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We love it when kids put a creative spin on their art. This is Branden’s gachapon machine, in the form of a cup of bubble tea!
He used kitchen towel core to construct a drinking straw. For the capsules, he picked only black ones to represent black pearls. Isn’t that clever?
Branden is a student at
Emma Tay’s floral design at JEWEL YOUTH FLORAL CUP 2024, where the participants were each given a mystery box of flowers. And then it was up to them how they arranged the flowers to showcase their creativity! 🤩
About 3 weeks prior to the competition, Emma made the flower pot using and air dry clay. Then she painted it with acrylic paint before glazing it using mod pogue.
Emma received a Certificate of Merit today. We’re so proud of her! 🌟🌟🌟
Emma has been a student at since she was 6.
Katea’s floral design at today’s JEWEL YOUTH FLORAL CUP 2024. The participants were each given a mystery box of flowers and off they went to unleash their creativity! 🤩
We love Katea’s arrangements. Did you know that she added glitter and little embellishments to give the flower pot some pop? 🌟🌟🌟
Katea is a student
Happy Mother’s Day to all mommies! For this special day, the kids at made tulips for their moms using colourful pipe cleaners. 💐
1st photo: Jordann Maala
2nd photo: Branden Maala
3rd photo: Emma and Erin Tay
The best gift for a teacher, and look at the innocence in the artwork. This is meticularly done by Renn Bundgaard. ❤️❤️❤️
If someone draws this for you, how can your heart not melt?
More x-ray art! This is done by Arya Bundgaard. She preferred to do something else which is not a fish. She drew the outline of her left hand before adding in the bones.
White Chalk pencil on black paper.
Arya is an art student
X-ray Fish by Remy Bundgaard, using white Derwent Pastel pencil on black paper.
Remy Bundgaard is an art student at
“Kawaii Land” by Emma Tay.
After she did the drawing in pencil, she scanned the picture and filled in colours in Procreate to plan the colours. Then she painted the picture on paper using gouache.
Which version do you like? 😊
Emma is an art student
Did you know that today is the 10th day of the lunar new year? This is Erin’s lion head, she used metallic colours like silver and gold to make it very festive. Oh, and she mixed some glitter dust into the acrylic paint too! Can you see the shimmering effect?
Erin joined recently, what a happy addition!
🎶 D**g d**g chiang! D**g d**g chiang! 🎶
Are you ready for lunar new year? Katea finished her festive lion’s head painting just in time for the year of dragon. 🐉
She used air dry clay to create relief for her artwork, and also added embellishments like gems and pearls to liven up the lion’s head.
May your lunar new year be filled with creativity, imagination and abundance!
Katea is a student at
Wishing you a holiday season filled with laughter, creativity and the magic of artistic expressions. Here’s to a new year that unfolds like a blank canvas, ready for you to create new adventures and memories!
🌟Merry Christmas and happy 2024!🌟
Are you ready for ? This is Aira Shah’s version of a scary monster! She used neon acrylic paint for the monster and gave it three googly eyes. She also used oil pastels for the background as she wanted to experiment with mixed media. We can already imagine this monster glowing under the UV light!
Aira (9yo soon) has been with since she was 4.
Her work is also displayed at Look Here!, an art exhibition by at Harbourfront Library, at Vivocity, level 3. This exhibition ends on 29 Oct. Don’t miss it!
Jarica Yap (16yo, Singapore) is our featured artist for this month and October. She’s also the first prize winner of our DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition. Swipe left to see her winning entry.
Seen here is the digital art “Under the Melting Sun”, which Jarica created using Procreate.
We have more of this teen artist’s work at our website:
www.xobonmag.com/sep-oct-2023
This link is also in our profile.
Entitled “There is Enough Love to Give”, this is created by Jarica Yap digitally.
She won first prize at our “Design Your Avatar” art competition in April this year, and she’s our next featured artist. We’re prepping her article, so watch this space!
A very colourful cobra drawn and painted by Leif Bundgaard (8yo, Singapore). Leif experimented with white marker, metallic paint and acrylic paint. Can you see the shimmer on this cobra’s tail?
He also combined blue and silver paint for the background.
Guess which famous painting inspired this one. An acrylic painting done by Aira Shah (8yo, Singapore). She also used markers to add in details and texture.
Aira is a student of
Happy 58th birthday, Singapore! 🇸🇬
This is a watercolour rendering of Vanda Miss Joaquim, our National flower. Enjoy this special day. Majulah Singapura! 🇸🇬
Eoon Veng Hann is our featured artist for this month and August! We love his unique art style—this teen artist likes to draw meat creature.
Seen here is “The Thing (I Found in the Market)”, acrylic on paper. Veng Hann wanted to paint bell peppers with faces.
His meatman won the third prize in our MASH THEM UP art competition.
To read more about this quirky artist, please go to www.xobonmag.com/jul-Aug-2023
Link is also in our bio.
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Art has the power to heal broken souls, do you agree?
This is “Meatball in the Jungle”, a watercolour painting done by Eoon Veng Hann (14yo, Singapore). He is our featured artist for July/August 2023.
Veng Hann won the third prize in our MASH THEM UP art competition last year. Veng Hann loves to draw meat men and we can’t wait to show you his quirky work!
Congratulations to Tan Yan Yu (15yo, Singapore) for winning the second prize at DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition. Seen here with her is Cherlyn (founder of )
Yan Yu won 1 MUSE A4 marker pad, 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (12 colours), 1 set of Pentel Pointliners and 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush.
This competition is jointly organized by Xobon and
Sponsors:
Supporters:studio
Congratulations to Aaden Goh (15yo, Singapore) for making it to the final round of DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition. Swipe left to see Aaden’s avatar.
Congratulations to Aura Airwan (14yo, Singapore) for making it to the final round of DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition. Swipe left to see Aura’s avatar.
Last Friday, Soo (creator of Xobon) and Cherlyn (founder of ) were at Xinmin Secondary School to congratulate the winners of DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition.
Tan Yan Yu won the second prize, Aaden Goh and Aura Airwan were the finalists.
We’re so grateful to Mr James Tan (second from right) for always being supportive of our art competitions. Mr Tan is the teacher-in-charge for XMSS’s art club. Please follow them on Instagram: .artclub
Such an honour to meet the Principal of Xinmin Secondary School Mr Tan Soon Hui (on the far right). Thank you for your support and we hope to see your school’s participation again in our future art competitions and events.
Today, Amber Chu (13yo, Hong Kong) received the prize and certificate which we shipped to her! Thank you so much for sharing a picture of you with us. We hope you create inspiring artwork with the art supplies you received. 🤩
Amber won 1 MUSE A4 marker pad, 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (6 colours), 1 set of Faber Castell Skin Tone markers, and 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush.
This competition is jointly organized by Xobon and
Sponsors:
Supporters:studio
Congratulations to Jarica Yap (16yo, Singapore) for winning first prize at DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition. Seen here with her is Cherlyn (founder of ).
Jarica won 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (18 colours), 1 set of Pentel Pointliners, 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush and S$100 cash.
This competition is jointly organized by Xobon and
Sponsors:
Supporters:studio
We will be presenting/shipping the prizes and certificates to the DESIGN YOUR AVATAR winners and finalists this week and the next!
Art Hamper for 1st Prize winner: 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (18 colours), 1 set of Pentel Pointliners, 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush and S$100 cash.
Art Hamper for 2nd Prize winner: 1 MUSE A4 marker pad, 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (12 colours), 1 set of Pentel Pointliners, and 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush.
Art Hamper for 3rd Prize winner: 1 MUSE A4 marker pad, 1 set of Pentel Brush Sign Pen Twin (6 colours), 1 set of Faber Castell Skin Tone markers, and 1 Pentel Aquash Water Brush.
The top 3 winners will be featured artists on Xobon's website. All winners and finalists will each get a certificate.
This competition is jointly organized by Xobon and
Sponsors:
Supporters:studio
Sharing DESIGN YOUR AVATAR top prize winner Jarica Yap’s ideation and creative process.
Her thoughtful process, details and rendering impressed the judges and she was the clear winner.
Did you know that our first prize winner Jarica Yap’s avatar was inspired by the anglerfish?
We’re pleased to share with you her ideation and creative process, which impressed the judges and got her the top prize of our DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition.
Congratulations, Freya Hoo Jia En’s (13yo, Singapore) avatar is the most popular on IG! Freya is also a finalist for our DESIGN YOUR AVATAR art competition.
Thank you all for voting! In the next few days, we’ll be revealing the names of the other finalists and also the top 7 entries’ sketches and creative process. Stay tuned!
This competition is jointly organized by Xobon and
Sponsors:
Supporters:studio
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