Colour and Light Activities – The Howard Hinton Collection
Welcome to the Colour and Light Activity page. An education resource developed as a part of the Art on the Move outreach program for schools. This activity booklet can be printed out and brought into NERAM to complete or used in conjunction with the NERAM/ Hinton websites. Links have been provided. We hope you have fun and enjoy learning about art and the Wonders of Hinton exhibition.
Colour and Light Activities – The Howard Hinton Collection
A generous man in both life and art, click the paintbrush
to learn more about the Howard Hinton story
Click on the sheep to
search the online Hinton Collection
Click the photo of the joey and its mum
to view Resting Kangaroo on the Hinton website
Click the beach ball
for more information on the impressionism art movement + impressionism art activities and video.
Click the sun
to search the Collection for impressionist artworks.
Click the pear for more information
on the role of women in art + a Research activity with guiding questions on women artists in the Hinton collection.
Click the sneaker
to search the Howard Hinton collection for more still-life examples
Artist Focus – Arthur Streeton
Arthur Streeton (1867-1947) was born at Mount Duneed, Victoria. While he studied drawing at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, he was mostly self-taught. He became involved with the Heidelberg School when Tom Roberts invited him to the artist camps in Victoria during the 1880s. Painting en plein air (outside), his landscape paintings captured a unique sense of Australian space, colour and light. Streeton moved to Sydney in the early 1890s where he set up an artist’s camp at Mosman to paint the growing city, busy harbour and beaches. Streeton also lived in London for many years and was made an official war artist, travelling to the Western Front. After WW1 Streeton returned to Australia.
Photograph of Australian painter Arthur Streeton by H Walter Barnett, 1890, platinum photograph, Source: National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain.
Click Sydney Harbour Bridge
to learn more about Arthur Streeton + for an en plein air art-making activity
Click the boat
to search the collection for Streeton artworks.
Artist Focus – Margaret Preston
A key figure in Australia’s Modernist art movement and a highly creative and inventive printmaker, making woodcuts, linocuts and monotypes. She is well known for experimenting with new approaches to printmaking, including printing in black and hand-colouring the image when it was dry.
Click Margaret’s artwork to the left to learn more about Margaret Preston and learn how to make your very own hand-coloured monotype print.
Margaret Preston, Mosman Bridge, 1927, hand-coloured woodcut, Gift of Howard Hinton, 1941
Artist Focus – Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) was born near Hermannsburg, Northern Territory and was a Western Arrernte painter from the Central Desert region. He became a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art and is considered one of the most influential Arrernte painters.
Click on Albert Namatjira’s artwork to the left to learn more about him as well as how to create your own watercolour artwork.
Use the template below and/ or watch the video to learn how to create a size-adjustable viewfinder and instructions on ways of using them. Viewfinders can be a simple square or rectangle or can be slightly more complex by creating a grid to further help position the main focal point of the artwork.
NOTE: Please do not use sharp knives or scissors without the supervision of an adult. If you do not have all the tools available use scissors and something with a straight edge to mark your lines.
This program was funded by the NSW Government.
