Clay Name Plaques

We're having lots of fun painting and decorating our fired name plaques with silver spray paint, thinned acrylic paint and a sprinkle of glitter. The very thin layer of acrylic allows the silver to shine through, creating a beautiful opalescent effect. Finally, we're completing our name plaques with wire and beads.

Grace

Who Is That?? Portraits Like Picasso

Last week we experimented with the challenging concept of continuous line, in which the entire drawing is completed without lifting the pen from the page. This week we're taking that one step further to blind continuous line! 

Picasso 'Light Drawing', 1949

Photo by Gjon Mili 1949 for LIFE Magazine.

We begin with a discussion about realistic, abstract and semi-abstract drawing, while viewing some examples of Pablo Picasso's fabulous 'Light Drawings' (1949) which he executed with an electric light in a darkened room, photographed by artist Gjon Mili for LIFE magazine.

Kaleidoscope Owls

"A line is just a dot that went for a walk." Paul Klee

This week we're taking a walk with a continuous line owl drawing, then adding a different colour to each shape created. The concept and the execution is more challenging than we expected, and takes a bit of patience, but the beautiful free-flowing line and jewel kaleidoscope colours that result are well worth the effort!

Libby

Art Adventures In Space

Have you ever visited the Hubble Telescope website? The images are just amazing!!

This year Hubble celebrates 25 years of 'Unveiling the Universe'. We thought we'd join in the celebrations by creating our own Space-artscapes with a creative twist....

After looking at pictures of galaxies, nebulas, novas and star clusters from the Hubble website, we imagined what we might see if we ever have the chance to view the far reaches of the universe 'close up'. Planets, rockets, meteors.... Then we thought about what other objects might we see... what 'space junk' might careless space explorers before us have left behind? We let our imaginations run wild....  

Please enjoy our Hubble Telescope inspired Space Adventures!

Olivia

Koinobori

This week on May 5, families throughout Japan celebrate Kodomo no hi, Japanese Children's Day.

This special day celebrates children, and honours their mothers. Families hang Koinobori (Koi kites) outside their homes to symbolise their children growing strong and healthy.

As artists we've taken inspiration from the traditional Koinobori, to create our own lively, colourful versions using layers of crayon resist on watercolour paper, coloured paper and streamers.

They are gorgeous!

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