Get your tickets for "THE ABANDONED ART ASYLUM" Haunted House!
Get your tickets for "THE ABANDONED ART ASYLUM" Haunted House!
Procreate Digital Art Camp
JULY 17-21
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Entering Grades 4-8
WHEN: 9:00-12noon
WHERE: Danvers Art Association
ACTIVITIES:Combine your creativity with technology and learn to create your very own beautiful digital artworks on Procreate! Our camp will be a crash course on the exciting digital platform. Campers will have so much fun drawing that you’ll forget you were even learning a new program in the first place! Learn the basic tools to start making art in Procreate, add vibrant colors, adjust palettes, experiment with textured brushes, and add special effects. Campers will be able to export your artwork and the process video behind it as an MP4 - the video of how you made the artwork is almost as fun to enjoy as the original painting.
Regarding Materials:
Students need to arrive with a charged iPad tablet and latest version of Procreate downloaded. Optional: Tablet stylus pen.
COST: $175 Member
$185.00 Non-Member
Haunted House Camp
July 24-July 28
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Entering Grades 5-8
WHEN: 9:00-3:00pm
WHERE: Danvers Art Association
ACTIVITIES: Welcome to our 3rd annual Haunted House Camp Week! Students will design haunted house sets, sculpt papermache’ demons and skeletons, paint dungeon walls and experiment with zombie MAKE-UP. This is a fully immersive experience on how to create a frightening haunted house in the halls and rooms of the Danvers Art Association. Campers will write scripts, don costumes and practice performing. Family and friends will be invited to experience the nightmare at the end of the week. Artwork and performances developed during camp week will be used in the 3rd annual DAA Haunted House fundraising event in October for the public to enjoy.
COST: $260 Member
$275 Non-Member
Animal Portrait Painting
AUGUST 14-18
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Entering Grades 2-6
WHEN: 9:00-12noon
WHERE: Danvers Art Association
ACTIVITIES: Campers will have a blast creating amazing animal portraits on canvas with acrylic paints! We will explore colorful fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Campers will learn painting techniques that create the illusion of animal fur, scales, feathers, and hair direction. Young artists will gain confidence in applying layers of paint, mixing colors to achieve exceptional values and depth and complete compositions with exciting backgrounds. Parents should get those frames ready for some amazing new canvas paintings coming home!
COST: $150 Member
$160 Non-Member
Mixed Media: #1
9:00 am to 11:00 am
July 10-14, 2023
Grades 2nd to 8th
COST: $125 Member
$135.00 Non-Member
Classes run Monday to Friday
class limit is 15 students
CONTACT: Martha Chapman @
Students will develop their artistic skills exploring a variety of media and experimenting with dry and wet media techniques and styles, finding inspiration in personal interests, the natural world, and other artists' work.
Mixed Media: #2
9:00 am to 11:00 am
August 7 -11, 2023
Grades 2nd to 8th
COST: $125 Member
$135.00 Non-Member
Classes run Monday to Friday
class limit is 15 students
CONTACT: Martha Chapman @
Students will develop their artistic skills exploring a variety of media and experimenting with dry and wet media techniques and styles, finding inspiration in personal interests, the natural world, and other artists' work.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
JUNE 26-30
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Entering Grades 5-8
WHEN: 9:00-12noon
WHERE: Lynnfield High School
Students will learn how to get the most out of their digital camera. Training in DSLRs and point + shoot photography techniques will be covered through exciting hands-on sessions with daily challenges. Students will import photographs into Adobe Photoshop and craft exceptional finished images ready for printing. ALL students will have the opportunity to work with digital Canon Rebel SLR cameras and professional studio lighting to shoot inventive still-life, fun portraits, cosplay themes, toy photography for commercials, light painting and more! We use the whole LHS campus to capture our pictures inside and out. Students are also encouraged to bring in photos they’ve taken at home and bring in digitally.
Class Requirements: Digital Camera: Point + Shoot, DSLR, iPhone
TIME: 9:00-12:00pm | COST: $170 resident; $180 non-resident
WOODCARVING
JULY 10-14
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: AGES 10+
WHEN: 9:00-12noon
WHERE: Lynnfield High School
Students will design and carve original wooden relief sculptures. Members of our class will learn proper techniques using mallets, chisels, sanding blocks, knives, wood burners, and acrylic paints.
TIME: 9:00-12:00pm | COST: $170 resident; $180 non-resident
FANTASY SEASCAPE PAINTING
JULY 10-14
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Ages 8+
WHEN: 12:30-3:30PM
WHERE: Lynnfield High School
Students will learn painting techniques that create realistic and stylized ocean landscapes. Tidal pools, deep oceans and coastal landscape with crashing waves and energetic sea life aplenty will be explored as we place imaginative elements into our compositions. Jellyfish, sharks, clownfish, octopus, turtles, mermaids, sea-serpents, and characters of our own creation will be making guest appearances in our paintings. Parents should get frames ready for some amazing new canvas paintings coming home!
TIME: 9:00-12:00pm | COST: $170 resident; $180 non-resident
ANIMAL PORTRAIT PAINTING
JUNE 26-30
INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette
WHO: Ages 8+
WHEN: 12:30-3:30PM
WHERE: Lynnfield High School
Students will learn how to draw and paint amazing portraits of their favorite domestic and wild animals. We will explore cats, dogs, reptiles, lions, zebras and more! Artistically students will become more confident with painting techniques that create realistic animal fur with proper hair direction, values on scales, etc…. The young artists will also learn how to create beautiful backgrounds using fan brush & sponge techniques creating rich skies, forests, mountains and lakes. Parents should get a few frames ready for some amazing new canvas paintings coming home on Friday!
TIME: 12:30-3:30pm | COST: $170 resident; $180 non-resident
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