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Term Three Sculpture Classes 2023. art box workshops kids art classes kids design kids sculpture term three Sep 22, 2023

Another inspiring term of sculpture classes has drawn to a close, and it's time to celebrate the artistic journey that our students embarked on. In Term Three, 2023, we allowed our students to choose the animals they wanted to sculpt, resulting in a menagerie of creative masterpieces.

Young...

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Term two printmaking, Little Penguins. animal conservation art box workshops kids art classes kids art competiton kids collaborative art kids design kids printmaking term two Jul 05, 2022

I am proud to announce that Art Box Workshops students have been awarded yearly prize winners since 2016 for the threatened species children's competition.

Art Box Workshops have entered the following artwork for this year's competition.

Little Penguin mixed media prints, term two, Tuesday...

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Term two printmaking. Turquoise parrot. animal conservation art box workshops kids art exhibition kids collaborative art kids design kids printmaking native australian animals term two threatened species Jul 04, 2022

Wild at Art 2022 Prize
I am proud to announce that Art Box Workshops students have been awarded prize winners since 2016.

Art Box Workshops have entered the following artwork for this year's competition.

Turquoise parrot: Mixed media prints created by term two's Monday afternoons art class 6 -...

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Term three sculpture - Native Australian Birds 2019. animal conservation kids art classes kids design kids drawing kids sculpture native australian animals Sep 26, 2019

Term three sculpture classes are one of our student's favourite creative activities of the year.

Native Australian Birds was the theme for this year. Our youngest students, aged six to eight years old, enjoyed learning how to draw then sculpt Kookooburras, Goulden finches and Cockatoos.

Our older...

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Art Box Workshops award winning art school 2019. animal conservation kids art classes kids art exhibition kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers threatened species Sep 07, 2019

Thank you to our term two art students who had worked so hard creating such beautiful artworks on their chosen threatened species.
Our student-created an individual artwork and also joined the whole class to create one group artwork.

Each year our students enter their artworks into the ...

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Art books of threatened species - Hand made by students. animal conservation art book kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers threatened species Aug 07, 2019

Concertina Books of Threatened Species

Our teenage students had the opportunity to create a concertina book to display the threatened species that they were most concerned about, descriptions of each artwork from top to bottom.

The barrier range dragon by Lucinda
Lucinda chose The Barrier Range...

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Award winning artwork - Cool Owls of Sydney. animal conservation kids art competiton kids art exhibition kids collaborative art kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking term two threatened species Aug 07, 2019

Cool Owls of Sydney

We chose the Powerful Owl because we thought it looked cool, being so large with its massive claws and being able to catch and eat such large prey such as possums.
 
We love the fact that this giant Owl lives so close to our homes in Sydney, but unfortunately, the...
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Collaborative Artwork - Bellinger River Snapping Turtle. animal conservation kids art competiton kids collaborative art kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers Aug 05, 2019

Turtles Need Bellinger River To Be Kept Clean

Our students fell in love with the Bellinger River snapping turtle and were sad with the thought that they could become extinct because of the Logging that is commencing on the headwaters and tributaries of three important N.S.W rivers; Kalang,...
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Collaborative artworks - Brolga Crane and Sunshine Wattle. animal conservation kids art classes kids collaborative art kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers Aug 05, 2019

Brolga Gathering on Limited Wetlands

Our younger students chose the Brolga Crane, as it is one of Australia's largest and most iconic birds. The name comes from the Aboriginal language Gamilaraay, which they are called Burralga.

Our art class was fascinated watching their courting dance, and...

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Collaborative artworks - Corroboree Frog and Swamp Orchid. animal conservation kids art classes kids collaborative art kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers Aug 05, 2019

Fungus Threatens Frogs

The Corroboree Frog is found in south-eastern NSW and the ACT. It is a very tiny amphibian weighing only 3 grams and no bigger than 3 cm. Although small in size they have very unique patterns; bold yellow and black longitudinal stripes on its top, sides and legs and...
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Easter Holiday Workshops 2019. easter holiday workshops kids art classes kids design kids drawing kids painting kids sculpture native australian animals native australian flowers May 03, 2019

Art box Workshops has been invited to exhibit at North Sydney councils 'In Transit' art space during the North Sydney Children's Festival in October.

 

This years theme is Animalia, and we have been developing workshops that represent North Sydney, showcasing animals in our local area, so...

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Term one, 2019: Fundamentals of drawing and painting - Favourite things. kids art classes kids design kids drawing kids painting still life term one Apr 10, 2019

Drawing and painting your favourite things

Term one art classes start with teaching our primary school students the fundamentals of drawing and painting. This year our student's learned how to draw and paint their favourite personal objects.

In the first four couple of weeks, our students...

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