“Island Adventures� Dot Painting Project « A-Blog

During “Island Adventures” week, our campers made some amazing island-inspired artwork, entirely from dots! “The dot painting project was based loosely on the Haitian folk art flags created with sequins,” explains art teacher Sue Rice.Â* “We looked at some of the imagery, such as animals, sea creatures, boats and mermaids, and explored how to simplify the images so that they could be represented with through <a href="http://www.salehandbagsbags.com"><strong>cheap gucci handbags for sale</strong></a> the building up of and layering of dots.” “The emphasis of the project was on color theory (cool and warm, bright and dull, combining opposites) and not on detailedÂ*drawings. “We also looked at two dot-crazy European painters, Seurat and Van Gogh, and examined their paintings with a magnifying glass to see how each would combine a surprising <a href="http://www.salehandbagsbags.com"><strong>lv handbags</strong></a> array of colors to make, say, a tree trunk or a hat. “For the painting project we used a variety of media in a certain sequence– watercolor foundation, then dot markers, cork dots with tempera paints, stick-on dots, and tiny q-tip-painted dots on top. The students could <a href="http://metaverse.stanford.edu/live-video-stream#comment-8927"><strong>Fashion Replica Breitling Watches give you a chance to be a ...</strong></a> experiment with color and media combinations that produced often surprising results.” To see more of our “Island Adventures” camp week, check out our online slideshow. Tags: arts camp This entry was posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm and is filed under Arts Camp, Creative Kids. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.