Ahoy Mateys! Calling all Mermaids and Pirates! Adventure is waiting for you on the high seas. Take a deep dive and hunt for treasure, while creating eye-catching masterpieces. But watch out! The Kraken is always lurking. Join us on this swashbuckling adventure, as we set sail for fun!

Date: Mon-Thurs July 8-11th – Registration closes June 25th,2024
Time: 8-11am
Ages: 6-12yr
Cost: $175
Location: TAF Creative Art Center 53 W Main St. American Fork

Calling all creature lovers! Instructors will guide you through the designing, sketching, and painting of animals both real and imaginary. Young artists will have a blast surrounded with art, laughter, games and friends. Join us for this new twist on our popular canvas painting camp with new media and pallets.

Date: Mon-Thurs June 3-6th – Registration closes May 27, 2024
Time: 8-11am
Ages: 6-12yr
Cost: $175
Location: TAF Creative Art Center 53 W Main St. American Fork

Unleash your inner pink! Join us for an empowering week of art and games, inspired by this cultural icon. We will draw, paint, and build our own fashionable creations. Think clothes, shoes, cars, and more! Sign up and “Get your sparkle on, show this world where you belong” – Barbie

Date: Mon-Thurs July 29-August 1st – Registration closes July 22nd, 2024
Time: 8-11am
Ages: 6-12yr
Cost: $175
Location: TAF Creative Art Center 53 W Main St. American Fork

Ages: 8yrs +
Cost: $150 for a week long summer camp
Dates:
June 3-7th
July 8-12th
July 29th- Aug 2nd
Time: 8am-10:30am
Supplies: Included
Location: TAF Creative Arts Center, 53 W. Main St., American Fork

Class Description:

Intro to Manga/Anime – Come and learn the fundamentals of cartooning and creating comics. Step into the vast real of widely popular Manga/Anime. You will learn the elements of style, line weight and composition for creating your own characters in magna/anime/chibi styles.

Intro to Caricature – We cover the foundational concepts of drawing drawing the human face, where we will push the boundaries of proportion, expression, and stylistic interpretation of a subject in creating a Caricature.

Intro to Cartooning – For those interested in the process of cartoon drawing, this course delves into line, proportions, and movement to convey the deliciously expressive elements of cartoon characters and objects.

Drawing for Comics Foundations – We will teach the basic understanding of sequential art as it relates to Comic Book art, including settings, characters, dialogue, composition and drawing styles.

Explorations in Drawing – Each student selects a mini project of a specific skill area they want to focus/improve on and the instructor will provide demos and solutions to help accomplish a key breakthrough in their respective drawing goal.

Instructor: Rufusman (a.k.a. Rufus ZaeJoDaeus) has drawn his way through a variety of creative fields over the course of his career as a cartoonist and illustrator. Since graduating with a BFA from Utah State, Rufusman has drawn for storyboards, comics, caricatures, theatre, and an award-winning children’s book. Though his creative pursuits vary from balloon sculptures to animation, Rufusman is a storyteller at heart and loves to share what he learns with fellow creatives.

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YouTube.com/rufusman