LVA instructor Sarah led a Picture Love class as they practiced capturing nature at the Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation Sun Valley Community Center.
Summer Camp
Picture Love: Portraits
What's the opposite of a selfie? LVA instructor Sarah and assistant instructor LaNia led a class of Picture Love students at the Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation's Sun Valley Community Center. Despite the summer heat, they had fun practicing taking portraits of each other.
Picture Love is a partnership between Louisville Metro and LVA that teaches the art and skill of photography. The resulting images capture a meaningful moment in each participant’s personal history while painting a larger picture of Louisville as a whole.
Painting Lab: Community Garden inspiration
Painting Lab campers tried to visit a community garden in Clifton, but the heat drove them back inside! They used liquid water colors, salts and sharpies to capture the textures that inspired them outside.
Yew Dell Botanical Gardens: Art in Nature
LVA brought a nature art half-day summer camp out to partners Yew Dell Botanical Gardens! Students explored the wonders of their gardens through a creative lens — imagine creating art in a castle or along woodland trails. Artists tapped into their creative genius with guided curriculum and help from the Great Outdoors. The natural world offered an opportunity for students to draw, design, paint, sculpt and create their way toward beautiful works of art!
Picture Love: Cyanotypes
Picture Love students learned how to make their own cyanotypes (a photographic blueprint) at the Southwick Community Center:
Painting Lab: Marvin Finn inspiration
Painting Lab focuses on the young artist who needs the time and space to experiment with the wonders of paint! LVA summer camp students are painting, mixing and creating! Teacher Janet started them off with a Marvin Finn-inspired folk art project.
Summer Camp Feature: Photography Camp, Ages 11-14
Peyton
Emily
Avery
Lily
Summer Camp Feature: Stop Motion Camp
Summer Camp Feature: Photography Camp, Ages 7-10
In Intro to Photography Camp participants learned the art and skill of photography. Students gained a solid understanding of the core foundation of photography and post-production while experimenting with non-traditional techniques as well. Instruction covered several photographic processes from historic cyanotype printing to digital manipulation—and lots in between! Students had chance to use a digital camera, be a “lighting technician”, and learn to edit their images in Photoshop and Lightroom. We are incredibly impressed with their work!
Eliza, Photoshop Layers Portrait
Lauren, Photoshop Layers Portrait
Emily, Shallow Depth of Field
Hadley, Abstract Photography
James, Abstract Photography
Grace, Insect's Perspective
Sloan, Lightroom Processing
Piper, Perspective
Lillian, Portraits with Projector
Sloan, Photoshop Layers Portrait
Kyel, Photoshop Layers Portrait
Summer Camp Feature: Sequential Art
Summer Camp Feature: Creature Feature
Creature Feature allowed students to experiment with multiple media including paint, plaster, gauze and air-drying clay! Students incorporated both 2D and 3D techniques, utilizing a variety of provided materials along with found objects to create one-of-a-kind works of art. Students created whimsical animal busts to hang on their wall, painted on wood to make free standing animal sculptures, and created their own "zen-tangles" over watercolor backgrounds!
Summer Camp Feature: Painting Lab
Painting Lab focuses on the young artist who needs the time and space to experiment with the wonders of paint! This year students explored the community gardens to find elements of nature to draw as a base for a watercolor painting, created works inspired by Keith Haring, learned to paint three dimensional shapes from life with acrylics, and so much more!
Summer Camp Feature: The Next Frontier
Summer Camp Feature: Intro to Photography
Sydney Paek and Isabella Welsh working on portraits together.
The afternoon photography group out taking photos.
Natalie Milliken's David Hockney inspired collage.
Olivia Couch and Reagan Work creating David Hockeny influenced collages.
Pop Art photo collage by Audrey Balas
Eve Sexton creating her cyanotype.
Kiki Chandler works on her cyanotype.
Cyanotypes Drying - Olivia Couch's on the left and Eve Sexton's on the right
The afternoon photography group.
Double exposure by Lilah Pudlo
Scannography image created in the afternoon session.
Scannography image created in the morning session.
Image by Audrey Balas
Olivia Couch with her transfer onto wood.
Cayden Chandler with his transfer onto wood.
Sena Fulmore with her transparency collage.
Students working in Photoshop.
Ashley Andersen working on her stop-motion animation.
Lilah Pudlo working on her stop-motion animation.
Stop Motion by Natalie Milliken— created in just about 4 hours!
Summer Camp Feature: Creature Feature
Students had such a fun week in the Creature Feature Summer Camp with Janet Britt! From watercolor, to plaster, to wood, and more they explored a wide variety of mediums—all within the theme of creatures!
Summer Camp Feature: Crafty! Crafty!
Crafty! Crafty! focused on up-cycling materials and creating something new and amazing out of things that might have otherwise been discarded. On the last day of class students created necklaces made from cardboard, robots, and marbled watercolor prints!
Summer Camp Feature: Make Your Own Facebook
Summer Camp Feature: Sequential Art Camp
In our Sequential Art Camp students created their very own graphic novel! They started by hand drawing panels, then they learned to scan and digitally color their work with Photoshop, and they finished by learning a little bit about book binding! The end product is a lovely printed, one of a kind book they get to take home.
