Art Camp 4
August 22 – 27, 2010
Camp de Benneville Pines
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Cost: $500 per person
Includes food, lodging, materials, instruction and model fees
What is Art Camp all about? It is an intense 6 day camp limited to 16 adults. Activities include Life Drawing, Drawing and Painting in the Forest, art related lectures and an exhibition at camp of work produced during the week. All levels of art skills are invited to participate.
Beginners will receive instruction in fundamental art skills. Intermediate level artists will build upon those skills already honed as well as develop new skills. Advanced artists can expect to have an opportunity to brush up on technique, enhance skills and work with a live model as well as out in nature.
Course Descriptions
LIFE DRAWING
Instructors Laura Janes and Greg Zook
2 hours 30 minutes
These drawing sessions are designed for the beginner, the intermediate and the advance artist to enjoy drawing from a live model in a relaxed environment. Each artist may choose their level of instruction in this course. Easels and some materials are provided. Feel free to bring your own equipment.
DRAWING AND PAINTING IN THE WOODS
Instructor Laura Janes
2 hours
Using varied materials, artists will spend time at their easels in the forest. Building on ideas from the Life Drawing sessions, artists are encouraged to see relationships of natural forms and to translate that form onto canvas. As with Life Drawing, each artist may choose the level of instruction they need to feel comfortable with the assignment.
Materials are provided, but you may wish to bring your own supplies.
HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT THE FOREST AROUND DE BENNEVILLE
Instructor Manon Washburn
1 hour 15 minutes, Monday only
Twenty years of painting the scenery of de Benneville makes Manon Washburn an
expert in the details and lighting in the surrounding woodlands. Manon will share her
insights on how to capture and reflect the awesome power of this landscape.
LIGHT
Instructor Greg Brown
1 hour 15 minutes, Tuesday only
Art Camper and Architect, Greg Brown, will talk with us about light as it applies to your painting and drawing.
MY LIFE AS AN ARTIST
Speaker Julius Schwartz
1 hour 15 minutes, Wednesday only
Julius has created an amazing body of work in his lifetime. Come join Julius and celebrate his wonderful and whimsical paintings, drawings and pastels. His work is an inspiration of his imagination!
HOW TO CREATE A SLIDESHOW OF YOUR ARTWORK
Instructor Dick Granoff
1 hour 15 minutes, Wednesday only
Following Julius’ body of work in a slideshow, Dick will show us how he and Julius created the slideshow.
OTHER ACTIVITIES INCLUDE A CAMP ART SHOW
Artists will be able to jury and then display their camp-created art during a special showing on the last night of camp. Campers attending other programs at camp will thrill to see the art and its week-long progression.
OTHER DETAILS
This will be the fourth summer that de Benneville Pines has offered Art Camp. It always sells out, so please get your reservation in early. Art Camp takes place during the same week Camp for Grownups! is taking place. Camp for Grownups! is a fun offering of activities: swimming, hiking, dancing, crafts, poetry, movies, workshops, massage, tai chi, yoga and a keynote speaker each day. Art campers are encouraged to invite a friend to accompany them to camp who can participate in the Camp for Grownups! Additionally, Camp for Grownups! offers a Photo Camp Intensive for anyone wishing to spend several hours a day improving upon and building digital camera techniques. Camp for Grownups! is a great way to have an inexpensive, yet meaningful, vacation.