Intentions for This Summer

This summer will be exciting, since I'm teaching in one-, two-, and three-hour formats. I'm doing a weeklong cartooning camp, a series of long workshops, and a bunch of short workshops. All at different venues with different kids.

My plan for the summer has a few simple elements:
1. Have a theme for each week and use it at all my classes, regardless of format. This way I can put together materials and use them multiple times. My themes are going to include superheroes and sidekicks, fairytales and monsters, lost in space, the zoo, and surf and skate. Each theme offers cool ideas like movie posters, or designing a skateboard.
2. Follow the same basic pattern for the classes, just make it longer or shorter. First, I like to goof around and play some games. Then we talk about the theme/project. Then, we brainstorm together (this is often the funnest part, kids yelling out crazy ideas and me writing them down). Then, we do a project together, and then I set them loose on their own stuff.
3. Then, I always have some random inspirations and projects in my back pocket - a cool art or animation book, or a paper-folding idea. Often the kids have their own suggestions like fortune tellers or checkerboards.

I'm looking forward to posting artwork and lessons learned as all this stuff unravels (I mean, unfolds!) - and hopefully you'll find lots of project ideas too as we go.