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Register for Art Camp Today!

Seating is limited, so you’ll want to register for our 2017 Summer Art Camp before it’s too late! This year, we will be offering six different week-long courses, with focuses on charcoal, graphite, pastels, and acrylic paints. There’s something for everyone, including children and adults. Each class is five days long (Monday through Friday), and runs from 1:00pm to 4:00pm each day. That’s a total of 15 hours of instructional time per course!

We will begin the summer with the easiest level course, and work our way into the more advanced topics as the summer progresses. The class schedule is designed such that a determined beginner could easily progress from one course to the next and be an advanced artist by the end of the summer. Feel free to register for just one, or for as many as you like! The topics for this year’s summer art camps are:

• June 5-9: Beginner Drawing Studio Ages 6-Adult
• June 12-16: Figures and Faces 1 Ages 6-Adult
• June 19-23: Ultimate Color Theory Ages 6-Adult
• June 26-30: Wide Open Spaces 1 Ages 6-Adult
• July 17-21: Figures and Faces 2 Ages 10-Adult
• July 24-28: Wide Open Spaces 2 Ages 10-Adult

This year, our summer camp courses will be offered at a new venue: Spirit Made Steel Martial Arts, on Slaughter Rd. in Madison. This new, larger room will give us the flexibility to spread out a bit more, which means larger-scale drawings and paintings for the more advanced courses. Exciting!

Maximum class size is 20 registrants per course. All courses are taught by Noel Newquist, known across Madison City Schools as Mr. New. Want more information? Keep reading below for a brief description of each course.

Beginner Drawing Studio: Drawing Skills for Ages 6-Adult

In our first art camp of the summer, students will draw with graphite and charcoal, using still-life objects as well as photographs for references. We’ll learn to master the following:

• Lines and shapes
• Shading
• Textures
• Rendering 3D forms and spaces

When: Mon-Fri, Jun 5-9, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $125 (supplies included)

Registration Deadline: Friday, May 19 (Late registrations add $25).

Figures and Faces 1: Portraits for Ages 6-Adult

In class number two, students will continue to draw with graphite and charcoal, this time using mirrors, photographs, themselves, and each other for references. We’ll learn to master the following:

• Proportions of the human figure
• Proportions of the human face
• Drawing figures in action
• Drawing faces with expression

When: Mon-Fri, Jun 12-16, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $125 (supplies included).

Registration Deadline: Friday, May 26 (Late registrations add $25).

Ultimate Color Theory: Acrylic Techniques for Ages 6-Adult

The third class of this year’s art camp is all about color. Students will use acrylic paints to learn everything there is to know about color. We’ll learn to master the following:

• Color mixing
• Warm/cool color relationships
• Understanding the human eye
• Hue, saturation and value
• Additive vs. subtractive color theories
• Using color schemes

When: Mon-Fri, Jun 19-23, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $150 (supplies included).

Registration Deadline: Friday, June 2 (Late registrations add $25).

Wide Open Spaces 1: Intermediate Landscapes for Ages 6-Adult

The fourth class of the summer is where things begin to get a little more difficult. Students will draw with chalk pastels, using photographs and the great outdoors as inspiration and reference. We’ll learn to master the following:

• 3D forms and spaces (using one-point perspective and aerial perspective)
• Landscape, seascape, cityscape, skyscape, and outer space
• Color blending, and using chromatic coloring techniques
• Foreground, middle ground, and background

When: Mon-Fri, Jun 26-30, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $125 (supplies included).

Registration Deadline: Friday, June 9 (Late registrations add $25).

Figures and Faces 2: Advanced Portraits for Ages 10-Adult

By the time we reach the fifth class of the summer, we’ll be diving in to advanced concepts. Some students are already advanced enough to join this course, but even a novice would be ready for this class after taking the Beginner Drawing Studio and Ultimate Color Theory classes. Students will draw colored portraits in soft pastels, using mirrors, photographs, themselves, and each other for references. We’ll learn to master the following:

• Proportions of the human figure and face
• Drawing active poses
• Color selections based on observation and expression
• Chromatic coloring techniques

When: Mon-Fri, July 17-20, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $125 (supplies included).

Registration Deadline: Friday, June 30 (Late registrations add $25).

Wide Open Spaces 2: Advanced Landscapes for Ages 10-Adult

This class is the season finale of our 2017 Summer Art Camp. Students will paint wide open spaces, using photographs and the great outdoors as inspiration and reference. We’ll learn to master the following:

• Paint layering, blending, and mixing techniques
• Aerial perspective
• Compositional layout
• Landscape, seascape, cityscape, skyscape, and outer space
• Positive and negative space

When: Mon-Fri, July 24-28, 1:00pm – 4:00pm (15 hours total).

Cost: $150 (supplies included)

Registration Deadline: Friday, July 7 (Late registrations add $25).