Klimt’s 'Tree of Life'

Tree of Life - Gustav Klimt

Today the class created artworks as a response to Gustav Klimt’s beautiful Tree of Life painting. Looking at the swirling branches, strange shape details and metallic colours, the class came up with the wonderful works below. 

What we used:

Lead pencil for initial sketching of the tree and details

Dark cardboard (blue, purple, red)

Metallic oil pastels

Arid’s magic self-drawing tree!

African Animal Masks

A library full of jungle animals? That’s what happened yesterday! Some were fierce, some were sweet, some were cheeky and some were funny!

All made using coloured electrical tape, texts and crayons (with elastic and twine to hold the masks on). The cardboard mask shapes can be bought from Cleverpatch.

Book Week Art Competition!

Entries must include your name, age and library borrower number.

Good Luck!!!

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 :) :) :)

CD Weaving

Based on this great art lesson by Make it...a Wonderful Life, today’s class was a lot of fun.

I pre-made the cd ‘looms’ to save class time.

We used plastic needles with large thread holes.

Great work everyone! 

PS...check out Joni’s special weaving video below :D

Art Competition for ages 15 - 21 yrs

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