This workshop was designed to let children to be able to imagine colours, through envisioning environmental settings through accessing their senses.

A MASSIVE well done all the students who took part in our stop motion, painting workshop today.

I made up unique settings for each colour, first we discussed what it is like to be in that place, what you might see, hear, smell, touch and so on. This was good for getting the creative juices flowing and easily spurred us into the small task of mixing multiple hues for a warm up, painting exercise, using the different shades the children created, as well as utilising a variety of mark making expressions.

This allowed me to see which children were excelling in the area of motor function skill, which needed more confidence boosting and also I was able to analyse the children who had a more advanced drawing capability to allow them more of a challenge when it came to animating.

After we made the test colour painting, we hung them to dry and all gathered around the middle board.

We began to paint upon the blank canvas utilising our experience and knowledge we had gathered from the colour postcard and small meeting, as well our past influences about these settings and the like. All the while we could only use GREEN!

We did this multiple times, watching the small presentation on colour theory, looking at the wheel, discussing ideas together about our senses in the location, painting a small test and then onto animating, collaboratively.

We worked on –

GREEN JUNGLE

BLUE OCEAN

PURPLE MOUNTAINS

RED, ORANGE & YELLOW SUNSET

Wow! We were amazed at your skill, so many young artists in the making.