Fall Break Camp: Pumpkins & Golden Fields
Fall Break Camp – Day 1: Pumpkins & Golden Fields with Jessica Mahan
Monday, October 12
9 am – 12 pm
Ages 5 – 12 yrs
Minimum Students: 5 / Maximum Students: 16
$59 CAE Member / $65 Non-Member
Celebrate fall with a bright and playful painting inspired by golden fields, pumpkins, and autumn skies. Students will create their own fall landscape while learning how to build a painting step-by-step. We’ll explore how to paint simple shapes, mix warm fall colors, and create depth in a landscape. Students will be guided through the process but encouraged to add their own creative touches, like barns, pathways, or a sunset sky. We will also create mini pumpkin patch sculptures out of clay.
Students will:
• Learn basic painting techniques (layering, brushwork, color mixing)
• Explore warm fall color palettes
• Create a simple landscape with foreground, middle ground, and background
They will walk away with:
• One or two completed fall-themed paintings ready to display
What to bring:
• Water bottle/snack and clothes that can get messy
Instructor
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Jessica MahanJessica Mahan is a professional acrylic and oil painter and an art teacher with a degree in Art Education and Secondary Education. She previously taught art in the public school system for 7 years, has been a professional artist for 8 years and loves sharing her love of art with others through classes, workshops, retreats and paint at home kits. She is in awe of the natural world. Nature has the ability to wake up her mind to the present moment, sparking ideas and insight. The resulting paintings are vivid, emotional, playful and dreamlike. Her art practice helps her slow down and notice the world around her by examining shapes, colors, movement rhythms and light. She often uses symbolism and thinks of her work as visual poetry. Outside of art, she loves travel, yoga, nature, music and hanging out with her dog.
