Week 21

ECA has been working on creating their very own Superimposed Geometric Figures. By choosing two colors to form a pattern, friends experience gradations in two dimensions. They love this lesson! 

ECB experimented with an art technique Claudia did when she was a child. They place four nuts on a piece of paper, then place a strainer covering the nuts. With a paint brush they paint all over the strainer creating a dust of paint arount the nuts. When they remove the strainer and the nuts they see the nuts stamp on the piece of paper.

ECC is practicing using reusable art paper to make new creations. Collaging is a way to create unique pieces that exhibit contrast in color and shape. The act of gluing helps strengthen the hand for writing and hand eye coordination.

LE had a geometry in art lesson by reviewing the tessellations of M.C. Escher.  They created their own tessellation designs and painted them in a pattern of their choice. 

Tesselation by Max

Local artist, Stacey Irvin, visited Abintra to do a presentation of her work for LE, ME, UE, and MS.  Stacey is an award-winning world and humanitarian photographer.  She presented her photographic journey through China, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Kenya. Stacey’s presentation portrayed the visual metaphors in photography that UE and MS have been studying through the work of Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange. 

 

Our aftercare artists have been thoroughly engrossed with the construction of miniature treehouse sculptures. Utilizing a variety of materials, such as logs, branches, wood scraps, and wire, each student created highly imaginative and unique mini environments. Some treehouses included animals, swings, hammocks, ladders, and elevators. One artist built a space called "The Disco Room", and yes, that is a room constructed solely for the purpose of disco dancing! 

 

Week 20

ECA received a group lesson with Dave about the origin of snowflakes. Then they reviewed the colors of the crystals and observed which colors they could see in a snowflake. Patricia then presented a cutting exercise lesson, taking a piece of paper (square) and folding into 4. Then she proceeded to make the cuts. When she finished,  Patricia opened the paper and they could see the snowflake!! They loved the activity and worked on it for three weeks every day!

ECB’s printmaking work was created using a stamp made by wrapping strings around a circular container.

Printmaking by Zoe

ECC students continue to work with primary colors. They select pieces of string, dip them in paint and place them onto paper to create pieces of art. They have been amazed to see what happens when primary colors mix together. It has also been fun to explore other techniques of painting besides the typical paintbrush.

To align with their study of land and water forms, LE created paper mache globes.  After their globes dried, they drew the continents and painted in the land and water forms.

ME created these print paintings influenced by a previous project called Rivers, Roads and Rails, a series of connectable drawings in pencil.  The rivers and roads divided their pages into fields, playgrounds, neighborhoods and so on.  For these paintings they drew lines to divide space and stamped with sponges, pencils, cardboard and straws.

UE finished their one-point perspective drawings.

One-point perspective by Cora

MS studied visual mataphors through the photographs of Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange.Then students developed a personal metaphor and created a drawing or photograph to illustrate it. 

Photograph by Kealey

After looking at Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, the Aftercare Art students created artwork using a photograph of their own choice of expression.