Its hard to believe the summer is nearly over. For the Studio, the season goes out with a bang in our annual four-day program Animals, Art and the Imagination. This year’s program concluded yesterday, so we need a few days to process some of the significant moments, but I couldn’t start the weekend without sharing a few images from the week:
Each day started at The Carle where we looked at and talked about art, . . . (The newly installed Imaginary Garden by Leo Lionni pictured here)
and books, . . .
met Author/Illustrator, Ralph Masiello, . . .
and imagined new plants and animals together.
After lunch we hiked to Hampshire College’s farm center, stopping to pick apples and make observations.
At the farm we met chickens, pigs, goats and rabbits, …
and made more art.
It was a fun week!
Tags: Animals, clay, farm, Hampshire Farm Center, Leo LIonni, Ralph Masiello, watercolor
How did you make the circular wax resists? Some instructions, please!
Hi Meg,
The circular works in the last picture are actually polystyrene foam prints. The students scratched marks into polystyrene foam that we cut into circles ahead of time. The foam plates were then inked with a brayer and sent through a pasta machine press. The multiple color/layered effect is created by inking the plate with a different color and sending it through the press on the paper that was printed first. A guide for a similar activity – Printmaking with Foam- can be found on our website here
We’d love to see images if you try it out! artstudio@carlemuseum.org
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[...] A few weeks ago, the Studio hosted our annual full-day summer class for children, Animals, Art & Imagination. It’s one of my favorite weeks of the summer because of the range of art activities we get to do with the kids in the Museum and outdoors at The Hampshire College Farm. Meghan posted about the program last year, you can read her post here. [...]