.
These young ladies learned about the different types of brushes, what they are made of and what they did.

 

 In this exercise they had ultramarine blue paint and used all the synthetic brushes I had to see all the shapes they could make, how the paint reacted to the brush, how it slid across the paper and how many types of strokes could they make out of one brush.

This little video is of them learning about brushes.
We used ultramarine blue for synthetic brushes,
Then we used red paint with bristle brushes
and we used yellow paint with sponge brushes.
When they were finished they had three large pieces of paper with all sorts of brush strokes. 

 This little video is of them working on their peacock feather paintings.

And finally! 

 

We had some peacock feather paintings.

One thing about learning to paint is to let the brush become part of your hand and that only comes with practice.  Hours and hours of practice.

But these girls are well under way to learn how to practice, what to practice and how to create something.

Thanks for stopping by during art camp.

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