Art

We’ve wrapped up our exciting Keith Haring project, which included our awesome individual drawings and paintings. Each of our creations is like a piece of art! Great job, everyone!

Now, onto our next adventure – we learned how to make action poses using tin foil. It was super fun! Here’s how we did it:

First, we thought about what kind of action or movement we wanted to show in our pose. Did you want to show someone dancing, jumping, or maybe even flying?

Then, we took a sheet of tin foil and started shaping it to create our action pose. It was like molding clay but shinier!

And guess what? We’re not done yet! Next week, we’re going to take our tin foil models and make them even cooler. We’re going to turn them into a mobile that we can hang up for everyone to see. It’s going to be a fantastic way to showcase our amazing action poses!

So we get ready for more creative fun next week as we bring our action poses to life in our mobile project. Keep up the great work, artists!

This week, we had a fun and colorful time learning all about colors! We talked about how colors can help us express our feelings and moods, and we discovered why certain colors make us feel certain ways.

Did you know that colors can make us feel happy, calm, or even excited? It’s amazing how colors can affect our emotions!

We also got to explore some famous paintings and see how artists used colors to tell stories and convey emotions. Then, we had a special creative activity. We created our very own color palettes inspired by the colors we found in those famous paintings.

Just like artists, we mixed and matched colors to make our own unique palettes. It was like creating a rainbow of emotions on paper! Each of us got to express how we were feeling through the colors we chose.

So, this week, we not only learned about colors, but we also learned how to use them to express ourselves and be a little artist too! It was a colorful adventure, and we had a blast exploring the world of colors together!

Chuseok is a Korean harvest festival that takes place on the autumnal equinox, celebrating a bountiful harvest and expressing gratitude for farming. Some traditional Chuseok foods include songpyeon (rice cakes), chadolbaegi (sliced beef), and hangwa (traditional Korean sweets), which are often prepared for the occasion. Additionally, it’s common to wear hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, which represents the beauty of Korean culture.

Furthermore, paying tribute to ancestors through a ritual called Charye is an essential part of Chuseok. Families prepare food offerings and set up an ancestral memorial table, showing respect and honor to their ancestors. This practice underscores the importance of family bonds and cultural connections in Korean culture.

In this week’s art class, we discussed Chuseok and engaged in art activities related to the festival. Students created lanterns inspired by the festival’s symbol, Cheongsachorong, incorporating traditional Korean patterns and colors. They also observed various Korean traditional masks, tried their hand at drawing one, and decorated mask forms with patterns and colors using paint to create their unique masks. Younger students drew scarecrows inspired by photos of Korean autumn landscapes, using painting techniques and stamping methods to depict autumn trees. They also crafted Jangseung, guardian figures made from tree carvings, to protect their villages.

I hope these activities have helped our students gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and traditions, fostering respect for cultural diversity and providing valuable experiences.

Chuseok is a Korean harvest festival that takes place on the autumnal equinox, celebrating a bountiful harvest and expressing gratitude for farming. Some traditional Chuseok foods include songpyeon (rice cakes), chadolbaegi (sliced beef), and hangwa (traditional Korean sweets), which are often prepared for the occasion. Additionally, it’s common to wear hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, which represents the beauty of Korean culture.

Furthermore, paying tribute to ancestors through a ritual called Charye is an essential part of Chuseok. Families prepare food offerings and set up an ancestral memorial table, showing respect and honor to their ancestors. This practice underscores the importance of family bonds and cultural connections in Korean culture.

In this week’s art class, we discussed Chuseok and engaged in art activities related to the festival. Students created lanterns inspired by the festival’s symbol, Cheongsachorong, incorporating traditional Korean patterns and colors. They also observed various Korean traditional masks, tried their hand at drawing one, and decorated mask forms with patterns and colors using paint to create their unique masks. Younger students drew scarecrows inspired by photos of Korean autumn landscapes, using painting techniques and stamping methods to depict autumn trees. They also crafted Jangseung, guardian figures made from tree carvings, to protect their villages.

I hope these activities have helped our students gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and traditions, fostering respect for cultural diversity and providing valuable experiences.

Chuseok is a Korean harvest festival that takes place on the autumnal equinox, celebrating a bountiful harvest and expressing gratitude for farming. Some traditional Chuseok foods include songpyeon (rice cakes), chadolbaegi (sliced beef), and hangwa (traditional Korean sweets), which are often prepared for the occasion. Additionally, it’s common to wear hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, which represents the beauty of Korean culture.

Furthermore, paying tribute to ancestors through a ritual called Charye is an essential part of Chuseok. Families prepare food offerings and set up an ancestral memorial table, showing respect and honor to their ancestors. This practice underscores the importance of family bonds and cultural connections in Korean culture.

In this week’s art class, we discussed Chuseok and engaged in art activities related to the festival. Students created lanterns inspired by the festival’s symbol, Cheongsachorong, incorporating traditional Korean patterns and colors. They also observed various Korean traditional masks, tried their hand at drawing one, and decorated mask forms with patterns and colors using paint to create their unique masks. Younger students drew scarecrows inspired by photos of Korean autumn landscapes, using painting techniques and stamping methods to depict autumn trees. They also crafted Jangseung, guardian figures made from tree carvings, to protect their villages.

I hope these activities have helped our students gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and traditions, fostering respect for cultural diversity and providing valuable experiences.

Chuseok is a Korean harvest festival that takes place on the autumnal equinox, celebrating a bountiful harvest and expressing gratitude for farming. Some traditional Chuseok foods include songpyeon (rice cakes), chadolbaegi (sliced beef), and hangwa (traditional Korean sweets), which are often prepared for the occasion. Additionally, it’s common to wear hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, which represents the beauty of Korean culture.

Furthermore, paying tribute to ancestors through a ritual called Charye is an essential part of Chuseok. Families prepare food offerings and set up an ancestral memorial table, showing respect and honor to their ancestors. This practice underscores the importance of family bonds and cultural connections in Korean culture.

In this week’s art class, we discussed Chuseok and engaged in art activities related to the festival. Students created lanterns inspired by the festival’s symbol, Cheongsachorong, incorporating traditional Korean patterns and colors. They also observed various Korean traditional masks, tried their hand at drawing one, and decorated mask forms with patterns and colors using paint to create their unique masks. Younger students drew scarecrows inspired by photos of Korean autumn landscapes, using painting techniques and stamping methods to depict autumn trees. They also crafted Jangseung, guardian figures made from tree carvings, to protect their villages.

I hope these activities have helped our students gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and traditions, fostering respect for cultural diversity and providing valuable experiences.

Chuseok is a Korean harvest festival that takes place on the autumnal equinox, celebrating a bountiful harvest and expressing gratitude for farming. Some traditional Chuseok foods include songpyeon (rice cakes), chadolbaegi (sliced beef), and hangwa (traditional Korean sweets), which are often prepared for the occasion. Additionally, it’s common to wear hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, which represents the beauty of Korean culture.

Furthermore, paying tribute to ancestors through a ritual called Charye is an essential part of Chuseok. Families prepare food offerings and set up an ancestral memorial table, showing respect and honor to their ancestors. This practice underscores the importance of family bonds and cultural connections in Korean culture.

In this week’s art class, we discussed Chuseok and engaged in art activities related to the festival. Students created lanterns inspired by the festival’s symbol, Cheongsachorong, incorporating traditional Korean patterns and colors. They also observed various Korean traditional masks, tried their hand at drawing one, and decorated mask forms with patterns and colors using paint to create their unique masks. Younger students drew scarecrows inspired by photos of Korean autumn landscapes, using painting techniques and stamping methods to depict autumn trees. They also crafted Jangseung, guardian figures made from tree carvings, to protect their villages.

I hope these activities have helped our students gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and traditions, fostering respect for cultural diversity and providing valuable experiences.

This week, the FS2 friends had so much fun exploring art!

They got to play with something called ‘pastels,’ which are very soft and like colorful crayons. With these pastels, they made beautiful heart patterns that looked really special.

But that’s not all! They also looked at the amazing art made by a famous artist named Kandinsky. He liked to use dots, lines, and shapes to make his art look cool. The FS2 artists, they used dots, lines, and shapes to make their very own artworks, just like Kandinsky did.

And here’s something super cool: while they were working on their art, they listened to music by a composer named Tchaikovsky. Just like Kandinsky, FS2 kids painted their feelings using colors that matched the music’s rhythm. So, if the music was fast, they used bright colors, and if it was slow, they used calm colors. It was like a dance of colors and emotions!

Year 1 and Year 2 kids recently had an awesome art adventure! 

They learned all about a famous artist named Henri Matisse and two of his super cool artworks called “Polynesian Sea” and “Polynesian Sky.”

First, they carefully looked at these pictures and talked about what makes them different.

We split into two groups, just like when we play our favorite games. One group decided to make their own “Polynesian Sky,” and the other group worked on creating their very own “Polynesian Sea.”

They did it in a special way that Henri Matisse used called “cut out skill.”

They used scissors, colorful paper, and lots of imagination to make their own versions of these beautiful Polynesian scenes.

Seeing what our Year 1 and Year 2 kids created was just awesome!

This week, we completed all of our camel drawings depicting them walking across the desert sands.

To capture the texture of the desert sand, we used a combination of soft pastels and oil pastels, employing a collage technique to draw and paste the camels.

During our second art class, we delved into the world of traditional Korean masks in preparation for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving).

Each of us selected one of the various mask shapes and expressed it through our drawings. We also adorned the four corners of our drawings with colourful paper in a frame-like fashion, creating an imagery reminiscent of Korean carved wooden masks.

Looking ahead to next week, we’re excited to continue our enjoyable art classes centered around Chuseok.