KIDS CREATING ART: April 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010

Summer Art / Yoga Camps Around The Corner!

   Summer Camps for Children
   Combining Art & Yoga!!

July 12-16     Scarborough
July 19-23     Scarborough
August 16-20 Mississauga

~ An all Day Program 9am -4pm
~ Cost: $140 + $20 for Art Supplies = $160.00

~ Brown Bag it or pay $16/child per week

Bring Creativity, Fun and Play to your child's summertime!

with an Art Camp combining Art and Yoga.

A balanced program of art and yoga promotes freedom, self-expression and confidence.

~ Art exercises develop your child's creativity and self-expression
~ Yoga poses provide stretching and strengthening, while promoting balance, coordination and concentration... and vitality.

An indoor and outdoor program:

Please have children dress appropriately for play and mess-making!
Scarborough location: 17 Burridge Rd.(Lawrence & Bellamy)
Mississauga Location: 7018 Lessard Lane( Mavis/ Old Derry Rd)
Contact me at 416-357-6820 or email katherine.hartel@gmail.com

March Break Art Camp ~ Day 5: Shoe Monsters & Tie-Dye!

AM: We made rubbings of our shoes and made 'Monsters' of them

LUNCH TIME!! We made individual pizzas from scratch-works of art & YUMMY!!

PM: Then we made tie-dye T-shirts and a pillow case.

..unfortunately no photos of the finished products were taken before they left for 'home'!
Showing Off: To complete the week we displayed all the beautiful works for parents and relatives to see!

March Break Art Camp ~ Day 4: 'Art Happening' in the Neighborhood!!

AM: Making a difference with chalk in the neighborhood!
~sidewalks, paths and bridges were lit up with magical designs, colorful arrows and directions, and inspirational words; art to change the spirit of a place with youthful play and exhuberance!!

Picnic time ..

PM: Abstract Expressionism on the Lawn...
Anyone driving by our house would have wondered, 'what's up with those kids?? Are they painting the grass?? No ~ they are just making their own Jackson Pollock style paintings; the girls picked pink as a base and boys worked in a black and white theme.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

March Break Art Camp ~ Day 3; Collaging with found materials

A day long event; With masonite boards...

.....and boxes of left over fabrics from my sewing days, seeds and other found objects; these children created wonderful imaginative fabric collage scenes! Note: I gave them no direction with their images so it was fascinating to see what emerged.....

A vast ocean scene by Dashran;

The Four Seasons by Theeran

A landscape with birch tree( inc. a birds nest) by Anamika

Composition of Favourite Fabrics & Colours by Alexia

March Break Art Camp ~ Day 2

Day 2 Activities:

We researched different types of art on-line; impressionism, the realism of Andrew Wyeth; and the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock
We went for a sketching hike on the ravine path. Found some interesting snow and ice patches; tree trunks to draw and ducks to photograph.

Then we created collages.

March Break Art Camp - 2010: Day 1

Art Camp with Katherine Hartel:

I am committed to having young people be able to explore and discover the magical world of creation and find their unique self-expression. The experience of playing with the camera, drawing materials and colors in various mediums such as pastels, acrylic paints and even chalk and found materials allow this discovery to arise.

Day 1 March Break Art Camp:

The children got their own sketchbooks;created title pages and listed what they would like to get out of Art Camp. We looked at shapes and drawing materials; colors and color spectrum.

Since the weather co-operated with us we also went on a wonderful hike in the park taking photographs and getting ideas for how to look at landscape and objects in that landscape.
Photographs: Theeran's Stream photo, Anamika's Pink Grafiti photo, Dashran's Grafiti photo, Anamika's TreeTrunk 'Face' and some examples of Day 1 work.