Character Creation Class
As you know I love to draw and paint fun, bright, loveable characters many based on our native birds here in New Zealand. Each year St Joseph’s School in Upper Hutt welcomes groups of international students into the school to join their classes and experience school life here. I was asked to run an art class with two groups from China. These students knew very little if any English so art was the perfect activity to connect with them. These sessions were two hours long.
I drew some of my characters step by step on the whiteboard and the students followed along. they then created some of their own. Their ideas were amazing, a kiwi jumping on a trampoline, fast food worker penguins and a tuatara who had worked out too much at the gym. What I was blown away with it how they were able to draw along with me so confidently, some of their drawings looked better than mine!
They then drew their favourite design onto a wooden shape and coloured it with Posca paint pens. This was a nice small size they could take home with them easily. A few of the younger students wrote to mum and dad on the back as they were missing home.
