"Close" Encounter With Chairman Mao (Painting: GAP)
These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
"Close" Encounter With Clint Eastwood (Painting: GAP)
These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
These Sec 1 SAP students had to interpret “Distorted”. They had to make first hand observations drawings of themselves. They had to make experimental drawings by photocopying, cutting and applying mixed media.
"Close" Encounter with Elvis Presley (Painting: GAP) These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
"Close" Encounter With Marilyn Monroe (Painting: GAP)
These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
These Sec 1 SAP students had to interpret “Inspired”. They had to transform an ordinary object into a “musical style” art work. This activity develops drawing skills and understanding of Elements/ Principles of Art.
These Sec 3 SAP students were asked to use cooking ingredients to make experimental landscape drawings. This activity develops drawing skills and understanding of space.
Object of Desire (Drawing: SAP) These Sec 3 SAP students were asked to transform a common household object into an “antique” vase. This activity develops pencil drawing skills.
"Close" Encounter with Brad Pitt (Painting: GAP) These Sec 2 students were given each an image of famous icons: Chairman Mao Zedong, Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt. They had to make reference to American portrait painter, Chuck Close. This activity helps students to develop painting skills and understand values, balance, rhythm, patterns and harmony.
"Close" Encounter With Brat Pitt, by Amelia Lory, Sec 2
These Sec 2 students were given each a portion of a photocopied image. With the given image, they had to construct an imaginary world of extraordinary bugs, by manipulating texture, shapes and forms. They had to make some first hand observation drawings of bugs and create their own extraordinary versions. They had to choose one of the following themes: camouflage, violence, habitat, romance . This activity helps students to develop pencil shading skills and understand values.
Environment as Art 2006 (Sculpture: GAP) These Sec 2 students have to develop ideas on how to interpret art in relation to the environment. The students were also instructed to refer to environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy for further reference. Their work of art had to be uninstalled with ease too.
Project Runway Childhood Stories (Aesthetics Club: CCA) As part of welcoming new Aesthetics Club members, the committee had decided to do "Project Runway" style competition. The students had to do a series of tasks to earn credits. These credits were used to bid for unwanted, recyclable items. They had to use these items to design clothes based on childhood stories.
Artworks: Art For Upper Secondary Textbook I was privileged to co-authored Art textbook with Mr Heng Swee Kiang and Mr. Low Joo Hong for the secondary school in Singapore. ArtWorks was written under Marshall Cavendish Education publications. This textbooks is currently still in use in parts of Asia including Singapore.
Synopsis : ArtWorks is a comprehensive and exciting textbook for Secondary 3 and Secondary 4 students in the Special/Express and Normal (Academic) streams. The textbook allows for a range of media to be studied which includes still-life drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, printmaking, photography and the electronic media. It provides students with a strong foundation in the knowledge of key art concepts while encouraging creativity and the application of techniques learnt.
Key Features
At-a-Glance chapter dividers provide an overview of the learning objectives and art concepts covered in each chapter.
Lead In sections help students to access and understand new concepts easily.
Art Terms are highlighted in bold and defined clearly and concisely for easy understanding.
Illustrations help generate discussions and inspire students to think about the artworks featured.
Try It! Activities help students put into practice the artmaking techniques learnt .
ISBN : 9789810163556
Title : ArtWorks
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Imprint : Marshall Cavendish Education
Author : Heng Swee Kiang, Low Joo Hong, Desmond Mah
Welcome Principals, Teachers, Parents and Students! This website contains works of my current and former students. It also reflects my years of teaching experience as a teacher and coordinator. Please feel free to leave comments, be a follower of my teaching adventures or contact me! :D. To view my art works, please click here. To view my resume/ cv/ references, please click here. To understand my teaching philosophy and approach, please click here. To view my teaching portfolio, please select from the contents below . * GAP = General Art Program, AEP = Art Enrichment Program, SAP = Special Arts Program (RGS' Gifted and Talented for the Arts)
