Gallery

Thank you for indulging me to rehash a bunch of favorite project. Dig deep below:

 Some of my loyal art student at Boys and Girls Club Santa Monica. 

Couldn't ask for a better group of kids. 

Learning all about color, composition, and paint mixing. 

You can see the Artist Hall of Fame on the cabinet in the back. You'd be proud how many middle schoolers now know Klimt, Van Gogh, Matisse, and O'Keeffe among others.

Animal study in acrylic

 Learning to work with mixed media

My colorful art shop

Experiements with color transfers

A future architect or engineer, this is incarnation number three or four of this boat

 

Studying Matisse in colored pencil

 

 Working with collage and paint

Negative space study with watercolors

 Learning the basics of Batik

 First time on a sewing machine!

 Missing in action

 Working with patterns and fabric

 Making felt sculptures

 Creating model cars out of cardboard, found objects, and paint

 More found object art. Making superhero machines!

 May day flower making with Waldorf School

Amazing what a little paper can make

 Tie-dye in Cambodia

 Paper mache. A great way to spend the afternoon

Portrait study

One of my favorites

Learning how to draw what you see

Sketching on site at Angkor Wat/ Chiev still drawing house plans

More sketching on the grounds around Angkor Wat

Workshop with ReDiscover and EarthWe at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, using found objects

Working with recycled materials

ReDiscover is a non-profit that collects discarded items from business and the community and use it to make art!

Kids with tools, watch out!

Learning to operate the big chop saw

The younger kids built this playground with monkey bars, ladder, rope bridge, and a tower. By the end they knew how to use the power drills like they were pencils.

One of our favorite activities is to take apart old hardware. While we were unscrewing a desktop computer tower, one of the kids randomly yelled, "This is the best camp ever!" I understand, I get great pleasure out of dismantling tech equipment, although sometimes it can be too emotional, you have to bypass the screwdrivers like this.

She was really intent on identifying everything in the old VCR. Smart kids!

As a design challenge the kids made their own harmonographs!

Making designs for their own big build playground. The boys eventually convinced everyone that it should not be a playground, but a dangerous gauntlet style obstacle course (which was explained as essentially a playground in a straight line.)

Learning how to measure

These kids made a climbing wall + ladder that was secured with gigantic drill holes and bolts.

The obstacle course coming together

Our volunteer Brian brought out his engineering muscles to help the kids devise their own brand of merry-go-round. Also stripped of its play status, it was dubbed the "Spiny Thing of Doom."

Made with a donated carpet tube filled with 2x4s anchored to the ceiling and floor, wheels from a couple of furniture dollies, and plywood.

Until next summer!