Drawing Christmas in November

Hakim is one of my naughtier students. With some personal focus this week, he managed to finish his calendar submission piece. He's pretty proud of it...so am I!

Ideas for 2011 Calendar

Hoorah...finished!

Adele

Adele - Chinese New Year

Nabila

Nabila - New Year

Jane

Jane- Children's Day

Nasir

Nasir - Merdeka Day

Vasantha

Vasantha - Deepavalli

New Kids on the Block

Best Sunday Art - Vasantha

Viknes

Surria

Daniel

Jason


Teacher's notes
Vasantha, Vicknes and Surria are very neat and meticulous in their art. Jason and Daniel have slowly warmed up to have a go in drawing animals. It's nice to see all of them attempting their individual artwork with good level of inner confidence.

Back to Basics

Best Sunday Art: Adele's rooster and chicks (poster painting)

Anita (poster painting on colouring page)

Adam - freehand composition with poster paints

Viknes - Africa (carbonized elephant wit freehand landscape with colour pencils), good first attempt

Nabila - Tree of life card (carbonized, poster painting)

Syikin - Princess (freehand drawing, poster paint)

Surria - Grazing horse (freehand sketch with colour pencils)

Vasantha - Animal Sketches

Mary - Chinese paint (poster painting)

Zikri - Hari Raya card (freehand drawing)

Aishah - Selena Gomez (freehand sketch, poster painting)

Anna - Mandala (colouring page)

Mary - Owl and the Cat card (freehand sketch)

Dhanan - sketch of cats


Teacher's Notes
After a two-weekend hiatus, today it was back to the familiar stuff. Hanafi did an amazing job on his Chinese fan - colouring and painting unsupervised! I was really surprised and pleased by the spur of independence. Unfortunately, no photos as he's giving it to his grandma for Raya. Three new kids - Viknes, Vasantha and Surria who mostly speak Tamil, came joined today. Looks like we may have some interesting times with these sweet kids. Next week, most of the children will be back to their hometown. Hopefully, I will get to spend a more focused session with those who are staying behind.

Pointillism, Mandalas and Chinese fans

Best Sunday Art: Kimble's farm animals by Adele (freehand sketch and poster paints)
Good work on Cherry blossoms - Zulkifli (left) and Nasir (right), freehand sketch and poster paints

Kimble's farmhouse on the hill - Dhanan (freehand sketch and poster paints)

Justin Bieber portrait - Aishah (pencil sketching)

Chinese fans - Jane (left), Anita (right)

Chinese fans - Syikin(left), Vemosyha(right)

Clown fish - Nabila using Pointillism technique (with poster paints)

Clown fish - Yugean using Pointillism technique (with poster paints)

Mandala - Hanafi (left), Adam (right)

Freestyle Pointillism - Zarif (left), Zikri (right)


Teacher's notes
This week, the kids learnt about Pointillism and Mandalas. Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. While, mandala is a Sanskrit word that means "circle" and often decorated with symmetrical patterns.

Dhanan made his second attempt on painting this week. When he finished, we compared it with the his painting last week. Noticeably, there were marked improvements and confidence in today's painting. Zul and Nasir tried out some chinese painting techniques from watching a YouTube shared with them. Good attempts!

Vemosyha showed confidence in her freehand drawing and colouring of her chinese fan. Nabila got her pontillism technique right!

Learning to paint confidently

Best Sunday Art: Kimble's Rooster on cow by Nasir (freehand sketch and poster colours)
Commendable Artwork: Kimble's river trout by Jovan (freehand sketch and poster colours)

Commendable Artwork: Kimble's country house by Adele (freehand sketch and poster colours)

Commendable Artwork: Kimble's cat on rug by Zul (freehand sketch with water colours)

Mixed Media: Kimble's farm cow by Hanafi (crayons with watercolour resist on recycled paper)

Mixed Media: Kimble's rabbits by Yugean(crayons with watercolour resist on recycled paper)

Syikin's fairies (freehand sketch with poster colours)

Superheroes - Daniel (freehand sketch and colour pencils)

Portraits by Vemosyha (left) and Aishah right)

Lion King colouring - Adam (left, mixed media) and Dhanan (right, colour pencils)

Lion King colouring - Yugean (top, in poster colours) and Nabila (bottom, colour pencils)

Cinderella colouring - Anna (colour pencils)

Toy Story - Zikri(left), Zarif (right)

Disney in colour pencils - Mary (left, Little mermaid) and Nabila (right, Sleeping Beauty)

Teacher's Notes
Adele has shown keen interest and tremendous progress in the past 2 weeks. While Jovan is very meticulous in his painting and is a good student who perseveres to learn to paint well. Zul and Nasir have been naturally talented and confident in their painting ability from the start. For Nasir, he was clever to explain the shadow of the cow, which wasn't in the original painting. Zul added his personal touches in the background. Nabila, Syikin and Aishah have their unique styles, creativity in colour and originality. The girls has shown much confidence in extracting the elements from original paintings and making them their own. I think once all of them learn the basic techniques and with more practice, they can gain the confidence to create their own beautiful artwork. More on the other kids next week.