Animals and Nature Art Camp

Young artists at the Pima for Kids Animals and Nature Art Camp had opportunities to draw, paint and sculpt with professional art techniques last week. Aspiring animal and nature artists learned how to draw animals with shading and values and how to paint landscapes with watercolors from Teaching Artist, Ms. Malosh on the first two days.

On Wednesday, they took advantage of the overcast morning and went outside to paint the beautiful mountains and fauna around the campus. After climbing up a steep hill and setting up easels, the clouds opened up the way for some wonderful, but hot, sunlight. After drinking lots of water, mixing lots of colors and finding lots of new uses for "oh my gosh," Ms. Malosh's paint-moistening water-spritzer, (spraying our faces and heads as much as the quickly drying paint) many beautiful and colorful landscape paintings were made.

Thursday and Friday were fun 3-D days. Campers made imaginary animal sculptures, using armatures and oil clay, and then made very creative habitat dioramas for their animals.

To see the amazing art produced by the outstanding animal and nature artists in this class, visit:

http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=206242

Pima County Environmental Education Class Makes a Wetlands Mural

Young Aquatic Adventurers at the Pima County Natural Resources Environmental Education Camp had an opportunity to learn about art and mural creation with Ms. Malosh early this month. After learning about aquatic animals and habitats with environmental educators, Axhel Munoz and Yajaira Gray in beautiful Agua Caliente Park, students combined their new knowledge with their creativity and made a beautiful mural! Ms. Malosh taught them about the mural process, layout and sketching techniques, painting techniques, mixed-media and collage techniques, and light and color effects. These young artist showed a lot of learning and were all very proud of their collaborative creation!

Kids at The Tucson Children's Museum Design Alternative Fuel Transportation Vehicles

Children at the Tucson Children's Museum spent a week learning about transportation and modern alternatives to fuels in a week long art and transportation camp with Ms. Malosh last month. Children had opportunities to design and build their own cars, trains and even spaceships! Children learned about how different forms of transportation use fossil fuels, bio fluels, solar power, hydropower, and even algae!

Children designed and built models of transportation vehicles fueled by a wide variety of things, such as candy, wind, water and people.