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!

Blending Colours

We had a colourful class today, learning how to draw organic and crystalline forms and then adding at least three colours to them. I showed the class how to blend their chosen colours together, gently overlapping and blending the each colour into the next. Have a look at the wonderful results: 

Art and Science of Rainbows

In my 'Art and Science of Rainbows' workshop these school holidays at Katoomba Library, lucky young artist-scientists got to conduct exciting experiments and create colourful art, all in the name of exploring rainbows, prisms and the colour spectrum!

Here are just some of the things we did:

1. Used a torch through a prism, to create a rainbow on a white wall.
2. Discussed the science behind raindrops and light creating rainbows.
3. Played with colourful 'Dragon's Eggs' (Otherwise known as Water Beads or Orbeez). Click here to see an awesome video of a pool FILLED with Orbeez!!
4. Used an eye dropper to put drops of food colouring into oil.
5. Spun a colour wheel around until it turned white. Click here for another take on this activity.
6. Blended chalk pastels on black paper, to create rainbow-inspired artworks.