疫情之下，孩子们的暑假是怎么过的？(二）

开学伊始，有些同学可能还没有完全从放松的暑假生活切换回日常的学习模式，仍然回味着美好的悠闲时光。那我们就再来分享一篇NPC艺术设计学院的学生在假期参加的艺术实践活动的小文章吧。

今年由于新冠疫情特殊原因，大部分孩子的暑假都是在"Stay Home"的安全模式下渡过的。列治文艺术馆(Richmond Art Gallery)假期举办的"Youth Summer Art Intensive 青少年艺术夏令营活动”，15岁以上对艺术创作有兴趣的青少年，可以通过提交个人文书及创意作品，赢得为期三周的艺术夏令营的免费艺术实践和体验的学习机会。NPC艺术设计学院的Ethan和Byron都成功入围了，两位同学参加艺术夏令营都很有感想，上周我们分享了Ethan的小文章，今天我们来分享一下Byron同学的夏令营感想。

Byron同学现在就读于Lord Byng中学“艺术精英班(Byng Arts)"11年级，从小喜欢绘画和创作，也多次在创意绘画大赛中获奖。随着年龄的增长，对艺术设计专业的学习目标也日渐明确，未来目标是成为一名建筑师。这个专业绝对是需要理性思考和创意设计兼具，英语、数学、物理、设计创作全能型人才。

By：Byron Huang

My experience at the Richmond Youth Arts Project has made me learn quite a lot about the unique public art installations can be created. The way that this program was carried out very interesting; however, due to COVID-19 our lessons were quite restricted. The process involved many online classes and a few meet-ups in person. We worked around nature and plant lives as the subject of our artworks.

We had several sketchbook assignments that really forced us to get comfortable drawing plant life. We explored many creative concepts throughout our meet-ups such as depicting natural audio as art, naming smells, and other strange but creative exercises.

We also spent much time foraging the forests and parks that we met up in. We collected numerous samples of plant life for our projects and we sketched them as well. One of our main assignments were our herbariums, made up of pressed plants and cyanotypes and other depictions of our plants.

One of the cooler things I learned about was cyanotypes, a method used to “photograph” our plants with UV lighting and water. It was interesting to learn how to carefully handle the UV paper in the sunlight so I could get a clear image on the paper. The herbarium was one of the most rewarding assignments as it was very time consuming to glue draw and decorate the plants and the pages.

Our final project for our actual public art installation was a simple panorama picture of nature. It was by far one of the easiest parts of the program and the whole process of getting to there felt a little overwhelming for such a simple product.

Overall the program was pretty casual and not too intense, and ultimately rewarding to finish. It is one of my highlights of the summer. Despite the ongoing COVID pandemic it really is nice to have such an experience to do something as interesting to entertain me during the quarantine. The fact that I got to meet new people during a time where going outside is quite rare. I would recommend this type of program for anyone who enjoys art as it has many aspects to it and can teach you about things you have never learned before. I would happily do this over again as the whole program was stress-free and just a good escape from the stressful pandemic.

Byron同学的小文章中文翻译：

暑假，我参加了列治文艺术馆举办的“青年艺术夏令营”活动，让我对独特的公共装置艺术有了更多的了解。夏令营的活动非常有趣，但新冠疫情使我们的课程规划有了很多限制。因此，艺术夏令营活动有在线课程和线下活动，让参加夏令营的青少年学生和艺术老师们可以相互认识和面对面交流。

艺术夏令营，是以我们周边的自然环境和植物作为创作主题。在完成植物主题的素描作品时，我们需要静下心来用心地画和感受植物的神奇。线下和老师同学们的互动，让我们探索了许多创意概念，例如将自然音频描绘为艺术,命名气味和其他奇怪但富有创意的练习。我们还会一起在森林和布满各种植物的公园中探索寻找创作元素，收集植物样本，仔细观察，再绘制草图。

这次活动主要任务之一是制作“植物标本室”-由压制过的植物、蓝印图片以及对植物的其他描绘组成。制作中我学到了一个很酷的东西“蓝晒法（蓝印）”，这是一种使用紫外线和水对植物进行“拍照”的方法。学习如何在阳光下小心处理UV纸很有趣，这样就能在纸上获得清晰的图像。制作“植物标本室”真的是一件很有意义的工作，胶合画和装饰植物页面都非常耗时，需要我们耐心细致地完成。我们公共艺术装置的最后一个任务是一张简单的自然全景照片。经过前面的几项复杂的创作工作，最后这项既简单又容易完成的图片拍摄任务，竟然让人感到有些不知所措。