Camps

In the attempt to create some ease in navigating through the tragic destruction of our Altadena neighborhood. We would like to collaborate with you to subsidize tuition for a family in need. We have quite a few families who lost everything in the fires but we would also like to reach out to families who may not be familiar with us, so please spread the word. If you know a child who would benefit from this please put their name in the notes section along with the families contact email. 

In the attempt to create some ease in navigating through the tragic destruction of our Altadena neighborhood. We would like to collaborate with you to subsidize tuition for a family in need. We have quite a few families who lost everything in the fires but we would also like to reach out to families who may not be familiar with us, so please spread the word. If you know a child who would benefit from this please put their name in the notes section along with the families contact email. 

In this week we will be celebrating spring, exploring bugs and flowers. We will be drawing and painting and doing some printmaking. We will be creating individual art projects and collaborative ones. 

The mornings are free choice time until around 10:00 then a snack. We will then work on a larger art project, hike through the neighborhood looking for materials to use or do a treasure hunt.  The rest of the day will be reading, playing games and finishing up art projects.

There are so many ways to use natural material. We will introduce the kids to using natural materials to learn a variety of techniques. We will make natural plant based dyes from flowers, beet powder and tumeric to dye their own fabrics. We will do some printmaking using natural materials we find on our walks around the neighbohood. We will also use clay to build animal homes. 

We will be working together each day to create large sculptures and paintings. We will also make some individula larger drawings and collages. This is a great camp for those kids who like to experience the materials and the process. We will be weaving and painting and building and fabric dying. 

We will be drawing mostly from life this week, sometimes heading out into the neighborhood to sketch. We will use a variety of materials, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, chalk pastels to make narrative drawings, still-life drawings. We will also use string and tape to make lines for our drawings. 

We can see faces everywhere, on clocks, on cars, on the buidlings. This is not just a drawing class. We will be collaging and painting and printmaking while we observe the faces around us. We will also do a few human portraits and animal portraits. 

We will make worlds inside of shoe boxes and mint tins, underwater worlds and imaginary worlds and little bakeries. This is a great week for those who love to draw from images and from their imagination. 

We love to make art that looks like food. Students will spend the week creating scultpural treats from hamburgers or impossible burgers to cakes using many mediums. We will explore  paper mache and printmaking, painting and clay. 

Students will learn the tabby stitch, soumak stitch, looped tabby stitch, rya knot, lark’s head knot and how to make tassels and pom poms. We will use yarn, paper and ribbon and even some natural materials we find on our walks through the neighborhood to make different kinds of weavings and wall hangings. 

Exploring paint and its many forms will be the subject of this week, watercolor paint, tempera paint, sumi ink, powdered paints Kids will make large scaled paintings, collaborative paintings, use techniques of making their own paint and paint brushes and using dyes to get a new perspective on an old favorite

This week we will be exploring all kinds of printmaking techniques and layering them with collages and painting. We will make our own stamps and printing plates to print on fabrics to make banners, on cardboard to make sculptures. We will do mono-printing, foam printing and printing from everyday objects.

Hats, crowns, masks and jewelry will be made in this class. We will be doing a lot of painting and gluing and weaving using fabrics; prints, fake furs, duct tape, feathers and more to make all kinds of art you can wear.

Fairies and trolls and gnomes oh my! We will talk about different kinds fairies, water ones and winter ones. We will build little spaces for fairies to live using natural materials, dried flowers and moss and clay and troll homes from recycled materials and make little creatures to live in them. 

Cutting, cutting, cutting magazines and decorative papers to make little scenes and portraits. We will also be making a sculpture from paper and wood.