Final Recap for 2015 Art, Theatre and Photography Camp!
With not a minute to spare and with the help of my incredible student volunteer Hannah, we pulled the second load of still warm pieces out of the kiln so that campers could take their clay home after the performance. The last thing I wanted was to have to track down campers to get them their clay pieces!!
The project had issues.. but on the whole, how can I be bummed about ceramics created by the campers! If I do a project like this again, I don't know that I will use terracotta. Anyway. as you can see, there were some cool parts of each kids pieces, but the colors were too muted. I need to use vibrant glaze with kids!
How fun is that!
Anyway, here is what Kylie and Lexi's samples look like fired. This is one case were the more glaze the better!
(I think this is what I will do next year... super simple, roll your slab, decorate it, put your name and date on it and load it with glaze..)
Anyway,
Here are a few pictures from the last day of camp.
We bound sketchbooks and autograph books. (big hit.. but they kept pulling the pages out of the binding.. gonna have to work on that for next year.)
We finished the guitar watercolor paintings. Some of the campers left their paintings simple, others were happy to go that next step and make it more abstract.
We signed the autograph books. This was so much fun! The kids LOVED it!
And we showed off our week's work!
Wow. This is that moment when I see the fruits of my labor from the week!
In their art rotations they created a ceramics piece, screen printed, worked with charcoal, drew with watercolor pencils, painted, and bound a book. In a 40 minute segment over four days!
Wow!
And there you have it. We have already started on 2016 camp. (and we already have people wanting to register! wow!!)
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