The Ridley-Tree Education Center is located across from the marvelously beautiful Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens and we like to take our campers there to draw from nature as much as possible. Here the children are actually painting on location, combining oil pastels and watercolors on gessoed masonite boards.
Presenting the finished painting of the turtle rock in the pond.
Plein Air Painting, Paola, age 10Oil pastels and watercolor on masonite
Landscape drawings of campers ages 7 and 8oil pastel on vellum
The Art and Nature camp finished with an Open Air Art Show displaying most of the work of the week around the patio of McCormick House.
Santa Barbara's webpage lists the following information on the park: Once the site of the elegant El Mirasol Hotel, this downtown block is often called the "crown jewel" of city parks. The park features a large botanical collection (75 different tree and plant species); koi pond; sensory garden with audio posts and interpretive Braille signs; low water-using demonstration garden; picnic areas; gazebo.
Click here if you'd like a little photo tour of Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens: http://www.rth.org/sb/
Camp: Art and Nature: Discover, Draw, Design
Project: Plein Air Painting
Teaching Artist: Michelle Elizondo
Project: Plein Air Drawing
Teaching Artist: Rebecca Radojicic
Teaching Artist: Rebecca Radojicic
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