Art classes in Berlin
In connection to our Unit of inquiry, Sharing the planet with energy at our goal, we spoke about energy of our bodies. We researched how the cool and warm parts of our bodies transfer it’s heath in colours on a thermal photography. Then we painted our heath and our coolness.
You can guess which colours represent which.
This was also the first time we tried live drawing at our class and that part was the most exciting. Especially who and when is going to pose.
Grade 1 spoke about celebrations and customs around the world: New Years Eve, Christmas, 1st of May, Hanukkah, Women’s day, Diwali, Carnival, Day of the dead, Halloween, St.Lucia.
We spoke about gathering of people and families and why these days are so important.
Beautiful aquarel works are presenting the excitement.
After a bit of work we are proud to show our stop-motion movies!
Our topic was Greek mythology so don’t get scared – we are not violent people! – we are only presenting the stories.
Our movies are a product of collaboration within art and music class. If you happen to have a bag of popcorn on your hands you can enjoy them with all your senses. And we hope you do!
After building a city focused on rhythm and balance in art, reaching them with composition, form, size and colour, we now researched the world of mixing colours using a collage technique.
Using cardboard shapes this becomes very easy and playful. Everything is open to experiment. Everything can be undone and redone. Slight change of a direction of the yellow shape can make a whole of a difference.
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.
