Punk Art Projects (Primary)

Discover the art of stamp-making using everyday household items and even fruits and vegetables to create unique designs for tote bags and pencil cases, while mastering the delightful surprise of pop-up paper engineering that will add that extra "wow factor" to cards, journals, and mini books.

Experience the magic of alternative art-making through the ancient technique of cyanotype printing, where everyday objects, flowers, and stencils combine with sunlight and non-toxic iron salts to create stunning cyan-blue photographic artworks without a camera.

Each workshop celebrates creativity, sustainability, and hands-on learning, encouraging participants to let their imaginations run wild while exploring eco-friendly materials and time-tested techniques.

Whether you're drawn to the tactile joy of papier-mâché (with separate sessions for creating and painting), the whimsical world of fabric creatures, or the scientific wonder of sun-printing, these workshops offer something special for every creative soul ready to get their hands dirty and their imagination soaring.

Please bring the following on your first day of class:

• Clothing that you can get messy! Please don’t wear your best outfit, you will get dirty in this course.

This class has an extra materials cost of $60, which is payable directly to the tutor.

Once you book your ticket, the tutor will be in touch to arrange payment.

Cost includes:

• All craft supplies for the week

No experience required

NOTE: THIS IS A PLAN ONLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

DAY ONE: Papier Mache Magic

Papier-mâché is a super fun, super messy, brilliantly eco-friendly and uber creative!

We will use papier-mâché techniques to make anything from bowls to bugs. Use your imagination to build using paper pulp onto a base of recycled card to create a brilliantly bright 3D masterpiece. Let your imagination go bananas.

We will create our papier-mâché pieces in session #1 and paint and finish them in a separate session later in the week so that they have time to dry.

DAY TWO: Freaky Kooky Critters

Gotta love a little quirky and freaky critter as a bag buddy.

Made from scrap fabrics and felt, select from a choice of simple base patterns and use your imagination to make your very own freaky critter. Long legs, short arms, three eyes, spikes and tails — the combinations are endless.

Attach them to a cool little key chain and take them with you wherever you go.

DAY THREE: Stamp-O-Matic & Papier-mâché

It’s amazing what you can use to create brilliant stamps!

We will explore stamp and mark making with a number of household items, even fruit and veg! Over the morning, we will play with shape and colour and come up with designs that we can put on a calico tote bag or pencil case.

Seeing we’ll have the paints out; we will decorate our Papier Mache creations from Monday as they should have had time to dry.

DAY FOUR: Pop-up Cards

Don’t you love a pop-up? It adds an extra wow to any project. And the beauty of it is, with a few base skills, they are simple to make!

You will learn a number of basic paper engineering skills needed to design and create bright and imaginative paper pop-ups. Once learned, these techniques can be applied to all sorts of projects such as journals, school projects, greeting cards and mini books.

DAY FIVE: Cyanotype Printing

Experience the magic of Cyanotype printing. Using everyday objects, flowers and stencils, you will create unique artworks on paper or fabric in the signature cyan-blue colour — it is photography without a camera!

With a simple coating of non-toxic iron salts (ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide) to paper or fabric, and the rays of the sun, literally see your artworks appear before your eyes.