After deep discussion with our grade 5 and 6 about colours and its relation between themselves we decided to make this fantastic colour wheel clock. First thing we did was to work on a worksheet about vocabulary. We talked about what is a complementary colour, analogous colour, tints, shades, monochromatic, hues, values, etc... After playing with colours we started to work right away.
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Isabella and Oil. Isabella is a 5th grader that absolutely loves art and loves to try new things and get challenged. Here one of her latest masterpieces. What she doesn't like the most? to wash up brushes after lessons (especially the oily ones).
Our reception children have been experimenting with the primary and secondary colours and its relation between themselves. Different Portuguese cities like Coimbra, Águeda... inspired us to create these beautiful primary and secondary coloured umbrellas!
Every grade make a selfportrait unit, using different medias such as oil crayons, watercolour pencil, colour pencil, pencils, watercolours... On grade 4 we first talk about Cubism and they do their own cubist selfportrait. Right after, we talk about real proportions and they make a proper selfportrait, in this case was using watercolour. I love how much some of them they look alike. We sometimes show it to other classrooms and they guess who is who like 95% of the times, fun.
Grades 2 have been doing some clay master pieces. The result was brilliant. The only downside of this project is that it has to be finished in one lesson. It might take you a bit longer than the lesson because to put the sequins takes quite a bit of time. The effort will be rewarded.
When I found out about Kimmy Cantrell I thought we must do something in the art room. He usually works with clay but we did it using cardboard instead. His use of asymmetry fascinated the children. His work reminded to them to Picasso and African art, so we discussed quite a bit about his work/life. To be honest I was really impressed of how deep those grades 3 got into discussion. To make this sculpture we just need, one metal hanger, one pair (in this case just one leg of the pair) of tights, a small wood block for the base and acrylic paint. Final result is always really cool.
We were fortunate to attend an incredibly impressive exhibition in Beijing, titled "Botero in China." It was truly fascinating to witness Botero's artistic world come to life. Prior to our visit to the museum, we engaged in discussions about Botero himself, his artwork, and his life, which had the children eagerly anticipating the entire experience.
Paper Mache never fails. One of the messiest media we do but hey it worth it. I would've loved to show you the process of how we got to this amazing hot air balloons but I had literally no hands to take any pic.
We basically blew up a balloon, stick the newspaper stripes covered with the paper mache paste (Chris owns a secret recipe that works sooo good, it's a bit smelly but good enough to handle it). Then wait for few days/week and then the best part of the project... pop the balloon. Once you got a hard balloon shape just need to paint it and go! Grades 5 and 6 came up with the idea of making a group mandala. After watching some inspiring videos of Tibetan monks making mandalas and listening to some Tibetan healing sounds we were so ready to start our own.
First problem was how to make so many perfect concentric circles on the canvas, after some discussion they came up with this amazing idea, problem solved. Then there was Ava, she was the main designer of the mandala. They were working in groups of 4-5 at the same time. The mandala was auctioned and money raised went to charity. We recently had a special guest, Emerico, and it was a real treat. Claire had this awesome idea to do a project about graffiti for her interest fair, and Emerico came to mind. After a few weeks of digging deep into graffiti history, exploring various styles, techniques, and picking up all the lingo, Claire was all set for Emerico's visit. And let me tell you, after a quick chat, they didn't waste any time and got straight to work.
Chinese New Year always happening around February. So if we want to have it ready by then we have to get to work on its project right after Christmas time. Last year we made this amazing Lanterns. The final result was stunning. We got around 30 lanterns so you can get an idea how was the main lobby of the school. Here you got some pictures, materials and instructions.
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