Woo-Hoo Post #1...Here We Go

Time flies when you are having fun....the reality of the calendar is that Paper Vineyard will be five years old in January.  One of the original items on my "wish list" for the vision of PV was an art studio for kids.  It has taken a long time to finally get this wish list item on our radar screen.  However, it is absolutely in our sites right now.

Art Bootcamp was held over Chandler's Fall Break and sixteen kids had a fantastic time.  About four of the kids asked me why I called it bootcamp.  Here are my thoughts.  Bootcamp is a place that conjures up images of high energy, vast learning in a short period of time and learning new things about yourself.  Art is for everyone, particularly children.  I love to see them each take a simple art lesson and take it in the direction that their curiosity, interests and imagination takes them.  Here is a taste of what the worked on.

Chloe painted a water color of her friend Lindsay.  Lindsay was standing in the parking lot when she took the picture but Chloe used her imagination and she opted for the background to be sunny and more of a vacation setting.

It took me approximately one day to figure out for a four-day bootcamp I needed to incorporate a Food Art project almost every day.  Cash made a 3-dimensional structure out of marshmallows and pretzel sticks.

 After a discussion on Vincent van Gogh painting images that showed emotion, Ray enjoyed painting a self portrait that captured his humor and as he put it "fun times."

The kiddos ate a piece of fruit and drew the fruit whole, half way eaten and almost all gone.  The task was to practice shading and adding detail highlights to a pencil drawing.  Carter finished his pretty quickly and did a great job.  While others were finishing up he went back to his original whole orange picture and added his own spin and bling to it.  Genius!

Welcome to our Kiddo Art Bootcamp blog.  I hope you choose to follow us or check in for great art ideas for the little hands in your household.