Category Archives: Craft
Open Studio
A place to explore and create art for teenagers.
In this studio, you’ll have a space to create your own art, be inspired by peers, and get advice and guidance when needed. Over 10 sessions, explore different media and find your voice.
Drawing: pencil, charcoal, and alternative mark-making
Painting: watercolour and acrylics
Printmaking: relief printing (woodcut, lino, collographs), etching, silk-screen
Object-making: basic clay work; working with found objects; papier mâché.
Saturday, 9.30 – 11.30 am. Fees: $ 50 per class or $ 450 for 10 class session.
Kids Workshops at the STPI!
Kids Workshops at the STPI in 2012
I have worked with the STPI before, so it’s a real pleasure to be invited to run more kids workshops this year!
Check the albums of some of these previous events:
… and make sure you sign up early!
Tintin, the 3 little pigs, and other original stories: Book-making week
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- Solenne, demonstrating the “TV”
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- Loïc, finishing his po-up book.
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- Malo and Solenne, using stamps for decorating inside their finished books.
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- The art table, in between two sessions
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- The material for decorating paper
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- Detail of the production.
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- After one week, children produced sets of notebooks, a Tintin mini-series, concertina books and even a “TV”.
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- What you can do with the decorated paper.
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- A pop-up book (detail)
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- Boxed books and concertina books
Making Books
One of the 20 hand-written letters received after running a book-making workshop for 2nd graders at SJII. The best testimonial ever!
Next week, from Oct 31 to Nov 1st, It’s Book-Binding week… in French (French School Holidays!)
If you are older than 8, you can join! You will get a chance to look through my collection of hand-made artist books, and each day, we’ll experiment with a different book-binding strategy.
Whether it’s wood, leather, cloth, fancy paper, hinges, recycling paper, string, rope, all the material will be there to experiment with.
Could you imagine making making a book with just what you find in the forest? We might just step into the backyard and see what we find…
Check out the poster below (details in English here.)
2 and 1/2 D Cinema
Documenting "2 and 1/2 D Cinema" (Click on the image to see the whole picture)
This June, I invite you to come and visit the National Museum of Singapore with the children. As usual, their Children Season is very well orchestrated, with workshops, shows and interactive art exhibitions. (click for details and tickets)
My own work this year is an interactive installation, presented in the Black Box (3rd Floor), PlayDome. Daily except Mondays, from 10am to 6pm. Make sure to let me know if you’re coming – I’ll try to be there. If not, the facilitators are fantastic in guiding the children through the show:
“2 and 1/2 D Cinema is an interactive cinema experience like no other. 5 short films edited from the Ivan Polunin archives are presented, with new sountrack. Children are invited to step into the beam, onto the stage, and interact with the footage representing everyday life in Singapore in the 50s-60s. All the while, they are being filmed, and can see themselves on the TV screen placed outside the cinema, which transmit the new footage with a 30-second delay.”
Hence, no holiday workshops until 27th of June… But a week of Watercolors and a week of Printmaking for the lucky children who are on holiday then!
