Bone Creek employees concluded Butler County Arts Council’s Summer Art Day Camp this year with two creative and messy sessions. In the first session, led by Sarah, participants used Mod Podge to secure layers of colorful fabric strips around a reused plastic container. Once dry, these strips held their position to become eclectic fabric mâché trinket bowls. Gabrielle turned participants loose to experiment with four different painting methods. In one of the students’ favorite paintings, they squeezed paint into dots and lines on a paper and used a squeegee to drag the paint down the page leaving behind an attractive pattern. Forks, palette knives, and paint swirls helped decorate other paintings. The freedom to experiment and create with fabric and paint inspired an energetic and imaginative day.
Meet your new art day camp teacher for July 29-31, 2024. She will be joined by art instructors Addie Zook, Sarah Juranek, and Gabrielle Comte.
Charity Schafer is an artist and art teacher at Our Redeemer in Staplehurst, Nebraska where she has been since 2018. She graduated from Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska with a Bachelors in Elementary Education endorsed in Fine Arts.
She will be joined by Addie Zook, Sarah Juranek, and Gabrielle Comte July 29, 30 and 31 for 6 art day camp sessions.
Descriptions of art lessons:
Notans
Learn about symmetry, split complementary colors, and negative and positive space with a project on Japanese Notans. Students will make their own notan collage using colored tissue paper and black construction paper.
Foam prints
Students will use foam blocks to explore different ways of relief printing, including marker, ink, and paint.
Watercolor Resist Painting using Oil Pastels
Learn about watercolor techniques and resist painting. Students will create a rainy day resist painting using watercolor paint and oil pastels.
