The Summer Drawing Camp is an intensive program offered to kids who want to improve their drawing skills in a short time as the drawing camp challenges the student in many areas. It’s a requirement for all students to explore a landscape, an animal, an object, a caricature and 3D art during the drawing camps at Alicia’s Creative Art Studio to expose them to many different opportunities to challenge and reinforce their skills. The kids work really hard to achieve their best and every year I always say, “Art kids are just so unique in the fact that they want to be working hard improving their skills instead of wanting to be outside enjoying the sun.” LOL And every year we all have to laugh at that one as I get a lot of returning students every year, so for me and for them it’s so special to see how they have grown over the year and how much they grow in skills after each day of the camp.

We generally work with willow charcoal and learn how to use it along with a kneaded eraser. I also like to introduce some soft pastels so the kids can enjoy some color, which helps their brain to have down time from the ‘intense drawing focus’ as I call it :).