Arts & Crafts
Grade 3
Aug 11 to Aug 29, 2025 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
12 students
$1,223
Description
This is a three week long camp that will be a deep dive into the world of visual art. We will make our own portfolios to store our ongoing projects as we move from drawing to watercolor to mixed-media and some small elements of collage. This class will be entirely new curriculum designed specifically for this group of newly-minted Third Graders and their skillset but will introduce and cover foundations of visual art going back to the ancient Egyptians and through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We'll detour briefly into the world of calligraphy and some basic science to make our own paint, use special "glue" for leafing and work in layers and use a brand new glow-in-the-dark pigment that will be an amazing effect that can be used on nearly any surface.
Curriculum Schedule:
Week One: Still life drawing, still life painting, Transfer techniques and tricks/tips, Materials and uses/limitations, salt, tape, masks, and Landscapes with trees.
Week Two: Doing What's Hard: Hands, Eyes, Teeth, Horses. What is Paint? Making pigment from natural sources, sizing, gold/silver/copper leafing and glow-in-the-dark pigments, layout and Lettering/Art Thievery.
Week Three: Lessons from bookbinding, cards, mini mail, cyanotype sun prints, found natural objects and finishing pieces in our portfolios.
At the end of class students will take home their portfolios and all artwork along with being invited to take art supplies they need in order to finish their work or continue to practice at home.
Beginners to visual art are encouraged to attend as well as those who art self-identified artists and know their way around a palette.
Please note that enrollments for Third Grade are currently limited to 12 students in order to allow for Fourth and Fifth Graders to join when they are dismissed at 3pm. Please join waitlist if enrollment if full as peoples' plans do shift.
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What to bring
All materials will be provided for each class by instructor.
Cancellation policy
Refunds are subject to provider and school policies.
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About the provider
A Studio for the Imagination
The class I teach is called Calligraphy and Lettering Arts, and as suggested is focused on handwriting and hand lettering. In some cases we will be working on improving penmanship, in others we will be doing drawings and exercises centered around the alphabet.
We will definitely be spending several weeks each session on learning cursive and practicing cursive. This will require many of the students to focus on the letter forms and the way they are made in a way they have never done before. Cursive in particular is good for writing quickly and we will study the art of writing a good letter as well. We will look at and have fun with decorative elements and themes, and there will be minor aspects of poetry and decorative imagery incorporated as well.
Furthermore, there are different styles of calligraphy; pointed pen, chisel-tip, oblique holders, brush lettering, and even chalkboard writing. We will explore all of these in some detail and variety and use them in or practice that will often consist of making cards or writing letters for others. We will blend aspects of art and gift-giving during our studio time and create things that will uplift those that receive them, and also pass on the warmth and value that letter-writing brings.
I expect that this will be an exceptional art class, with students developing not only their hands but also their eyes. They will learn to be patient and have fun and share kind words with fellow students and family members. They will learn that words have meaning, and that THEIR WORDS are powerful and matter too. They will get opportunities to explore how to use their voice in words, calligraphy, and art to express themselves to the world at large. I expect that this will help them grow in confidence, individualism, creativity, and develop skills that will always be appreciated in a world that is fast-changing.
