Art Camp Day #5

The fifth day of Art Camp was great! I'm sorry I couldn't post this sooner, But my family and I were in North Carolina, and they didn't have a computer where we were staying. I'll tell you about our trip later. Anyway, on the fifth day we studied Vincent van Gogh(pronounced as Go). My cousin E was there. Van Gogh was an artist who made his art by drawing or painting little lines to form something in a picture. For our project we used crayons to make a sky. Next, we painted over the crayon with either black or blue paint. Then we got a black strip of paper and cut it out to look like, say, a city skyline or a village or something, and then we glued that to the bottom of the page. When we were done we played. It started raining. On the first day we said that if it started raining we would all run to the driveway and lie down so that when we got up the places where we lay would be lighter than the rest of the ground. It worked and was really cool! When that was over we had lunch and acted as human TVs. We ate on a screen porch, so the if you were acting something out, you would go where there was a square of screen stuff lined with wood and act out a bunch of channels with some other people, while the people inside would change the channels. There was no planning, so none of the people channels knew what the other people channels would do, but we just kind of chose one of the scenes to, such as Sesame Street or opera, and acted it out. It was really fun, but then we weren't aloud to go outside so we couldn't do it anymore. After lunch, we started setting up for the end of camp exhibit thing that we do every year. Sadly, it had to be inside because it didn't stop raining. So we had different areas for each of the artists that we did. This year for the first time our parents could do what we did, too! We made watercolor backgrounds for Salvador Dali, got mud from the creek and small cardboard squares for Jean DuBuffet, put out colored paper and scissors for Escher, and put wet dirt in a little dish so that our parents could shape it for Maya Lin. I don't think there was anything set out for van Gogh. After the exhibit we all went home with our artwork and did whatever we did.