On Saturday 3d July we are heading to Sydney for Plain Air and "Mystery Tour" excursion on the Cockatoo Island.
This is a suggested plan of the trip:

7.30am Leaving Wollongong
9.00am Arriving and Parking in the Domain Car Park
Walk through Botanic Garden to the Museum of Contemporary Arts
10.00am Ferry to Cockatoo Island (if full catch the next one at 10.30am)
11.00am Arriving to th Island
11.30am Joining "Mystery Tour"
12.30pm-2.30 Picnic and Plain Air Session
3pm Leaving the Island

Studio will commence classes from 30th January 2010.

1st group (for 5-8 years old children only)
9am-10.30am

2nd group (for 9-13 years old children only)
11am-1pm

Siblings could be placed in the same time slot determined by tutor and depending on ability (Please note that activities in different groups are varied and tasks are designed with increased level of difficulty)

For young people of 13-16 years of age classes can be arranged depending on request and numbers.

Assemblage and Installation of the mural on Market Street Wall (boundary wall of Wollongong Public School between Kembla and Church Streets) will resume in January 2010 from Monday 18th (from 10am, meeting at Art Arena Gallery).

To volunteer or donate colourful china or/and tiles for mosaic please contact Irina Bruckner (02) 4226 9352 or 0415 467 370.

It is fantastic how children took up on pottery and sculpture. Work just flies out of their hands, needing more supply of clay!

This term we study how to paint with acrylics.
We learn how to use colour wheel, how to mix colours we invert colours. We also play with tertiary muddy colours and create paintings with no colour at all.
Come and have fun!

We hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday. This term we learn more about painting and composition.

The studio will be operating this term only for 5 weeks from 18th October to 15th November.

Studio will commence classes next year from 31st January 2009.

Background

For the past year I am doing lights on every exhibition which taking place at Project Contemporary Artspace.

Since then I have taken an interest in the "Chemistry of Light". I have stumbled accross this article about colour and light and though this is the one of the most concise reading on the theory of light and colour.

Will Professor Margaret Merritt, Wellesley College Chemistry Department excuse me for putting this article directly into this blog.

Finally I took at least some photos to document the exhibition. I used my mobile phone only so apologies re the quality. I post them in a separate album titled "prints from the exhibition".

ArtSight Term 2 2008

Next term we learn more about printmaking and composition.
We will put everything we have learnt into a book. You have to choose a favourite book and have your favorite characters in mind already for illustrating…or make your own story!

This project was assisted by Wollongong City Council, through the 2007-2008 Cultural Grants Program, administered by Cultural Services Division.

Details about Cultural Grants Program can be viewed here:
http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/Residents/4154.asp