Recently we studied about Still Life with our Grade 1. Every year students themselves design a different set up like fruits, vegetables, flowers, art suplies... After discussion about what is Still Life, origins, techniques, etc... they get create their own
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4th graders made this outstanding carp. inspired by Japanese art and also the ones that appear in the art of tattoo. Everybody, children, teachers, viewers even myself... were really surprised with the final result, watercolour pencils are quite fun.
Grade 3 studied the artwork and technique of the Leroy Niman. We decided to use acrylic paint. Leroy is well known for the use of amazing colours on his paintings. Each grade 3 came up with one wild animal to make on Leroy's style.
Ava has been obsessed with Mandalas lately. She used to come almost every playground asking if she could draw some small Mandalas. One of those days I asked her if she wanted to make a proper one on a bigger size than the ones she usually made. She obviously was excited. I gave her a really nice quality paper, metallic markers and few more supplies. She ended up with this masterpiece. Before she started to work on it we talked for some time about the origins of Mandalas, who makes them, why they are made, etc.. after discussion I played this video for her. Also when she was working I found some Tibetan Buddhist chanting so she felt a bit more in the mood for the work. It was a great experience! We have Zhong Guo Xin Nian around the corner and this coming new year will be the year of PIG. So we got many different projects going on related to pigs. This is one of them. We made a paper mache flying pig. The main materials used to make the body are used newspaper, plastic bags, toilet paper rolls and masking tape. Once the whole body is built, students cover it with more newspaper stripes impregnated with the paper mache paste.
There was one student that really wanted to make it in a different way, not using paper mache but cardboard boxes. He used many different types of boxes and manipulated them to make this amazing pig, his tail can even move! and it's not even half finish. The following lesson teachers painted all in white just to use the time wisely and don't waste a lesson by tghe students. After pigs are painted in white they will design and paint their very own one. We recently have studied the great artist Van Gogn with Reception class. We found a fun introduction about him which is the great serie of video "Art with Mati & Dada". After introduction, we talked about some of his artwork and life facts. Sunflowers are on the way! Paper mache, one of our favorite techniques! You basically can make anything happen! This time we made a hot air balloon. Unfortunately, I couldn't take any picture of the process because it got quite messy. Basically, we had ready beforehand the paper mache paste and enough newspaper stripes. 2 or 3 layers of wet newspaper stripes on the balloon and few days to let it dry. The coolest part to pop the balloon once the newspaper was dry... Once the balloon is dry and popped we paint it white, so on the second lesson students will have the balloon white, dry and ready to paint their very own design.
Zhonguo Xin Nia is already here!! This new year coming is the year of the Pig. We are working on few projects, some related to pigs, we will upload them soon, and others just related with Chinese decoration for this time of the year. Here is a Zhong Guo Jie, it is s a decorative handcraft art that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song dynasty. The art is also referred to as "Chinese traditional decorative knots". We didn't knitt and we used some recycled cardboar to make these decorations that we will hang next week all over the main lobby of the school!
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