Art Farm Now Enrolling for Summer Camp 2010

Carlsbad Art Farm is now enrolling students for Summer Camp 2010. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

New this year, we are now offering two sessions daily to accommodate more students while keeping our class sizes small. All information, schedules, and registration materials are available for download on our website.

Also new are Saturday morning classes at Art Farm for students currently enrolled in grades 2 through 8. Information about all programs are listed under our website "Programs" tab.

For an invitation to our upcoming BBQ open-house you must be on our e-mail sign-up list, also available on our website. Don't get left standing in the barn: sign-up now.

We are looking very forward to another busy camp season this summer thanks to the overwhelmingly positive response from families to our program during the previous several summers. If you have never heard of Art Farm, that's because we mostly advertise word-of-mouth. If you have an art and animal-loving nature enthusiast in your home, it's hard to beat Art Farm for a unique summer camp experience.

Sketching in Nature Blog

Sketching in Nature is an international network of artists from all over the world "working from the best teacher there is -- nature!

This is a wonderful blog with links to other blogs by nature artists who keep detailed field journals of their observations. The blog lists artists by name and by subject matter. For example, this is a field note page concerning a piliated wood pecker posted by Artist Cathy Johnson in Missouri. Artists use their field journals to keep verbal and visual notes of their subject to be used in later drawings, paintings, sculpture or whatever medium they work in.

Think of it as a visual diary. In this sample, for example, Johnson has sketched the head of a female piliated wood pecker that is paired with written notations about the length of its beak, its coloring, etc.

Young artists should be encouraged to keep field journals the way young writers might keep a journal of their daily lives and ponderings.

A sampling of subjects listed at Sketching in Nature includes: botanical art, bald eagles, acorns, Australia, Italy, mushrooms, fossils, bugs, and skies. This is by no means an exhaustive list. To check out Sketching in Nature follow this link.Then go out and get yourself a pocket-sized sketch book and start sketching!