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This week, we continued with our main art topic, “Express Yourself.”

Building on last week’s work with self-portrait collages, students expanded their ideas by creating magazine cover artworks that highlight their identity. Using their own photographs, combined with images, colours, words, and design elements, they began to design covers that communicate who they are and what makes them unique.

Through this project, students are not only learning about layout, text, and visual composition, but also reflecting on their individuality and personal expression. Each cover is turning into a powerful statement of self-identity. I am looking forward to seeing how their magazine covers will develop and come together in the next lesson!

The Year 7–9 students first learned about light and shading before practicing how to draw spheres, cylinders, and cubes.

They explored different hatching techniques to show value and create the effect of light and shadow. After that, they applied these skills to drawing trees, using both pencil shading and watercolours to experiment with how tone and shading can bring depth and dimension to their artwork.

It was not an easy task, but the students produced impressive pieces that clearly reflected each of their individual strengths.

This week, our year 1-2 children explored how colours can show different feelings and emotions.

We talked about what makes us feel happy, sad, or proud, and how those emotions can be expressed in art.

Using straws, the children blew paint across their paper to create fun and surprising shapes.

From these shapes, they imagined and designed colourful monsters, adding eyes and mouths to bring their creatures to life.

The activity helped students see how art can express emotions in playful and creative ways.

Everyone had lots of fun discovering how colours and shapes can tell a story about feelings.

This week we spent time drawing the K-pop Demon Hunters character, Derpy. Instead of the traditional brown-toned tiger seen in Korean folk paintings, students created a blue character and completed it with a variety of poses. They also added a magpie wearing a traditional Korean gat (hat).

Although some students found it challenging at first, they learned how to draw character poses and were able to complete their work with joy and confidence.

Next week we will begin learning about Impressionism and Impressionist painters.

This week, our students created their own K-pop Demon Hunters character, Derpy. This activity connected to the tiger and magpie folk art we explored last week, reimagined in a modern style. We then returned to our main art topic, “Express Yourself.” Students began working on a self-portrait collage, an artwork that represents who they are. Using pictures, colours, words, and letters, they started to design pieces that show their unique identity. This project has just begun, and students will continue developing their self-portrait collages in the next art lesson.

This week, we have been enjoying our special Chuseok art projects, celebrating tradition and creativity. After these holiday activities, we returned to our main topic in art—exploring the seven elements of art. So far, we have learned about light, shadow, shapes, and lines.

Today, we applied these skills to drawing trees. A tree is not just a trunk with leaves—it comes alive when we observe the details of light and shadow. We looked carefully at how the direction of light changes the tones, creating highlights and darker areas that make the tree look three-dimensional.

Students worked thoughtfully, adding shading to their sketches and discovering how shapes and lines can build the texture of bark and the volume of leaves. I look forward to seeing their completed artworks in our next lesson.

In celebration of Chuseok, the year 1-2 children explored Korean traditions through creative art projects. They designed Cheongsachorong (traditional red and blue lanterns), drew and coloured Songpyeon (Korean rice cakes), To make the scene more festive, the students also created colourful sparrow mobiles to hang around the scarecrow. These activities gave the children a wonderful opportunity to learn about Korean culture while expressing their creativity in fun and meaningful ways.

In celebration of Chuseok, the children took part in a special cultural art activity. They began by writing their wishes to the full moon, expressing their hopes in both words and drawings. Together, they decorated a scarecrow by adding facial features such as eyes, a nose, and a mouth, as well as designing colourful buttons. To complete the character, the scarecrow was dressed with gloves and a hat.

As a finishing touch, the students designed sparrow mobiles to place around the scarecrow, creating a lively and festive scene. This activity not only encouraged creativity but also deepened the children’s understanding of Korean traditions during Chuseok.

To celebrate Chuseok, the Year 5–6 students created their own versions of the traditional Korean folk painting “Magpie and Tiger.” Using traditional materials such as Korean rice paper (hanji) and black ink with brushes, they expressed their unique feelings and creativity through their artworks.

The children showed an incredible level of focus and actively participated in the lesson, which made me very happy.

I hope this time helped the children build a stronger appreciation and understanding of Korean culture.

To celebrate Chuseok, we learned words related to the holiday such as Chuseok, family, full moon, wish, and Hangawi. The children practiced writing these words with a traditional Korean brush, gaining a deeper understanding of Korean culture. We also explored the meaning of Jangseung (traditional totem poles) and each student expressed their own interpretation by creating character drawings of Jangseung. I hope this time helped the children build a stronger appreciation and understanding of Korean culture.