The Kumeu Childrens Art Club

18/03/2026

Art Club Week 5
A fabulous week painting the gold standard, a bowl of fruit!

Lots of learning going on and some very impressive results, very proud of all of our artists.

11/03/2026

Week 4 of art club was balanced chaos.
We spent some time working on blending and shading to see how colours work and start getting to grips on tones.

Then we went feral and had no brushes allowed for a black, white, and one other colour painting. Some very interesting tools being used!

04/03/2026

Art Club Week 3 saw portraits being finished left right and centre!
So impressed by these brilliant portraits, not an easy task.
We also had some fun getting into painting without a brush, a definite recommendation for a laugh 😀

22/02/2026

Art Club Week 2
Portraits.
We used all of our sunshine yellow paint but everyone was looking pretty happy in their portraits.
They’re tricky to make, and you can make some very silly drawings of yourself along the way 😛

22/02/2026

Art Club Week 1!
This term we are all about painting.
Week 1 was a challenge to loosen up and have fun with a painting. We all painted a penguin! No references, no checking what a penguin looks like, and our results were not even close.
It can be hard to let go of always making a "perfect" painting. Using paint and having fun is much more useful for improving our skills

17/02/2026

Exciting update!
Our local artists are in the paper!!
So proud of everyone who worked on the book at Matua Ngaru...but especially proud of our art club kids!
It's like working with celebrities 😀

24/12/2025

Amazing student writing and art!

Matua Ngaru School children have published a book which shares their stories, words and illustrations following the flooding of the Kumeū River.

07/12/2025

Our final week!
The end of year party, all of the finished work shining and ready to be taken home, and a few new decorations that were allowed to stay at the gallery for next year's party.
It was an amazing year thank you to all of the parents, artists, and the gallery!
Can't wait for 2026 :)

07/12/2025

I fell behind.
For the second half of the term we worked with some air dry clay, we painted our glazed clay when it finished in the kiln! We made our own air dry clay and painted everything so that it would be ready to collect on the last day for the year. Everyone made so much work and everyone joined in with the activities even though it was a lot of new ideas to try out.

18/11/2025

Our former guest artist Jenny Ann is hosting a workshop this weekend! For adults this time around, I have known Jenny Ann for over ten years she is a fantastic artist, teacher, and marine biologist! Can't recommend her highly enough this workshop will be fun 😀

06/11/2025

This week while we wait for clay to dry we made some of our own with a big batch of playdough!
Everyone made a colour which went into the communal supply and some very silly art was made.