Explore how to translate your painting and drawing skills to a digital space! Using PAFA’s state-of-the-art digital facilities and equipment learn to create a variety of digital art forms as you build skills and confidence in using Adobe programs, drawing tablets, and more! 

Develop your drawing skills by mastering light, shadow, contour, texture, and other drawing techniques. Learn from the great draftsmen represented in PAFA’s collection and develop confidence in capturing likeness, creating naturalistic effects, and playing with illusionistic tricks. 

Hone your comic and illustration art making skills, while improving your drawing techniques and discovering the ins and outs of character development, comics creation, poster design, and more.   

Try your hand with acrylics, watercolors, and temperas. Explore color theory, brush tricks, and nature or perception as you develop and enhance your painting skills.   

 Master the secrets of observational drawing and painting while strengthening and diversifying your skills and types of materials. Have fun learning cool tips and tricks of life-like representation and start building a strong academy-level portfolio. 

Join the generations of artists telling stories using sequential images. Develop, draw, and visualize your own story with innovative layout styles and techniques.   

Learn to represent animals inspired by the animal art masters at PAFA’s collection and from observing real animals. Advance your ability to include animals in your art in a variety of styles with the help of live furry models.  

Build, model, and create sculptures inspired by the remarkable exhibition “Rising Sun” (on view during camp). Campers will use a variety of tools and exciting techniques to bring their ideas to three-dimensional life!