Mixed Media Children’s Class with Gillian King
Children will be working in a variety of mediums including clay, drawing, collage, printmaking, and painting. Students will be directed through activities that will familiarize them with traditional and contemporary artists and have them thinking creatively and being inventive.
A class blog will also be created as a way for students and parents to be involved throughout the session. Photos from class as well as fun facts about our projects and processes will be posted throughout the session.
Before each two-week project children will be shown examples of artists, traditional to contemporary, whose work relates to the project. Students will also be given a demonstration before each project.
On the 9th week of class we will be having an art show with the works the children have created. Families and friends are welcome to this event. By the end of the session students will have a portfolio of their varied work to take home.
Collaged Self Portraits
We will be making self portrait collages by tracing each students head via a projector onto black paper, cutting out the shapes of their head, paper clipping a white sheet of paper to the black cut out. The students will then start collaging magazine images that contain things they like or help to describe who they are inside the head. When finished the students will glue the black paper onto the white and they have a collaged self-portrait.
Printmaking with Potatoes
Students will start by having two halves of a potato and be asked to draw an image with black marker on the open halves of them. We will then carve out the negative spaces and use the remaining image to spread paint on and use as stamps.
Ghost painting
With a white crayon students will start drawing images of their choice onto a white piece of paper then start painting over with acrylics and watercolours to have the white drawing beneath appear again. Students will also have the chance to use their potato stamps on these paintings.
Animorphs with Clay
Like the book and TV series, Animorphs, students will continue on with the self-portrait theme and they will be asked to use clay to sculpt themselves with half their body as an animal that best describes them. The clay figures will be left to dry for the following week when students will then paint their ‘animorphs’.
Mythical Creatures and Monsters with Fabric
With fabric scraps and a gloss medium, students will fasten the fabric to a canvas and create mixed media works of monsters. Think Where the Wild Things Are, centaurs, dragons, and creatures from their imaginations.
