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Today’s references for PAINT & PLAY were Australian Aboriginal paintings. The second slide is a painting by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. One artist, age 6, kept coming to look at the image while painting. Afterwards I mentioned he looked very carefully and his painting looks a lot like it. He said, “It may be even better!” ❤️
Flower still-life by Paul.
Great ideas! Thank you @theartfulparent for sharing!
Last week this group mixed the color wheel then mixed the three primary colors to make a neutral. They said the result looked like “barf”. This week all they did was mix neutrals. They looked at pictures of mulch, sand from different beaches, different types of honey, tree bark, metals, chocolate, coffee, and spices and had new names for all the browns of the world. They mixed colors to make their skin and hair and really got into the beauty of it all. 🎨
Drawing portraits can be intimidating for some and we tend to favor features. In this exercise “Find a Face” kids focus on finding form by feel.
“Find a face” is an exercise using charcoal to find the form of a face with darks and lights. Kids are not using a mirror or reference but results always kindof look like the artist because we know ourselves pretty well! #socialstudiosessions
Winter, spring, summer, fall… PAINT & PLAY PLUS showed the cycle of seasons making a this tree! Making art and models of various cycles gives kids tactile experience with fractions, 3D shapes, and parts to the whole. So far we’ve done months on the inside and outside of a cube, phases of the moon working with sphere and circle, and seasons. 🌳
We do a lot of printmaking in the studio in January! These are 3 color reduction prints. Printmaking is so powerful because it’s physical, process and planning. Printmaking requires you to flip the image, work backwards, and do one step and a time. Half the steps are messy and of the steps need to be super clean. And, there’s repetition. Repetition helps kids learn and master new skills and judge quality of output. Repetition reduces the pressure that each be great, and builds motor memory.
Weaving wonders from S.O.S. (School’s Out Studio) today! #socialstudiosessions
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” -MLK, jr.
“When you have time…” kind of project! 🌈
Summer camps will be online tomorrow!! SOCIALSTUDIOART.COM #baltimorekidcamps #artcamp #baltimorecampsforkids #baltimoresummercamps