the chapel of barolo
By Sol Lewitt and David Tremlett – Brunate Vineyard, La Morra, 1999 Built in 1914 as a shelter for those who worked in the surrounding vineyards in case of storms […]
Tag Archives: colour
everything connects, eventually
Mosaics This year’s key Art project uncovered the wonderful world of Mosaics. The process was undertaken by one hundred first year pupils aged ten-eleven. After much observation, exploration, research, design […]
paper interlacing
With a little imagination… weaving is easy and fun. Interlaced materials, simple prints, or even plain colour, transform into amazing visual patchworks. Weaving is popularly understood in term of interlaced […]
the weave of textile language
The big question mark of our times.. Richard Tuttle’s ‘I Don’t Know. The Weave of Textile Language’ at Tate Modern, December 2014 Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has played host to […]
chalk dreams
Chalk pastel blending and colour interactions Second year middle schoolers began the year with some colourful investigations using chalk pastels. We started with colour charts, mixing and blending soft pastels to […]
babyteeth!
A middle school portrait class based on the graphic design superstar Milton Glaser. Babyteeth is the name of the typeface invented by Glaser. Milton Glaser also created the famous I […]
a dramatic bird’s-eye view
It all began with a few coloured paper roofs. Then our art pieces began to grow into the most vibrant towns on the planet! Second year middle school pupils created some […]
better late than never eggs…
Once upon a time… …there was a mummy – teacher who did lots of lovely activities with children but never had enough time to write about them! So here are […]
happy easter, happy eggs
What a beautiful basket of eggs! This week our 8yr olds experimented with different egg decoration processes, and it was more complicated that you might think! We used both boiled […]
colourmaps
Mapping colour. As a consequence of our work with colour theory and exploration, we could not ignore the process of classifying and categorising colour in some shape or form. 2nd […]
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