Painting with a spatula
painting
pop art
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.
March Madness
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 students worked on a poem build out of words written on the page of a book so it is coincidental sort of writing. It was quite an interesting work and the whole process of art is left to the children. Nice, open, free project.
Frida Kahlo visited C104
There was a lot of self portraying in our classroom lately. These amazing works are of Grade 2 students. They were insired by Frida Kahlo. A lot of privacy and backrounding.
It’s still about me
From 2-D we logically went into 3-D.
I connected our lesson with the drama teacher who was teaching children about the monologues.
This was a long project because of many steps: building the bust, pulling over the skin, drying this out, adding the features and the hair, drying it out, painting, drying, painting some more, drying some more and finally making the monologues.
The sculpturing part was fun and interesting. Much of glue everywhere. Much of glue nowhere but running to the shop, buying flour, making glue, improvising.
Drying was interesting too. We grew some bacteria and fungi. The classroom had a very specific smell. We were all like weeeeeeeeeaaaaaa.
Skin was complicated because children are having high expectation regarding that and they stand there comparing their skin with what they’ve mixed and are usually not too happy with the result.
The monologues were added after everything was done – no glue or paints in sight any more. Pffffeeew!
They wrote few sentances in their sketch books about something they feel strongly towards. Then they tried to make a shape of what they wrote about on a white paper, cut it out, add the monologue inside, minimalistic decoration with chalk markers and glue it on the box.
I am impressed by the works, I think they came out very beautiful.
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.
Self-portraits with expressionist backgrounds
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!
Stone bugs
A little stone project for little artists. Bugs and their large families were hatched on these trays. Unfortunatelly I had no time for a camera and took these few photos with my phone. Better than nothing.
Gigantic carnival hair styles
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!
