Clay canvas

Today I went to an art workshop where I learnt some fabulous painting techniques. One of them was using slip (very wet clay) , PVA glue and acrylic paint. Basically you mix them together and smear the mixture onto the canvas to create whatever textured image that you desire. I will post the photo's tomorrow as my phone won't seem to allow me to insert photo's. So stay tuned!

JennyKayKidsArt

See my new blog for teaching children art.

http://jennykaykidsart.blogspot.com/

My first post is waiting for you viewing!

Father's Day

At the last minute I decided I would make dad a fathers day card.  I started with a 'practice' design.

Then bambino no. 2 wanted to do some drawing too....

Pencil first then pen after.  Pretty cute hey?  It is a King Fairy for grandad.

I was going to go over it in pen, but time permitted and I thought it looked OK without the pen. So there you have it, a home made card for dad for Father's Day.

Lanterns @ Twilight

Well, better late than never!  Here are some pics of Lanterns at Twilight a few weeks ago.  The night started with Fire Twirler I hired and then the parade of lanterns.  The Fire twirler then did a performance for the children.  There were 350 people in the parade hinted with mystical music and lanterns.  What a beautiful evening!

Lanterns are on their way!

My school is having its second Lanterns at Twilight on Wednesday night.  The children from years Prep-Yr6 have handmade their lanterns and will parade with them around our oval.  Stay tunned for Wednesday nights photo's!!

Patterns in nature

These photo's show the wonderful patterns found in nature.  Line, shape, colour, texture.  How lucky I am to be surrounded with such beauty!

Printmaking

I having been wanting to do this all holidays, and I finally got around to giving it a whirl!.

Firstly these were a series of drawings I did whilst away on our trip to the beach....

I used dense printing foam from Speedy School Supplies.  This foam is harder than polystyrene foam and is easily scored using a pen.

The materials I needed, I didn't photograph the plate that I put the ink onto for rolling before adding it onto the printing plate.

I have only completed 6 prints in this series and this was the last one.  Note how the image is the negative of the scoring.

Framed and ready to display!