Nemo, Dory & Friends

Our ceramic fish sculptures started life as Nemo and Dory, inspired by the recent animated movies Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. However it didn't take long for  our creativity to kick in, and our sculptures quickly became so much more interesting!

Lion King

These wonderful lions are completed by children aged from Prep to Year 6.... 

Here we learn to appreciate the impact of light and shadow, facial structure and the patience of drawing each individual hair of a lion's mane.

What patience!

We complete the picture in the final few minutes of the class with watercolour pencil and celebrate grass and sky in all the colours of the rainbow!

Wash Your Hands!

Well it's that time of year again! Winter drawing to a close can only mean two things - the Ekka and flu season!!

Cartoon art, while often humorous, often conveys a serious message. 

This week we looked at images of germs, which are such interesting organisms - invisible to the naked eye, some can be so dangerous and others essential to our existence. Microscopic, yet often quite beautiful! We've 'designed' our own germs and added them to photos of ourselves to create a humorous but timely picture called 'Wash Your Hands!'

Pretty cool aren't they?

Olivia

Olympic Silhouettes

The Rio Olympics are in full swing, and we all seem to have our favourite sports to follow. Whether you love the swimming, track and field, karate, weightlifting or gymnastics ... the list seems endless, and there is something for everyone!

Our art this week is inspired by our favourite Olympic events. We started by creating silhouettes of action figures before filling the negative space around them with vibrant, blended oil pastel, constantly referring to our colour wheel to select analogous colours that blend well together.

Josh

Birds of Brazil (Getting in the mood for Rio!)

The opening ceremony for the Rio Olympics is coming up this weekend, and the excitement is starting to mount! To help us get into the swing of things, over the next few weeks we'll have a Brazilian theme to our art.... starting with these wonderful Toca Toucan and Macaw paintings.

We've used vibrant red, blue and yellow fluoro paint, applied and mixed directly on the painting surface, rather than on the palette, for a fresh spontaneous feel. Hello Brazil!