Dotty Art

After discussing which cultures and artists have used dots in their artworks, the class today went about creating dotty art inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

We used dot stickers from the newsagent, adhesive sticker paper in fluorescent colours, coloured paper, glue and scissors, and coloured cardboard for the background. It's so fun making sticker dot art. Below are the colourful, spotty results!

Ssssnakes in the grass!

This class is based on the Deep Space Sparkle painting and pastel lesson, here, except using collage instead. We drew winding snakes and then decorated them with bright colours. Next, we cut out blades of grass, perfect for the snakes to hide in, and stuck them to the bottom of the cloud photo. Lastly we glued the snakes winding in and out of the blades of grass. This is a nice Summer art project. Check them out!

Pixel Art

Pixel art is usually digital art, made up of little squares. Computer games used to look very blocky (and some newer games, like Minecraft, look this way on purpose). Today we created pixel drawings, using the squares on graph paper as a guide to create pixel self portraits and game-inspired artworks. Great work everyone! 

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

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 :) :) :)