Art classes in Berlin
Here we go again with beautiful printing. Again I love the printing plates more than the results. However this was fun as it always is.
We’ve made the printing plates out of various materials to leave various traces. We added all the colours at the same time. Because we don’t like to complicate.
Our PYP unit in Grade 3 was about markets and services. We spoke about fair trade and made graphic identity: logos, stamps and posters, for imaginary fair trade services children had chosen.
Printing is always amazing. So many Oh-s and Wow-s produced during a class. Also some Oh no-s, sure.
Kids made beautiful prints of The last supper. We couldn’t decide which were better, the actual prints or the matrix.
We used a kiss print technique for this. Very easy and lots of fun and messy moments. We’ve already made beautiful kiss prints in our sketch books to start ourselves properly.
We spoke about facial proportions and how to draw a face. What shape has an eye? Where does a nose start and end? Why is an upper lip darker than the lower one? Where do the ears come in, and last but not least, how does the hair grow from the top of our heads and not the opposite way?
Of course we will not stick to all of these because we aren’t rigid but we like to talk and think and understand. And if we can use some of it that’s just a great new adventure.
So eyes are beautiful but complicated to colour. Nose is strange but funny. Lips can look crooked, and teeth too. Hair is a science of various paints and a joy to paint (Brushes had to be invented to paint hair. Hand just relaxes and everything is easy – short, spiky, curly, straight… )
Skin comes in many shades, sometimes we are blue, sometimes we are pink, who cares.
And the t-shirts? Well the t-shirts are the best part of course. Glitter, dots, stripes and stars. And all of the paint and morning toothpaste stains.
A fantastic hour with minis. Houses, trees and the weather. They loved it!
My kids just love printing. Printing and clay. If they won’t know the project ahead they will shout PRINTING!! or CLAY!!
And I will go Well not today heh, I’m not prepared.
Boring.
So I prepared that morning. Or maybe a previous day. I got up with a mission! Coffee and printing!! Coffee and block printing!! Coffee and block printing of folk birds and horses!!
Inspiration was a Marimekko designer Sanna Annukka. No really, more than her was Smallhandsbigart, where I saw lovely bird prints of children from another side of the planet.
This was a lovely easy going project. These girls all love horses, of course, they have seen them many times and they therefor had no problem of drawing one. How cute and self confident are these? I just love them.
Instructions are, I think, well captured on the photos. Draw, cut out, add materials, a bit of cutting again, add colour, print.
Simple and efficient!
Some more printing moments captured in this post. Styrofoam prints this time.
Printing is fun!!
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.
