Yr 9 Colour Wheels

My year 9 art class are just finishing off their colour colours. Below are a few photos of the ones I have received so far.

This first one is fantastic. It is sliced up pencils, crayons and an assortment of beads, etc.

Bit hard to see on here but the yellow section above has little tiny chickens on it.

All the flowers were cut with a stamp type thing out of the different coloured 

papers and then all assembled. 

I''m the guest speaker at an upcoming exhibition

I've been invited by the 2012 Certificate IV students from Marden Senior College to open their upcoming art exhibition called 'Creative Fusion'. 

Below is the invite along with a little blurb about the exhibition. 

      Creative Fusion (Marden Senior College)

     Painting & Textile Art Works by Marden Senior College Graduates

      2 - 26 April 2013

Address: Phone: Fax:

558 Magill Rd, Magill (Corner Pepper St & Magill Rd) (08) 8364 6154 (08) 8332 3164

Email: Open Hours:

pepperstreet@burnside.sa.gov.au Tuesday to Saturday 12 noon - 5pm Find us on Facebook

Incredible drawings.

I wanted to share with you all the stunning work of Dirk Dzimirsky. His style of work is called hyperrealism. They are not photographs but are actually drawings.


This is the link to his website.   http://www.dzimirsky.com/index.html

His works are done using lead pencil only and he states that his drawing skills are constantly improving. If I could draw even half as well as this guy does I would be more than happy.

My favourite has to be the one of the elderly lady.

Enjoy.

various drawings

I was going through my map drawers yesterday looking for some paper and found these two drawings I did about 2 years ago. I had this fantastic drawing teacher at a place called Studio 11. She was really inspiring and really talented.

I'm a qualified art teacher but drawing has never been my forte. I find it quite stressful when trying to do high quality stuff. I've always had really high standards for myself and find it frustating when I'm not good at something. I can teach others how to draw because I studied it and know the principles etc. but I just don't do much myself. I did the drawing course to build up my confidence a bit. I had a scary lecturer when doing drawing at uni and he told me I was crap and used to rub my pictures out and tell me start again. I had him for painting as well. Hence I wasn't overly keen to stay in the painting or drawing class. 

I love my pastel drawing of the succulent it took me ages. I also like the pencil drawing of the older man. He was a life drawing model but we were studying faces only. I only had an hour to draw him but I'm glad I actually didn't finish all of his face, I like it better that way.