Creative Kids Learning About Colour & Tone

Our first week of holiday workshops is already over and the students have been making some really colourful and creative images. In the Portrait - Drawing & Painting class, teacher Laura Carey had the children experimenting with various mediums such as coloured pencils, thick waxy crayons and paint to create a range of tones and textures in their drawings. With the subject of their pictures the portrait, the students were encouraged to think about proportions of the face and how the nose, mouth, eyes, cheeks.ears etc are related to each other in regards to space on the head.

The photo above shows the students work in progress, with those finishing early gettting to draw other favourites.

As you can see from the portrait below, the tones from the waxy crayons were much richer and darker than those from the coloured pencils. These contrasts add to the images complexity and becomes visually interesting. You can see more portraits and works from the classes by going to our flickr site.

There are only a few spaces in the classes for next week, so please go to our website to check these out.

Laura Carey will be teaching the Paper Mosaics Class and the Animal Masks which will all include working with coloured papers, pencils, paints and a range of mediums for some exciting results.