Art Tour for Module - Design History & Culture

Temasek Design School
- An Art Tour "Quest for Immortality - The World of Ancient Egypt"

@ National Museum of Singapore

This visit is a case-study for students' module on Design History & Culture where they get to know the ancient culture and history of Egypt, an insight to the Egyptian’s attitude to life and the afterlife, and the preparations they made to ensure their transition from earthly existence to immortality.

With 230 artefacts spanning from 4000 BCE to 950 CE, the exhibition endeavours to place tomb objects in their social, religious and artistic context, demonstrating the diversity and adaptability of an art that has prevailed both time and space.

Paper Art Workshop for Kids

@ NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House









‘Paper’ Art will introduce children to art-making in both 2D & 3D forms using techniques of Collage and Paper Sculpture.

Elements of Art (EOA) such as Shapes, Colours & Texture will be emphasized in this programme. They will discuss and ‘talk about’ their Art making using terms of Shapes, Colours and Texture with relevance to themes given such as Nature, Birds, Animals and Cultures.

Venue:
NUSS Kent Ridge Guilt House
9 Kent Ridge Drive
Singapore 119 241

Cost:
S$108 (Kid’s Club Member)
S$118 (NUSS Member’s Child)
S$128 (Guest’s Child)
*Fees are for 2 sessions (2 x 5hrs), include all materials and lunch refreshments
*Suitable for age 8 - 12 yrs old

Dates:
15 & 16 March 2010
Time:
9am to 3pm

For enquiries, please contact Juliana Sahaimi @ 6586 3736 or email: Juliana@nuss.org.sg

Documentation of Courses by Composite Art & Design

All future documentation of courses by Composite Art & Design will be @ http://composite-ad.blogspot.com/

This blog will be solely for documentation of:
1. Sheow Tong's Artwork
2. His tertiary teaching at Temasek Design School / First Media Design School
3. His own classes/courses for the public

Principles of Design & Idea Generation

@ First Media Design School

This module introduces learners to creative skills used to develop and express ideas and concepts such as use of mindmap, block-busting, attribute analysis etc. They are also exposed to basic Principles of Design for their application on design project.

Learners have to design a set of 3 greetings for a certain festival/occasion. Media used should be as creative and as non-conformative, not restricting to only conventional paper and cards. They are assessed on they creative applications of ideas and media used.

Collaging our 'Neighbourhood' with P2

Peiying Primary School






















Pupils learned techniques of Collage (tearing and pasting) in this course with understanding of Shape and Part-Whole model in creating Artwork on subject of ‘buildings’ based on theme of ‘My Neighbourhood’.














They were given a context on Collage with stimuli of pictures on our local neighbourhood. They built up their colourful buildings with torn-out shapes before detailing them with oil-pastel.














Composition skills with understanding of background and perspective were taught in ensuring well-composed final-work.

Annual Art Exhibtion 2009

@ Park View Primary School

This exhibition showcases the fruition of its various Art programmes from all levels, particularly featuring its Artist-in-school project as supported by National Arts Council as led by artist/art educator Lau Sheow Tong.

The Artwork exhibited are outstanding pieces from both pupils and teachers. Pupils’ works are selected based on merits of their techniques and ideas with relevance to various attempted themes such as ‘Still Life on Fruits’, ‘My Buildings’, ‘Created Creatures’ etc. As for teachers’ work, they are the results of their hands-on creation from the 'Still Life' Art workshop. Work from Sheow Tong are based on his latest collection on delectable sweet food, ‘Sweetalicious’.

It is a celebration of its whole-school-approach in Art education where pupils and teachers from all levels are involved in cultivating a vibrant Art culture through the visual Art.

Mixed Media Art Course (NAC-AEP) for Sec.3

(Woodgrove Secondary School)

In this course, students are taught to combine different media such as dye, acrylic paint and Collage to create mixed media Art in abstract and semi-abstract forms.






















As an introduction, they were exposed to abstract work by artists like Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky on Action Painting and Abstract Expressionism. Their hands-on work were based on themes of 'Washing', 'My Room' and 'Jewellery'.

Local artists' work by Goh Beng Kwan and Thomas Yeo were then introduced with them exploring Collage in mixed media. Themes like 'Shells' and 'Florals' were explored with their creation of semi-abstract work.

3D mixed media work is also covered with reference to Frank Stella's work in Maximalist Style. Students have explored semi-3D formation with use of their created 2D abstract work and some construction paper. They were worknig on ideas of 'Speed' and 'Dynamics' from theme of 'Sports'.

More photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/composite_ad/sets/72157622606520159/