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I’ve blogged about the value of tracing before… Working digitally over a photograph gives students an opportunity to really ‘learn to look’. Here are three lesson seeds that expand on the idea that tracing is terrific!       IDEA 1: Super Silhouettes...

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  I’m regularly asked for my thoughts on technology and our youngest learners – the best apps, the best devices, and how much time should children spend on their iPads. And yes, there’s a lot to talk about as parents navigate concerns about new and...

Transforming Art Lessons with iPad – September 2015 Guest Blog Post by Cathy Hunt  

Educators, artists, and all kinds of tech-enthusiasts ask me about equipment to get started with their iPads in the classroom, so I thought I’d share five of my favourite creative add-ons for iPad art-making. It was hard to narrow down the picks, but the five tools below...

This post is my second instalment for arts educators this Christmas season, a collection of ideas and resources inspired by ice and snow! HUFFINGTON POST: “An artist by the name of Lita Albuquerque has christened Antarctica’s barren lands the best way she knows how...

Welcome to Christmas and my collection of some of my favourite festive posts, resources and ideas for the season! In Australia it’s 40 degrees outside, so there’s nothing like an open fire in the air-conditioned studio to really get into the spirit of the season! This...

Our Year 7 students created some many amazing monsters using the Daily Monster app I blogged about some of the work and the learning happening in the classroom – check out the post here if you missed it.  I was so excited when Stefan Bucher, the ‘Monster Maker’...

Check out this amazing gallery of digital prints. Students created lino prints based on images of cut fruit and vegetables, photographed their images and then used a variety of iPad apps in creative workflows to manipulate them. The resulting compositions are diverse and complex....

“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked...