by taswann | Feb 5, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” – Pablo Picasso Our lesson today was inspired by the line drawing by Pablo Picasso of Francoise Gilot, the mother of two of his children. We focussed...
by taswann | Jan 24, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy.” -Norval Morrisseau We started off our new winter session at Humbercrest Public School with a Polar Bear project. We were inspired by the...
by taswann | Jan 24, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
The penguin’s joined in to celebrate at a birthday party this past weekend. We got busy with liquid watercolours and plastic wrap to make our icy background. We then used sponges and acrylic paint to make our icebergs and finished with potato stamps to make our...
by taswann | Nov 23, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Simple, I don’t like the word simple. I like easy better. I want to forget about the technique. I sweat and worry but I don’t want it look like that; but you can’t separate the artist and his technique.” – Ellsworth Kelly The American painter,...
by taswann | Nov 22, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Everything starts from a dot.” – Wassily Kandinsky Kandinsky was one of the first artists to create completely abstract (non-representational) art. Due to his special ability to hear colours (called synaesthesia cognate) his pieces made no reference...
by taswann | Nov 14, 2012 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I work with nature, although in completely new terms.” – Bridget Riley Optical art is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. The artist, Bridget Riley was our inspiration today. We had fun looking at her op art creations and...
