eARTh - Falmouth

 Monday

Today was all about learning how to be a resourceful artist. We learned that we can use household items around us to make different art mediums. Today we used eye shadow, Caribic powder, and a textile medium base to create shimmery eye shadow paint. Late on we learned that we can use our own body as art utensils in our group foot and finger painting project. We ended with the concept of using our body as the canvas, with some awesome face painting!

Tuesday

What a special treat today. The founder
of DaVinci Experience, Judy Crosby, came in to do painting demos for the children and talk about earth pigments and homemade paints. Judy holds an art degree from the University of Southern Maine and loves to share her vast knowledge in painting with the children. Later on, the kids got to try their own hand in earth paint, collecting soils and items from the woods to make paints and paint brushes. We learned about why different soils are different colors and got creative with our art utensils. 

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Wednesday

The most creative and delicious day of the week! We used food our our medium today. We started off simple with some whip cream paint. In the afternoon we smushed fruits, mixed spices, and used condiments to create amazing works of art. 

Thursday

Make your own water color day! The campers made some beautiful nature scapes with their own homemade water colors. In the afternoon we smashed chalk and mixed with water to make chalk paint. Juniors after talking about famous painters wanted to try painting upside down just like Renaissance artist Michelangelo when painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Friday

We finished off the week strong with a wacky paint day. Splatter paining, balloon painting, and then some fun in the sprinklers. This was our last week in our Falmouth location. Many of our campers have been coming all summer long, and some are brand new this week. We hope to see everyone again next year!