Children’s Summer Art Camps at the Blue Line Gallery

Beth Rohlfes recently sent us a press release on some of the unique art camps for children that will be offered at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville this summer, and we wanted to share this information with you, our readers. Check it out:

All camps will be conducted Monday-Friday, mornings 9am-12pm OR afternoons 1-4pm, at the Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street in Roseville. All are taught by experienced teachers and professional artists. Each camp will include a unique opportunity on the last day of class: Young participants will help install their final projects for exhibit in the Children’s Gallery, including a small artists’ reception. Camp fees are $172 or $162 with member discount. Additional material fees, varyied by class, will be collected the first day of camp.

Professional artist Linda Green will teach two camps. Known for her large, bold face paintings on canvas and furniture cubes as well as for her children’s classes, Green will teach “Faces,” June 22-26, 9am-12pm (ages 9-12) and “Painting Abstractions,” July 20-24, 9am-12pm (ages 12-16).

Egyptian-born artist Maha Salem, also an experienced art instructor, will teach “Larger than Life,” June 22-26, 1-4pm (ages 9-12) and “T-shirt Painting,” July 20-24, 1-4pm (ages 5 & up; parents welcome). In “Larger than Life” children will learn to study shapes and shadow to create paintings in the larger-than-life style of Georgia O’Keefe.

Local science and art teacher, Jim Carroll, will teach how to texture book covers, hand stitch bindings and customize decorative pages in “Making Hand Bound Books,” July 27-31, 9am-12pm (ages 11-16).

Two cartooning classes will be offered later in the summer. Disney-trained animation artist Bill Reed will teach how to draw basic cartoon characters, including gestures, attitudes, expressions and action poses in “Drawing Cartoon Characters,” July 27-31, 1-4pm (ages 7-16). Gayle Streff, local artist and published cartoonist, will teach “Cartooning Class,” August 3-7, 1-4pm (ages 11-16), stepping students through the process of creating a completed comic story.

For more information, log on to www.rosevillearts.org or call 916-783-4117.