Some clicks with my students on the last day of course…….. they are sweet, curious, naughty, talkative, hardworking and all the more lovely. The best part of them is their…
Here are some juicy fruity art……..done from direct observation.…
This is the most awaited artwork students want to do, “Merlion”, the very famous symbol of Singapore……..I made kids to practice the drawing many times, now they know the easy…
“Gardens By The Bay” at night!!…
Take a breezy stroll along the row of colourful shophouses and Singapore river!…
These are examples for efficient way of rendering details by layering oil pastels, Esplanade by the Bay.…
Having gone through the necessary basics so far, now it’s time to start painting some of the local scenes…….I showed photos for reference and explained the students how to develop…
Our second lesson in painting water and reflections……we also learnt how to give a weathered look for the fishing boat.…
Water is a very versatile compositional element that gives a lively feel if added to any landscape, we had lessons on how to paint water………and I explained my students how…
Making a colour wheel with only 3 primary colours and mixing secondary colours is the basic idea of this lesson….kids also learned about warm and cool colours and how to…
The last of our tree series is Pine….students practiced the tree first, then painted a suitable snowscape, with a snowman of course! The fun part was adding the snow!!…
The second lesson in the tree series is about how to paint bamboo……also we drew a panda to eat those bamboo…….our favorite lesson, the older kids tried a new watercolour…
This is the second lesson in the tree series, when learning to paint a palm kids also learnt to do a beach landscape. I have to constantly remind them retain…
Here’s an easy watercolour tree for our little creative minds to use in their artworks!…
Watercolour is a very good medium to work out the soft feathery effects, we explored this in our flamingo, Cranes and Roosters! Some of the examples,…
It was a class full of fun and pride when the students did their watercolour koi, see why here,…
Some of my students’ watercolours, we loved to see colour running and mixing together to give some unique textures!…
Our crazy crabs!…
Flowers are a great source of inspiration for all, they are even more inspiration for us with soft petals, blending colours, shapes,twists and turns. We painted some watercolour flowers showing…
We did a couple of wet on wet landscapes again, simple and straightforward compositions to make students understand the concept well. I like to make them practice many pieces instead…
We did a couple of simple wet on wet landscapes in watercolor…..one with the same color but with varying intensity of pigment, the other landscape with two different colors.…
The final episode of the Drawing module is “RAINFOREST”, you can see the details about this project here and the up close pics here. The second module is all about Watercolours………the Introduction…
After birds, I started with animal drawings…….thought it would be easy for my students to go with farm animals first. As usual I came up with a “Farm scene” project,…
“Birds” is a very fascinating subject for kids, because they can play with many colors…….I planned to co-ordinate all my subjects into a single theme “My Bird Park” and so…
The “Aqua series” started with drawing concept as usual and then we used the medium “oil pastels” for the colors. The best thing with oil pastels is that students can play…
“Reptiles” is a great way to incorporate most of the fun textures because they naturally have lots of unique textures on their skin…..as usual, initially students would draw their subjects…
Drawing Dinos was the second sub-module, students had so much fun drawing the dinosaurs and adding embelishments! After basic drawing classes, kids were encouraged to do a framed art using…
Back to the Introduction class of Kids art 2014! I started the first class with shapes, students are encouraged to draw any structure/drawing using one or a combination of them…….building…
A peep into the “Rainforest”, exciting to see how much “life and character” the kids breathed into their animal drawings……..we even added forest vines! Students enjoyed looking at the nice…
I’ve to explain what I’m doing(!) with my art classes bcoz parents deserve it(yesss, otherwise they’ll call me crazy(?) and also this is a Shameless Self Promotion before anyone claims…