Camp HeARTfull Art Camp is Amazing!

Supplies! Check. Folders! Check. Bible Lessons! Check. Sign Made! Check 

Everything is ready.

Camp HeARTfull is named for a heart-full of God's word and ART. So each day the campers do a bible lesson and an art project connecting the biblical truths they learned that day. It is a great way to make it all stick! We had an awesome time learning who God created us to be AND doing fun art on day 1!

This is the best of bible study and art lessons for kids! 

Lesson 1: Plan and Purpose- God has a plan and we have a purpose! 

Squirt gun painting and material prep!

As we prepared our materials the kids learned that they also have a purpose. We too, are created with purpose and this is revealed to us as we grow in the strength and knowledge of our Lord.  

Holland and Lena painting abstractly!

Masterpieces Drying

The aftermath of squirt gun painting-doesn't it look like fun?

The purpose of their painting was finally revealed and they created a journal to hold their bible study lessons in for the week. From those sweet faces, it looks like they had fun creating.

More to come tomorrow!

Vincent, Vino and ...Golf?

Yes there is such a thing! This year at the Camp McCullough Women's Golf Tournament,  I am donating a painting package for four and a tournament prize, $125.00 value.  This is The Apprentice Art Studio's version of a "paint and pour". I look forward  to a great evening of learning and painting with a little vino on the side! The bonus: the money raised will go to the scholarship fund at Camp McCullough to help kids who can't go to camp because of financial hardship. This is near and dear to my heart, because I love kids, art, and summer camp! It feels good to give back to my community too. If you would like to donate or sponsor a hole or even go play, go HERE for more information, or HERE to their Facebook page.

As they say, "it's for the kids."

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Spring and Summer Offerings

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Would you like to see what I have been working on...?

Waterlily 

9 x 12 Watercolor 2013

Hi Art Students! Each summer I take some sort of art class and spend some much needed time, honing my own artistic skills. This summer I had the privilege of  having a private art lesson from a local artist and one of my dearest friends, Laura. She had taken a watercolor class from Jeannie Vodden in California and thought I might enjoy this watercolor technique. Boy did I ever! I have painted one painting(above)with this technique and I am working on my second. I am painting from photographs that I like. In Quite a Pear I have changed the colors of the pears to be pleasing in the area where it will be hung. The really amazing thing is this technique utilizes three colors (a rose, yellow, and Phthalo blue) for most of the painting! Hard to believe but it is true.

 Quite a Pear

18 x 22 Watercolor 

So students think about this, I am mixing colors by layering thin coats of pigments, but I am also changing the values of these layers to get the different colors. Pretty awesome! The picture you see above is still in process, maybe two-thirds of  the way done. However, you can see how I have laid down thin layers of rose and blue and yellow on the right and on the left it has a couple layers of yellow, can you see the difference?

I hope you spent some time this summer working and practicing and honing your own art skills and are ready for a great school year!

Students if you are looking for some tips to prepare for class click here