Summer Art Adventures: Art Competitions

Art competitions are a fun way to get your artwork seen and you might even win a prize! Here are a couple of Summer art comps you may like to enter:

*Comic Strip Competition (click here for more info and the entry forms)

Entries due: 31st Jan 2012

Above comic is by: momo81

*Waste To Art Competition - making art from recycled materials. (Click here for more info, and visit your nearest Blue Mountains library branch for an entry form)

Entries due: 10th Febuary 2012

The Above sculpture was made by Millbank Primary School

If you want to show your art to the world, email me a photo of your art at: noliver@bmcc.nsw.gov.au and I'll feature it on the blog! Please include your name and age, and any info about the work you'd like to share.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Art Adventures - Summer Holidays

During the holidays, each week I'll post an art activity that you might like to try.

For the first Summer Art Adventure, how about making your own snow globe?

What you'll need:

A jar with a lid (it could small, like a baby food jar, or large like a peanut butter jar)
A plastic figurine / plastic greenery etc. to put inside your snowdome scene
Glitter
Water
Modelling clay (optional)
Hot glue gun (and an adult to help!)

Check out instructions here - and remember, only put waterproof materials in your globe! For a waterless version, click here.

If you want to show your art to the world, email me a photo of your art at: noliver@bmcc.nsw.gov.au and I'll feature it on the blog! Please include your name and age, and any info about the work you'd like to share.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

A Pop Art Christmas

Have a look at these pop art-inspired Christmas artworks that Springwood art class did today, using oil pastels. Awesome work everyone! 

  

Flash-mob At Springwood Library!

Do you know what a 'flash-mob' is?

At the last Storytime for kids before Christmas this year, some of the librarians decided to surprise everyone with their own flash-mob! Check it out:

Timetable For Term 1, 2012

Oh my gosh, it's almost 2012! It's going to be a fun first term back at art class. Here are the timetables for Blaxland and Springwood:

BLAXLAND ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

February - April (TERM 1, 2012)

Week 1  –  1/2: Summer Self-Portrait

Week 2  –  8/2: 3D Art (and 3D Glasses!)

Week 3  –  15/2: Dot Pictures

Week 4  –  22/2: Babushka Dolls

Week 5  –  29/2: Painting Like Joan Miro

Week 6  –  7/3: Recycled Art

Week 7  –  14/3: Paper Puppets

Week 8  –  21/3: Finish This Picture…

Week 9  –   28/3: Glow In The Dark

Week 10 –  4/4: Fabric Painting

SPRINGWOOD ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

February - April (TERM 1, 2012)

Week 1  –  2/2: Tie-dye Art

Week 2  –  9/2: Where The Wild Things Are

Week 3  –  16/2: Pixel-style Art

Week 4  –  23/2: Make Your Own Flag / Coat of Arms

Week 5  –  1/2: Prehistoric Fish

Week 6  –  8/3: Glitter Art

Week 7  –  15/3: Artist Trading Cards

Week 8  –  22/3: Surreal Drawings

Week 9  –   29/3: Watercolour Painting

Week 10 –  5/4: Art Games

Look forward to seeing you there! :)

Glitter Art - with special guest Liam Benson!

We had a special guest speaker this week at Blaxland - artist Liam Benson. He gave a great talk about how and why he uses glitter in his photography artworks, and even brought in some of his glitter art pieces to show to the class.

Check out the wonderful glitter art made during this class:

Above: A glittering rainbow fairy cave, being guarded by enchanted creatures.

Submit Your Art to the Blog!

If you would like to show your art on the blog, email a picture of it, along with your name, age and the artwork title to: noliver@bmcc.nsw.gov.au

ABOVE:

Artwork 1 (top) - ‘Silly World’ by Arid McCusker-Monk. The silliness comes from the fact that this world has an igloo, but it also tropical, with palm trees and a very hot sun!

Artwork 2 - ‘Scary Harbour Bridge’ by Arid McCusker-Monk. With huge spiders making webs, and people shouting “Help!”, this would be a bad day to go on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Artwork 3 - ‘Garden’ by Arid McCusker-Monk. A beautiful twisty, curly garden.

Above: ‘Fantastic Zoo’ by Joni Gersbach. What a wonderful drawing! Look for all the fantastic animals in this work: can you see spiders, a snake, fish? What else can you spot?

Thank you for submitting your wonderful drawings Arid and Joni! Love your style!

Creative Collage!

Springwood art class goes wild with magazine collage! All we needed were tons of magazines and junk mail, glue-sticks and scissors. Have a look at their fantastically creative and funny work: