We are in the middle of the first week of the summer ART CAMP that I run every year . 9 wonderful girls- idyllic weather, if a bit too hot (no complaints), perfect, delicious water and everyone game for everything.
Every year we do several inventive art projects that cover off a wide array of mediums and aspects of fine art. The culminating task is the ominous large canvas project that chases me all blank and white in my sleep. This is my eighth year and every year now- at drop off- the parents pull me aside and tell me the colours of their ski chalet, or family room or dimensions of their fireplace mantels.
In other words- ‘no pressure, but we expect big things to hang in our homes, cottages.’
It is almost like I am in the manufacturing business but have little control of the outcome. It is almost like I am completing a room and filling an order but only facilitating how it will come out. After all, this is supposed to be a creative process and it has to be their work.
A blank canvas, like any day of life, holds promise, possibility, and opportunity for excitement and beauty .
Or tragedy and ugliness.
The night before ominous large canvas project, I won’t sleep. The next day I will be focussed like a dog on a bone. By the end of that day the girls will love me but only after thoroughly hating me. “Give me more, the canvas is not done with you, it needs to come alive and bite me in the butt as I walk by” I have been known to say, apparently. I have no idea because I am like a mad scientist during the process.
I have 42 ideas this year for ominous large canvas project.
That is my problem, I have never been good at narrowing things down. Somehow the right thing will bubble up in the 11th hour like it always does.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
(Can you keep a secret? This is the one I love, don’t you?)
we should do it Barbie!
xoxoxo
yes!
and maybe we need to to a big girl one!
Sounds like a big girls weekend camp is in the works….. We still have our daughter’s large canvas and know the work and creativity that went into it. Enjoy the week.
That’s an excellent inspiration piece, lady! I love it… I hope we’ll get to have a look at some of the finished pieces!!
I wish I could come to your art camp… 🙂
family is welcome always
my talent is often questionable
Nance…..how old is too old to come to your camp????….and how little talent is enough?? These are eight really lucky young ladies and such a gorgeous venue.
xoxo