Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Sep-Oct 2026

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Sep-Oct 2026

MIX IT UP!

Welcome back to a new year of workshops designed for creative problem-solving and infinite possibilities of art medium usage! This Sep-Oct we’ll be mixing it up with a range of mixed media projects. Our Explorers will get hands on with some animal-themed collaging, over in Ready-Set-Draw they’ll be combining found texts with editorial illustration, and even the Pixelated crew will try out some textured painting to cut and paste into their digital art!

To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit: 

https://colour-my-world.com/term-workshops-on/

ENROL NOW: Term starts from 31 Aug!

 

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 5 yrs)

Woof, Meow, Squeak!

Kick start a year of training fine motor skills and drawing know-how with an adventure into the animal kingdom! Our Explorers will gain foundational drawing skills to recreate the distinctive features of their favourite animals, then work on those developing motor skills as they draw, cut and fashion a colourful animal collage. Then it’s onto the next stop of our animal safari with multi-layered stencil printing, building spatial awareness as we explore layouts and compositions.

Core Art   (5 – 10 yrs)

Where Does It Grow?

It’s never too early to get into modern art! This year in Core Art we’ll be taking inspiration from a range of contemporary artists alongside some other classic references. First up we’ll set the scene with Vincent van Gogh-inspired still life paintings to pick up the essentials of drawing and painting from real life observation, namely, potatoes! Then it’s on to the work of installation and sculptural artist Hu Yinping, whose “Potatoes Grow On Trees” was exhibited at Art Basel | Hong Kong 2026. Respond to her unusual floating potatoes with yarn-wrapped fruit and vegetable sculptures of your own as we contemplate our food origin ecosystem and how care, labour and community are appreciated.

Drawing Fundamentals   (6 – 8 yrs)

Contrast / Emphasis

Build a strong foundation for a visual art journey with Drawing FUNdamentals as we explore the “7 Principles of Art”: Emphasis, Contrast, Balance, Movement, Rhythm, Pattern and Unity in the upcoming year. This fall term we will tackle Emphasis and Contrast, creating a high-contrast b/w self-portrait with India ink. Then emphasise a key detail with a pop of an accent colour to add personality to an otherwise neutral palette!

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Editorial Illustration

Breathe life into any published article with an editorial illustration. Pick out a news story from a selection of articles and design a conceptual illustration which captures the essence of the writing. Planning and composition will be the key skills at work when you create a mixed-media collage using a combination of meticulously trimmed and arranged found images alongside detailed ink illustrations.

Comics   (8 yrs+)

The Funnies

Join us this year as we take a deeper look at how comic artistry has evolved over the years. What was the first comic you ever read? Oftentimes the first introduction to comics and sequential art is through newspaper comic strips. Create 3-4 short comic strips of your own reminiscent of the ‘Sunday funnies’ historically included in weekend newspapers. Just like these iconic comic strip sections, your comic will follow the same series of characters as they go about their humorous misadventures. Using ink and watercolour, refresh your comic fundamentals with a focus on quick, witty storytelling, clear illustrations, and streamlined panel layouts.

Pixelated

(Digital Arts 10 yrs+)

Paint a Photo

Start a new year of Pixelated where we’ll explore digital art as an accessible and limitless canvas for self-expression, starting with a crash course through the basics of several, varied techniques. Create an authentic mixed-media self-portrait using a wide range of genres from traditional media painting, to photography, editing, and digital painting. Wear your heart on your sleeve, displaying inner thoughts and interests with visual cues. At Beginner level you’ll learn an array of photo manipulation techniques combined with the basics of digital painting. At Advanced level, our Pixelated veterans will apply their skills to a challenge that utilises photo manipulation as the foundation for a lushly detailed digital painting.

Ceramic Fanatics

(Pottery-Ceramics 10 yrs+)

Ramen Set

In 2026-07, we shall be diving into advanced hand-building (and wheel-throwing techniques for advanced participants), focusing on how to combine different textures and forms to express unique visual stories. Whether it’s a home-cooked meal or a pack of instant noodles, enjoy your ramen in style! Start off with the basics introducing modern tableware design that balances ergonomics, durability and aesthetics. Start with weight distribution, assistive contours, tactile textures and geometric sketching. Hand-build your bowl and sgraffito patterns and motifs to signal symbolic meanings. Then it’s time to bisque fire the bowls in our new on-site kiln, ready for the finishing touches with clear and coloured glazes. Lastly, hone essential wheel-throwing technique to fashion a sauce dish to match your ramen bowl!

Sketchbook Studies & Painting   (10 yrs+)

Impression of Reality

This year’s sketchbook studies takes cues from the art styles outlined in the IB Visual Art curriculum, starting with Impressionistic Realism. Create the illusion of texture of metal, glass, and/or fur in this oil-heavy term. Start the year with a recap of foundational techniques and a focus on painting the illusion of realism with loose expressive brush strokes and pure colour mixes in oil. Start with object construction and sketching, then practice underpainting, and lastly alla prima painting (direct painting technique). Take inspiration from impressionistic still-lives by Noah Verrier and Edouard Manet

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-ended self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Note: We also offer Architecture in Context Mentorship. Contact us for details.

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin May-Jun 2026

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin May-Jun 2026

THE UNEXPECTED

This May-Jun term, expect the unexpected. From Surrealism artworks that delve into the subconscious, to animal head portraits, clocks masquerading as food, and ‘peel-away’ portrait reveals. Change your perspective and look at the ordinary through an unordinary, creative artistic lens.

To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit: 

https://colour-my-world.com/term-workshops-on/

ENROL NOW: Term starts from 4 May!
Existing students do NOT need to re-enrol.

 

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 5 yrs)

That’s Surreal!

Have you ever had very weird dreams? If so, then let’s make some art out of it! Our Explorers will find out what Surrealism is all about, starting with an experimental kinetic art sculpture (decorative hanging mobile) featuring suspended and balanced shapes and textures. Then you will fashion an original photomontage using a photo portrait of yourself, complemented by a blend of dream imagery and bizarre elements in Australian artist Loui Jover’s distinct ink-wash style.

Core Art   (5 – 10 yrs)

I Had A Dream

Our Core Artists will be taking inspiration from Rene Magritte and other surrealist artists famous for challenging perceptions of reality by placing ordinary mundane objects in unfamiliar and witty contexts. Start off with a Surrealist game, once popularized by artists in the 1920s, a chance-based activity designed to bypass conscious logic and unlock the unconscious mind, creating unexpected results. You will choose objects at random and combine them into a painting of a humanoid in an alien setting. Then you will learn about the importance of structure and balance in three-dimensional form and build together facial features with clay a la Magritte.

Drawing Fundamentals   (6 – 8 yrs)

Zootopia!

In an ever-evolving world that is now filled with artificially made art, it’s important to remember that all art once came solely from the hands and minds of humans. Our participants will prompt themselves by asking the question: “What would my favourite animal look like in human attire?” If it’s a rabbit, how do we visually communicate its personal identity, cultural affiliation and status? The result, a physical artwork made conventionally from start to finish, will be a humorous animal portrait drawn with pencil and enhanced with gouache on paper. If you can imagine it, you can create it!

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

The Magic Number

This upcoming term, we shall practice the final Principle of Art: Unity. By applying all of the 7 Principles of Art, our participants will use pen work and watercolour to create a fantasy-inspired triptych illustration worthy of the art history books! We’ll be adding focal points to our artwork using Contrast and Emphasis, apply symmetry and asymmetry to achieve a sense of Balance and incorporate Rhythm and Repetition to evoke a sense of stillness in our environments — all while assigning Movement to our unique characters and creatures. Unity is the principle of design that teaches us how to organize all of our varied elements and cohesively tie them into one composition in order to create a sense of harmony and completeness!

Comics   (8 yrs+)

Anatomy of a Cover

Fashion compelling comic book covers with a strong focus on graphic design elements strategic in cover design. Study real comic and manga covers, as well as contemporary samples to understand how visual hierarchy, layout, colour, and stylistic choices blend together. Use watercolour, ink pens, and acrylic markers to create your own cover that conveys the theme and tone of your narrative. Further hone key skills in illustration, composition, colour theory, and typography to create an eye-catching cover!

Pixelated

(Digital Arts 10 yrs+)

Digital Nouveau

Have you ever seen an advert so beautiful you wanted to hang it on your wall or make it your phone wallpaper? This term we’re taking inspiration from Alphonse Mucha, best known for his intricate Art Nouveau promotional posters, admired as pieces of art in their own right. Now in the 21st century the tall, thin format of his posters finds a new purpose, filling the display on a smart phone. Promote your favourite book, movie, or game with a full-screen poster, bringing together a range of digital art skills including illustration, typography, and graphic design, while learning how to balance a composition, contrasting areas of flat colour with dense patterns and details.

Ceramic Fanatics

(Pottery-Ceramics 10 yrs+)

Berries & Toast

Bring home a little piece of summer with our Berry Bowl module. Learn core hand-building skills to mould our very own berry bowl true to real fruit proportion while exploring size, pattern and perforations. Practice slab-moulding with plaster forms, cut and shape templates, add structural and decorative details before experimenting with underglaze finishes. Then, turn snack time into craft time with our Toast Clock module – a playful, practical project as we design and build a toast-shaped table clock that encapsulates all essential knowhow such as shrinkage calculation to fit a clock mechanism following two times firing. From sketching and measuring to carefully joining decorations, each step develops creative thinking, fine motor control and basic structural engineering in clay.

Sculpture Culture

(Mixed-media 3D Design 10 yrs+)

Casting Me

Inspired by artist Rachel Dein’s botanical sculptures from concrete and plaster, this term will introduce you to the exciting medium of mod roc and the knowhow of sculptural casting. You’ll bring in objects that represent and reflect you, learn how to turn them into cast forms while developing a balance of composition to optimize visual impact. You’ll then plan and arrange your cast pieces onto a canvas to create a textured sculptural relief that uniquely reflects you.

Sketchbook Studies & Painting   (10 yrs+)

Painter’s Tape

Explore a range of traditional and contemporary techniques to create a layered portrait in oil. Learn the basics of mixing skin tones and painting facial features. Portray yourself dressed as a character (original or other) and posed for a dramatic portrait. Add an extra ‘layer’ to your oil painting through scalpel and masking techniques often used in contemporary art. Peel for the big reveal!

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-ended self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Note: We also offer Architecture in Context Mentorship. Contact us for details.

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Mar-Apr 2026

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Mar-Apr 2026

WHAT’S THEIR STORY?

What makes up a story? Setting, characters, and narrative! This Mar-Apr term, we’re diving into storytelling through Visual Arts, including painting, sculpture, textiles, and more. Set the scene with a papercrafted world, construct a mixed-media textile structure, or think about the rooms in your home with your own range of bathroom accessories or wallpaper design. Create a colourful cast of characters on your iPad or get hands-on with claymation. Weave it all together with a narrative thread, plotting and planning a comic or bring the written word to visual life with a painting of a well-known phrase. Prepare for a vibrant exploration of imagination and expression this Spring!

To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit: 

https://colour-my-world.com/term-workshops-on/

ENROL NOW: Term starts from 27 Feb!
Existing students do NOT need to re-enrol.

 

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 5 yrs)

What’s Their Story?

When you think of an awesome story, it’s not just the characters that come to mind, the setting is just as crucial! Create your very own storybook world, with a quirky cast of characters and a whimsical scene to place them in. Our little Explorers will learn basic human anatomy and refine their developing illustrative skills with a selection of 2D character drawings. They’ll then take it to the next dimension with a 3D papercrafted scene to host their characters, complete with a selection of props. So what’s your story?

Core Art   (5 – 10 yrs)

Artoptic

Our Core Artists are set to embark on an exciting creative journey by drawing inspiration from two iconic artists: Edna Andrade and Do Ho Suh. First, they’ll embrace the geometric abstraction and compositions by American Op Artist Andrade to create their own vibrant 2D optical illusion paintings inspired by the circle, the triangle, the square, the pentagon abundant in nature. Then, they’ll delve into the translucent 3D re-created life-size architectural structures of South Korean artist Suh, which explore themes of memory, identity, and personal space, crafting their own unique responses to his thought-provoking works. Get ready for a blend of colour, dimension, and personal expression!

Drawing Fundamentals   (6 – 8 yrs)

A Balanced Diet

This term, we’re taking Drawing Fundamentals to the kitchen! However, instead of utensils and a kitchen sink we’ll be using watercolour pencils and lots of ink! With a variety of fine-liner ink pens, watercolours and intricate shading techniques, we will learn how to artistically construct a detailed and colourful plate of our most precious food ingredients. Drawing food items is a versatile way to teach the core elements of art as food provides diverse textures, vibrant colours and complex, organic/geometric forms. We’ll also touch upon value (shading), line, space and composition as we create a dish that’s sure to inspire hunger in any viewer!

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Repetitive Rhythm In A Room

This term, we will be focusing on Pattern & Rhythm! Learn to organise uniform, consistent repetition of shapes, lines and colours to create a sense of movement and tempo in your artwork. Draw varied Zentangle patterns with interesting variations of shapes, then explore ways to digitally reproduce your favourite subjects and motifs in a visually appealing composition. Finally, using your unique design, render a wallpaper for a miniature interior as you hone your visual spatial awareness and learn how to balance aesthetics with functional needs!

Comics   (8 yrs+)

From Script to Page

Appreciate the collaborative nature of the comic industry, highlighting the essential roles of writers, pencilers, inkers, colourists, and letterers. Each job is vital in bringing a comic to life. Learn to read industry-standard comic scripts and illustrate your own unique interpretation. You will hone your skills in storytelling and visual composition, gaining a deeper understanding of story flow as you learn to interpret written content into visual imagery.

Pixelated

(Digital Arts 10 yrs+)

Gotta Design ‘Em All!

With an irresistible combination of graphic design, illustration, and game design, trading cards remain as popular as ever! Create your own custom cards, designing the template and logos from scratch. Then illustrate one of your original characters using digital painting techniques. Gain valuable experience working for a physical outcome, using the correct size, colour, and layout settings for professionally printed cards. The result: miniature artworks you can trade with your friends!

Ceramic Fanatics

(Pottery-Ceramics 10 yrs+)

Ikea Who?

Who needs Ikea when you can make your personalised set of soap-holding interior goodies by hand? Learn all about clay shrinkage to accurately estimate the final size of your vessel, and ensure a snug fit for your handmade soap bottle pump. Using slab and coil building, customise both your soap dispenser and a matching soap dish to complement the interior of a bathroom. Then apply underglaze to create your unique functional and decorative items to accessorize your bathroom spaces.

Sculpture Culture

(Mixed-media 3D Design 10 yrs+)

3D Design Meets Animation

Delve into the wonderful world of stop-motion animation, where sculptural art meets storytelling and movement! Begin by exploring the fundamentals of anatomy and character design as you craft and sculpt your own figurine using plasticine clay. Next, learn the foundational principles of animation and create a simplistic storyboard to bring your creation to life in a dynamic short animated sequence. Discover and enjoy the creative process of merging sculpture with narrative!

Sketchbook Studies & Painting   (10 yrs+)

Visual Idiom

Combine wordplay and painting to create your own aesthetically-pleasing ‘Visual Idiom’ using an idiom or a proverb from English, your mother tongue, or a third language, literally. The final artwork will be a mixed-media piece rendered primarily in acrylics supplemented with a choice of materials such as collage, oil pastel, marker, and more. Build on your heavily-rendered preparatory drawing skills, and transfer your draft on to the surface using a projector. Take inspiration from the saturated, contemporary colour palette of artist Nikki Maloof (Perrotin Gallery) and rely primarily on imagination and visual arts knowledge rather than visual references.

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-ended self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Note: We also offer Architecture in Context Mentorship. Contact us for details.

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Jan-Feb 2026

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Jan-Feb 2026

CULTURE & IDENTITY

This Jan-Feb term, we are exploring our cultural identity and how we can express it in our increasingly globalised world. Our Core Artists will celebrate local craftsmanship and their own ties with Hong Kong. Our Sketchbookers will reflect on world myths and create their own illustrated expression. Our Ceramicists will transform the form of a common, mass-produced plastic bag into a unique ceramic vessel. Let’s start the new year in a creative, meaningful way.

To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit: 

https://colour-my-world.com/term-workshops-on/

ENROL NOW: Term starts from 30 Dec 2025!
Existing students do NOT need to re-enrol.

 

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 5 yrs)

The Weird And Wonderful

With biomorphic art, the result can be both familiar and strange, as we combine organic shapes and patterns found in nature in weird and wonderful ways. We will begin with a Yayoi Kusama-inspired painting of bizarre mushrooms. Our little Explorers will capture the wild colours and varied forms and shapes in fungi, while appreciating Kusama’s signature dot motif and learning the basics of repetitive pattern-making. Next we’ll experiment with a variety of materials in a mixed-media homage to Canadian fibre artist Andrea Graham’s innovative biological 3D artwork and felting installation. Is it a plant, animal, or fungus? A biomorphic sculpture can take inspiration from all three!

Core Art   (5 – 10 yrs)

Lost To Time

We’ll be looking at the traditional crafts of Hong Kong and thinking about why it’s important to preserve intangible heritage and celebrate local culture in our modern day societies. First, take inspiration from British artist Lubaina Himid, whose art aims to preserve moments from history that risk being lost to time. Using vivid colours and stylised character design, you will paint a local workshop scene of artisanal work and craftsmanship, such as lantern making, dimsum basket weaving or ceramics glazing. Next, you will try for yourself, the craft of stamp seal carving! Sculpt air dry clay for the topper, then focussing on the graphic design and lettering, carve foam for the stamp to create a custom seal that’s unique to you.

Drawing Fundamentals   (6 – 8 yrs)

My Treasured Still Life

In this term of Drawing Fundamentals, we will delve into the relationship between light and shadow and the importance of contrast, all crucial for creating depth, form and mood by using a range of tonal values to define a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Drawing objects from real life is one of the most effective ways to hone your hand-eye coordination and observational skills. By creating a variety of still life drawings using different media, we will gain the tools required to make two separate oil and dry pastel paintings portraying our favourite possessions!

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

I Like To Move It!

Starting off 2026, Ready-Set-Draw is hitting the ground running! In this new year term, we shall continue our journey through the Seven Principles of Art by focusing on movement. By using elements like line, colour, and rhythm and with the help of pencil, ink and digital tools, participants will learn how to suggest physical action in a still image by creating a scene of their own and poses for their character of choice. Their artwork will then be brought to life through the making of an animated GIF (with Adobe Photoshop) by looping a series of images in rapid succession to convey motion and sense of humour!

Comics   (8 yrs+)

Storyscape

The environment in comics is not just a backdrop but a crucial element that drives narrative and provides context for readers. This term, further develop your sequential art skills as we dive into environmental storytelling, learning to use environment design to enhance your story and world-building. Taking inspiration from artist Moebius, who was a master in visual storytelling, we will examine how he used detailed landscapes, intricate character designs, and bold use of colours to craft immersive dreamlike worlds as the backdrop to his narratives. You’ll explore techniques for crafting immersive settings that support your narrative, develop characters, and convey mood. The culmination of this term will be a double-page spread, or splash page, where you’ll showcase your ability to hone narrative with environment design, creating a rich, accessible and engaging narration.

Pixelated

(Digital Arts 10 yrs+)

Run, Jump, Sprites!

Sprites are the basic building blocks of 2D videogames, like a frame of animation for every movement a character can perform! First we’ll design original characters, then bring them to life with sprites for everything from a simple walk cycle to complex actions. Newcomers will investigate the history of videogames, using a simple but bold 8-bit pixel art style, whereas our digital art veterans can try their hand at the fluid, hand-drawn visuals found in modern 2D games. The finished result will be a complete sprite sheet that shows the full range of motion for your game character!

Ceramic Fanatics

(Pottery-Ceramics 10 yrs+)

Transformed Elements

Build upon your foundational skills to transform basic ceramic vessels into more complex forms. Starting with the process to mould a cup, we’ll then change it into a sculpture of a plastic bag. Then use transferring techniques to add custom miniature logos. Then it’s onto another staple form of ceramics; the bowl. Mixing coloured and white clay, you will create two basic bowl forms, then join them together! This yields a hollow form which can be carved into or built upon to create a vase with a beautiful marbled effect.

Sketchbook Studies & Painting   (10 yrs+)

Contemporary Mythology

Mythologise your life. Create a mysterious, magical and surreal contemporary myth based on the aesthetics of objects that surround you today. Take inspiration from folk mythologies and urban legends, and craft something unique to your individual experience of the world around you. Be informed by renowned multi-award-winning Taiwanese-American artist James Jean who blends traditional East-Asian art with contemporary imagery in his complex compositions. Take your illustration from concept to sketch to lineart and full-colour form in your choice of a combination of gouache, watercolour ink and liner.

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-ended self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Note: We also offer Architecture in Context Mentorship. Contact us for details.

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Nov-Dec 2025

Colour My World Visual Arts E-Bulletin Nov-Dec 2025

Art, Design And Everything In Between

“Art and Design” is a phrase we use often, but are they two different things or are they intertwined? Approach Art in its pure forms of expression with genres like Action Painting or Abstracted Portraiture. On the other end of the scale, work with Design, using creative thinking to solve problems such as a Graphic Design project brief or aim for a practical outcome with dining room Ceramics. Join us this Nov-Dec term as we investigate innovation through these lenses.

To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit: 

https://colour-my-world.com/term-workshops-on/

ENROL NOW: Term starts from 30 Oct!
Existing students do NOT need to re-enrol.

 

Explorer’s Art   (3 – 5 yrs)

Spontaneous!

What better fun than art experiments! Our little Explorers will get to experience Process Art, where we delve deep into the creative journey, fun exploration of material & technique, with abundant self-expression. With Action Painting, Free Flow Collage and Bloom Art, all turning out a whole series of highly unpredictable art outcomes which will then be put together into a unique calendar, ready for 2026! Continuing on with our second project, we will experiment with depth and dimension with our very own Layered Art inspired by Alexandra Mathias & Wyatt Graff.

Core Art   (5 – 10 yrs)

Artist Pot

Art history is an ongoing chain, each generation inspiring the next. This term, our Core Artists will be introduced to a range of famous artworks from western art history. Taking inspiration from Los Angeles-based contemporary artist  Jonas Wood’s Matisse Pot series, they’ll create their own freestanding vase illustration inspired by famous masterpieces of all time. Then, they will take an element of their illustration and transpose it to a patterned table runner design using printmaking techniques of stamp and stencil, experiencing first-hand how art is reinterpreted over and over into new forms.

Drawing Fundamentals   (6 – 8 yrs)

Negative Space

Closing out this calendar year of Drawing Fundamentals, our participants will learn how to work with negative space in order to create convincing and beautiful snowy landscapes. Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock experts such as Hokusai (Edo period) and Asano Takeji (20th Century), we will develop dynamic pencil compositions to be rendered into watercolour artworks that portray cold and beautiful wintry scenes in the northern hemisphere!

Ready-Set-Draw   (8 yrs+)

Balancing Act

We shall continue our travels through the 7 Principles of Art by learning about Balance where art elements are arranged to create a sense of visual stability and harmony in the artwork. From bilateral to horizontal symmetry, and radial symmetry to asymmetry, we’ll learn how placement, detail and colour can bring balance to an image through hands-on drawing exercises. For our final project we’ll be looking at human faces which are often perceived as beautiful and perfect, a symmetry concept readily explored in portraiture. We shall illustrate masks with ink and colour from cultures around the world and create a detailed, symmetrical masterpiece on card!

Comics   (8 yrs+)

Mangaka!

Japanese comic characters are everywhere, but where did this style come from and how does it differ from Western comics? Learn a brief history of Japanese manga, its impact on comics today, and gain insight into the techniques and processes that go into making them. Using traditional mediums such as ink dip pens for that classic manga style, take inspiration from artists who defined the artform: Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki, Rumiko Takahashi, Katsuhiro Otomo, and more. Create a two-page mid-story sequence using your original characters, manga-style!

Pixelated

(Digital Arts 10 yrs+)

The Complete Package

From when you’re browsing in the shops to unboxing your purchase at home, good package design can make any product so much more exciting. Explore this varied field of graphic design with an eye-catching package for a product. Our Pixelated veterans can bring their toy design from the previous term to the next level with thematic packaging, while newcomers can design around a selection of examples. With logo design, typography, and illustrations, this project is the complete package!

Ceramic Fanatics

(Pottery-Ceramics 10 yrs+)

Sculpt & Serve

This term our Ceramic student-artists will learn how to combine form and function using a range of techniques to sculpt a fruity box with a lid, and a double dish chip’n’dip container. Start by designing your functional vessel, and then practice wheel-throwing until you achieve the desirable form. Use hand-building techniques to sculpt the details to perfect your ware. Create two highly-functional pieces to keep for life or create excellent personalised gifts.

Sculpture Culture

(Mixed-media 3D Design 10 yrs+)

Felted Figures

Create your own little world in the form of a tactile diorama box using merino wool. Design your needle-felted creature and its habitat, planning the composition and structure. Start by crafting a wire armature as the base for your creation, then you will explore a range of needle-felting know how such as dry and wet felting. Bring to life your own little companion full of personality!

Sketchbook Studies & Painting   (10 yrs+)

Portrait in Abstraction

Influential Russian sculptor Naum Gabo said that when an artist creates an artwork from life, they are creating a new reality. Every succeeding transformation of the image in the creative process creates another new reality. Take inspiration from his innovative artistic perspective and transform an image of yourself in a variety of artistic ways. Create a card model of yourself, abstracted, and transpose it into an acrylic painting. Use wonky gridding for a distorted ‘funhouse mirror’ portrait. Experiment with ways of seeing the image of yourself and create new realities.

Mentor Studio   (13 yrs+)

For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-end self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.

Note: We also offer Architecture in Context Mentorship. Contact us for details.