Reduce, Recycle, REUSE

More ideas for re-purposing your items

Recycled and upcycled craft ideas

to help you think about how to re-purpose your item

Operation Tessellation is going ARTSY

Start cooking up some ideas for visual arts by watching these three videos.

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A Maths without numbers

M. C. Escher was a Dutch artist who was inspired by Maths. His paintings feature Mathematical objects such as infinity, symmetry, geometry and tessellations. Still, M. C. Eschar believed he had no Mathematical talent.

Take a look at his work and see if you agree.

Let's relax. Music and origami anyone?

Wow! I just read about the benefits of origami at https://www.redtedart.com

This is what they had to say:

In a nutshell, Origami is good for you as it develops eye hand co-ordination, sequencing skills, Maths reasoning, spatial skills, memory, but also patience and attention skills.  Origami allows you to develop fine motor skills and mental concentration. All of this combined stimulates the brain – especially when BOTH hands are being used at the same time.

Save the Frogs! Environmental damage and destruction caused by humans makes life difficult for most animals around the world. Frogs need aquatic and land environments at different stages of their lives, so they need to survive pollution on two fronts. What types of pollution can make life more difficult for frogs? In what ways are human activities destroying the frog's habitat? What will happen to the frogs if humans continue to pollute? What message do you have that will help save the frogs? These are some questions to think about while you practice drawing frogs for our 'Save the Frogs' posters. Have fun drawing!

A Valentine's Day inspired art lesson! Today we talked about some of Jim Dine's artwork and began creating textured canvases. Click on the picture and as you explore more of Jim Dine's artwork, ask yourself: What elements of design (lines, colour, shading) does he use? Why does the heart look 3D? How would you describe his paintings? Try and sketch different style hearts for some extra practice.