SUMMER CAMP -- Space Stations

The Club House Artists explored space for their three day, 3D art camp. We have everything from pencil rockets to little green aliens. We had a fun time creating our space worlds. The Club House Artists learned how to plan a drawing, divide it into smaller sections, and even divide each object into smaller building blocks. I recall the looks on the eyes of some of the Club House Artists when I told them the plan for the three days. After the first day one artist exclaimed that it was much easier than he thought. He agreed that breaking down each object into simple shapes is the best plan for a successful drawing. They now realize they can draw anything in 3D using a basic cube, cylinder, spheres, and cones as building blocks. (click on the image to see details.)

Space the final frontier. . .

Today was the last day of the current session. It was a beautiful day outside and many kids were out flying kites and playing with balloons. We were inspired by all the activity and decided to do flying objects as well. For the warm up drawing we drew a quick drawing of a hot air balloon. We spent the rest of the class drawing our bubble space villages. I let them come up with their own drawings and only instructed if someone had a question. They came up with some great ideas that we all added.

 I had so much fun that I decided to post my sketch as well this week.

Space, the final pencil frontier!

The Club House Artists and I were focused today. We had a mission of creating the coolest space station around. So focused that I looked up at the clock and class was almost over. Holy circuit breakers! We only had a few minutes left to cover how to draw the craters on the moon and super quick UFO. Time flies when you're having fun!

M (age 5) joined our super team today. We put a bungee cord on her and she held on tight. Soon she found herself drawing a space station worthy of the award,"Best in it's class" for newely engineered space station. She kept up with the older kids as we focused again on our foreshortened circles. We are repeating the shape again so that they can better understand how to build objects using just one simple 3-D shape.

Check out their most awesome work only after two classes, but do remember little M just begun! Betcha, you can't tell either!

For homework the Club House Artists drew more cakes. They were challenged to draw as many tiers as possible. Try counting to see how they did! T took hers to the next level and added color! Br said his was a quick drawing to see how fast he could draw his super tall cake.