by taswann | Sep 19, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
I love this time of year. To me – this is the real new year, back to school and straight into fall. The leaves are starting to change, the weather is getting chillier and the pumpkins are ready to pick. At Art in Action we are very excited to introduce two new...
by taswann | Jun 14, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol During our last session at Humbercrest we explored the work of the iconic, Andy Warhol. We looked at his early commercial art and went through his career focussing on his ‘Pop Portraits’. Each student...
by taswann | Jun 5, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” Gustav Klimt We turned our classroom into a printing shop on Monday. We used brayers and printing ink on carved foam and worked on our ‘own’ Tree of Life masterpieces inspired by Gustav Klimt. The students experimented...
by taswann | May 30, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
Art in Action was invited to create a waterfall project for a recent birthday party. We used good quality watercolour paper, acrylic paints and oil pastels. Here is what we came up with: The birthday party was a blast and the kids did a great job capturing the essence...
by taswann | May 29, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” Jackson Pollock At our last session at Humbercrest we looked at the process of painting like Jackson Pollock. He is most famous for the paintings produced...
by taswann | May 7, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six.” Katsushika Hokusai Today we were very busy creating our own renditions of the famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, by Hokusai. Salt and watercolours were used for the...
