Painting with a spatula
mixed media
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Finally!!
I always feared to do Basquiat with the children and REALLY, WHY??! It turned out to be the most perfect kids project I ever did. The history, the story, humanity, aesthetics and reality of life made it in a teaching process I proudly walked from when finished. And the kids turned it into most happy thing ever.
Oskar Schlemmer triadic ballet
This was a beatiful project kids loved for it strangness and me for its avant-garde.
Our unit in Grade 2 is for the kids to get to know and make a simple machine. We incorporated pulleys into these little theaters. Kids watched videos of triadic ballet, observed the costumes, shapes and colours. They really were amazing at cutting, their collages were perfect and their creativity endless. They did their backrgounds in a Bauhaus style.
Poetry works
While creating our poetry work for the March Madness call, we looked into the work of artist Tom Phillips, some pointillist painters and the movement itself. In addition we are working on a poem build out of words written in the page of a book so it is coincidental sort of writing. It is quite interesting and the whole process of art is left to the children. Nice, open, free project.
The Magic of Geodes
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.
Mixed media flowers
I love moments when I don’t prepare, being simply forced to improvise. I mean I do know when I can afford this and it’s not often.
And then it somehow almost always happens that the materials are just there. Things that were laying around forever are turning out to be more perfect than one could ever wish.
Same happened on this very day with old empty canvas roles of posters. These things were simply ready to be hanged, with metal sticks at top and bottom, with string to be placed on a nail… only there was nothing printed on them. Good for us! They were so nicely old, yellow and smelly. I think I found them on the street.
Anyway, cutting them apart they made perfect backing for our flowers. Traced with glue, dried and painted. Nice. “Trash” is my key attribute.
By the way this project came from internet but it’s been so long ago that I can’t remember where from. We thumb it up!
