Christmas tree

Let's make a nice Christmas Tree with recycled magazines!



Materials:

1. Magazine
2. Hot glue or universal 
3. Spray, if wanted, to decorate the tree.

Paper snowflakes

In nature, no two snowflakes are exactly the same. Try making different shape cut-outs to come up with your own unique snowflakes.

Below is a diagram of the six steps to make a paper snowflake

1. Start out with a square piece of paper. You can also use square coloured origami paper.
2. Fold the square diagonally in half.
3. Fold the resulting triangle along the middle to come up with a smaller triangle.
4. The most crucial and perhaps the trickiest step in making a paper snowflake is dividing the triangle into three equal sections. The most accurate way to do this is to use a protractor to divide the angle at the triangle's apex (the corner opposite the longest side) into three sections, each with a 30-degree angle. If you don't have a protractor, you can estimate the size of the sections as you do Steps 5 and 6.
5. Once you've marked out the three equal sections, fold the left section towards the front. Similarly fold the right section towards the front.  Flip the entire shape over so that the side with the horizontal edge is facing front. Then, cut along the horizontal edge so that you come up with a wedge.
6. While keeping the wedge folded, cut out random shapes out of the edges.

 Examples of our student´s great work!!!

How to draw a Robin

Body Construction

After the example of different types of male bodies shown below,

draw the equivalent with the female body.

positive and negative shapes.

 A shape will be either:

• Positive. Term to describe the figure or subject. 
• Negative. Term to describe the background.

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  But, not always is it easy to distinguish the difference. Look at the examples of the contrast and ambiiguity of positive and negative shapes given below:

yin yang

Shigeo Fukada

 
 EXERCISE
    This project helps to understand the concept of positive and negative shape, as well as teaching them the symmetry concept.

Teach kids art

The use of negative space: 30 brilliant examples

Onomatopeia project

Onomatopoeia. Is an enviromental sound presented without ballons, in bold or 3D text in upper case. Sometimes it has exclamations points. This is a method of drawing attention to text, it often highlights onomatopeia and reinforces the impact of words such as Bang or Wow.

To explain this exercise it is interesting to look at some artworks by the Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Watch the following tutorial: Drawing an onomatopeya.

Woking with... colour

What happens when we change the colours of a drawing. Do we still get the same feeling?

These are the real colours.

Any colour you want.

Colours from the same spectrum.

EXPRESSIONISM (Germany, 1905-1933)
Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality.

1. The arrival of Expressionism announced new standards in the creation and judgment of art. Art was now meant to come forth from within the artist, rather than from a depiction of the external visual world, and the standard for assessing the quality of a work of art became the character of the artist's feelings rather than an analysis of the composition.
2. Expressionist artists often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world.

Drei Pferde, Franz Marc. 1912

Fränzi in front of carved chair, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner. 1910

Expressions.

Having fun with balloons!!!

 

Each student will draw a face on the balloon, afterwards a picture will be taken.

 

The Circus

Come one, come all to THE CIRCUS

E. Sohail

L. Palmer

M. Noboa

Pau. Atlas y Axis

    Pau Rodríguez Jiménez-Bravo, who signs just as Pau, is a comic book artist, graphic humorist and Spanish Illustrator, born in Palma de Mallorca, in 1972. His most recognized work internationally is the saga of Atlas & Axis.

     The Saga of Atlas & Axis is a series of comic adventures which is led by two antropomorphic dogs.

Pau came to our class and tought the students the history of comics and how to draw some popular characters.

Pau

 

 

Students sketches

Sant Jordi/ Book Day.

 

    Saint George Day commemorates this Saint's supposed death on the 23 April 303. In addition, he is the patron saint of countries such as Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, England or Portugal, and cities such as Timbuktu (Mali). 

    In Spain it is the autonomous communities of Aragon, Catalonia and Balearic Islands, as well as the towns of Alcoy (Alicante), Cáceres, Golosalvo Burrows (these last two in the province of Albacete), Lucena (Córdoba) and Santurce (Vizcaya).

    Due to the fact that in 1995 the UNESCO proclaimed through on April 23 as World Book Day coinciding with the day of the commemoration of the Holy, in regions such as Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, there is a popular tradition that combines both commemorations through the exchanges of gifts of Red Roses (St. George) and books (book day).

   Students will create their own bookmark. They can decide which character /object they want to draw (Saint George, the Princess, the dragon or the rose)
 

  

Animation. Papiroflexia.

Zentangle Art

      Zentangles are miniature pieces of unplanned, abstract, black and white art created through a very specific Method from an ensemble of simple, structured patterns called tangles on a 3.5-inch (89 mm) square paper tile. Zentangles are not only exquisitely beautiful, they are fun and relaxing to create.(TanglePatterns.com)

    After a day of practicing zentangle patterns, students were asked to create either a landscape or an animal.

    1. Landscape

Maria de los Ángeles Sánchez

Melanie Noboa

Maria Nicolau

  

Remarkable Uses of Shadow in Advertising

    Creativity seems to never run out. This time, we'll see the incredible use of shadows in advertising.

 

Paul Klee

      Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively (...) He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. (Wikipedia)
 

   
      We will work with basic shapes and colours as Paul Klee did.

1. Draw and cut out a basic shape in different sizes.
2. Paint with tempera both sides of the shape.
3. Glue them and put a string.
4. Decorate the class with all of them.

These are the students' artworks. They look nicer when hunged from the ceiling.

Front and back of one artwork

Tactile Textures.

Create a composition with tactil textures after the adjustable lamp. Each student will draw the lamp from their own point of view in the class.

Technique: Collage

Aranzazu Ortiz

Eva María Ruiz

Lorena

Visual Textures.

Look at the circle with the texture's example that you will reproduce in each object.