by taswann | May 22, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.” – John James Audubon John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist and painter who is most known for his work, The Birds of America. Audubon was born in...
by taswann | May 22, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six.” – Katsushika Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai was born in Edo, Japan in 1760. He was a painter, printmaker and book illustrator who created more than 30,000 finished pieces of...
by taswann | May 22, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso is known as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. We focussed our studies for this session on his many paintings that...
by taswann | Apr 23, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while milking a cow.” – Grant Wood Today we looked at the artist, Grant Wood, an American painter born in 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. We learned about his life and career and based our own art project on one of...
by taswann | Apr 23, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt and his masterpiece, Farmhouse with Birch Trees served as the inspiration for our tape resist watercolour project. The students learned how to create a foreground, middleground and...
