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Art classes in Berlin

Painting

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 full of fun and joy and colour. 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 good times!

 

Studying Der Blaue Reiter

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An amazing few hours we had, making these beautiful paintings. We really took our time and that was fine. Children enjoyed the project with ease.
We went into this project just after the one in which children learned how to mix primary colours so this seemed and turned out as the most logical step forward. We looked at works of the group of artists called Der Blaue Reiter. The name itself is so great 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 artistic. Anyway, let’s leave it here heh.
Do have a look at these works! I love them and I am as always proud of my 5 and 6 years old students. Children are so very capable!

Big self-portraits

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I am most proud of my 5 and 6 year old artists! 
We had a tiny chat about self portraits in the history, we had a good laugh about a few of them and we were shocked about some others. Some were pretty, some surprising. Quite very interesting! And this here is how my children see themselves. Most adorable pieces of art ever! And they aren’t small!!

DE
 Ich bin sehr stolz auf meine 5- und 6-jährige Künstler! 
Wir hatten ein kleines Gespräch über Selbstbildnisse in der Kunstgeschichte, wir haben uns über einige von ihnen gut ausgelacht und wir waren schockiert über einige andere. Manche waren hübsch, manche überraschend. Alles ziemlich interessant! Und dies ist, wie die Kinder sich so sehen. Es sind die bezauberndsten Kunstwerke überhaupt! Und sie sind wirklich nicht klein!!

Mixing primary colours

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We were learning how to mix colours. Children enjoyed this very much. I only gave them blue, red, yellow, white and black and they made such pretty shades of all possible colours. They were first painting on cardboard and then on canvas. We tryed to frame the paintings with embroidery hoops but I think they looked prettier on it’s own. But hopefully they will all get some nice framing because they really deserve it.

DE
Wir haben gelernt, wie sich die Farben zusammenmischen. Die Kinder haben es sehr genossen. Ich gab ihnen nur Blau, Rot, Gelb, Weiß und Schwarz und sie machten so schöne verschiede Farbtöne. Sie malten zuerst auf Karton und dann auf Leinwand. Wir haben versucht, die Bilder mit Stickrahmen zu umrahmen, aber ich denke, sie sahen ohne hübscher aus. Aber hoffentlich werden sie alle schöne Rahmungen bekommen, weil sie es wirklich verdienen.