When Miss Charlotte and her husband enrolled their two children at Provo Primary last year, little did anyone know the school was soon to have an “art attack”! An accomplished professional artist with a graduate degree in higher education art and design from Cambridge University, Charlotte’s initial after-school art club proved so popular, that there are now “junior” and “senior” sections on separate days with projects targeted to the different age ranges.
Enter the Turtle room after 3pm on a Tuesday or Thursday, and you’ll see the classroom has been transformed into a young Picasso’s paradise, with a myriad of paints, glue, colored paper, oil pastels and other materials distributed on the drop cloth-laden tables. Projects this term have included mono printing, water colour techniques with a focus on overlapping and perspective, and also set design. With the school play coming up, club participants have been looking at and discussing use of contrasting colours to create a bold image as well as working on a large scale with paint; this includes creating props from card with a focus on construction.
Four o’clock comes around much too quickly for those engrossed in their latest masterpiece but enrollees take away much more than their creation each week, now knowledgeable in techniques like cross-hatching, use of pattern and the importance of “filling the page”. Thank you, Charlotte, for continually inspiring so many students to unleash their creativity – the results are nothing less than incredible!
