Halloween Treats!

 

Today was Halloween, so of course we created some spooky art - Halloween treat boxes and Halloween garlands.

For the boxes, we used:

*Folded cardboard takeaway boxes

*Coloured paper

*Coloured sticker paper (optional)

*Gluesticks

*Scissors

*Textas

Method: decorate the boxes with creepy images: vampires, ghosts, witches, cats and zombies!  The boxes could be stand-alone sculptures or used to store whatever you like inside.

For the garlands, we used:

*Paper/cardboard

*Scissors

*Textas

*Hole punch

*Scissors

*Transparencies (optional - we used them for see-through ghosts)

*Twine

*Sticky tape

Method: cut out your decorated spooky shapes, carefully punch a hole in each side of the shape, and then thread the twine through. I used a bit of sticky tape on the back on the twine through the punched holes in order to stop the objects moving around too much.  

Klimt’s 'Tree of Life'

Tree of Life - Gustav Klimt

Today the class created artworks as a response to Gustav Klimt’s beautiful Tree of Life painting. Looking at the swirling branches, strange shape details and metallic colours, the class came up with the wonderful works below. 

What we used:

Lead pencil for initial sketching of the tree and details

Dark cardboard (blue, purple, red)

Metallic oil pastels

Arid’s magic self-drawing tree!

African Animal Masks

A library full of jungle animals? That’s what happened yesterday! Some were fierce, some were sweet, some were cheeky and some were funny!

All made using coloured electrical tape, texts and crayons (with elastic and twine to hold the masks on). The cardboard mask shapes can be bought from Cleverpatch.

Book Week Art Competition!

Entries must include your name, age and library borrower number.

Good Luck!!!

Stamping With Paint

Hello! Welcome to Term 2 of Springwood Art Class with Naomi. Today we had messy fun making painted stamp collages with acrylic paint. The results are textured, vibrant and abstract - they’re great artworks.

What did we use?

Acrylic paint (Red, blue, green, yellow)

Foam stamps

Textured paint/clay rollers

Scissors

Plastic cookie cutters in lots of shapes

Thick recycled cardboard (to cut out our own stamp shapes)

White construction paper  

Lots of cleaning up afterwards, but it was worth it :) :) :)