Welcome!
I am a Teacher of Art currently living in Hong Kong. I have spent the last 5 years living and teaching in Bangkok, Thailand. This blog is to document my own work, what my students get up to and the art I see around Hong Kong, Thailand… and beyond!
COLLAGE
YEAR 8 - With Year 8 students moving onto ‘Adornment & Textiles’ they have begun to study textile collage Artist Elaine O’Neil. I thought it would be a good idea to start with a study of her work, so to get them used to the idea of collaging, we began with paper first - and what a better way to do it than creating our own colour papers to use! Students worked collaboratively as a table to create a selection of papers in tones selected from Elaine O’Neil’s artworks. These were added to a sharing table so students could select the colour papers they needed for their own pastiche. Using a variety of mark making tools and acrylic paints on different papers the students had great fun experimenting with colour mixing and creating their own art materials. Click on the images to see some of the results, the textured papers produced some great effects!
NATURE PAINTING
Nature painting with the little ones!
Using leaves from the garden to paint on paper leaves big and small (messy hands also got involved too, of course!).
