Firstlight Art Academy

During this week of camp, artists will learn how to develop characters that can be animated brought to life by moving through a video scene. Teams of students work together, learning the methods of movement, and using our iPads and animation software.

Cartoon artists spend the week creating their own 12-page comic book using professional tools and techniques. With a bound copy of their book to take home, Comic-Book camp helps students understand the power of publishing as well as learning how to create professional looking sequential art.

Young artists jump into the fun world of cartooning! Theyll learn how to draw human and animal cartoon characters, and cartoon objects like hats, swords, shoes, and more with new challenges every day.

Camp-goers are transported to a magical kingdom, filled with fantastical creatures of color which they will paint and sculpt themselves! Theyll create a miniature scene in 3D.

Artists become castle-masters, creating their own fortress realm in our new Art Castle Camp. Theyll build a large 3-D castle model using a variety of materials, such as cardboard, foam, mache, tape, glue, and paint.

Artists embark on their own week-long dragon quest, drawing, painting, and discovering how to make dragons in a variety of ways. Theyll copy dragon ideas and design their very own beast on paper and in 3D.

Artists trek deep into the jungle, discovering the most brilliant colors & exciting exotic animals. Every day artists will work on special projects like an amazing 3-D animal mask, but also do daily art projects like making spiral bouncy snakes and jungle flowers.

Artists travel through time, all the way back to the Jurassic period, in our terrific dinosaur art camp! Theyll discover amazing colorful prehistoric creatures to draw, paint, and sculpt in a variety of media. Students will imagine living like a dinosaur, as well as creating wonderful projects.

Artists bring their most monstrous ideas to life as wild and colorful giant creatures! Using paint, oil pastels, collage, markers and more, they make all kinds of monster pieces and parts. At the end of the week, kids get to put it all together. Legs and arms, hands and feet, wings, tails whatever theyve imagined. The monster lives!