Mixing Colours - et voila!

Springwood Art Class was presented with the challenge of creating miniature paintings, using only red, yellow, blue, black and white acrylic paint to mix other specific colours. Here are just a few of the awesome results!

Op Art Space

After discussing the concept of zentangles  and looking at examples, the class was left to create eye-catching freeform optical designs inspired by the theme 'space'. We used bright pink backgrounds for extra psychedelic effect! 

Materials:

Pink cardboard
Lead Pencils
Textas
Poscas

I laid out a few objects to trace - masking tape (tracing inner or outer circles for planets), rulers, and foam star shapes. 

Chalk Pastel Barn Owls

I have to say I'm extremely impressed with results of this class, inspired by Mary Making Blog 

We drew our barn owls on brown paper bags, outlined them in black pencil/texta, added chalk pastel colouring, and then cut out and pasted the owls onto cardboard backgrounds to make them pop. 

Paper Crowns

Here are just a small selection of wonderful and wild paper crown that kids created today in our last class for the term. Happy Easter Holidays everyone!

Painted Wall Hangings

Here are a few of the wonderful wall hangings created in Katoomba by kids these school holidays. 

I sewed the banners from calico, creating a looped space at the top to thread wooden doweling through. We used crocheted cord to string them up. 

The students had the option of using Posca pens, sharpies, fabric paint or acrylic paint, as well as pom-poms, feathers and beads to decorate their banners.