Camps

CAMPS FOR 2019 

Summer Art Immersion Day Camps

2019 Happy Makings Summer Art Immersion Day Camps!

These sessions are Monday through Friday 9-3.

All sessions will be centered around building our ceramics skills. Each week will have

other components built into the theme such as painting,

drawing, art journaling, and crafts.

Camp cost is $300 per week.

Ages 9 and up.

Week One:

COLOR explosion - Surface design and printing -

June 10th to the 14th

Art Making skills we will work on:

Beginning and advanced throwing on the pottery wheel, interested students will have

extended time on the wheels to advance their skills in throwing.

Hand building ceramics with a slab roller and extruder

Finding color and pattern inspiration in nature and beyond

Sketching and reference drawing, creating color combinations and palettes

Stamp carving, and block printing

Marbeling with glaze and other experimentations

Stencil making for use on the ceramic surface, fabric and in mixed media painting

Metal stamping

Collage

and much more!

Week Two:

MAKE! A week of making ALL THE THINGS -

June 17th to the 21st

Art making skills we will work on:

Beginning and advanced throwing on the pottery wheel, interested students will have

extended time on the wheels to advance their skills in throwing.

Hand building ceramics with a slab roller and extruder

Painting, drawing and mixed media art journaling

Paint marbling on fabric

Metal stamping

Paint Pouring

Candle making

Terrazo colored clay exploration and much more!

2017 Happy Makings Summer Art Immersion Days !

These sessions are Monday through Friday 9-3. All sessions will be centered around building our ceramics skills. Each week will have other components built into the theme such as painting, drawing, art journaling.

Camp cost is $300 per week.

Get outside! Nature theme  - June 19^th to the 23^th

Art Making skills we will work on:

Finding shapes and inspiration in nature

Sketching and reference drawing

Stamp carving, and block printing

Using natural objects as reference and tools in mixed media painting

Exploring artists who use nature in their work.

Beginning Throwing on the pottery wheel

Hand building ceramics

Field Trip:

Huntington Library and Gardens

Creating Characters and Creatures June 26^th to the 30^th

We will explore visual representation, create new characters and creatures, self portraits and portraits of favorite friends or animals.

Art making skills we will work on:

Beginning Throwing on the pottery wheel

Hand building ceramics

Painting and drawing

Mixed media painting and art journaling

Field Trip: The Broad Museum

Japan, Animae and Manga Mash Up July 17st – 21st

Art Making skills:

Comic, graphic novel, story and character concept and visual development.

Creating a story board and sketching and inking a comic.

Mixed media painting and art journaling.

Beginning Throwing on the pottery wheel

Hand building ceramics

Field Trip: Little Tokyo, Wacko and The Japanese American Museum to see the George Takei show