dark side of the moon

turn this...

into this...

with these moon phase explanation toy instructions

...yeah you heard me

phases

amazing photos of the moon from here

Tomorrow will be our last Art Class for the year, it has been such fun to do it each week. See you there.

Ruslan Khasanov lumen type

Just look at this magical font created with light refraction by Ruslan Khasanov you can also see each letter animated in a short video on his site.

tiny kite

i think the snow drifts of tiny tissue paper rectangles in class this week was a perfect sign of how much fun we had.

 it was lovely to see all the different kites the children made.

you could of course just like them add as many kites and tails as you like to your stick or i was thinking a nice little water colour painted version would be quite fetching too maybe I will have a try today

turn this...

into this...

with these make your own tiny kite on a stick instructions...

Flower

Tomorrow will be our second last Art Class for the year and it is shaping up to be a good one. I will look forward to seeing you if you are close by or have a look back on Wednesday to see what we did and you have a try it at home.

Cai Guo-Qiang

The Gallery of Modern Art,  GOMA in Brisbane is hosting the most amazing installation by Cai Guo-Qiang  I would love to go up and see it it must be overwhelming in real life. You can see more of his work here.

salt dough decorations

there was not a lot of science but a whole lot of fun in this weeks Art Class as the children made salt dough decorations

turn this...

into this...

with these salt dough decoration instructions...

December Classes

Art Classes for December will continue for three weeks with the final one being on Tuesday the 17th of December. They will still be on Tuesdays from 10.00 am -12.00 pm at Smiley McSlidey studio on the corner of Blyth and Nicholson St in East Brunswick
I will then take a month off for Christmas, Summer holidays and moving house extravaganza. In 2014 the classes will be on a different day either Monday, Thursday or Friday. I will keep you updated before we break for the Summer. See you on tomorrow if you are around about.

jimmy mcbride

R136 in 30 Doradus Quilt

one of Mars moons

Ambush in quadrant 4

In continuation of the space theme that seems to have taken hold of me this week here are some of my all time favourite artworks by Jimmy McBride. He is a  multi disciplined artist who has made some of the most remarkable quilts exploring aspects of space. I just love them but unfortunately he doesn't make them at the moment.

I also found these other quilts by Kate Findlay which look at images from the Large Hadron Collider which are fairly spectacular as well.

Galaxy chalk drawings

 turn this...

into this...

with these Hubble galaxy chalk drawing instructions