Week 6 in Potter's Paradise...

Well, this week was our final session for Potter's Paradise at The ZACC! As I wrote in my previous entry, we weren't able to create any wet work this week because the students who were not continuing into the next session wouldn't be able to collect or even finish their latest wet works, so we opted to have a bit of a party this week instead. 

In celebration of our last day of Potter's Paradise, we worked with the kiddos on catching them up on any last minute painting they maybe needed to complete on their works still (instead of glazing any works we had them paint them with acrylic paint instead) and then we gave them a multitude of options to choose from on how they wanted to spend their time with the time we had for the remainder of class. 

We had some students choose to work on their free drawing, some worked on "bean art" which was creating different designs using beans, and others worked with oil pastels to take up the opportunity to work with a new medium. It was pretty clear that everyone was really enjoying the last day, especially because it was more of a laid back day for them, as compared to previous sessions. It also gave us, the instructors a chance to really listen to the kiddos and what they talked about with each other whether it was regarding art or even current events. It's always very entertaining to listen to kids give their opinions or talk about current events; but, let me tell you, it is incredibly entertaining to listen to a group of 6 to 11 year olds talk about the current presidential election. I found out they we have some very opinionated kids on our hands. 

With that being said, even though we only worked with the kids for 6 weeks, I really so a great development in their maturity during our time of working with them, and I'm really excited for the fact that most of the kids from Potter's Paradise will be joining us in our next session which is all about drawing! It will be exciting to see how their creative processes transition from working with 3-D works to working in 2-D... I can't wait to see the results!