Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2014 - Painting water & Reflections 1

Water is a very versatile compositional element that gives a lively feel if added to any landscape, we had lessons on how to paint water.........and I explained my students how they can get the realistic representation of water by painting one of it's very important and fascinating property "reflection".

Here' the first lesson and it got easy with the watercolour's wet on wet technique......drawing the reflected image is of course a bit challenging for them.

Me and My Rangoli in "Vibes" Newsletter

A glimpse of me and my Rangoli in Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council Newsletter (Issue 44 Jan-March 2015)........I thoroughly enjoyed creating this "SG 50 & Pongal" themed Rangoli single handedly 2 hours non-stop, during the "Pongalo Pongal" event organised by Sengkang Iaec.

 I still gladly remember how the kids got fascinated by seeing the multi-colourd Merlion and people seeking permission to take pictures of the work. 

Thank you Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council members and staff for the picture!

Here's the finished work.

SG 50 Rangoli, Singapore

Sketch

A storage unit in Sengkang West Avenue.

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2014 - Colour Wheel

Making a colour wheel with only 3 primary colours and mixing secondary colours is the basic idea of this lesson....kids also learned about warm and cool colours and how to use them in paintings.

Additionally we painted a simple landscape with both warm and cool colours, so that kids could understand the effect they give....one looked like a warm sunrise landscape and the other like a cool night/evening landscape.

Lovely warm and cool flower by a student!

St Anne's Church (1963) - Charcoal Sketch on location

A Happy accident! I sketched my first session of St Anne's Church on last Friday and kept my charcoal sketch on the table.....my 2 yr old little daughter has sprayed a fine mist of water with the spray bottle(we use it to water our tiny terrariums) and by the time I saw my sketch, it was dry to touch......and the resulting texture was so good, I completed my sketch preserving it.

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2014 - Christmas Pine and Snowman

The last of our tree series is Pine....students practiced the tree first, then painted a suitable snowscape, with a snowman of course!

The fun part was adding the snow!!