Last Day of Art Camp

Today I arrived early. At 9:35, when the start time was 9:45, there were still people there. So I got a tour of the room. Our tire sculptures and my group's paintings were hung up. So I chose a spot and sat down. I was irate with myself for not replacing my pencil lead.

So gradually the people came. Then Kirsten (the head of the camp) told us that our parents would come and walk around here. They would put up more of our artwork up, and we would lead them around at the end of the day.

So we started out with Wendy. She gave us our clay birds to put up in the trees around us. So, mine was very fragile. So when she was talking, first the wing came out. Then the body broke in half. So I grabbed a chunk of museum wax and inputted it. I then placed it on the tree, hoping that the wind wouldn't blow it off.

Wendy then told us that we were to make a big nest for our enviromental birds. So we were to find bark, wood, etc. to make a huge nest. So I grabbed three 3" diameter peices of rotten wood.

We went to the nest site were the previous group had started working on it. Wendy had already hung up our enviromental birds. So we went down a trail to find more pieces. We toyed with the idea of rolling 4' diametered logs over.

After that, someone decided to make a sign saying "The wicked bird of the west". It was a little oddball, but okay. Then we worked on our artist statements about it. Then we went to lunch.

Today Patrick (one of the assistants) decided to the flags behind a wall. I poked him saying ,"That was too easy!"

However, the red flag broke. On one of our "cheese" collisions, it broke.

Then we went to finish our skateboards in Mitsy's class. Due to my previous expedition that took 30 minutes of scrubbing my shirt, my grip tape on my skateboard wasn't done and I was wearing my camp shirt.

So House was teaching us a technique with doing a water acrylic layer on a drawing, cutting it out on paper, and putting it on blueprint paper. It took a while for mine to set, so I tried catching up on the skateboard.

I was reminded of my brother and the star trek episode "Redemption". So I did a Klingon symbol. Thanks to Mitsy, I was able to get it done faster. Though I wanted to paint it red inside, I didn't have the time. So I decided I was going to finish the blueprint thing at home.

We all went down to the "council room". Our relatives had arrived. So we showed them all our work. So we put our wheels on the skateboards and left.