Summer Artcamp 2013

Last year's Artcamp (before I publish this year's weeks!) What's camp? Look at my archive for past years and logistics. This year's information will be out this week!
Art camp takes place at my studio, back yard and Robbins Farm Park from 9-12 am. I have a teenage assistant with me and the campers range from 5-11yrs old. We play with versatile materials, do a variety of art projects, play games, read stories and run at the park! The 3 hour morning gives us time to play with sand, clay, bubbles, water, ramps and balls and blocks. We also get to know the slugs, centipedes, earth worms, millipedes and ants in the backyard.

Artcamp 2013 

Earth, Air, Water, Light/Fire

Week 1: Earth
-potter's clay- build big then recycle
-sculpey animals and camouflage painting
-cave paintings: tempera 'rock' background finger paint
-chalk pastel drawing 'cave drawings'
-fairy houses

Week 2: Air
-papier mache birds on hanger armature
-paint birds with tempera paint
-flying machine invention drawing
-story of flying super hero
- make accordion book

Week 3: Water
-monoprints for collaborative set of papers
-cut paper fish from monoprints
-styrofoam printing
-watercolor techniques: wet on wet, dry on wet, dry on dry, wet on dry, crayon resist
-collage from watercolor experiments
-boats form recycled materials

Week 4: Light/Fire
-dragon collage with tissue paper
-shadow drawings turned into paintings
-color changers(clear plastic sculpture with colored acetate)
-homemade slides with slide projector
-shadow puppets
-hot tempera paintings- red, yellow, orange

Looking Back 2013

It's snowing outside and I'm due to publish my spring and summer information. What better time than to take stock and look back! I'm grateful for the wonderful families I work with and the collaborations, inspirations, experiments and problem solving that happen in the studio every class. I struggle with the task of communicating great moments (my photos are usually underexposed and I'm to much of a Luddite to upload videos) A video would be the best medium for catching the countless decisions, experimentations and interactions that happen between child and material. Especially with young children, the souvenir of the process can often look like something that goes in your recycle bin. Conversely the products that please us as adults sometimes don't matter to the child. Anyway I didn't mean to start a process vs product discussion! What I want to do is give a brief recap of art in 2013 at a Room for Art!

Here goes:

Winter 2013
Projects: 3D!
fine art Inspiration: Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Jackson Pollock

Ideas: Bas relief is a form that is in between 2D and 3D in its flatness. It has depth. Sculpture can be viewed from all sides and is affected by the light that shines on it. There are lots of was to build- putting pieces together with glue (example of an additive process), carving out of a medium like clay(subtractive). Materials have their own set of properties that one gets to know well when building. White glue does not behave like a glue stick! Clay is very different than plaster. Different weights of paper cut and fold and rip differently. As artists, we are on that long (and intriguing) road of mastering media.

-cardboard bas relief
-paper bas relief
-clay/plaster cast
-cardboard, found materials and papier mache painted
-paper straw sculpture

Spring 2013

Projects: Painting!

fine art inspiration: quilts of Gee's Bend, Christopher Marley, 

Ideas: It's a tradition each spring when the weather gets warmer and we can be outside to paint as much as we can! Big and messy or small and careful it is always wet! We use tempera and watercolor, wax resist and sometimes acrylic. The last class of the session is the messiest, body painting allowed! (for those who look forward to this)

-monoprints with tempera on plexiglass

-cut paper with monoprints

-watercolor resist

-shadow drawings, painted into

-splatter painting and marble painting

Fall 2013

Projects: Printing!

inspiration: woodcuts form children's books, animal track images

Ideas: there are many kinds of prints- natural or manmade. When you are a printer you make a block out of some kind of material: wood, linoleum, rubber like synthetic, styrofoam or metal. A block always has 2 different levels so that one holds ink and the other doesn't. A print has crisp edges that are more difficult to draw or paint. A block can produce multiple prints. Like sculpture, a block can be made by adding layers (collograph) or by taking away(speedy cut). Blocks are inked with brayers(rollers) 

-monoprints with tempera paint

-tempera painting with masking and rollers (stencils made of cardstock)

-styrofoam block printing/ speedy cut printing (Gr3-5 only)

-collographs- mat board pieces glued to a base, then coated with acrylic medium inked and printed on paper

Winter Classes 2014

Welcome to the Winter Session. This fall we were printers-we rubbed, rolled, squished, carved, cut and drew. Printing is all about making or finding something to print from- a leaf, a found object, a styrofoam sheet, a piece of rubberlike material, a collograph. We find or make the ‘block’ or ‘plate’, ink it up and transfer the image to paper. To be interesting it has to have a texture, some parts have to be higher than others. We played with the idea of structures that have two planes- one that the ink goes on and one that the ink misses. A plate can be made by digging or carving the low plane (styro prints, speedy cut) or building up the high plane (collographs)

This winter we’ll be builders- collage, assemblage and sculpture. We’ll glue, tape, attach, wrap and wire.

Middle school students have a special treat! Eileen is back with her Architecture workshop in January. Sign up early as we only have room for 6 students. Watch for a separate email!

All classes are 3:30-5pm except for the Architecture Workshop which is 3-5pm

All classes are every other week or more erratic(sorry) except for K-Gr 5 which is 5 consecutive Thursdays

No classes February vacation

I am at Habitat the first Wed of the month and at BASP (Brackett afterschool) Thursdays Mar 20-Apr 17

Tuesday K-Gr 2          1/7, 1/21, 2/3, 2/25, 3/11

Tuesday K-Gr2          1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 3/4, 3/18
Wednesday K-Gr 2   1/22, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/16

Thursday K-Gr 5        2/6, 2/13, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13 consecutive no Feb vacation

Tuesday Gr 3-5 cancelled

Wednesday Gr 3-5    1/15, 1/29, 2/12, 3/19, 4/9

 Architecture Workshop for Middle School students with Eileen Murphy-McNamara

Thursdays 1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30

3-5pm

$100 for workshop

Logistics:

-for new families the door to the studio is down the driveway to the right of the house

-make sure I am here before you leave your child! (not necessary for middle schoolers)

-send your children in clothes suitable for the weather, including shoes, that can get paint (and more) on them

-make sure you mark your calendars with these schedules. They are weird. Let me know if you see errors!

Enrollment: Send me an email with your child’s name, DOB, the days he/she could attend, your preference of day. If you don’t have flexibility please sign up early! Sometimes there is a run on a certain day of the week.

New families please fill out and send me the contact information form

Fees: Please bring payment the first day of class. $100 for 5 classes, $80 for 4 classes Sibling discount is 10% off total fees.

Cheques payable to Ann Wynne

Fall Classes 2013

slides and shadow puppets artcamp 2013

Concrete learners need things to think with, use materials to express ideas instead of words.

Welcome to the Fall Session

Students will have opportunities to experiment with a variety of materials, be inspired from nature, fine art and each other, learn drawing and painting skills, play, invent with everyday materials, make 2D and 3D pieces, develop a visual vocabulary, begin to understand the Elements of Art: line, shape, colour, value, texture, space, composition, form.

The classes will include some inspiration like a story, a game, a visual search or a challenge that introduces an art project. The projects have different kinds of products, sometimes important to the student, sometimes not. Occasionally there is no permanent product.

This Fall I’ll be offering classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, starting the first week of October. Each group will meet every other week for an hour and a half,  for a 5 class session. Each of the 2 younger age groups, K-Gr 2 and Gr 3-5, will have 3 options. One of the options is a family group class, K-Gr5 on Thursdays. Wednesday classes are spread out because I work once a month at Coyote Club at Habitat.

The grade 6-8 class will be lead by Eileen Murphy- McNamara and myself and will be a combination of art/design and architecture.(more news on this to follow)

K-Gr 2 Tuesday 3:30-5pm 10/1, 10/15, 10/29, 11/12, 11/26  FULL

K-Gr2 Wednesday 3:30-5pm 10/16, 10/30, 11/13, 11/27, 12/11 FULL

K-Gr5 Thursdays 3:30-5pm 10/3, 10/17, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12  FULL

Gr 3-5 Tuesday 3:30-5pm 10/8, 10/22, 11/5,11/19, 12/3  LOTS OF SPACE

Gr 3-5 Wednesday 3:3-5pm 10/9, 10/23, 11/20, 12/18 (4 classes only)  "

Gr 6-8 Thursday 3:30-5pm postponed to winter session

Logistics:

-for new families the door to the studio is down the driveway to the right of the house

-make sure I am here before you leave your child! (not necessary for middle schoolers)

-send your children in clothes suitable for the weather, including shoes, that can get paint (and more) on them

-make sure you mark your calendars with these schedules. They are weird. Let me know if you see errors!

Enrollment: Send me an email with your child’s name, DOB, the days he/she could attend, your preference of day. If you don’t have flexibility please sign up early! Sometimes there is a run on a certain day of the week.

New families please fill out and send me the contact information form

Fees: Please bring payment the first day of class. $100 for 5 classes. Sibling discount is 10% off total fees.

Cheques payable to Ann Wynne

Spring and Summer Update

a tulip the squirrels didn't get

Spring:
The spring session has begun at the studio! Welcome all painters! Come visit us during Open Studios if you are busy playing baseball, swimming or playing in the woods and not taking class. We have 4 classes running this spring. There is room in the Gr 3-5 and Gr 6-8 classes, both on Thursdays. We will be out doors some of the time as weather permits and will be using mostly 2D wet media- ink, watercolor, tempera and acrylic
Last class extreme painting: We have a Spring tradition of letting paint go off the paper or canvas, and into the air or our feet, hands, legs... this is an optional direction (some people are happy with the colour they are) We temper our extravaganza if the weather is cold and simply stretch the boundaries by doing splatter painting outside and marble painting inside. We will be talking more about it as the time draws near.

Summer Art Camp:
All weeks are full as of now except the first, June 24-28. Due to snow days this is a school week so I invite preschoolers going to Kindergarten next year or homeschoolers from 5-11 yrs. (scroll down for more information) I do have a wait list and occasionally spots open up so let me know if you are interested.