school 'festival'

monday was the opening day of our "school festival" i'm not sure why they call it a "festival" it's more like an art show - as far as i can see... but maybe they all did something while i was away. in fact, i was surprised by how good some of the art was, the students have been working hard on their projects... here are a few of my favourites:

this is a shot of the whole room - the school gymnasium... i'd never even seen it before the show opened!

this is like sand art... the design is outlined in gold string and coloured in with sand.

these are regular plastic bottles covered in twine and then painted. the gold string designs are added after.

this is one of my favourites.this looks like a painting, but is actually made with material... the texture is incredible.

clay. the students all went to some museum where they made all these clay things, this was one of the best out of about 300.this is traditional korean paper art. all these things, including the lamps and lanterns, are made with paper. i've got a couple of kits on order with the teacher who organized this part of the show... i'm going to try my hand at it! it looked like so much fun, and the results are really nice. when/if i ever do one, i'll post the process here for you.

so that was the school festival - some art, though i'm sure they did something while i was away at gimfl... but no one can give me any details... don't know how much i'm going to post this weekend, kat is coming down saturday and i have plans to go to the movies on sunday, but i'll be posting soon! in the meantime, have a good one!