Cool Mummy

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I have just finished a week long workshop with children aged between 7 and 11.

I am absolutely exhausted, I am also elated and inspired by the children’s wonderful creations. I am amazed, as always, by their boundless energy and their fantastic potential. It is really incredible how creative children can be when we teach them new art forms and allow them to use mixed media.

I wish schools would put more emphasis on art and incorporate it as a main part of the curriculum. Every single child can create, and whist some are more creative than others, all children should be given the opportunity to express their outlook on life through art.
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Day 1 - The color wheel and the flower canvas

Without light, there would be no color. Color is all around us, surrounding our every day life with beauty. To understand the color theory, I felt that the children needed to understand light and discover the 2 additional colors of Magenta and Cyan that they do not usually learn about at school. So instead of talking of the conventional 3 primary colors (the RGB world made of red, green and blue), we talked about light and the 2 additional colors of Cyan and Magenta and made our own color wheel using those 5 colors.

We then learned about the wonderful tints we can create using the mixture of a color with white. It was very amusing to hear the girls debate whether white is a color or not. You will be pleased to know that they agreed, unanimously, that white is not a color

Once we played around with colors and mixed so many secondary color variations, we moved to creating our main art project for the day: the flowers!
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Jada concentrating on her creation

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Sacha and Jada loving the color red and all its shades

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Each of the girls used their color wheel as inspiration and created abstract flowers inspired by colors and light. Here are a few: Aren’t they simply gorgeous?
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