Portrait Comp

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Portrait Competition

              

Are you aged 15—21 yrs?

               

Submit a portrait of a

Blue Mountains senior to win!                                                                          

                                    

                                  1st Prize — E-reader

                         2nd Prize — iPod

               3rd Prize — Book Voucher from

                            Turning Page bookstore, Springwood

Entry Details:

1. Artworks can be any medium, but are to be submitted as a digital file - JPEG or TIFF (at least 300 DPI). If you create a painting/drawing/collage etc., please scan or

photograph the work. The file can be handed in to any Blue Mountains library branch on DVD or CD, or emailed (along with your details) to:

competition@bmcc.nsw.gov.au

2. Each artwork must come with one paragraph about the senior chosen for

the portrait — e.g. who are they? / what did you talk about? /what made you

approach them for the artwork? 

3. Entries are due by 5pm, 6th April, 2012

For more info, please contact: Naomi

Ph: 02 4739 4284 (Mon - Tues)

E: competition@bmcc.nsw.gov.au

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ENTRY FORM:

(Please print out and attach this form to your submitted CD/DVD OR email these details to: competition@bmcc.nsw.gov.au )

Name: __________________

Age: ____

Borrower

number:

________________________

Contact phone:

________________________

Email:

________________________

Artwork title:

________________________

Medium:

________________________

Artist statement (can be submitted typed, on a

separate piece of paper):

____________________________________________________

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Springwood Pixel Art!

Inspired by computer graphics, the class at Springwood created some wonderful pixel images this week. Using the squares on graph paper as a guide, we created pixel drawings and game-based artworks. Great work everyone! 

Dot Drawings - Pointillism

Blaxland art class learnt today about using dots and stamps to make up images, rather than lines. We started the class by looking at examples of Pointillism and Impressionism.

Tie Dye (No Mess)

No mess tie dye...? How?!


Answer: textas + tissue paper/coffee filters/paper towel.


After trying different materials last term, Blaxland art class decided that paper towels were definitely most absorbent, and coffee filters also made for an interesting shape and effect. So this time around I got the Springwood class to use only paper towel, knowing it to be the easiest and best to work with. 


Folding paper towel squares a few times, into a square or triangle, textas were then held against the towel until it soaked right through to the other side. After adding a pattern, or the desired amount of colour, the folded papers were then opened up to reveal some amazing artworks! This project is a good introduction to both symmetry and working with absorbent paper and inks.


You can see some of the great results below: