more ideas..
cool ideas tamie! ^^i'm pretty interested in origami. taught some of my friends before and there are some who are really interested in it. so that can be one of the workshops too. maybe we should have different levels of difficulty as some people pick up origami faster than others, or some might already do origami on their own.
does your mum use swaroski crystals? those are really pretty! :) might be a bit ex, but its much cheaper than if you buy ready made earrings/ bracelets/ necklaces from outside. we can always charge a small fee for materials. we could also buy the materials and pack them into small DIY kits to sell.
i think the manga workshop would attract quite a number of people. again, we need to decide if we are catering to beginners or experienced manga artists. so its okay if some of the rg students have already been through a workshop, because there's bound to be other people who havent but are interested. and yea, we should get the h2 art students involved in this too!
here are some of my ideas:
it'll be really cool if we could invite a cartoonist to come and give a demonstration, using the visualiser in the LT or sth. i remember having that in primary school once. he was drawing disney characters like mickey mouse and donald duck.
we can conduct a mosiac workshop where we can use eggshells or mosiac tiles to decorate things like photoframs, pencil holders, small mirrors etc.
maybe a card-making workshop? just to give participants more ideas for cards for various occasions. eg. pop up cards, using cloth, felt, string, beads etc to decorate cards, using stamps with inks and embossing powder
or something simple like making friendship bands. its nice to do esp in boring lectures/tutorials. lol. some people can make really beautiful ones.. i dont know anyone though =S
how about making recycled paper? they can turn out really nice if u put stuff like petals and long grass into the new paper. mr chia also mentioned something before, about teaching us how to book bind. we could combine the two to make our own notebooks.
we can try using polymer clay (sth like play dough) to make into animal magnets to sell, just like what the hwa chong art club did to raise funds.
during my pw i managed to get the contact of the lady who's in charge of the sale of handicraft items made by the people from the society of the physically handicapped. i really liked their handmade notebooks. they are the thick, hardcover kinds (covered with cloth/ fake fur)with blank paper that you might find at Prints (the super ex shop). i could contact her to set up a stall to sell these items in school
those who went down to the dragon kiln would remember seeing that very pretty mural (is it called a mural?) . we could have a ceramics booth where students can make a small decorated clay slab, and when we have enough, we can mount all onto one of the empty corridor walls. this is something similar to what i was suggesting earlier.. about getting people to paint their own tile, which would be made into a big artwork.
this is elspeth's idea for publicity: we could do a big artwork in the grassy area between blocks A and B. something like those big art attacks that the art attack guy always does. the picture could be something that publicises Art Day/Week, so when people look down from the upper levels, they'll be able to see it.
for exhibition.. we dont really have many works to exhibit now, except for our ceramics .. maybe the h2 art people could help us with this bit by lending us some of their works. also to provide some educational value to it, we could give introductions to the various kinds of techniques used in art and crafts. eg. oil painting, watercolour, pottery, collage etc. but there's a very wide variety. might be difficult to cover everything without boring people out. can also have a section about our outstanding local artists like Iskandar Jalil.. or even info on where to go to get certain art materials.
ahh.. such a long post. sorry! but nvm this is just the brainstorming process.. so keep those ideas coming!
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