Guess who drew this little masterpiece? You'll never believe who painted this! Scroll down to read about this morning's 1-hour art lesson and find out the identity of our latest artist!
This week's post is a couple of days early as the regular Saturday demonstration at the Garden Shop might have to be called off due to the rainy weather. However, we were lucky enough to have a really talented budding artist drop by at our Outreach office today.
Our regular volunteer member, Ms Ch'ng Saw See, brought her grandniece Natalie Goh around for a holiday art lesson this morning. Natalie is a sweet little girl who picked up the first basic stroke of our easy-to-learn free-style Chinese brush painting technique very quickly and after just fifteen minutes of practice on paper, she was ready to go on to paint her own T-shirt.
With a little help, Natalie who's on holiday in Penang, was taught the beginnings of composition and how to place her brush strokes in various positions to form a painting. Using just the simplest dab-and-lift brush stroke, Natalie put in the flowers and buds before we changed her brush and colour for the leaves. Once the basic composition was done, all our in-house artist had to do was add the tiny brown stems and little leaves (using the same dab-and-lift technique) to complete the picture for her. No other touching up was required.
Just in case anyone's wondering, Natalie is only 4-years-old!
If you are interested in learning how to paint in the Chinese free-form style or your children would like to learn, we have regular art classes for children and adults at our Outreach office opposite the Moon Gate every Saturday from 1pm to 4pm. To make painting fun and easy to learn for everyone, we have a simple curriculum teaching just 4 basic types of the most commonly used strokes for painting flowers, fish and birds.
We have T-shirt printing classes for kids and adults, using local leaves and flowers, too. We also teach a combination of printing and painting for a really fun and interesting way of decorating T-shirts, bags and other useful things.
For more information about our art and craft lessons and programmes, don't hesitate to call our Outreach office.
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