Marbling!

We had a great time this week learning the marbling technique. The children were able to enjoy the benefits of their work. After every sheet was removed from the water we would here "wow, I want to do it again!" Take a look at these materpieces.

Kandinsky - Watercolor Week

Almost every abstract artist has a technique that can be demonstrated and presented to our students. We decided to select Kandinsky this week for the abstract and yet obvious shapes his artwork depicts.

The materials were powdered tempera paint and squirt bottles to produce beautiful and rich watercolor designs. We also provided wet tempera paint with geometric and organic tools such as yarn, sponges, Popsicle sticks and more. The children were then able to have more control over their design and composition. The results brought lots of smiles and a sense of accomplishment for all.

Emotions in all forms

We selected emotions as a theme this past week. We thought the children would like to tell us about their feelings as they did their dreams. Some of the children enjoyed using color such as warm and cool to express thier feelings. We also had the children make masks out of paper for the younger ones and plaster strips for the older ones.

Making puppets and exploring clay

For our shadow lesson some of our students decided to go 3D and make self-portrayed puppets.

We introduced the children to terracotta clay this week and they were very interested in the color, texture and smell. A lot of manipulating with the clay took place and it served for some very relaxing mornings.

Friday Night Live (shadows continues)

Our Friday night class is always so much fun. I look forward to new stories the boys tell us and the imagination they share with us.

When they walked in to the studio they were amazed at the fact that they were able to act out scenes in shadows. As you will see from these pictures they had a blast...as did we laughing and encouraging their acting skills. We had tabla music playing in the background and the screen was projecting positive and negative images as well as shadows. This turned out to be a great multi-media project.

We also had the light table setup with images they could create to understand positive and negative space.

Me and my shadow...

This week we explore shadows, positive and negative space and our relationship to it all.

We incorporated multimedia this time, using our projector screen to show the children the many shadows people, animals and objects make. We dimmed the ceiling lights and turned on the spot light. With a big white sheet attached to the poles the children were able to form human shadows. Without much direction they created props of their own using their imaginations to act out scenes.

They were also able to make shadow collages with black paper and white forms. They used white chalk and crayons for drawing. Thanks for taking these Lauren!