Art Class Timetable for Term 1, 2015

SPRINGWOOD ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

Feb - April 2015 (TERM 1)

 

Week 1  –  5/2: Pixel Art

Week 2  –  12/2: Snakes in the Grass - Collage

Week 3  –  19/2: 3D Hand Drawings

Week 4  –  26/2: Drawing Babushka Dolls

Week 5  –  5/3: Panda Bear  - Pastel Drawing

Week 6  –  12/3: Paper Puppets

Week 7  –  19/3: Dots and Spots

Week 8  –  26/3: Near and Far (Foreground and Background)

Week 9  –  2/4: Drawing Chinese Vases

For Ages 5-12yrs

$6 a child

Clay at Blackheath Library

The first workshop for the school holidays was Clay Art at Blackheath Library. Have a look at these amazing clay creations - from a native bee hive, to toadstools, a Japanese Kokeshi doll, an Adventure Time character and all sorts of underwater creatures, there were so many great ideas!

                                              

Springwood Art Class Timetable, Term 1 - 2013

SPRINGWOOD ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

FEBRUARY – APRIL 2013 (TERM 1)

Week 1 –  07/2:  Flags and Crests

Week 2 –  14/2:  CD Weaving

Week 3 –  21/2:  Texture in Art

Week 4 –  28/2:  Oil Pastel Horses (and Unicorns)

Week 5 –  07/3:  Charcoal Drawings

Week 6 –  14/3:  Peacocks

Week 7 –  21/3:  Paddle-pop Art

Week 8 –  28/3:  Easter Art

Week 9 –  04/4:  Relief Art

Week 10 – 11/4: Paper Clay Sculptures

Term 1 starts next week, woohoo!

Timetable For Term 1, 2012

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! :)

Summer Art Adventures - Fireworks!

2012 is here! Why not make this fireworks artwork to celebrate :)

Glitter fireworks art
What you need:
*A few colours of glitter
*Black paper or cardboard
*PVA/craft glue
*A straw (optional)
*Old newspapers

Click here for the instructions!

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 New Year Everyone!

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!

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! 

  

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! :)

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!

Art Adventures - Marimekko

Art idea for today: Marimekko designs
Marimekko is a Finnish company that has been around since the 1950s, and is famous for bright, eye-catching designs like the ones here.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Paper or cardboard for the base
Coloured paper or crepe paper
Glue

1. Cut out big, bold flower shapes in one or two colours and paste them all over the base page. Don't be afraid to go over the edges, it looks great! Just cut off any extra bits.

2. Cut out circle shapes in a different colour and paste those in the centre of the flowers, and then do the same with smaller circles (in another colour still).

3. Add some small cutouts here and there for the stems, and - voilà!

Remember:

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

Art Adventures - Hong Kong

Welcome to week 2! This Art Adventure is inspired by Hong Kong, where I stayed for two days on my way to Finland.  

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Dark-coloured paper (black, blue, purple etc)
White or coloured chalk - or - chalk pastels 

Using dots and lines only, no colouring-in, can you make a scene of Hong Kong at night (like the photo above)? Think about adding lines or swiggles for reflections in the water, the outlines of boats and all of the different-shaped lights of the city skyline.

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

Art Adventures - Name Designs

While I'm overseas I'm going to post some ideas for art projects each week - have a look, and if it sounds fun to you, you might like to have a go at it. This is the first one!

TEXTA NAME DESIGNS
What you need:
*Textas/coloured pencils
*paper

Swirling, bubble-writing, patterns and perspective - the ideas are endless. What about making each letter of your name into a picture of something else? Here are some examples:

^^MIRROR-IMAGE

- Remember our class on symmetry? Can you see how the pic above is symmetrical?

LINE ART^^

^^PSYCHADELIC! - Swirling, wild patterns and colours.

3D^^ - Add shadow to add dimension to your letters. 

            ^^DRAW THE THINGS YOU LOVE,

AS PART OF YOUR NAME - Do you have a favorite hobbie, sport, book, pet?

Try and fit them into the letters of your name.

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

Art Class Timetables for Term 4

Term 4 is when the Summer art classes will start up. Look below to see what we're up to!

BLAXLAND ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

OCTOBER  –  DECEMBER (TERM 4)

Week 1   –  12/10: Where the Wild Things Are – Drawing Monsters

Week 2   –  19/10: Artist Trading Cards

Week 3   –  26/10: Make Your Own Flag / Coat of Arms

Week 4   –  02/11: Drawing well: Using Grids

Week 5   –  09/11: Tie Die Art

Week 6   –  16/11:  Pixel-style Art

Week 7   –  23/11:  Glitter Art

Week 8   –  30/11:  Surreal Drawings

Week 9   –  07/12: Prehistoric Fish

Week 10 – 14/12: Art Games!

SPRINGWOOD ART CLASS WITH NAOMI

OCTOBER  –  DECEMBER (TERM 4)

Week 1 –  13/10: Eric Carle Insects

Week 2 –  20/10: Camouflage chameleons

Week 3 –  27/10: Sock Monkey portraits

Week 4 –  03/11: Symmetrical Aliens

Week 5 –  10/11: Hot Air Balloon drawings

Week 6 –  17/11: Abstract paper portraits

Week 7 –  24/11: Chinese vases

Week 8 –  01/12: Sombreros

Week 9 –  08/12: Grass snake drawings

Week 10 – 15/12: Andy Warhol – Pop Art