Miss Yuli

Year 1-2 students took part in a special art activity to celebrate the upcoming Chuseok holiday.

They learned about traditional Korean patterns and their meanings while making cheongsachorong lanterns.

The children discovered that blue represents yin and red represents yang, and they created their own unique lanterns using the patterns they designed.

In Korea, there is a tradition of looking at the bright full moon during Chuseok and making wishes.

To celebrate this, the children expressed their own wishes in words and drawings beside a full moon illustration I had prepared. Their wishes were diverse—though simple and childlike, many of them were both admirable and touching.

I hope parents will enjoy seeing these heartfelt wishes when they join us for the Chuseok event.

Year 3–4 students completed the bird and landscape paintings they began last week. They carefully observed the demonstration on how to control tones and then applied what they learned to colour the backgrounds, successfully finishing their artworks.

Afterwards, in preparation for the upcoming Chuseok holiday, the students took part in a special art activity. They learned about traditional Korean patterns and their meanings while creating cheongsachorong lanterns. They discovered that blue represents yin and red represents yang, and used their own designed patterns to make unique lanterns.

This week, our Year 5–6 students continued exploring the theme of “Spider-Man in Action.” They practised drawing Spider-Man in a variety of dynamic poses and, after completing their drawings, selected different background images to place their characters against. This created powerful, movie-like scenes of Spider-Man swinging and clinging to the city.

Students who finished this project moved on to a special activity in celebration of the upcoming Chuseok holiday. They explored different versions of the traditional Korean folk painting “The Magpie and the Tiger,” and began sketching their own interpretations of the artwork. It will be exciting to see how their pieces develop into unique and imaginative creations in the coming weeks.

This week, the Year 7-9 students continued their studies on the element of art: value. They practised drawing spheres and cylinders, steadily improving their pencil shading techniques and developing a deeper understanding of light and shadow. Their ability to use gradual tones to create realistic three-dimensional forms has shown significant progress.

After completing this exercise, the students turned their focus to a cultural project in celebration of Chuseok. They were introduced to a short Korean folktale and then explored the tiger character that inspired the design of a modern Netflix animation, Demon Hunters. Using this as motivation, they created their own tiger characters.

Once completed, these tiger artworks will be used in a Chuseok event, where students will enjoy a traditional-style game called “Throwing Rice Cakes into the Tiger’s Mouth.”

This combination of skill-building and cultural exploration made for a meaningful and creative week in 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!