Art Teacher Workshop - ArtEdWA

I was very pleased to be invited to run a presentation/workshop for some fellow art teachers for the Art Education Association of Western Australia recently. I spoke about how I use artists as inspiration in my art room (both local and international artists as well as current and historical). Such a great opportunity to meet other inspiring teachers and get a chance to do some creating ourselves!! I chose three of my favorite artists to focus on (Shaun Tan, Gustav Klimt and Stormie Mills). Some of the results are below!

Art Trees & Art Houses

I wanted to expose the students to a number of different artists. For our Art Houses, we looked at Mondrian, Kandinsky and Miro.

We used a paper house template from:  http://thetoymaker.com/Toypages/35Habitat/35Habitat.html

The students then choose which artist the\y would be inspired by - they added and coloured their design on the paper house template, then cut it out and put it together!

We then followed the same design process, but looked at Georgia O'Keefe, Gustav Klimt and Optical Art and contructed an 'Art Tree' using a cardboard roll and cereal box cardboard.