Week Six: Drawing 1

I was absent this week (cross-country skiing in king's canyon; don't feel sorry), but I hear that everyone visited an art gallery in Capitola Village for inspiration, then went to Capitola Beach to build forts out of driftwood, and finally headed to Seabright Beach to draw.  Nick was really impressed with the drawings that came out of that process.  Hope it was fun.  See you all next week!

(If anyone has any pictures of the day, feel free to upload them.  I'd love to see what went down!)

Week Five: Rainy Day

Today we avoided the deluge and played games at a local coffee shop.  To support our community of artists we then went to Andre's play (which Cayden helped in the production of) at the Louden Nelson Community Center.

Week Four: Pictures from Ken

Handmade Katana from redwood splinters the week before!

Week Four: Gary Snyder, Poetry

For week four we turned our artistic minds to nature poetry.  Armed with two anthologies from the poet laureate of deep ecology, Gary Snyder, we set off for a historic cabin at Wilder Ranch to find a dry place to write.  A contemporary of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Snyder excels at capturing moments and using his words to take readers on journeys through the Sierra Nevada foothills he calls home.  Before embarking on our own journeys through the present, we began by exercising our poetic minds with an observation and description game.  When we finished, we read a few of Snyder's poems for inspiration.  The rain was still holding off, so we chose individual sit spots outside each other's line of vision and wrote for 10 minutes.  One student wrote his poem using Snyder's anthology for a writer's table; I'm confident Snyder would have approved!

Week Three: Pictures from Ken