Earlier in September I went to Chiang Mai in Thailand to attend the Asia Region Art Educators Workshop. This wonderful conference is held annually in different schools in Asia. The…

Last weekend I went on my first ever art retreat. Run by two art teachers from Hong Kong International School the weekend focused on creating a painted mandala. A mandala…

I had the chance to take part in a teacher run drypoint printing workshop over the weekend. Drypoint is a form of intaglio printing whereby lines are incised into a…

I’m currently taking through my grade 8s on a Self-Portrait project.  One of the tasks I get them to do is to take Faceless Self-Portrait photos such as this one:…

A school field trip to the Hong Kong Museum of Art in May introduced me to the art of Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming. I went earlier in the year with…

With a couple of days off school we took advantage to avoid the crowds and went to two museums in one day.  First we went to the Hong Kong Museum…

My grade 8 students have just finished doing a unit on self-portraits. After mastering (more or less) the facial proportions in a self-portrait colour pencil drawing, I then told them…

I recently completed an Australian Aboriginal style painting project with my grade 7 students. We looked at examples of Aboriginal art, focusing particularly on the ‘dot’ painting technique. We then…

Last weekend I was at the Asia Region Art Educators conference.  We had the opportunity to meet and hear from some artists working in Hong Kong. One of these artists…

As an important centre for art, Hong Kong is used to hosting large artistic events.  Few have been quite as large as Florentijn Hofman’s large Rubber Duck.  Yes, the enormous…