Fine Art - Painting and Drawing July 10-14
Fine Art - Painting and Drawing July 10-14
Time: 9-2
ages: tweens + teens
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July 10-14 Fine Art - Painting and Drawing: This class is designed with artists in mind who would like to learn fine art techniques and gain more advanced skills to become confident in their work. If your child is a beginner or has taken several painting and drawing classes, this camp will meet their needs. Campers will be learning about painting techniques in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. Welcoming all styles we will explore realism, abstract, expressionism, and surrealism. We encourage working from your own inspiration and will choose what subject they would like to paint. An introduction each class period will have a new technique in brush application, composition, solvents, and how to tell a story through painting. Drawing techniques are taught simultaneously as we begin to “see like artists” and execute like professionals.
Please pack a light nut-free snack, lunch, and water.
Friday’s are a celebration of our artists with a Gallery Show. Please come visit for a walk through at 1:45.
Studio 4 Art + Do Art Studios will be following CDC and Marin County guidelines for COVID.
Studio 4 Art are experts in their field, teaching for over 19 years, and offer age-appropriate projects celebrating each individual. Diversity, creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, and creating leaders one art project at a time is our goals. WE LOVE ART and what each child brings to their projects making them personal and meaningful. Watch your child shine with pride through their art-making!S4A and Do ART! Camp FAQs
What age are your camps for?
Camps are for ages 5-12
Why enroll in our camps?
Studio 4 Art's mission is to give children a voice through art-making. No other curriculum allows a child to explore, from the point of the unknown to a point of completion, learning art techniques while working through mistakes and problem solving, resulting in higher self-confidence, curiosity, awareness, and leadership skills.
Studio 4 Art is unique in its teaching approach to all art projects and introduction to art materials. Our curriculum is progressive, child-initiated, and thought-provoking. Studio 4 Art creates and writes all curriculum, training our teachers in our philosophies and procedures. How to teach the whole child and honor each as the individuals they are is a pretty special way of teaching. We provide growth in children through honoring ideas, executing dream designs, guidance through questions to engage problem-solving, build creative thought processes through mistake-making, and celebrate collaboration.
What does my child do in a camp day?
We open our day with the main art activity introducing your child to art history, a new technique, and a chance for us as a community to learn together. We then take a snack break and go outside for a short time. When we return the 2nd half of camp is open-ended activities that vary with new art materials set out daily. Clay is offered frequently, we know the value of working with your hands and how much kids crave that connection.
How many children are in each camp?
In San Rafael our Do Art studio is able to accommodate 15 campers and in Novato at Studio 4 Art we have 12 campers.
Will my child get to work on the potter's wheel?
While we love the pottery wheel, we only have the space to accommodate campers at our San Rafael studio or our sister studio Marin Pottery in Novato. We will be offering pottery camps at Marin Pottery for children 8-14, please check us out over there
The clay items my child makes, are they food safe?
If your child is making artwork that is meant to eat out of (cup, plate, bowl, etc.) their work is food and microwave safe.
Does the paint wash out of clothes?
Most generally, no. We are a fine art studio and want our students and campers to experience true and traditional art materials, we know from experience it makes a big difference in their excitement when they see how vibrant and rich colors are and how the consistency in fine art materials differ. Please wear art clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. We do have aprons but they don’t always cover.
Do you offer sibling discounts?
Due to COVID restrictions and very limited spaces (a reduction of almost ½ of a “normal” summer) we can not offer sibling discounts.
Do you offer new curriculum and art projects every year?
YES! We have been hosting camps since 2000, we only duplicate a technique but never duplicate a project. Because of our teaching philosophy of letting our students decide what their artwork will be, they become leaders of their making allowing them to make decisions on their executions.
I have an 11-year-old, they don’t really want to be in a camp with a 6-year-old.
Okay, this isn’t a question but we get this a lot. After 21 years of teaching I promise you age isn’t a factor in our camps. We believe in a one schoolroom philosophy, older kids become leaders for the younger kids and the younger kids offer a playful approach with art materials that our older kids “forget” but absolutely love to be reminded of. It is an absolutely beautiful thing. If you get a chance, “peak” into one of our camps and see.
My child doesn’t really know much about art, will they feel overwhelmed?
Our camps are taught to scaffold the learning of each of our campers. We will meet a child at their level and have the ability to then work together to accomplish a work of art that they are proud of. We don’t ever compare work from one camper to another, we know every child comes with their own set of knowledge, our goal is to elevate and celebrate them from where they are.
What techniques will my child learn?
With every week we want your child to walk out of our camp with art knowledge in technique, vocabulary, and history. Techniques will include fine art and contemporary applications. We experiment and learn about drawing skills, painting skills, how to work with clay, screen printing, printmaking, and sewing for soft sculpture and design thinking. From this description, you can see that we definitely put the A in Stem learning (S.T.E.A.M).
What art materials will my child work with?
Depending on the theme of the week, clay, paint, printmaking, drawing, mosaics, cartooning, sewing, recycled materials, and mixed media are just a few examples. We are a true art studio working with all visual art materials. Our teachers are trained and have experience with all art mediums.
