Our summer was full of artist-inspired projects! We made works by Joan Miro (paintings), Claes Oldenburg (hamburgers & food sculpture), Henry Moore (clay), Jackson Pollock (drip painting), Marc Chagall (pastels), Tim Burton (sculptures), Wayne Thiebaud (cakes), Archille Gorky (paintings), Robert Rauschenburg (Combines), Jim Dine (hammering), and more! CCA curriculum is always interdisciplinary; See students’ work with a variety of media, while exploring languages and cultures. We made sculptures, painted with acrylics, formed clay, collaged mixed media, used found objects, built nature dioramas, learned chalk pastels, charcoals and more… because projects are tailored to students’ interets & individual needs!
We began this year’s Summer Camps on an adventure with 3D Totems inspired by artist/director Tim Burton! We were inspired by his expressive clay sculptures and created our own clay characters. Using Model Magic, the students learned how to turn shapes into forms to create complex sculptures and silly faces. Their work was full of personality!
We dove into summer with sand painting seascapes! The students experimented with unconventional materials by mixing sand into acrylic paint. The students applied the thick paint with a palette knife, learning how to properly hold the tool in order to smear the paint on the canvas! The students used mixed media such as adding real shells, foam fish stickers, plastic seaweed and other details to their paintings.
The students learned about transparency, layering, and color as we created stained glass windows inspired by Marc Chagall. They practiced keeping a steady hand as the students traced a Chagall animal drawing of their choosing. Then for the color! Using acrylic markers for areas they wanted opaque and tissue paper for the areas they wanted translucent, the students created beautiful pieces that can be attached to a window at home to see the full effects.
Students experienced the freedom of Jackson Pollock splatter painting outside! We dripped acrylic paint across our canvases, being sure to use all the colors! This project allowed students to play with abstraction while enjoying the physicality of Pollock’s iconic technique.
Inspired by the sculptures of Henry Moore, students worked with clay to create work full of negative space! Students learned to roll coils, flatten slabs, use sculpting tools and other traditional clay techniques.
Daily painting provided opportunities to study master painters! We explored Gorky, Miro & other Abstract Expressionists as we took an adventure with primary colors & a fat brush, to see how magical it is to make colors change simply by overlapping, then adding lines from the 5 Families of Line & Shape and Miro’s works to tell our own stories.
Want to know what your kids are doing @ CCA? We take the time to create these Project Overviews, upload them to their child’s Camp or Class photo album! This way they can share in the vocabulary and fun!
Dry art free-choice included daily line games in our sketchbooks. The Line Game introduces students to the 5 line families, with which they can draw anything they desire! The students also have access to our array of artist-themed coloring pages, line game practice sheets, scratch art to strengthen hands, magnetic art and so much more in our Dry-Art Area!
The Collaborative Murals were nature and ocean-themed this summer, allowing students to create under-the-sea narratives together. Our murals help teach students about sharing, collaboration, and storytelling.
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