“Lucky” by All India Radio, “is the viewable blood, sweat and tears of Australian based animation company ‘Dee Pee Studios’. It involves a painstaking animation technique, whereby the team paints in the air with glow sticks, frame after to frame to create entire sequences of animation, usually taking a whole night to shoot.” via lifehacker.com
A Google search for ‘children + self-portraits’ lead me to this VIDEO presented by deputy headteacher and art co-ordinator Peter Sanders. This “programme shows how portraiture is extended and developed by all the year groups at Lauriston School in Hackney, east London.
Portraiture is taken beyond the boundaries of drawing and painting by using methods such as face painting in the nursery and large-scale three-dimensional modelling for the older pupils. The programme explores how introducing new skills and working with a wide range of materials can produce diverse results.
One of the many benefits of doing a whole-school art project is that it gives pupils and teachers a chance to see the variety of approaches and outcomes that can spring from a common starting point. It shows different ways of working which can be easily applied to other projects.”
Teachers TV: Share clever ways to begin the educational journey, ideas to aid literacy and communication, and help pupils understand and relate to communities.”
Delicate new work from artists and landscape designer Mulysa Melco.
“I’ve been working on intricate, embroidery-like patterns of plants, flowers, seeds and insects. Some are individually painted on a panel, almost like a botanical specimen held for close observation. Others are in cloud or island shaped groupings with subtle touches of color. (All works are in graphite and oil paint on panel except where noted)”
~ My Creative Life: Maria Vettese ~ an interview by Susannah Conway
Maria, I remember the days when you were working for someone else and daydreaming about being on your own – having time to see the projects you were dreaming up, come alive. You (continue to) inspire me!
Volume 8 – featuring Xavier Encinas, Anna Helper, Thibaud Hérem, Laura Normandin and Mel Prest – is out now!
“Our theme for the magical volume eight is THREAD. Here is the definition which we sent to the amazing group of v8 artists:
that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts; something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out; a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length; something having the fineness or slenderness of a filamen”