Badge making in the holidays:

always trying different things, we became proficient in the business of making fancy badges.  Here is a few (many were already being worn/unavailable for photo) of the MANY snazzy badges we churned out: 

projects up 'till now that we have explored:

list of art things:

-using plastic farm animals as inspiration, divide paper into thirds. draw the font half of one animal, the middle of another and the back half of another animal pass the picture each time a section is done so that the creature is drawn by 3 different people…  eg, everyone has ONE animal only and draws their animal onto the different sections of other people’s animals.

Discussion about the animals ought follow.  

(ink drawing/crayon or pastel colour)

(as seen in Mish ‘zine #1)

-leaf rubbings (previously cut out in the shape of hands) and then attached on top of other rubbings…  (crayon or pastel)

-collage depicting a place you would like to go

discussion about why this place is so good.

magazines

-simple projection drawing using pastels on cardboard/canvas/undercoated board of an agreed image 

-projection drawing/painting using inspiration from other artists (eg klimt)

-contour/blind contour drawings of each other (working in pairs)

-collage (non subjective/abstract) looking for colour and texture

(magazines)

-snakes and ladders:  rollers and acrylic paint to make the gridded squares on cardboard.  Stuck on snakes and ladders (also painted)

-the fingers pattern:  around the outside of large piece of white card/surface trace everybody’s hands.  Then, draw a line from each finger to every other finger.  (oil pastel)

-Heroes and villans:  collage character invention: using magazines construct heroes and villains

discussion:  re:what are the superpowers/intentions of each?

-Pizza:  Prepare LARGE pizza base (acrylic on cardboard/surface) divide pizza up into slices and everyone draws/paints their ultimate pizza flavours (might be abstract)

-Pom pom session.  Make pom poms!

- 3 piece people: Paper divided into thirds,  like the 3-piece-animals from earlier, create the head, body and lower section of characters/people/robots  passing to next person for each section.

-Zentangle:  random lines across large surface filled in with small intricate patterns

-felt art: create a character/scene

-profile drawing:  Using projector to draw profile, each person then fills image with things about themselves.  

-thumbprint art:  turn thumbprints (ink/paint) into creatures/plants etc.

Puppet show:

-design puppets using collage bodies/drawn heads etc. onto sticks

-design background(s) (large prepared surfaces  done in sections all joined together.  (eg houses = town/ trees=forest)

-3 dimensional geographic shapes (to be hung?) ((Large egg carton squares or other found matching panels)) -paint flat surfaces then construct cubes etc using hot-melt glue

ALSO:

-gridding sessions:

-using oil paint crayons, grid up a canvas/surface then with fingers smudge

-on canvas or surface measure and prepare inch grid, with crayons/pastels draw squares of any size, come back and colour squares with watercolour.  

End of year gridding session.

What a totally amazing year!  In this final session we revisited grid-mapping in a looser and more exciting way than the sessions we did for the "Stronger Together" Bunnings exhibition we were part of back in October but with some wild new tweaks!  Have a super break guys and we'll be back at it early in Febuary 2018! 

here's a couple of pics by Gabi: 

and the time-lapse video was filmed by a few people as the camera was passed around...  :)  

More adventures in ART-LAND

Contour drawing!  Started out as contour drawing and evolved into BLIND contour drawing...

Collage Session with focus of colour and form rather than just cutting people out of magazines and putting them in different scenes/swapping heads and limbs etc...






Gridding:  The rules of the game were simple.  You have to draw squares.  However, the dimensions of the square could be anything (relative to the grid) and you can draw OVER pre-existing squares drawn by others...




Then, you have to colour in squares, but the colouring must be SQUARE even if it means going over other squares lines...


  awesome!





The Giant Snakes and Ladders (mixed media)







And, the SUPER MURAL painting (which took 4 weeks to complete!)  This is SOOOOO BIG!

AMAZING OIL PASTEL PATTERN!

This was amazing!  I don't know if any of you have seen them or not, but back in the 60s and 70s, people used to make these crazy patterns by pitting nails around a big rectangular board and then link string back and forth.  I figured we didn't need board or string and I was right!  Instead of nails, we used fingers on our traced hands and instead of string we used crayon and instead of a board we used a big old piece of paper!  Good job team!

JUNE ARTS!!!

Hey!  -Sorry about delayed post.  It's been a hectic month of assignments, exams, uni-placement and travelling!  -Here's what we got up to in June!  

Firstly, a return to collage-land: (Super Heroes vs Villans)

Then, the GIANT PIZZA:

And there was POM POMS!

not sure what happened to the ones that went home... we never saw them again...

Followed by triple-switch drawing:  

And last, but not least, The big zentangle psycadellic mega-drawing:

so there you have it!  So much great art!  Can't wait to see what happens next!

felt critters!

this week we make critters out of felt with googly eyes.
Great colours!  Great critters!