B.D.F. wraps up summer art camp
The B.D.F. has been busy; it’s in charge of Belize’s defense, and this summer it has been engaging young people in a wide range of innovative activities. There have been football camps, jungle survival exercises, basic first aid training, rappelling, chess in a cave games, and today it was all about art. Jose Sanchez took a peek at the art camp.
Today the B.D.F. held closing ceremonies for one of the youth camps under its summer challenge program.
Georgiana Lovell, Participant, B.D.F. Art Camp
“Who am I? If you ask what or who I would like be, it’s difficult for me to say. It would be something impressive to you and to me but something I would enjoy doing everyday. Let me see how and where I can start grab everyone’s attention. My favourite thins in this world is art and it’s the best way to make an impression.”
And making that impression is through the use of colours. Thirty six kids from ages four to fifteen completed a two week art program through which they used paint to show us their true colours.
Lt. Colonel Omar Pulido, Deputy Commander B.D.F.
“The painting summer camp here, we’ve had a variety of children picked from Ladyville, Belize City, here in Price Barracks and various age ranges. As you could witness, there is as young as four and as old as fourteen. We then provide for them a lunch. We provide for them, they either walking, bicycling, or their parents drop them off and they come from nine to three. During this time they’ve learned team work, discipline.”
But most of all they learn painting from veteran teacher Alginold Bennett.
Alginold Bennett, Art Teacher
“It has been three years in the running now. This programme is done annually and every year we have something like thirty-six students coming together to learn basic painting. I usually have a programme set up for them before I get here. This year we had underwater seascapes, we had landscapes, we had still life and as you can see, some sunset scenes and some floral arrangements like the one we have on the door over there.”
Ashley Mira, Camp Participant
“After painting, then you start to paint with your paintbrushes. Well I have corals, starfishes, fish, the sea.”
Kaleem Chun, Camp Participant
“You see in my painting, I do coconut trees, the grass, the sea, the rising of the sun. I didn’t do the sun actually but I did do the light so you can see how the clouds. That’s actually what we have been doing and some more of the seas.”
Trevor Muschamp, Camp Participant
“As you can see, the sunset it’s going. The sun is going down to the sea and you can see all the shades and the trees and the water and the clouds. You can see different shades of clouds in the water and from the land and different grasses and the coconut trees.”
Jose Sanchez
“Are the colours you use important?”
Trevor Muschamp
“Yes, they are important because the shades makes it like real.”
Abby Mira
“We have the corals, the fish and we did mostly from dark to light and we did the colours. We use lots of bright colours that was fun. Sometimes it was kind of difficult but it was fun.”
The participants all received certificates at the end of the program. Reporting for News Five, Jose Sanchez.
