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Kids made portrait of a school friend seating across. This time we looked at work of Amedeo Modigliani. Since Amadeo painted only eyes of people he knew and made eyes of unknown people empty looking, we are now able to chose one or the other for our paintings. Long faced we go towards new creations.

Our role model in Grade 2 was also Yayoi Kusama who turned her illness into art. We had fun learning about 3-D and papier-mache technique.
And how to dry 3 giant prosciuttos.

We learned about balance and rhythm in art. We build a city, our main goal focused on rhythm and balance which we researched with shapes, colours, size and composition.
We asked ourselves questions as, what would happen if you change the direction or composition of one of the shapes? It’s colour? Size?
Also. If shapes are mainly warm coloured, how can we make our painting stronger when colouring the background?

Grade 2 created self-portraits under the spell of Pablo Picasso. It was in our PYP connection to our unit about the role models.

While the little rabbit has tripped in their apple home and the mother is taking care of the bruises , the father comes home from work (the constellation) and the horse is pooing all over the yard. Party time!

We were working hard to understand the process of printing by making lino prints using four colours. It’s a lot of work and it lasts forever but the children are so captivated in this process and development it is worth every moment, every struggle, every obstacle.

 

Through these beautiful mandalas we explored shapes, symmetry and pattern.

We tried some mono-printing. Our theme were animals in their natural habitats.
This is a really easy technique with beautiful results of both, the print and the template.