Kid’s interpretation of Verner Panton

Children's Panton Collages

This was the last workshop before my Summer break. Kids enjoyed a tour of the museum and had fun experimenting with colours before making their own design.

In August, I will be starting my Masters in Fine Arts in LASALLE College of the Arts… Isadora’s Workshop will therefore run much fewer workshops. If you have a project in mind (Holiday workshop for a group, birthday party, or corporate event), please let me know early so that I can plan! Details of how to contact me can be found here.

Verner Panton Workshop this week-end

Variation 1 on Verner Panton

Venue: National Museum of Singapore Exhibition Gallery 2

Led by: Isabelle Desjeux

Dates: Sun 14th June & Sun 28 June 2009, 11:am – 12:30pm & 2:00pm – 3:30 pm

Tickets: Sistic

Did you know that colours interact with each other?

Did you realise that an object painted in one colour actually shows more than one colour?

Did you realise you could make flat paintings look 3-D just from the way you’re using colour?

These notions were well understood by the artists of the Op Art movement.

Verner Panton’s collection of textile prints, now visible at the National Museum illustrate these notions beautifully. They are a great place to start when you are trying to explain colour theory or how colours interact with each other.

Through a 90-minutes walk-through and workshop, the children (from 7 onwards) get to understand and experience for themselves the effect colour combinations can have on them. Shape is an important part of the design too, of course. So, when it comes to designing their own motif à-la-Panton, they get to choose their own shapes and colour combinations.

Variation 2 on Verner Panton

Stick Puppets at the Museum: a success

A seed collection

1. Pick Up Sticks (and pods, and seeds and other stuff from the floor)
2. 

   Sort

3. 

   Display

Then, let the participants choose 5 of these yummy unusual objects and challenge them to make a creature. The results were amazing! See some pictures below and in my Gallery.

A Mouse

A Goldfish

An Owl?

A Millipede

If you’d like to try, either go and pick your own from the sidewalk, parks, gardens, or come and visit me at the museum again the 6th and 7th of June (2-5pm).

If you’d like to help (and have fun in the process), please pick a small bag of “tree stuff” as in the picture above and I’ll gladly come and pick it up anywhere in Singapore. Or you can bring it to me and I’ll treat you to a cup of tea/coffee/Milo and a quick workshop on how to make a mouse, an owl… or a strange creature from this wonderful material that grows on trees! Please leave me a message below…

Verner Panton @ National Museum Singapore

Starting next week, this new exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore promises lots of colours. Verner Panton was one of the great designers of the 20th century, famous for his love of vibrant colours, unconventional designs and playful mood. Bring the kids along: they’ll have a blast throwing themselves into the wacky colourful foam room.

I will be running a workshop on the 14th and 28th of June, especially for children 7-10 years old. We’ll be having fun with colours and shapes, seeing how these interact to make us feel different. And of course, kids get to bring home their own art. For more information and booking, click here.

Programs held in conjunction with VERNER PANTON the Collected Works

Children’s Season @ NMS

NMS Workshops

This year, the National Museum of Singapore’s Children’s Season runs from May 23 to June 7. There are many different workshops to choose from, performances to attend and other events for the whole family.

Please come and check out my cool recycling and environment-related FREE workshops, running over the 2 week-ends:

Drop-in Activities

Platform & Glass Atrium, Level 2 – National Museum of Singapore.

Sat 23 May & Sun 24 May

10am – 1pm : Leaf Rubbing (Get familiar with some of the leaves found in our gardens while creating a large and colorful drawing)
2pm – 5pm : Stick Puppets (Pick leaves, sticks, fruits and seeds from the large Nature Basket and assemble them to create one-of-a kind creatures)

Sat 6 Jun & Sun 7 Jun

10am – 1pm : Play, Clay and Display* (The classic plasticine and recycled material workshop where bottles can become monsters, robots or other strange Clay Critters)
2pm – 5pm : Stick Puppets (Pick leaves, sticks, fruits and seeds from the large Nature Basket and assemble them to create one-of-a kind creatures)

* Bring your own 500 ml mineral water bottle and a shoe box and learn how you can recycle and transform these objects into works of art.