L02 spoons and forks
Lesson 01: pinching
Haig Girls Ceramics Program
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Yuneng Collage Making
To me, a collage is about composition of colour and texture; basically a vibrant combination of colours plus really fun, interesting and and exciting textures, which is what i hope to be able to achieve with these 100 students. Materials used for collage making include fancy coloured fabrics, colour and perforated paper, lotsa transparent glue, oil pastels.
Lesson 2, still work in progress, not yet complete..
after experimenting with a few methods. Points to note for best results:1. L01: cut n paste on separate recycled paper first,
2. L02: color background first, use 2-3 colours, blend. Then cut out design to paste on top. Then sign off. PS: never again use templates for collage making!!!
Monster Creation Using Recycled Paper
Monster Creation Using Recycled Cardboard
CHRISTMAS Art Bootcamp 2013
Day 1: Character Design & Coloring Using Acrylic Paint
Day 2: Robot Construction Using Recycled Paper
All the children’s work turn out fantastique!!! 😀
Day 3: Coloring Recycled Robot Using Acrylic Paint
Day 4: Design & Create Christmas Gingerbread Monsters
Day 5: Character Realisation & Fabrication: “roll the clay into a ball. Roll into the shape of an egg. Roll into the shape of a baby carrot. Tear drop.” were basically my instructions for them as these were the basic shapes that make up the baby bird. Instructions need to be really simple and easy to understand as they were all between nursery to k1, better still, have instructions that can immediately trigger off clear vivid mental images they are able to relate with, so as oso to enhance their learning. Also i kept emphasising over and over again to not hammer the clay or flatten until so thin like a pizza which they have a tendency to do so and can be fond of doing even. Also constant reminders not to over pull the clay as to avoid the messy ‘spider web’. I also taught them how to pinch clay, roll, mould, shape etc. bcos for the younger ones, their psychomotor skills are still not fully developed or started developing. I also made sure they maintain a “safe” visible distance away from their artwork in-process as not to accidentally damage their art work especially when they get excited during kneading as the clay is extremely soft. Also i made sure i check and closely supervise their work at every stage as to make sure the proportion, shape and positioning of all the birds’ body parts were correct and that every child receives the same amount of attention, care and supervision. I feel that for 3D modelling like this, especially organic shapes involved, plenty of classroom management is needed and I am glad everything turned out real well and they were all happy with the outcome of their learning😊
Intensive 5 Days Art Enrichment Camp
Robot Design & Monster Design
..before and after..
made from recycled paper, cardboard and box
Project Shoe Box
Design capsule of Project Shoebox
- YAY HURRAY!!!
Finally the shoeboxes reached Cambodia on 8Dec 2013.. YEAH!!!!:D
Project Shoe Box is an extremely meaningful and rewarding project whereby I got to design and paint gift boxes for the orphans of Cambodia. The dynamic involvement of so many people was wonderful. Eventually everyone came together to help in the acquiring and packing of the joy gifts into the boxes. This year a total of 2000 shoeboxes were dispatched to Cambodia.
Magic Castle
After constructing the castle, i applied a layer of white primer before applying acrylic
After applying acrylic
I created this castle (which stands 5ft in length, 5ft in height and 2ft in width) from recycled paper, paper boxes, egg crates, wine corks, metal tins, cardboards. Basically I joined all the different parts together using glue to form the shape of a castle. Then paint it using water based acrylic paint. All in all, took about 2-3 weeks to complete.
Radin Mas Ceramics
I conducted this intensive 60-hours ceramics course for a total of about 1000 students. However, in actual fact, i spent over 200 hours as a result of alot of preparation work needed to be done, touching up, cleaning up etcetcetc.
Here are some of the children’s work from P3,4,5,6. Of all fine arts, I find teaching Ceramics most enjoyable and most fascinating. However the amounts of prep work is simply too much. Unless all the extra hours are all being factored in, it would be hardly possible to run something as intensive as this again.
Nevertheless, the kids are wonderful and i enjoyed teaching them very much:)
Oil Pastels & Acrylic: Artist Keith Haring
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