Recreational
Camps
ART CAMP IN PORTUGAL
Drawing as meditation – silk painting – animation - photo
Spend a week focusing on what you like to do or what you have always wanted to do but perhaps never got round to it. Professional artists are waiting to share their passion with you through daily workshops. Let us make something memorable that you can take home or send it as a gift to someone you want to amaze.
The camp offers three optional courses.
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Drawing meditation and silk painting
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Animation – experimenting with stop motion and drawing animation
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Combined 1. And 2.
+ One-day amateur Photo workshop for all attendants
+ Optional surfing - basic and advanced teaching for additional cost
Optional daily activities in the area /decided by the group/
- discovering the cork plantations nearby
- possibility of visiting a vineyard
- exploring the ancient town of Evora
Location: Santiago do Cacém /Portugal, Alentejo region/
Date: 29th of May 2017 – 2nd of June 2017
Accommodation: An inspiring authentic Portuguese house in Alentejo.
We invite families as well.
Rooms: 2x rooms for 2 people, 3x rooms for 3 people, 1 room for 4 people with the possibility of additional mattresses.
Daily timing: Workshops in the morning /9-14h/
Afternoons with optional activity and free time
Age limit 16+ for the workshops
Price: 300€ /includes: accommodation, workshops, technical equipment, transfer/
Flight is not included
We include the transfer from Faro and Lisbon airport which are almost the same distance from Santiago do Cacém.
We offer common cooking with shared cost and trips for the afternoons with shared gas cost.
Map:
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM
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DRAWING AS MEDITATION AND SILK PAINTING
Instructor: Móni Molnár
Description:
Drawing is one of the most ancient self expressing tool. During drawing we give out all important thoughts that is working in us. The final pieces are often messages from the deeper inner us. While drawing we connect to our unconsciousness. Motifs and shapes on the paper can tell a lot about the emotional state and the personality. If we learn to read from these drawings, we can know and accept ourselves.
Drawing meditation is a great activity for adults to experience these things consciously while developing themselves. The same time without any previous knowledge of drawing the participants create beautiful art works.
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DAY: MONDAY
Drawing meditation Black & White
/5 hours long workshop with half an hour break for lunch/
As a ‘warm up’ we draw out our emotions and then embed ourselves in the pattern layout. Working on a custom pattern based drawing of your own without any prior plans develops creative thinking skills and increases your sense of freedom. The finished drawings give you a sense of success, destroying your negative beliefs about drawing, so participation in your work has a self-confidence boosting effect.
During carefree drawing you become a kind of meditative, relaxed state of mind, and such a relaxed state has a number of positive physiological effects: improves oxygen supply, decreases metabolism and lactic acidity, improves blood flow to organs, creates endorphin, which is the happiness hormone.
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DAY: TUESDAY
Drawing meditation 3D & Color:
/5 hours long workshop with half an hour break for lunch
Making drawings on a colorful paper with graphite pencils. Using basic shadows and motifs what creates a plastic impression, the optical illusion of the third dimension, that the drawing is coming out from the paper. Participants learn how to express emotions with colors and then how to create plastic shadows with colorful pencils. As final exercise drawing a personal mandala using self powering colors.
WEDNESDAY – OPTIONAL AMATEUR PHOTO WORKSHOP OR FREE DAY
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DAY: THURSDAY
Silk Painting /3 hours long workshop/
Participants will create a self designed silk scarf. They will paint a 55 x 55 cm silk textile with appropriate painting. With official help on the technic and the ideas the participants will use all their experiences from the previous days to create a beautiful piece of work on silk.
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DAY: FRIDAY - Decided at the camp by the group
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INTRODUCTION TO ANIMATION – experimenting with stop motion and drawing animation
Instructor: Ágota Végső
Web: https://www.agotavegso.com
Description:
The workshop introduces the basics of animation including pixillation, object animation and simple drawing animation. Participants will have a short lecture about the history of animation, a screening of inspiring animated sequences and short films and several exercises.
Every morning they will have a chance to see the result in moving pictures of the previous day’s exercises. By the end of the camp we will edit together the created materials and have a screening on the last night for all attendants. After the camp if the participants agree we will put online /youtube, vimeo/ the animation that we created to be reachable by anyone.
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DAY: MONDAY
Introduction to animation and pixilation:
/5 hours long workshop with half an hour break for lunch/
The first day’s morning will start with a one-hour long lecture about the history of animation, and a screening of inspiring animated films to show the different animation approaches and technics. After the group will make a pixillation together to experiment the way to create the illusion of movement from still frames. The participants will use themselves as actors and will work in groups.
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DAY: TUESDAY
Experimenting with basic drawing animation
/5 hours long workshop with half an hour break for lunch/
The day will start with a little explanation about the illusion of movement in drawing.
After that the participants will create little drawing experiments which based on the technic of the flipbooks. They will create loops of drawings based on their own ideas and record them together in a way to create one little experimental animated film.
WEDNESDAY – OPTIONAL AMATEUR PHOTO WORKSHOP OR FREE DAY
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DAY: THURSDAY
Stop Motion
/5 hours long workshop/
Stop motion animation based on the rules that the participants learnt during the first 2 days. On this day everybody will work on a personal project. /or in groups as chosen/
That is why it’s important to have cameras for almost everybody to have a freedom working alone if requested. To put the sequences together and to deal with the music the participants will have help after the recordings from the instructor.
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DAY: FRIDAY - Decided at the camp by the group
No experience is needed in drawing, animation, filmmaking or photography.
Cameras are required for the work or any device which is able to make pictures like telephones, tablets etc.
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AMATEUR PHOTO WORKSHOP
Instructor: Eszter Toldi-Adamis
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DAY: WEDNESDAY
Introduction to basic photo shooting and nature photographing.
The participants get a little talk about the disciplines of photography then they can experiment interior and exterior photographing with the help of the instructor.
The location and the trips will allow the participants to create amazing pictures.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
MÓNI MOLNÁR
Silk painter, interior designer and art therapist.
For many years she tried lots of arts and crafts such as enamel, pottery or weaving. But when she met silk painting, 16 years ago, she discovered a personal transformation relation with it. She loves the way dyes run on the silk fiber and the way we can play together. I’m inspired by artists such as Gaudi, Monet, Hundertwasser and Klimt, but also by Nature or poetry and music. She took studies in Window Dressing, Interior Design, Social Education and Art Therapy. She’s been running workshops in silk painting and Art Therapy. She is a registered Drawing as Meditation teacher in Hungary where she lives at the moment.
AGOTA VEGSO
Animation film director, illustrator, producer
She is a Hungarian animated film director, illustrator and producer. She finished her studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2012. Attended to The Animation European Production Workshop and had the opportunity to participate in the Open Workshop program at The Animation Workshop in Denmark in 2014. During the years she organized animation events and participated on film festivals with her shorts. Currently working for The Animation Workshop as a production manager organizing a collaboration with TED-ed.
ESZTER TOLDI-ADAMIS
Mom and amateur photographer and surfer
She is an outgoing person who is eager and alert to help. She is genuinely open and positive and love to share good moments with others. Whether it is surfing or travelling or playing on the beach or cooking a delicious meal together or creating amazing photos about the sunset.