Tissue Box Pet House

I promised these young ladies that I'm going to bake gingerbreadmen for them as Christmas treats! They exclaimed "Horray!" and even requested me to bake for their siblings too! Sonia brought a new friend named Lina to the art class today ;) I remembered she gave herself a nickname, Greasy??? I gave each of them a template to build a house! I asked them, "What kind of house do you want to live in??" They answered in no time "Pet House!" There, they drew pets at every windows:- cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, parrots, goldfishes and even terrapins! They're one true animals' lovers ;) Good job ladies!

Jellyfishes are spreading their tentacles!

I wanted to share the joy from my artists friends Iyvone Khoo and Miguel Guzman who are working overseas and their artwork jellyfishes are swimming around the world and published on MONDO the International Magazines! Three Cheers for them! :D

Bonding Experience for Mother and Son

I'm teaching at United Square for A Million Little Things Art & Craft Shop. It was my first time teaching Art for Mother and son at the same time. Janet was learning folk art and her son Mason was learning how to draw his favourite Ben Ten Characters! ;) It is a bonding experience that Art can actually bond them together! They learn to appreciate their differences and interests at the same time!

Leopards At Bishan

This spotty big cat really made the little artists focus on their artwork ;)

Leopards At Maplewoods

Ai Mee and Sonia did a good job for these pieces of artwork :)
Atagasthya was on the summer holidays that's why he missed this lesson...

Leopards At Thomson

Here are some beautiful artwork from sat 4.30pm-6pm class. I didn't managed to take the pictures of leopards drawings from 12pm-1.30pm class and Amanda's artworks :s I was too busy :s

In the Sky @ Maplewoods

Atagasthya is back to Art Class today! Welcome back!

Positive Art by LYKE

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My art students Looi SiaoSiang and Kenny Tan's masterpieces were auctioned @ the Art House! They 'd done a good deed for their school St Andrew's Autism Centre! Their supportive family and friends were all there too! Well, Joeel and I were invited too :)

Channel U interview Teacher Esther Today!

Channel U came and interviewed Teacher Esther today! I was pretty nervous at first but I realised I was not!? Because my mind was with my students' art making in the class! They came in when my class just started, so it was kind of multi- tasking for me. Mr Chew (TCS actor) came and interviewed me, he's the host or producer of the show. He helped me a lot in Mandarin speaking program, and interpret my meanings in more proper sentences... thanks to him else I would rather be speaking English instead! ;p Well, lots of NG, but luckily Mr. Chew and his cameramen were very patience :p Hee... My lucky students are going to be in the show too! Catch them on 6th Nov08 @ Channel U 9.30pm program called Xiao Xiao Yi Shu Jia!

Calrose Robots

These little artist can do pretty good invention in their robot drawings! Their drawings and colours explained everything in visual art! Their robots have come alive!

My growing students...

Aimee gave me a giant chocolate chips cookie and asked me to snack with them during the art class! Gosh, how nice if I have a cup of coffee on the spot, anyway, I let them be as they snacked while they're doing their work ;)

Lanterns Making 2008

These are Mr. Lin's little darlings! They're all young ladies in this class! Mr. Lin has to take leaves for his studies as I'm here to relief his art classes ;) Chantel (Theon's sister) shouted from the back, "Teacher Esther, imagine you're our Mother and we're your children!" I was like this :s I can't imagine I have so many daughters! But, one thing I know is I'm glad that they enjoy the lesson! :)
Here's my class and they're more playful in their work ;) They're bunch of helpful students!
This class has more sense of creativity in their drawings! Nice colours too! ;)

Bobble 2008 Exhibition

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Another must not miss event especially for kids! This exhibition isn't a long one (28thAug-9thSep'08) Go and visit during the one week school holiday! This time you will see most of my students' self-expression artwork. Enjoy!

Goodbye Hannah!

Hannah has been learning art from me since she was 4yo. She stopped art class last yr and came back again to continue her lessons! Of course I'm very happy to see her back again! She's in primary one now. Her Dad will be posted to Shanghai to work and they will be joining him for 2 years there. We're going to miss Hannah again because all her friends get along very well with her :) Hannah's Mum said that she will be back to join art class during their holiday seasons. "Hannah, have a nice trip and we will see you soon again! Bon Voyage!"

Kaiyao's picture on the Magazine!

"Teacher Esther! I wana show you something!" Kaiyao exclaimed with my attention. He took out a magazine from his bag and flipped to the page and point at a picture! "Ohh... that's the picture you drew! Wow, well done!" I took a picture of him and his masterpiece printed on the magazine in no time! No wonder he's so happy today! :D And I'm happy for him too :)

The Animals Coin Bank! Save the Earth - Save the Cost!

Saving $$$ has to start from young, to adopt this good habit, we adults have to encourage the young ones to spend $$$ wisely and to save $$$ for their future :) Art can help them too! How? Kids can make their own Animals Coin Bank to start saving! We used tissue boxes, toilet rolls and recycle papers! See, we save the earth, save cost and even save $$$ in their favourite animal coins bank! ;)

MOOD SWINGs 2008

Click the title for more information :)It's our very first art exhibition and a teamwork for 2 of us.
Our artwork will be exhibited @ the Arts House on coming August 12th to 30th.
Do come and support our work of art! Cheers!

Bedroom Lamp 2008

A dreamy and magical lamp for their bedroom, this artwork allow them to express their imagination on the lamp and something to de-stress from hectic school and homework when it is bedtime. They took 3 lessons to complete this lamp making from sketching, tracing and makers-rendering :) Thanks to Uncle Joeel for help to assemble the bulbs and switches for the students :) Too bad, Yong Rui was absent on that day, else he will be in the photo! ;p

Big Cats with Spots

These are watercolour paintings done by Wu Jianli and Looi Siaosiang. Initially, for the last few lessons, Siaosiang had a hard time doing transparent painting on the watercolour paper... This time, he's more obedient and able to produce what watercolour painting is about especially on his favourite animal. On the other hand, JianLi is more focus on this painting technique too, he pats less on his pocket and focus more on the painting. I supposed watercolour painting is therapeutic for them.

Swimming Class At Thomson

More swimming activities!!!

Swimming Class At Bishan

This is an action drawing. A drawing to express their swimming experience! Look at 3 yo Ian's drawing... we can tell his visual skill is developing ;)

Paper Mosaic Temple Cats & Sakura

Inspired by Kyoto cherry blossom trip, I asked my students to draw a cat admiring the cherry blossoms... With different warm and cool colours pattern papers make these artwork a surprisingly beautiful work of art!

Art Chair 2008

A major project for this advance level class. They took estimated about 2 months in a length to complete a chair making (minus the days which I took MC and their absent for the lessons). They did a great job with just using old newspapers (only) to build their art chairs. I remember how Rachel brought the old newspapers by a pulling luggage bag and how Yanping stained his favorite dolphine printed T-shirt when he was painting his Thinking Chair...We really had a great time making these chairs :)

Carnation Flowers For Moms!

Today, I was late for class to get colourful crepe papers for the lesson! Again, when I was about to step into the house, Jachin whispered to me what he would like to draw for the art class... I surprised him that we're not going to draw today! "We're going to make flowers for your Mother!" It wasn't easy for them to get hands on the soft crepe paper which required alot of handling control... some couldn't staple the papers properly, some were very impatient with the crumpled folded papers and even cut it too short, some didn't know how to use pattern cutters, some kept asking for helps... Nevertheless, they managed to make flowers by themselves with some of my help ;) With all their Mothers' smiling faces, the kids forgot all the troubles they had made every flower for their Mom ;)

Talking Cards for Moms

Ai Mee and Sonia posed with my home baked cookies and their hand made cards for their Moms :) Gosh, they finished all my cookies without my notice :s But, I'm glad that they love em :)

Talking Cards for Moms

My students made a talking card for their Moms! Here come their imagination to create their favorite animals to express their Love to their Moms... You can see Froggy, Birdy, Kitty, Doggy, Bunny, Dino, etc...

Cubism Cats

This lesson allows the boys to use shapes and forms to construct a Cat. The idea is like using lego blocks to build a building in the visual form. The medium is chalk pastel. They were told to use black and white to practice tones and shadings but you can see they prefer colours :) They took 2 lessons to complete the work ;) Good try boys!