Summer Camps - Grades 3-5 - One River School Lake Oswego (2024)

While being inspired by Chuck Close, students will be exploring the graphite medium and learn the foundations of drawing. Students will look closely at the human face to learn how to render it naturalistically, along with learning the proper facial proportions.

• Learn how to use the graphite medium
• Demonstrate the proportions of the face and how to render the eyes, nose and mouth
• Complete a realistic portrait drawing

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Students will explore a series of 5 mini projects designed to walk them through the essentials of Adobe Photoshop. The class is for beginners to develop a foundational understanding of the program and discover unique skills to aid them in their future projects!

• Learn to use Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate digital painting, digital illustration & photo manipulation skills
• Complete 5 unique and independent design pieces

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

Students will discover how to use a multiple program work flow to develop a comic strip, with motion! Students will design and illustrate their own characters, backgrounds and word bubbles in Photoshop and animate them using Adobe Animate

• Learn to use a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Animate
• Demonstrate comic techniques: pencils, inking, panels & lettering
• Complete an animated motion comic

*Prior experience in Adobe Animate & Adobe Photoshop is encouraged but not required prior to joining this camp.

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The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

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Pop artists take the simple and common everyday item or image and raise it to fine art. In this class, students will observe and recreate commonplace objects by taking them outside of their typical context to imbue the objects with new meaning.

• Learn how to paint with acrylics and print onto your painting
• Demonstrate the use of color, line, symbolism, and scale
• Complete a mixed media painting in the pop-art style

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Students will explore manga figure drawing by examining their origins: real people. Gesture drawing will get students comfortable with body proportions, musculature, and anatomy. Instructors will demonstrate the nuances that make manga figures unique and recognizable, and personalize the experience by teaching subtle ways students can manipulate proportions, lines, and textures to fit their personal art style.

• Learn how to create dynamic poses by identifying simple shapes and creating gesture drawings
• Demonstrate proficiency in proportion and anatomy
• Complete character drawings that explore different body types, musculature, and structures

In this camp we will focus on rendering a drawing in a realistic, almost photographic way. Students will use multiple reference photographs to create a final drawing that implements subtle transitions in line and shadow, accurate proportions and perspective in an attempt to be mistaken for the real photograph!

• Learn how to draw using the grid technique
• Implement techniques in brightness values, edges & transitions
• Complete a final drawing that combines multiple reference photographs

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Consistent in numerous Manga lore and stories, is the theme of characters with energy powers. Students will discover how to push their illustration skills further with Adobe Photoshop, through advanced lighting and filter effects, in order to produce a team of heroes and villains, clashing with supernatural abilities. During this camp, students will investigate the illustrated physics of energy beams, blasts, and other electric bursts, as well as the dynamic body positions necessary to produce these charges.

• Develop skills in Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to manipulate light and create dynamic effects
• Complete an illustration of a unique manga character

*No prior experience in Adobe Photoshop is required to join this camp, however students will find taking Learn to Use Photoshop helpful when enrolled in this course.

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Our Drawing Intensive is a two-week course geared for the most serious and dedicated pre-college students. Students will cover overarching drawing concepts that relate to understanding and developing skills around essential foundations. The ‘big ideas’ include being able to use formal techniques such as perspective, value, and observational drawing skills. Students will develop skills through mark making, experimentation, and completing a series of drawings across various dry drawing media.

• Learn how to use charcoal, blending stumps, micron pens, chalk pastels, etc
• Demonstrate the understanding of new techniques and strengthen pre-existing skills
• Complete a series of studies and one final drawing combining various techniques

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Students in this camp will discover the essential skills of character design by creating a Character Concept sheet: an illustration which includes a deep investigation into a character’s personality, physical features and views from multiple angles.

• Learn how to render in color digitally
• Demonstrate how to create gestures and expressions
• Complete an illustration of a unique character in various poses

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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While being inspired by Chuck Close, students will be exploring the graphite medium and learn the foundations of drawing. Students will look closely at the human face to learn how to render it naturalistically, along with learning the proper facial proportions.

• Learn how to use the graphite medium
• Demonstrate the proportions of the face and how to render the eyes, nose and mouth
• Complete a realistic portrait drawing

Enroll

From sharks and jellyfish to whales, students will explore the exciting underwater world! They will learn about three-dimensionality and important elements in sculpture-like how to make an armature and how to make something that is freestanding.

• Learn how to make a plaster sculpture
• Demonstrate knowledge of three-dimensional forms and painting techniques
• Complete a life-size sculpture of a sea creature of your choice

Consistent in numerous Manga lore and stories, is the theme of characters with energy powers. Students will discover how to push their illustration skills further with Adobe Photoshop, through advanced lighting and filter effects, in order to produce a team of heroes and villains, clashing with supernatural abilities. During this camp, students will investigate the illustrated physics of energy beams, blasts, and other electric bursts, as well as the dynamic body positions necessary to produce these charges.

• Develop skills in Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to manipulate light and create dynamic effects
• Complete an illustration of a unique manga character

*No prior experience in Adobe Photoshop is required to join this camp, however students will find taking Learn to Use Photoshop helpful when enrolled in this course.

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This camp will examine botanical life by creating a series of intricate watercolor paintings. Instructors will demonstrate watercolor techniques using washes, glazes, wet-on-wet, dry brush, and adding in salt, alcohol and other substances that create magical textures and patterns.

• Learn how to use watercolor paints, colored pencils, and markers
• Demonstrate various watercolor techniques
• Complete a watercolor painting that represents a fantastical landscape

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Students will explore a series of 5 mini projects designed to walk through the essentials of Adobe Animate along with the 12 principles of animation. The class is for beginners to develop a foundational understanding of the program and discover unique skills to aid them in their future projects!

• Learn to use Adobe Animate
• Demonstrate key-frame animation, onion skin, tweens and more
• Complete 5 animated GIFs

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

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This art-making adventure is the perfect way for young artists to explore different paths within the fine arts. Over the course of a week, you will learn important fundamentals about drawing, sculpting, and painting. Every camper will create one new piece of art for each day of camp attended.

• Learn more about where your talent shines brightest.
• Breakdown barriers between traditional forms of studio art.
• Bring home a mini-project for each day of camp.

Students will examine different types of dinosaurs to create their own 3-D rendition - focusing on scale, proportion and texture. From high and low relief sculpture to free-standing sculpture in the round, students will learn the diverse styles and methods of working with clay. Through the processes of experimenting and working with clay, students will learn fundamental sculpting techniques and demonstrate their understanding of 3-D art-making.

• Learn how to use clay
• Demonstrate use of the slip and score method
• Complete two sculpture projects; a fossil and a small scale dinosaur

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Students in this camp will explore the relationship between concept artists and the gaming industry. Students will discover how to develop a series of concept imagery from which an entire gaming world rests upon. They will need to think critically about form, function, size & relationship to achieve a cohesive vision. Excellent for portfolios!

• Develop additional skills in Adobe Photoshop
• Explore contemporary trends in digital painting for concept art.
• Create a collection of concepts for a future game.

*Prior experience in Adobe Photoshop is encouraged prior to joining this camp. Students will find taking Learn to Use Photoshop helpful when enrolled in this course.

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Bring your runway visions to life in this fashion drawing class. Students will learn how to draw a fashion figure with appropriate proportions and in various fashion poses. We will also focus on creating a series of sketches that represents a full fashion line, complete with clothing, shoes and accessories that mimics the textures and materials of the style.

• Learn how to create a fashion figure drawing called a “croquis.”
• Draw with a variety of media to bring your style to life including pencil, marker and watercolor
• Complete a series of fashion drawings that represents your unique style

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Learn the most essential elements of painting through the foundations of acrylic painting. Students will explore how to use this painting medium and its tools to create a series of two paintings, learning about composition and color through the process.

• Learn how to use acrylic paint
• Demonstrate knowledge of composition, color mixing, and value
• Complete two acrylic paintings: one from life and one from a photographic reference

Explore the field of illustration from a new frame of reference. Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and proficiency with the pen and ink drawing medium. Students will learn about today’s illustrators and develop unique concepts of their own.

• Learn how to use micron pens and india ink
• Demonstrate cross hatching, stippling and shading using pen and ink
• Complete a series of three pen and ink drawings

Would you like your art to transport you to a new world? This camp features techniques and methods to turn a blank digital canvas into a vast open “other worldly” universe. Students of this camp will explore how to render fantastical landscapes with burning skies, poisonous atmospheres, bizarre plant life and tilted mountain ranges. Transport your viewers to an undiscovered world in this camp.

• Learn skills in digital painting with Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate how to render landscapes with emphasis on realism
• Complete a digital painting of an alien or fantasy landscape

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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Explore wings, fangs, scales, horns, and more as you imagine your own dragon creation! Students will learn foundational sculpting techniques as they work with armature building and clay to create three-dimensional works of art.

• Learn how to use clay and watercolor paint
• Demonstrate the use of wire armatures, and the slip and score method
• Complete a large scale dragon sculpture and watercolor resist painting

Sourcing inspiration from the small elemental creatures found throughout numerous anime films and the small side kicks that support & accompany main characters along a journey, students in this camp will design, create and animate their own unique elemental sprites or side kicks within a scene. Students will familiarize themselves with techniques & principles associated with Animation including: key framing, onion skin, timing & secondary actions.

• Dive deeper on skill sets within Adobe Animate
• Demonstrate how to animate a character using warps and tweens
• Complete a 15 second animation featuring a character of your choice

*Prior experience in Adobe Animate is encouraged prior to joining this camp. Students will find taking Learn to Use Animate helpful when enrolled in this course.

Enroll

The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

Enroll

Flow art, also known as acrylic pour painting, is a form of abstract art that uses acrylic paints with a variety of consistencies to create different effects. Layers of paint are poured into a cup, which then react with each other when combined to create organic free-flowing abstract compositions. Students will learn about color theory, different texture creating techniques and how to prepare a canvas for flow painting.

• Learn techniques such as “the bloom effect,” ribboning, flip-cup and dirty pour
• Experiment with paint mediums to create different textures and paint reactions
• Complete a series of acrylic flow paintings that demonstrates new techniques you have learned

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Students in this camp will explore how to build a character from the ground up. Everything will be covered in this camp! From ideation, sketching, inking to full rendering techniques, students will test their creativity and art making skills through the use of digital software. If you have an original character in your mind which is burning to get out, you would be in the right place!

• Learn how to use tools in SketchBook Pro
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of character design and rendering.
• Complete an original character design.

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

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Students will use their imagination to design and construct a pop-up house that represents their unique interests and personality while exploring fun, tactile art materials. We will look at famous buildings and homes right within our community to gain inspiration and a deeper appreciation for buildings around us.

• Manipulate cardboard, paper and everyday objects to create a 3D model
• Learn basic building and painting techniques to create form and texture
• Complete a 3D sculptural object of the house from your imagination

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The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

Enroll

Students will explore a series of 5 mini projects designed to walk them through the essentials of Adobe Photoshop. The class is for beginners to develop a foundational understanding of the program and discover unique skills to aid them in their future projects!

• Learn to use Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate digital painting, digital illustration & photo manipulation skills
• Complete 5 unique and independent design pieces

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

Enroll

Aspiring cartoonists will make their own “gag-a-day” comic strips in this fun camp that will combine illustration, storytelling and humor in sequential art making. We will look at the role comics have played in history, from Sunday cartoons like Blondie and Popeye to today’s popular webcomics like Loading Artist, Awkward Zombie, Mr. Lovenstein, Safely Endangered and many more.

• Learn how to create cartoon panels by focusing on size, format and line art
• Add humor to your story by emphasizing comic effect using verbal and visual wit
• Complete an original comic strip using pencil, microns and illustration markers

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Learn how to establish a cohesive vision for your brand. Either for social media influencers or emerging young entrepreneurs, students of this camp will learn how to develop a visual identity through the use of typography, icons, graphics & other assets created during class.

• Learn how to establish a brand
• Demonstrate an understanding of target audience, visual identity & cohesive design.
• Create a branded collection of assets

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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Cartoonists endeavor to create innovative storylines featuring fun and interesting characters, inspiring today’s students to do the same. Students will demonstrate their creativity and imagination through original creations of characters and stories, learning illustration essentials from cover to panel designs.

• Learn how to use colored pencils and illustration markers
• Demonstrate how to create storyboards
• Complete a ten-panel page comic

Fuse the world of fashion and art through this camp, creating original t-shirt designs. Students practice technical aspects of design such as composition and pattern while cultivating their originality through conceptual thinking. Students will borrow inspiration from today’s trends to create designs that demonstrate their individual tastes and styles.

• Learn how to use ink, brayers, and illustration makers
• Demonstrate how to use printmaking techniques
• Complete a fabric swatch, printed t-shirt, and fashion illustration

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Students will begin their oil paint journey in this camp starting with preparatory skills such as brush orientation, to more advanced techniques like medium control. They will learn about color and paint application to create an oil painting.

• Learn how paint with oil and a painting medium
• Demonstrate skills across color mixing and paint application
• Complete a series of oil paint experimentations and one finished painting

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What is the best way to improve your figure drawings? Learn and practice drawing the anatomy of the human figure, from muscles to the skeletal structure. Students will work intensely in drawing the body from multiple angles and positions while also exploring line quality and tone.

• Learn how draw the proportions of the human figure
• Demonstrate skills across drawing in value, tone and line
• Complete a series of drawings that capture the figure realistically and anatomically accurate

Are your graphics too boring? Dull? Lifeless? Perhaps they should be in motion! Students of this camp will discover how to bring elements of time and space into their imagery to create Graphics with Motion! Together they will explore how to bring shapes, typography and icons to life through movement.

• Develop skills in Adobe After Effects
• Demonstrate a foundational understanding of motion graphics and how to rotate, flip, squish, stretch, transform and morph moving vector graphics.
• Complete a motion graphic for a personal logo

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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Students will explore environmental design by creating a cartoon-inspired business for a class collaborative project, ToonTown! Students will illustrate their cartoon business’s building & environment, the items they will sell and characters who will run the business.

• Learn how to illustrate using digital drawing and painting tools
• Demonstrate perspective and rendering techniques
• Complete an illustration of a whimsical building & props

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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Explore different types of sculpture from freestanding to relief, and experiment with sculpting techniques such as additive and subtractive. Students will learn how to create two clay sculptures incorporating these essential foundations.

• Learn how to use clay and sculpting tools
• Demonstrate mastery in the additive and subtractive sculpture techniques
• Complete two sculptures: one freestanding and one relief

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The goal of an “animatic” is to help artists define the pace and timing of their animation in the pre-production phase. In this camp we will create multiple drawings that illustrate the characters and narrative of an original story. After students create their drawings, they will stitch them together to form a short video with an added soundtrack. An animatic is the precursor to the final animation, and is a key part of the planning process. This camp is a great pre-requisite for students taking animation or motion comics camps.

• Learn how to draft your story, plan your scenes and define the pace and timing
• Demonstrate skills across illustration, storytelling and character design
• Complete a series of drawings that will ultimately be a final video that defines your animation

This drawing adventure is the perfect way for teens to explore sketching and learn techniques that they can take with them for all their future sketchbook adventures. Each day we will focus on sketching a different subject and learn a new sketching technique.

• Explore hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, scribbling and shading
• Evoke different emotions through your sketches daily
• Bring home a new sketch each day across a variety of subject matter

Consistent in numerous Manga lore and stories, is the theme of characters with energy powers. Students will discover how to push their illustration skills further with Adobe Photoshop, through advanced lighting and filter effects, in order to produce a team of heroes and villains, clashing with supernatural abilities. During this camp, students will investigate the illustrated physics of energy beams, blasts, and other electric bursts, as well as the dynamic body positions necessary to produce these charges.

• Develop skills in Adobe Photoshop
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to manipulate light and create dynamic effects
• Complete an illustration of a unique manga character

*No prior experience in Adobe Photoshop is required to join this camp, however students will find taking Learn to Use Photoshop helpful when enrolled in this course.

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Let’s go wild! Learning to draw realistically is a crucial and fundamental skill for any aspiring artist. Students will study various animal anatomies to help them create accurate, proportionate, and to scale drawings of their favorite animals!

• Learn how to draw with graphite and pastel
• Demonstrate how to create proper proportions and realistic anatomy drawings
• Complete one graphite and one pastel animal drawing

Explore leopards, parrots, chimpanzees, and more all while learning about three-dimensional art. In this camp, students will be able to create sculptural works of art including ones with wearability and durability through functioning headdresses, capes, and masks.

• Learn how to use plaster and acrylic paint
• Demonstrate the use of armatures, and realistic painting techniques
• Create a three-dimensional jungle animal sculpture

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Flow art, also known as acrylic pour painting, is a form of abstract art that uses acrylic paints with a variety of consistencies to create different effects. Layers of paint are poured into a cup, which then react with each other when combined to create organic free-flowing abstract compositions. Students will learn about color theory, different texture creating techniques and how to prepare a canvas for flow painting.

• Learn techniques such as “the bloom effect,” ribboning, flip-cup and dirty pour
• Experiment with paint mediums to create different textures and paint reactions
• Complete a series of acrylic flow paintings that demonstrates new techniques you have learned

Enroll

Students will learn digital drawing techniques as they create digital illustrations featuring manga characters and backgrounds. Instructors will focus on guiding students through various digital drawing techniques using a variety of digital brushes, filters and visual effects.

• Learn how to draw using Adobe Photoshop and XP Pens
• Demonstrate proficiency in composition and use of color
• Complete a digitally drawn manga themed illustration

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

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Students will create a unique fabric artwork inspired by Japanese scenery. Mixed media techniques such as painting, batik and printmaking will be used to create one cohesive design.

• Experiment with different patterns through printmaking
• Learn about the Batik resist technique
• Complete a dyed fabric painting with a block printed element

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Eyes are one of the most fascinating and fun elements of the face to draw, and they can often tell you the story of the person behind them. In this camp we will study how to draw the human eye from different angles and how to render it realistically using lighting, form and texture.

• Learn how to use graphite pencils and shading techniques
• Demonstrate how to draw realistic features while adding imaginative elements
• Complete a series of pencil drawings of the eye

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Explore underwater creatures from the familiar sea turtle to the exotic vampire squid. Students will learn a variety of watercolor painting techniques as they create unique underwater scenes!

• Learn how to use watercolor paints and techniques
• Demonstrate knowledge of the watercolor medium and different painting tools
• Complete a series of watercolor paintings of various underwater scenes

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The recent street-art movement marked by artists like Banksy has placed graffiti on the map and grown to be an accepted creative outlet. Students will create a street art painting to convey a message after learning about the various impacts of public art.

• Learn how to use spray paint and acrylic paint in a larger scale
• Demonstrate how to make custom stencils and various spray painting techniques.
• Complete a street art piece that conveys a message inspired by symbolism and iconicism

Enroll

Students in this camp will explore how to build a character from the ground up. Everything will be covered in this camp! From ideation, sketching, inking to full rendering techniques, students will test their creativity and art making skills through the use of digital software. If you have an original character in your mind which is burning to get out, you would be in the right place!

• Learn how to use tools in SketchBook Pro
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of character design and rendering.
• Complete an original character design.

*No prior experience in digital art making is required to join this camp. Welcome to all!

Enroll

Sourcing inspiration from the small elemental creatures found throughout numerous anime films and the small side kicks that support & accompany main characters along a journey, students in this camp will design, create and animate their own unique elemental sprites or side kicks within a scene. Students will familiarize themselves with techniques & principles associated with Animation including: key framing, onion skin, timing & secondary actions.

• Dive deeper on skill sets within Adobe Animate
• Demonstrate how to animate a character using warps and tweens
• Complete a 15 second animation featuring a character of your choice

*Prior experience in Adobe Animate is encouraged prior to joining this camp. Students will find taking Learn to Use Animate helpful when enrolled in this course.

Enroll

Learn how the humble colored pencil can be a powerful artmaking tool and medium in this camp. Students will learn and use important drawing techniques to create a colored pencil drawing. They will also learn various shading techniques while experimenting with color.

• Learn how to use colored pencils
• Demonstrate knowledge of color and shading
• Complete a colored pencil drawing of a unique still life

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Explore wings, fangs, scales, horns, and more as students imagine their own dragon creations! Students will learn foundational sculpting techniques as they work with armature building and clay to create three-dimensional works of art.

• Learn how to build with clay and paint
• Demonstrate the use of wire armatures, and the slip and score method
• Complete a dragon sculpture and watercolor resist painting

Enroll

This camp is for any student that has ever been curious about the stars that exist when looking up at the sky on a clear summer night. Students will examine relevant concepts in astronomy and cosmology inspiring them to create renderings of what they imagine beyond planet Earth.

• Learn how to use watercolor, acrylic, and collage
• Demonstrate the use of light, tone, and shade
• Complete a mixed media painting of your own galaxy

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