NICHOLAS - Still Life (BAG)

Medium: Poster Colour
Date of Creation: 12 Jan 2008

Nicholas has just been 'promoted' from more junior class to join the older kids. He is still trying to adapt to the change, but he is doing fine so far. He is definitely capable to deliver good work, just that he now need more time to polish up his painting skills. Keep going Nicholas

Carmen - Still Life (BAG)

Medium: Poster Colour
Date of Creation: 12 Jan 2008

Carmen's painting skills have improved alot. We can see that Carmen has put in efforts to deliver better work. Even her art classmate was impressed by her work. Well done!

JOSHUA - Still Life (BAG)

Medium: Poster Colour and Colour Marker
Date of Creation: 12 Jan 2008

WEIXIONG - Butterfly

Medium: Oil Pastel & Watercolour
Date of Creation: 5 Jan 08

Pretty surprised by Weixiong's speedy advancement in his progress right after the school holiday break. In this 1st artpiece that he has created this year, Weixiong has improved alot in his colouring skill and he has started including more details in his drawing. Well done Weixiong!

JIN ANN - Butterfly

Medium: Oil Pastel & Poster Colour
Date of Creation: 5 Jan 08

Jin Ann did show some improvement in her colouring. She is now advancing from doodling stage to basic shapes recognition. Jin Ann really enjoys using of mixed medium, especially with the use of Watercolour

CARMEN - ChinaTown Pencil Sketch

In this artpiece, Carmen learned to see things with greater details and polished up her skills in drawing things with dimensions. She has demonstrated her ability to manage bigger artpieces, drawing subjects with fine details

CARMEN - Scratch Board

CARMEN - Animal Stare!

Carmen has a flair in doing still life and 'real' life drawing. She has been pretty accurate in her object proportion gauging, and have put much attention into details. Very observant girl i must say. Good job Carmen!

CARMEN - Shapes Design

CARMEN - Customized Portfolio Bag

Pretty good idea to create a portfolio bag to store all artwork! Really nice to see Carmen using her own masterpieces to 'design' her own portfolio bag. This will be one and only in the world! :)

CARMEN - Still Life Fruits

CARMEN - Still Life

CARMEN - Dog

Very impressive masterpiece done by Carmen. The dog does look real life on paper! Carmen has successfully created the 'furry' feel on th doggie and it does stands out from the background

JOSHUA - My City

JOY - My Fantasy World

JOSHUA - "Pop-Up" Animal

JONAS - Comic Frame "SkyScraper"

JONAS - My Slippers on Water

JINYANG - "Pop Up" Lion

JEMIMA - "Pop-Up" Animal

FANG GENG - Insects in Jungle?

FANG GENG - Printing Board

DEBBIE - Chinatown in Black & White

DARRYL - "Pop-Up" Lion King!

Kids are really fascinated with Pop-Ups. When we showed Darryl the sample design, straightaway he wanted to learn doing the "Pop-Up" lion. Tho he may be too young to remember the steps of doing this pop up card, he has really enjoyed himself when working on this masterpiece of his

YEETONG - City in Frames

This is a 'Comic' Style drawing frame which we wanted the kids to create a city of their own within these frames

Few objectives to be delivered in this lesson
1) Learn how to draw 3-dimensional objects
2) Learn how to draw things in perspective (ie objects in front will be bigger...far away will be smaller)
3) Learn "Overlapping" drawing
4) Learn to draw details
5) Learn how to see things in "Separation"

To guide the kids along, a handout with shapes in 2D & 3D drawing were given to them as reference. Photos of city skyscraper were also provided to help them expand their creative mind. So far so good. The kids have managed it well :)

YEETONG - My Slippers "Footprint Round the World"

One Size doesn't Fit All! Rule of Game is to be able to... CUSTOMISE!

This is an exercise for the younger students. We have a standard Slippers Template which we want the kids to trace the shape onto their drawing paper. With all having the same slippers outline, they are required to become a 'designer', designing their own pair of slippers, giving it a different background

What did they come out with?... Yes! Slippers on sandy beach...on deep blue sea...on shallow river...on green grass patch...in jungle... Hahaha...They can be really creative man

What we want to achieve in this lesson is to let the kids' creative juices flow naturally. With limited guidelines given, the kids will have to learn to make their own decision and cope with "flexibility"

Some might say..."Isn't it easier for the kids if more flexibility were given to them?" You will be surprised man. Young kids will feel 'lost' if too many choices were given to them. They are used to receiving specific instruction to execute jobs given to them. They need to learn to move out from this 'box'! This is part of their learning process

YEETONG - Still Life Drawing (2-Dimensional)

In this session, we are teaching the kids "Still Life" drawing.

For the older kids, they are required to draw by observing REAL objects placed in front of them. We reckon this will be too challenging for the younger kids, hence the requirement for the younger students is to draw using a stack of picture cards as their reference source

Above is an example of what needs to be delivered by the younger kids. The main objective is for them to learn observating 2-dimensional subject, put what they see on paper and learn 'Overlapping' drawing. This is also an opportunity for us to introduce 'toning' effects to them. They will learn how to make use of different colour tone to create more dimensional images

ADITYA - Printing Board "T-Rex" & Paris

ADITYA - 3D SkyScraper

ADITYA - My Slippers in Forest

ADITYA - Still Life Bottles

YOUNG ARTIST - Aditya

Name: Aditya
Age: 7

ELTON - Comic Printing Board

ELTON - Shark Attack! Popped up

Love the way Elton has done his "Shark Attack!" popped up. The angle of the shark, showing its fin from front view! Cool isn't it?

In fact, the front cover of Elton's pop up shows a couple fishing on a small boat. A string was pasted on card, connecting to one of the fishing rod This gives a little surprise element - Calmness above water with the hidden underneath danger! I like this creation! :)

Carmen - Popped Up Penguin

Great ideas developed from Carmen's creation!

1) Reversable Popped Up
- Carmen's intention is to create a Penguin popped up. Somehow, when we placed the popped up upside-down, the visual turned into a BULL! Cool creation man. Never expect this could be seen in two dimension :)

2) Letter Holder?
- Carmen wanted to create a 'fish' for her penguin and 'grass' for her bull. When the additional piece was placed in the popped up opening...hey, we can place the popped up card in the house, serving as a 'Letterholder' :)

Great creation Carmen! :)

Carmen - Vanilla Coke Can

Carmen - National Day Cheering

Carmen - Forest

Carmen - Creative Still Life

YOUNG ARTIST - Carmen

Name: Carmen
Age: 11

NICHOLAS - Popped Up Cobra

XINXUAN - Printing Board

Medium: Foam Board + Printing Poster Paint
Date of Creation: 17 Nov 2007

WENDY - Printing Board

Medium: Foam Board + Printing Poster Paint
Date of Creation: 17 Nov 2007

SANATH - Printing Board

Medium: Foam Board + Printing Poster Paint
Date of Creation: 17 Nov 2007

ShaoYang - Printing Board

Medium: Foam Board + Printing Poster Paint
Date of Creation: 17 Nov 2007