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Papier Mache hats
Posted on March 18th, 2010Before I began this unit on hat making, I thought I might have bitten off more than I can chew.....
Painting magazine pictures
Posted on March 4th, 2010If you have the above items – being Art Clean and a paint brush or two, why not give this...
Painting with Scissors
Posted on March 1st, 2010These paintings were inspired by Matisse and his ‘Painting with Scissors’ technique. The story goes that he would get his...
Collagraph Printing
Posted on February 17th, 2010I wasn’t sure how these collagraph prints would turn out, but the results were super cool! We started by creating...
Year 9 figurative sculpture
Posted on November 19th, 2009Here a few of the finished figures my year 9 Art class started a few weeks ago. I don’t know...
Little Paverpol sculptures
Posted on November 5th, 2009One of my favourite classes this year has been my year 9 art class. They are such a lovely bunch...
Lino prints with Year 9 and my copper ring!
Posted on October 23rd, 2009It’s funny how some groups of kids work through a task so quickly and some take forever! This group of...
Learning how to mix paint colours
Posted on August 25th, 2009One of the most common questions when year 7s begin painting is, ‘How do I make brown?!‘ And it’s always...
Mosaic Animal Sculptures
Posted on August 19th, 2009These have taken us ALL term to create, but they are soooo cute that they are worth it! Not everyone...
How to set up a wiki
Posted on August 16th, 2009I wish I’d thought to do this earlier in the year but better late than never I suppose. Yesterday I...
Mixed Up Portraits
Posted on August 4th, 2009I had the day off work with a cold yesterday and was back at work today. With my voice barely...
Newspaper Portraits
Posted on July 24th, 2009In continuing with our theme of Portraiture, here is my year 9 class’ latest installment. It’s very unlike me, but...
Paper Portraits
Posted on July 17th, 2009My year 9s and I are looking at Portraiture this semester. I only wanted this little project to go for one lesson...
Paper Mosaics
Posted on June 9th, 2009They are finally finished! I started a class Mosaic project with my Year 7 class a few weeks ago and...
How to make fridge magnets out of clay!
Posted on June 3rd, 2009Art club today! Making fridge magnets was our theme! I can’t get enough of using the Jovi Patcolor modelling clay....
