ART SUMMER CAMP – MOSCOW PLAIN AIRS

Week 1
This week will take children on an artistic journey around Moscow, discovering the beauty of its streets, towers, and historic buildings through outdoor painting. Working in plein air, they will explore architecture with acrylic paints, learning playful techniques such as palette knife painting, dry brushing, glazing, fluid art, and bold impasto. Each artwork will capture the city’s character, transforming everyday buildings into colorful, imaginative stories.

Week 2
This week, children will develop urban sketching techniques. The focus will be on careful observation, understanding basic perspective in streets and buildings.
They will practice composition framing — deciding what to include or exclude — and explore urban textures such as brick, stone, metal, and trees using expressive line techniques. The week concludes with a structured City Sketchbook Spread showcasing perspective, texture studies, and confident sketching.

Week 3
This week will invite young artists to discover the city’s hidden nature—quiet parks, shimmering ponds, and flowing rivers—through plein-air painting outdoors. Children will learn to observe light, color, and mood while working with oil paints, using techniques such as layering, blending, soft glazes, and expressive brushstrokes. Each canvas will become a story of calm, movement, and beauty found in everyday urban landscapes.

Week 4
This week, we will focus on capturing people in motion through loose gesture drawing. The emphasis will be on sketching action rather than detail, observing movement quickly and confidently.
Through “secret stories” about the people we see, collaborative panoramic street scenes, we will turn observation into narrative illustration and combine text with image in visual journaling. The week will conclude with a final narrative artwork titled “A Day in This Place.”