Meet Toby, the albino rabbit! He was found wandering the Arboretum this week & looking for a new home, so we decided to adopt him. We've set him up with some cozy new digs & he seems to be settling into life at Nature Camp already! Now Lucky has a new friend!
On Monday we collected fallen sticks in Australia to paint in our studio!
Then we turned them into garden mobiles...
a colorful place for birds to perch.
Camp counselors hard at work, helping prepare art materials!
Accordion-style books illustrating the plant life cycle, which we've been discussing this week.
Ready for MOSAICS!
On Wednesday we collected leaves near the lake. After returning to the studio, we cut our findings into interesting patterns and explored interesting compositions.
In the afternoon, we used the rest of our collected leaves, as well as flowers
and other materials found on our walk to paint and press!
After a morning discussion about the anatomy & functions of flowers, we created Botanical Illustrations through observation in the Celebration Garden.
We also learned about Vincent Van Gogh & his colorful, impressionist oil paintings. We looked at his "Sunflowers" painting for inspiration, and then created our own botanical still lives in oil pastels.
A great use of the horizon line we discussed.
California Poppies Still Life.
Another adventure in Goldsworthy-inspired Nature Installations.
This time we set out to Australia to create with the organic materials we found!
Fallen flowers adorning a young pine tree.
Concept - Water Collection.
There was a tremendous amount of teamwork during this project, more so than we have ever witnessed. Both campers & counselors dove right into their concepts & we could not be more thrilled with the results! We will check on the installations next week to observe how the elements have affected them.
Concept - Survivalist's Shelter.
Concept - Eagle's Nest
On Friday, we learned about Jean DuBuffet's Haute Pate process, mixing sand, straw, dirt & other organic materials to pigment and creating primitive-looking art.
Tissue paper flower crowns!
