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August 9, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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DOLLS AND THEIR HOUSES. The first project at AG Art Camps this summer–painting doll houses for our dolls’ dolls! Doesn’t it look like a row of beach houses at Seaside? Love the color combinations each girl chose.

July 5, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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INTERMEZZO LADIES are back in the studio! We’re attempting a looser style, learning to “let go” and let the watercolor flow! Months devoted to practice and learning, we’re more confident about facing that blank white canvas. We’re ready to trust some intuitive decisions regarding color choices, brush size, mixture of pigments, and various techniques.


As you can see from these images, each one of us are showing improvement. We all enjoyed doing our personal interpretation of this mysterious lady gazing into a secret garden.

July 5, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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SAFARI ART CAMP, DAY 1
My first Safari theme classes were adventuresome! We worked with techniques and mediums new to me and to the young artists. For example, we mixed sand into the tempera paint and used sticks instead of brushes so that our paintings would look “primitive”.


Can you guess what we used to make all of the dots and circles on our snake painting on brown paper bags? We used Q-tips! Try it with acrylics or tempera.


Every day was an adventure with drawing and painting projects. It was fun to “draw from life” so many different carved wooden animals from Kenya. We learned some interesting, facts, too, about God’s wild animal creatures.

June 5, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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EARLY SUMMER NATURE STUDIES. KinderArt students enjoyed gathering nature study items in brown bags. The combination of mosquitos and high humidity forced us back inside to make sketches of leaves, twigs, rocks and flowers we found in the garden by the pond. One student brought Jack, her pet frog, and let the other students observe and draw a real-live-frog! We are compiling our Nature Study drawings in a portfolio.