Art

This week, the children worked on two exciting art activities. First, they explored symmetry by creating tiger faces. They learned how both sides of the tiger’s face mirror each other, and they practised drawing and completing the shapes to understand balance and proportion.

Next, the students created beautiful night sky paintings using a splattering technique. By flicking paint, they made starry effects that brought their skies to life. They then combined these techniques with their own creative ideas to complete their artwork.

The projects helped the children to practise observation, control, and imagination, while having lots of fun experimenting with new techniques.

This week, the year3-4 students learned how to control water and paint to create different tones of colour while painting sparrows. By adjusting the amount of water in their brushes, they explored how colours can change from dark and rich to light and soft.

The children practised layering and blending, carefully painting the sparrow’s feathers, branches, and background. Each artwork showed a wonderful use of tone and detail, and the students really enjoyed experimenting with watercolour techniques.

It was a great opportunity for them to develop both their painting skills and patience, while also appreciating the beauty of nature through art.

This week, the Year 5–6 students had an exciting time combining their creativity with two projects.

Some children finished their Op Art creations, carefully completing their bold designs with patterns and optical illusions.

At the same time, we explored our Spider-Man in action project. Using different city building images as a background, the children drew Spider-Man in a variety of dynamic poses, from climbing to swinging through the streets. They then placed their characters onto the buildings to create dramatic movie-style scenes.

It was wonderful to see how each student interpreted Spider-Man’s movements in their own way, making every artwork unique. The lesson was full of energy, imagination, and fun.

This week, our Year 7–9 students explored one of the important elements of art: Value. They learned how artists use lightness and darkness to create depth, dimension, and realism in their work.

Students practised creating a 9-step value scale using both pencil and paint. This exercise helped them understand how value can be gradually changed from light to dark.

They then applied this knowledge to draw a realistic cube, carefully shading to show light, mid-tones, and shadows. The results were fantastic and showed a great understanding of how value brings drawings to life.

Well done to all our students for their hard work and creativity this week!

The Y1-2 children explored how different materials work together. They used traditional Korean rice paper, tin foil, ink, and paints, experimenting with textures and effects. This helped them discover how each material behaves in a unique way.

In the second session, the children began their night sky paintings. They practised controlling paint with different tones of the same colour, adding depth and atmosphere to their work. The children were very excited and enjoyed the process of creating their skies.

Next time, we will finish the project by using the splattering technique to fill the sky with sparkling stars. We are looking forward to seeing the children’s beautiful night skies come to life.

The year 3-4 children created cheerful scarecrows surrounded by the signs of the season.

Using bright autumn colours, they painted warm backgrounds and added lively details such as hats, patches, sparrows, and pumpkins.

This project combined drawing, outlining, and watercolour painting, while also encouraging creativity through mixed media. The children will add real buttons and use different materials for the hats to make the scarecrows even more fun and unique.

The children worked with great enthusiasm and focus, and their finished scarecrows are full of personality and autumn charm.

Well done, young artists!

We explored a fascinating style of art called Op Art (Optical Art).

Op Art uses lines and patterns to create amazing optical illusions, making flat drawings look as if they are popping out of the page.
The children began by drawing their hand shapes and hearts on paper.

They then filled the background with straight horizontal lines, while carefully curving the lines inside the shape. This simple change made the shapes appear 3D and lifelike. Finally, they added colour patterns to enhance the illusion.
Everyone was very focused throughout the lesson and enjoyed experimenting with lines, curves, and colours.

The results were creative, playful, and visually striking, showing how repetition and small changes in line direction can transform simple drawings into optical illusions.
Well done to our Year 5-6 artists for their excellent concentration and enthusiasm!

All About Me

In art class, our middle school students created “All About Me Collages” to show who they are through words, colours, and patterns.

During the first session, students brainstormed words and sentences that describe themselves—things they like, their hobbies, and their personalities. They also thought about their favourite colours, symbols, and designs. Using markers, oil pastels, and paints, they filled their papers with bold and colourful backgrounds that reflect their unique moods.

In the second session, students added black-and-white photos of themselves and decorated them with the words they had written. They arranged the words around their portraits in creative ways, turning their artwork into a visual self-introduction.

The final collages are full of colour, energy, and personality. Each one tells a story about what makes that student special.

Thank you to all the parents who visited the HFS Art Exhibition and praised the students’ passionate creations. I will continue to work hard to provide even more diverse and enriching art lessons. Thank you again for your support!

The Year 1-2 students observed real sunflower photos and studied the body parts and appearance of the flower. Using cotton swabs, they painted their own sunflowers. Just like Vincent van Gogh’s sunflower painting, the students expressed the wavy, lively shapes of the sunflower in unique and creative ways. 

We also took one last walk around our exhibition to appreciate all the displayed artworks. Each student chose their favourite piece and shared why it stood out to them, creating a meaningful time of reflection and discussion.