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061022 - Oil painting with Mattea Perrotta, and life drawing with John Close
It was our great pleasure today to meet Mattea, a Paris-based artist born and raised in Los Angeles. She encouraged us to use 5 forms and...
Katie Poon
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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051022 - catch up with Susi and an intro to new materials!
Today I showed Susi my blog pages and the first sketchbook I have made so far. Susi gave me many ideas, i.e, artist Boyd Webb with his...
Katie Poon
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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041022 - Invisible Cities (continued) and JR: Can Art Change the World? (TED Talk)
Today I continued with my Mogao cave (it could also be used as an incense burner if you turn it upside down) and associated clay work...
Katie Poon
Oct 4, 20221 min read
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290922 - my first oil painting with Matt Philips & life drawing with John Close
We were thrilled to hear that we would have the opportunity to learn oil painting with Matt Philips, whose work includes buildings,...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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280922 - my first Pecha Kucha Presentation!
I am pleased that I managed to put 20 slides together and presented in front of my class with my first Pecha Kucha presentation! I have...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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270922 - Invisible Cities (continued) & "Art that made us - To Kill a King"
We continued our leftover work from last week for the Invisible Cities project, and I managed to make a new plaster "cave" model that can...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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220922 : Art lab with Mick Kirkbride & life drawing with John Close
Mick began his class by sharing a quote from Grayson Perry (the Turner prize winning artist): "Until we can insert a USB into our ear and...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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210922 - Hew Locke, Cornelia Parker, Maria Bartuszova, and Lubaina Himid & B-list project
It was an eye opening experience for me! We first began our day with the Procession at Tate Britain. British sculptor and contemporary...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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200922 - Invisible Cities & 3 great artists
From 2D to 3D, we were encouraged to explore plaster and clay to construct and form a city. We anticipate in the end all of our work will...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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2022 new adventure starts here -
Welcome to Katie's art blog at the HSoA! Never too late to learn something new! Hello! I've always felt a gap between my Chinese painting...
Katie Poon
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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150922 - Hello my first lesson at HSoA!
Below is my first Art Lab work - a pair of glasses that I made with Edmond's help! First life drawing experience started on the same day...
Katie Poon
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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