Fabric Painting

Here is a small selection of beautiful cotton coin purses hand painted today by students at Springwood Art Class. Students drew a selection of designs on paper first and then chose their favourite for the purse. 

We used fabric paint textas, which allow for precision in designs. Considering we only have an hour together in class, the textas are easier and a lot less messy for the kids to use than fabric paint. It's best to iron the fabric after painting it, to set the design. 

Clay Dragons!

The following photos are of the beautifully creative dragons made during my two clay school holiday classes over the last couple of days (at Blaxland and Katoomba Libraries). The ages of these artists ranged from 6 - 12 yrs, and I'm amazed at how unique every single dragon had turned out! 

Using air-drying paper clay, we first discussed dragon legends from different cultures around the world, and looked at a lot of dragon examples before diving in and having fun with clay!

Great work everyone!!

 

Artwork Submission

Below is a beautiful artwork submitted to the blog by Stephanie, a young student in my art class. I love her use of rainbow throughout, it's such a happy image. Thank you very much Stephanie!

Alexander Calder Paper Sculptures

Alexander Calder Black Beast [maquette], 1939
Image sourced from: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-calder-black-beast-maquette

Inspired by Alexander Calder sculptures, we made small paper versions and created a sculpture park of our own.

What you need:
*Images of Alexander Calder sculptures for inspiration
*Interesting coloured paper and yardstick
*Sticky tape
*Stapler
*Scissors
*Textas/pens/pencils (for decoration)