Another busy Friday here at the Lakes District Museum & Gallery! Three arty students from Garston school and five creative students from Alexandra Primary School came together for a camouflage art workshop.

We discussed how animals use camouflage in the wild (to hunt, or to hide). We also thought of how humans use camouflage... we came up with four ideas: for hunting, for the army, for fashion, and for ART!

Our inspiration for artworks came from three VERY different artists:

• Desiree Palmen is a Dutch artist who paints peoples clothes to help them blend into the city, which she then takes photos of.
• Andy Warhol liked the idea of how camouflage hides things, but when he created his camouflage prints he painted them in bright colours so that two opposite ideas of hiding and being easily seen were combined.
• Reuben Paterson is a kiwi artist who likes to incorporate glitter into his artworks of kowhaiwhai patterns.

The techniques we used today included:

• Using different media (paint, crayons, photography, and glitter)
• Mixing and blending colours to create our animal prints and to camouflage our hands
• Practicing our sketching skills by enlarging and copying images of animal prints that on sheets of paper.

The works these students created were AMAZING! I was so impressed by the high quality of the pieces of art - I can't wait to run another workshop!
What did you enjoy about the Art workshop?

What was something new you learned at the workshop?

How are you going to display your pieces of art at home??

Answer my questions and comment about your visit below!