AWE Summer

First Day at AWE: It’s your first time here so you start a drawing that you are comfortable with. Mid-morning, you go outside with a couple of other students and try watercolor painting at the park. After lunch, you try an art form that you’ve never done before like, print-making. Second Day: You’re ready to start a painting. You’ve thought about what you want it to be about but, you’ll need help with blending color and figuring out the composition. You search for a visual reference as an aid. In the afternoon, you ink up the print block you carved yesterday and a really nice image emerges. You’re learning new things. Day Three: You’re fearless. You’ve completed three art pieces and like what you’re doing. It’s hard and rewarding. You get ideas when you see all the art being made around you. You watch someone make a book and you hope you have time to make one before the end of the week. You think about your art when you’re home. Fourth Day: You’re going to sew a bag today. You saw someone else do it and it motivates you. You have to manage your time to finish it and all the art you plan to get done by the end of the week. You complete your bag at the end of the day. You add the print you made as a design element on the front flap of the bag. Day Five: The final day and your last painting is almost done. You’re super proud of it. You still have time to make your own personal sketch book. You choose your fabric and add that print you made on the cover. You’ve created art everyday, all day, this whole week. It was really fun. You want to do it again. Next time, a sculpture and a claymation video. Ask if there are any openings in the other sessions and make that video and sculpture!