Art Camp Day 1

The first thing we did was decorate our sketch books, there were so many stickers....

...and so little time.

First project: Lines

Each student had to come up with different types of lines

We moved on from there and incorporated the element of line into our "string painting" which is an art form done by an indigenous people in Mexico called the Huichol people.

Here's a link to a few examples of the Huichol art all made with yarn and beeswax.

Indigo Arts | News | Huichol Visions 2005

We continued to work with yarn for the rest of the day,

Here we are starting our weaving project.

screen printing

First peruse your favorite instructional manual, mine is always the one with lots of pictures!

Next, draw the image on to your silk screen using "drawing fluid"

Once the drawing fluid has dried cover the whole screen in "screen filler"

Like so...after that you spray it with a hose and you're ready to print

onto a t-shirt

choose your ink color

Squeegee the ink in an even layer across the screen print

TADA!

Voila!

Back Blogged

This summer Jen and I instituted art day, though it sounds like something you would do if you were five.... well it is something you would do if you were five, or if you were an artist. Actually its made me quite productive, where as usually I only paint, I reserve art day for all the other projects I want to do but can't with out feeling guilty.

As you can tell by the pictures we were making some high

quality paintings that day (paint by numbers)