Genevieve Spizzirri Art Teacher
I had already taken Cathy’s iPad art room course just over a year before she was due to arrive in Hong Kong and I knew that she would be a delight to work with as her enthusiasm is endless and her knowledge and expertise boundless. She led a staff training workshop to give teachers and leaders a taste of the apps she was recommending and they all learned about the possibilities for one image - different ways to animate, work over in text, paint and the infinite ways to create unique art work from single starting points. It was a great day of learning for Kellett staff.
Music & the Arts The opportunity for students to engage in music & the arts, through band, chorus, dance, drama, art, design and the writing of original literary pieces, provides a means of expression, creativity and opportunity, in addition to the documented beneficial links to the sciences, maths and the natural world.
Artist in Residence
She planned a mix for our days together of leading the classes and working with me to enhance the existing curriculum and to lead art work forward. Cathy’s approach to technology is that if you can do it in the studio with paint and paper then there is nothing to be gained from doing it on an iPad - and I agree. So each and every technique and app that we slotted in will enhance learning in a unique way and enable us to push the traditional boundaries of art into a whole new set of processes. The students were engaged and excited and grasped strategies quickly, moving their work on to new levels. We look forward to seeing Cathy again soon.
Ian Murphy +
Cathy Hunt
iPad Art
We are delighted to be able to welcome Ian Murphy as our Artist in Residence, who will be working with Senior School students this coming October and November. With a degree in Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking, Ian’s area of expertise lies in drawing and painting, with a particular focus on discovering the visual experiences of the outside world. In his own words, he enjoys drawing the gritty, no-nonsense places like canal locks, railway yards and mine workings. Ian’s expertise and opinion has been continually sought over the years, speaking passionately about creative practice to such institutions as the BBC, the National Society for Education for Art & Design, and the British Council. Ian regularly works with art students during residencies and workshops and he loves having the opportunity to share not only his technical skills, but also his creative energy, to generate enthusiasm and passion for drawing and painting amongst his students. 16
Katherine Colquhoun Art Curriculum Leader
Cathy came to work with us in the Pok fu lam studio for three days and what a lot we learnt in that short space of time. We spent our time working with year Six on an app called ‘Foldify’ where students created their own net shapes and used pattern and photography to add to design to them before building them into 3D shapes. Year Three and four used an app called ‘Pictoboldo’ which allowed them to turn their faces into fruit and vegetable shapes taking inspiration from the Italian artist Giussepe Arcimboldo. They later used the app ‘Chatterpix’ to bring creatures that they had made to life using once again fruit and vegetables. They later recorded their voices to allow them to become animated. Year Five had great fun turning themselves into Picasso masterpieces by sticking abstract facial parts onto their own faces which they then took photos of they later put the photo into the app ‘Orange Cam’. This allowed the children to experiment with different filters and effects allowing them to create their own unique Picasso inspired pieces of work.
Aiyana Boggis
Mischa Yu
Camilla Fitzgerald
Ben Bowra
“We all made a drawing of our daily routine and videoed it in a time lapse! I really enjoyed the lesson and would love to do it again! My favourite part was seeing everyone’s different drawings and all the nice colours that we used. It was great!”
“One amazing art lesson we used time lapse to record our drawing process while we drew how we get to school. I loved this lesson because I like sketching, so this was a spectacular experience to brush up my skill.”
“Making the foldify creatures using the app ‘foldify’ was so fun and I was really sad when the lesson ended! I really enjoyed it because it was different and it wasn’t on paper. Thank you so much for coming! It must have taken a lot of effort to get here all the way from Australia!”
“I really enjoyed meeting the i-Pad artist Cathy Hunt. We made net creatures called foldify’s which were a lot of fun and we also then made them 3D from our net’s that we designed on the I pad. It was exciting to see them come to life! Foldify is a great app and its free! It is a quick and easy way to make a cute, scary, fun, little or big creatures.“
Year 4
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Year 6
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