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This post is my second instalment for arts educators this Christmas season, a collection of ideas and resources inspired by ice and snow! HUFFINGTON POST: “An artist by the name of Lita Albuquerque has christened Antarctica’s barren lands the best way she knows how...

The concept of mixing media is certainly not a new idea in Visual Arts, however across curriculum areas in schools technology and ‘digital tasks’ are often separated from the ‘hands-on’ learning opportunities. In many classrooms and studio space even mobile devices, perceived as...

Currumbin Sanctuary What an awesome place for an art excursion! “With its foundation in the pioneering days of Gold Coast tourism, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary has developed into a world-leader in the display and preservation of Australia’s wildlife and natural heritage....

  There are two versions of Let’s Create Pottery avaliable – this link is for the full app.           And this is the free app, which is a great place to start. If you just want to explore the concept of a throwing a pot on a wheel or...

Check out this amazing gallery of digital prints. Students created lino prints based on images of cut fruit and vegetables, photographed their images and then used a variety of iPad apps in creative workflows to manipulate them. The resulting compositions are diverse and complex....

 

I’ve noticed that every time teachers using iPads in their classrooms get together the camera roll opens up and there’s instant and enthusiastic conversation about apps, ideas and examples.  I’m sure that this is in part due to the need to learn about this new...

Check out a few of my favourite ideas, clips and music videos as starting points for exploring the relationship between visual art and music. ‘The Motorway’ blends dots and dabs of paint with clever film making techniques to really ‘paint the music’....

“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked...

What is colour?  Let’s ask some people who should know… Crayola! “Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them. To see color, you have to have light. When light shines on an object some colors...