What Splendour Is Created in Summer Art Camp
To inspire young minds to mold and paint lovely creations is a joyous blessing
What Splendor Is created in Summer Art Camp
4:30 p.m. and the kids
have all been brushed off and
erased from my studio by the Parental taxis humming just outside.
Jars of multi-colored water bathe painted handles, as camel and squirrel get long soaks in the hair wash all Grumbachers endure.
Half finished projects lean left or right as if awaiting the next carefully pressed fingerprints sculpting them into life.
Paper towels lie in various damp positions bearing the pigments of wiped off imaginations.
Smocks drape themselves casually over the chairs spattered and spent much like myself.
I am enjoying a brief respite until 9:00 a.m. tommorrow when budding artist will once again take root here and pollinate under a sprinkling of my thoughts.
above this text is a small portion
of what the kids rendered
under my guidance
in the summers they spent
on imagination island.
Where palms swayed over
damp clay and tropical colors
swam backstrokes and
washed over the canvas of their minds.
Kids from first through fifth grade
discovering the joy of just
making something from
raw materials into
a finished masterpiece.
There is no greater Joy
for a teacher of art
then the wide smiles
fingerpainted on the
bright young faces
of children one has
attempted to inspire.
Please enjoy and appreciate
this miniature art show
by many students
some of whom went on to
become film producers
animation artist
and housewives with an itch
to create beauty in between
the daily tasks of raising a family.
Art is great therapy for all children
i have worked with chidren who have had Aspergers, O.C.D.
A.D.D. and even a a blind student
who still managed with her
extremely limited vision
working inches from the paper
to create exquisite work.
Art is pretty much being
phased out in elementary schools
they get one semester in many places
to discover the joys of it.
you should enroll your kids
in an extracurricular art program
and watch how satisfying it can be
when they come running out with projects
they never dreamed they could make.
All completed at: ArtWhimsically Yours Studio
© 2010 Matthew Frederick Blowers III
