9-12yrs. Week 4: Loren

Intro activity: Making sketchbooks, name tags, and portfolios

Materials: sticky name tags, very large sheets of thin cardboard, light colored construction paper (8.5 x 11), drawing paper (8.5 x 11), crayons, markers, colored pencils

magazine creatures/ self portraits (show hannah hoch and the other female artists who does this)--choose subject matter and then use images from magazines to create something unique

Materials: magazines, 11 x 17 drawing paper, scissors, glue stick, elmers glue

torn tissue paper landscapes (show turner, monet, whistler, tonalists)--choose a place from memory or a picture in a magazine or from home, mark in general composition with pencil, use bits of tissue paper painted with glue to color the image

Materials: elmers glue (watered down), tissue paper (mulitcolor pack), various sizes of white drawing paper, pencils

crude stamp-making--show examples of woodcuts and block prints, then use potatoes, styrafoam trays, and soap to create unique stamps to use and save for later

Materials: potatoes, ivory soap, stryrafoam meat trays, plastic knives, clay tools, drawing paper, water soluble ink, rollers, ink knives, wooden spoons for rubbing

linoleum cutting--show examples of woodcuts and block prints, then show how to make a linocut, including safety training

Materials: linoleum (1 per camper), linoleum tools, candles, mulberry paper, water soluble ink, rollers, ink knives, wooden spoons for rubbing

monoprints (show degas, others)--show how to draw with ink on plexiglass and print directly from this

Materials: plexiglass (1 per camper), brushes, various mark-making tools, tempera paints, rollers, ink knives

Your dream room mixed media—use paint, collage, and printmaking to create an image of your dream room

Materials: all from previous projects, tempera paint, watercolors, oil pastels, pencils, pens, markers, crayons, larger canvas paper (1 per kid)

final project, mixed media artworks--choose a theme or subject, brainstorm, sketch, and use the techniques we've covered over the week as well as drawing and painting to create a work of art of your own

Materials: all from previous projects, tempera paint, watercolors, oil pastels, pencils, pens, markers, crayons, large canvas paper (1 per kid)