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During “Island Adventures” week, our campers made some amazing island-inspired artwork, <a href="http://www.blackugg-boots.com/"><strong>discount ugg boot</strong></a> 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 <a href="http://www.abercrombiefitchus.com/af-ladies-beach-short-c-13.html"><strong>A&F Ladies Beach Short</strong></a> be represented with through 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 array of colors <a href="http://www.suprasforcheap.com/"><strong>Supra Shoes UK</strong></a> 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 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: <a href="http://rooyee.org/view.php?id=2501"><strong>mbt chapa chili -Jordan “Road apt the Championshipâ€� » Konkeep.com ...</strong></a> 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.