Today was the start of my March Holiday Art Workshops. It was lovely to meet this group of children ranging from 6 to 16 years. Many of them are home schooled.
I believe that one should start with good canvas board, the best acrylic paints, good brushes and a lot of inspiration materials.Our boards are 12" x 12" Pro-Art canvas boards.The paints are mostly Iris Acrylic paint that gives good coverage in a single layer.
The brushes are Prime Art long-handled taklon synthetics in various flat sizes. I also provide angled brushes and love seeing the joy the students experience once they get the hang of the angle brush.
There is another workshop on the same theme tomorrow.
Can't wait!
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| All hand drawn, without using the stencils. The students always surprize me! And these are such fun little characters! |
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| The classroom: space to work and space to move around |
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| The students could visit the inspiration table set up in a corner |
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| Youngest in the group, getting right down to it |
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| Happy painting! The tiny containers with little spoons hold the white paint |
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| This is what artists do- they get up to work from above! |
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| The Iris acrylics give good coverage so that layering was seldom necessary |
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| With the more serious students, symbolism entered the work. A long tail looks like a reflection of the bird. A wise old foreground bird is covered with symbols |
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| How well our tiniest student painted her birds which seem to tell a story |
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| Another story unfolds under a red hot sun and a branch of leaves |
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| Birds also offer such good forms for designs. A very effective use of strong colour! |
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