Art Camp 2008 ROCKS!!!!

I finally finished the registration info. for my summer art camp. They will start going out today. I hope you are curious and start checking out my blog. There's nothing like MAKING someone leave a comment by offering prizes !!! LOL

Clearly, I am no blog expert, but it is fun.

OKAY..this year's inspiration for art camp comes directly from NEW ORLEANS. Becky and I were lucky enough to attend our first NAEA (National Art Ed Assoc) National Convention. Talk about idea overload!! Imagine thousands of art teachers in one place with literally thousands of workshops to choose from. So cool. As a side note: I WON a Cricut. Maybe some of you scrapbookers KNOW what a Cricut is. ANYWAY....there was a guy there named Dan Dunn. He did the most AMAZING art performance I've EVER seen. His daughter put a video of his performance on YouTube and he is BOOKED forever and rich now. This was only about a year ago. Check out his website at www.paintjam.com and/or his performance on YouTube. Search PaintJam and you will find him.
So as I'm watching this guy...I"m thinking of HOW we can do a paintjam for art camp. I've decided to do a mini-version of what he does. They will be doing a LARGE painting on canvas TO MUSIC while I video it. Now, since I"m NOT technilogically advanced, if any of you have any great ideas on HOW I should video them, let me know. Maybe you have a flip camera or something. Right now, I'm planning on using my video camera which uses a VHS-C cartridge. I will give you a cartridge with your child's performance on it, and you will have to have it put on a disc. I know this can be done at WalMart. If you have more than one child attending, I will try to put them on the same cartridge to save you money. I"M REALLY HOPING that ONE of you parents are laughing at the moment and know of a MUCH EASIER way of doing this .....
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We are also doing painted ROCKS this year based upon a kids book titled: "Only One You". It is an EXCELLENT book that I highly recommend. That's kindof how I came up with this year's theme of Art Camp 2008 ROCKS. We're painting rocks AND doing the PaintJam thing to music. Along with that, I will be teaching them some drawing techniques and they will start a sketchbook that will be their's to keep.

Not TOO SURE about WeePaint this year. We'll be doing SOME kind of painting on canvas. I initially planned to do the "Only One You" book and rocks with them, but I think they would be done in about 5 minutes and you wouldn't be able to tell that their rock is a fish. SO....I'm still thinking about this. Any ideas?

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Suzy