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Art classes in Berlin

Painting

The Magic of Geodes

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Students were learning about natural geological events. At about same time I came across this amazing project on Small hands big art, website, that must be helpful and inspiring to anyone working in our field.
Observing the geodes we studied their shape, structure, colour, crystals. At first we paid attention to the shape, we drew the crystals and the structures, then came painting and then the decoration of the middle gap using the weaving technique.
I think it went brilliant and kids really loved it.

 

Layer abstract painting and Patrick Heron

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What a very fine project this was!
We spoke about Patrick Heron and his amazing work.
Children have cut some forms out of pre painted paper (Matisse style) and glued them on their paper. This is just to make the further process easier.
Next step was cold colours. They got only primary colours, black and white and were then told to mix them into cold colours and paint some more shapes close to the ones they glued.
Next step are warm colours and warm colours only. Make some more shapes.
Final and last steps is black: some lines and borders in between the layers and some dots or any other pattern.
The project turned out so very lovely and rich!! I found it on here and fell in love with it.

Self-portraits with expressionist backgrounds

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Another project for our school’s unit. Self-portraits with beautiful backgrounds. Children were instructed to use all sorts of lines.
I find this project so positive and beautiful. It was suggested by the class teachers which also did the photography, the little interviews and writing with the children. I only did the art bit, quite easy really. I’d enjoy professional assistants. Like in real life, ha!

Gigantic carnival hair styles

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This project was fun but a lot of work. It might not look like it but every single child would agree. The cutting was the hardest.
I wish we had time to make some sort of head rings behind the wigs so they would stand on heads by itself but it was more than enough work for a two hour class. Next time!

 

Inside and outside of the houses

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I have a book that I find pretty amazing. It’s called Woran denkst du?. I wished to do a project on the subject but since it’s quite abstract I decided to start with a similar project only instead of drawing our mind we drew houses. Houses are easy. We all have one, live in one, have someone living in one that we visit and so on. So we did it. We drew sinks, bedrooms, tables, stairs, spooky basements and all the rest that goes with it. As an extra inspiration we used a very nice book called Zuhause by Carson Ellis.

Studying Mark Rothko

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We spoke about Mark Rothko a little bit but more than that the children were into mixing colours and trying how they match together and what sort of impression do the combinations provoke. Is it OOO, is it AAA, is it UAAA or YOOHOOO or maybe a MMMMMM… and what do all those interjections mean. It was a lovely art project.

Summer Camp “What can you do with an old suitcase”

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Our first summer camp at Raumerstrasse turned out wonderful. Our project was entertraining, merry and joyfull. Children would gladly prolong it until Friday and we could probably really be working for another week to make it all perfect and satisfy all the ideas and wishes.

Development of our project was really in stages and it involved everything: planing, drawing, sawing, measuring, gluing, use of all sorts of tools, printing, decorating, painting, building, sewing, assembling of mosaics. We made some chalk colour and painted the front of the suitcases.
Anyhow, children made beautiful little homes and they were very excited to exhibit them for their parents on our very last day. They also had great time with each other, made new friends, helped each other a lot and had the weather on their side.
Good new times!

 

Studying Der Blaue Reiter

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An amazing few hours we had making these beautiful paintings. We quite took the time and that was fine. Children enjoyed the project with ease.
We started on this paitings just after children learned how to mix primary colours so this seemed and turned out as the most logical step forward. We looked at works of Der Blaue Reiter. The name itself is so magnificent and mysterious. There is Berlin somewhere in that blue mystifying fog which reminds me of Nick Cave’s Witness song and it all gets double, triple dramatic. Let’s leave it here hehe.
I love these works and I am as always proud of my 5 and 6 years old students. Children are so very capable!