Make It Monday - October 2016 - Spooky Bats and Halloween Pumpkins

The families are back at Roundhouse Arts and Recreation Centre! After the summer break we are ready to make art again. This month we made Halloween inspired bats and spiders out of leather scraps courtesy of Ora Bags thanks to +Randi Obenauer and her donation to the Make It Monday supplies! The children traced the bat templates onto the leather using chalk and then cut them out, decorated them with glitter and hung them on fishing line. They actually looked like real bats flapping in the night.

We also decorated paper pumpkins! 

Seymour Art Gallery - Elizabeth Mackenzie exhibit Unbecoming: An Annotated Exhibition - Workshops with School Children

On October 4th I led two grade four classes in a material based art workshop at the Seymour Art Gallery in Deep Cove. Based on the current exhibit by Elizabeth Mackenzie we made faces out of charcoal and water soluble graphite, and then used water and different materials to experiment with and create their own drawings of faces. After they saw the exhibit the children came up with some really amazing drawings. Here are a few examples:

Again on October 18th I led two workshops, this time with grade one classes.

Using the same methods we did short studies and exercises making faces.