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 Davinci Experience Summer Camp at Falmouth Campus


Illustrious Illustrators Week


Calling all artists! Get ready with your drawing pad! This week at Davinci, camper's learned about illustration and story telling through art.

Monday

Campers were asked, what is an Author? Who is an illustrator? Campers focused on learning how illustrators use art to help tell stories. 

Tuesday

The second day of camp, campers learned about local authors such as Chris Vanducent, the author of If I Built a House series. They learned about the Caldecott award, an annual award granted to the most exceptional illustrators of children books.

Wednesday 

What is a comic book? What makes a comic book different from other forms for story telling? On Wednesday, we learned about comics and had the opportunity to make our own. Campers were introduced to classic books such as Calvin and Hobbes. The younger campers were read Elephant and Piggy by author, Mo Willems, who using the comic book format to tell his stories. 

Thursday

Campers learned about claymation and how stop motion is used to create movies. In small groups, campers brainstormed to come up with their own claymation movie. They then used clay to create their own claymation characters. Using cardboard and other materials, campers made movie sets and then filmed their own claymation movies.

Friday

On our final day of illustration camp, campers wrapped up the week by creating their own painted illustrations. 







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