Hello!
Here you'll find videos and resources to guide you
through your Wildcraft Art Box

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Wild Worlds: Sculpted Landscapes

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Wild Worlds: Step-By-Step

1. Choose an animal or two for your clay project. Find images in books or online. See links below.
2. Watch the short video before each step.
3. Create a practice sketch of your animal with the black china marker on the newsprint paper. 
4. Sculpt your animals with the the air dry clay. 
5. Paint your watercolor landscape for your animals.
6. Slide painting into the wood base.
7. Arrange the animals and collected items from nature on the base.
8. Glue the animals and items to the base- or leave them loose so you can move them around and change them.
9. Display your creation and see below for ways to extend the creative exploration. 

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WHAT'S IN YOUR ART BOX VIDEO
Unpack your Art Box with Shari, Camp Wildcraft Co-Founder/Director
2 minutes

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Video Art Lesson: Practice Drawing for your Clay Animals

Follow along with Benny, our Camp Wildcraft Co-Founder/Director, as he shows you 
how to look at an animal photo, see the big shapes-- and draw it!
3 minutes

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Video Art Lesson: Making Clay Animals

Before you grab your clay, watch Benny as he shows you how
shape and paint clay animals for your
​Sculpted Landscape!

4 minutes

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Video Art Lesson: Watercolor Landscapes

Learn how to use watercolors to paint a landscape for your Wild World

4 minutes

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Websites for Animal & Landscape Images

National Geographic Photo Ark--The National Geographic Photo Ark is an effort to photograph & document every species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries to bring attention to the vast, and growing, number of endangered animals in the world today.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explore

National Geographic Kids Animal Collection-- Amazing photos of animals in their wild habitats. 
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/

World Wildlife Fund--Great photos and resources from this organization that protects and restore species and their habitats.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species

Landscape photographs--If you need some ideas for the kind of landscape to place your animals, take a look at these photos from around the world. But don't forget to take a walk or hike and look around your neighborhood for inspiration too! https://pixabay.com/images/search/landscape/

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Ways to Extend the Creative Exploration

• Keep drawing! Try drawing something new every day. Use your china marker, pencil, colored pencils or whatever you like. Look for the 4 shapes you learned: cone, sphere, cylinder and cube and discover the hidden wonder in everyday things. 
• Go out and explore with your art supplies. Take your watercolors, brushes and paper with you on a hike, to the park, or a walk around the block. Look closely at the plants and trees, birds and animals around you. Find a place to sit and paint, or take photos and use them to paint them back home. 
• Design new "wild worlds" off the wooden board--use your imagination and things you find in nature and at home. Build an imaginary world for small toys using sticks, leaves, rocks, and art work you add to the scene. 
• Create a little studio space where you can keep your art supplies out and ready. When your supplies are visible and handy it invites you to return and make more!
• Make art together--parents and kids. Grownups need art too! Studies show that making art actively decreases stress and increases well being. 

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