Our Art Camp program is designed to treat drawing, painting and collage as skills to be mastered. I hope you will find the art program at 5 Star Camps stimulating and enjoyable but also remember that art is about creation, and creation is primarily a personal adventure. Van Gogh & Vermeer are two artists with two distinct styles. Whether they think they can draw or not, the campers in our art program will have their own drawing style too.  I like to personally encourage each camper to be comfortable with their own creative style, and I will show them what they may do to improve their skills.

 In this art program I shall show campers how to get the proportions right in figure drawing, the correct procedure to create good perspective and in art history we will be looking at impossible perspective in the work of M.C. Escher, a brilliant artist and mathematician. The campers will gain experience in handling oils as well as acrylic and watercolours, they will study the effects of light and shade on still life, and compare the merits of charcoal and pencils.  By the end of the course each camper will know the difference between formal abstract art as portrayed in the work of Mondrian, and abstract expressionism as seen in the work of Jackson Pollock and Marc Rothko.

Each week is designed to lead campers, through exercises and activities that will sharpen up their drawing and painting skills, towards a finished piece of work.  In this art program we shall produce a small portfolio to be proud of.  If this all sounds a bit too serious, don’t worry. I have ways to make art fun, interesting and exciting

The campers shall be designing, imagining and creating, in an atmosphere designed to be comfortable and inspiring. Each day's work will be accompanied by classical music, and stories about the lives of the artists we study.

Campers will be encouraged to be all they can be; they will hear the words “you never know what you can achieve until you try" throughout the course and with the right guidance and individual attention they will be surprised by their achievements.