Sant Antoni

San Antonio visitando a Pablo el Hermitaño,
 D. Velázquez, 1936-38

    The festival of Sant Antoni Abad (Saint Anthony Abbot) is the most popular and vibrant, which is celebrated between January 16 and 17 in many Majorcan villages.
    The festival starts on 16 January at dusk, when the street bonfires are lit. It´s the Sant Antoni´s Eve, the Patron Saint of domestic animals, and one of the most magical nights in Mallorca when former fertility rituals were held. The ritual remembers all temptations this saint had to overcome in the desert.
    On this night locals eat sobrassada (Mallorcan sausage meat) cooked on embers in the street, as well as other types of sausage meats and traditional local foods; there is also plenty of wine. The demons wander from bonfire to bonfire, performing their special dance. The festival gets under way with traditional folk songs, which remind locals of the saint´s heroic deeds; however, there are also some saucier songs, and it these which are really popular.
    On 17 january there are processions that represent traditional scenes from Mallorcan rural life; in addition to this, pets are blessed and the demons chase the figure of Sant Antoni, with children playing an essential part in the festival.

 

Each village has its own demon:

Algaida

Artà

Christmas Postcards

Let's practise all we have learnt about symmetry to make some nice postcards for Christmas.

Sandra N.

Aranzazu O.

Working with... Squares

 Creating an abstract drawing with squares:

1. The teacher will write on the whiteboard 10 numbers in cm., for exemple: 9,3,7,2,1,4,5,2,6. These numbers are the square's side size. 
2. How to draw a square knowing its side.
3. Each student will draw the square wherever he/she wants. 
4. Once all the squares are drawn, the student has to decide wich one is going to be on top or beneath the other. The lines that will not be needed will be erased.
5. Colour the composition.

Kandinsky.

Several Circles, 1926; Kandinsky.

    Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (4 December (16 December by the Gregorian calendar) 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works.

We will create an artwork after Kandinsky's painting.

Ainoha A.

Nuria H.

Carlos T.

Grids

    A grid is a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines forming squares on a map, an optical device, etc., used as a reference for locating points.

 Exercise 1: You will copy the turtle on the given grid. Make sure that the lines fit in the corresponding square (A1, D3, etc.) You will get an exact copy of the original drawing! 

Exercise 2: In this exercise the grid will change the butterfly's shape, making it thinner and wider.

Monoprint

Monoprinting is a form of printmaking. The characteristic of this method is that no two prints are alike, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals.

  EXERCISE:
         1. Each student will draw a picture on an acetate with tempera.
         2. Press the acetate onto the paper. The paint will be transfered to the white paper. I recommend you not to wait till the colors are dry.

Rosa Maria R.

Alicia

Cut out symmetric shapes.

See how easy is to have a nice symmetric shape with the following method!!!

1. Cut a piece of paper. It's better if it's a rectangle.
2. Draw half of the shape on the paper
3. Cut out the piece drawn
4. Glue both pieces on a another paper.