Sunday 10 August 2014

Wassily Kandinsky

Hello.

Today we learnt about a famous artist. HIs name was Wassily Kandinsky. His art is based around different shapes and different sizes. He is kind of like Picasso. 

His first works of art were more realistic but then as he progressed his art work got more funky and is more perspective-based because I might have a different thought on what it is than what someone else might think his art is.

He would listen to music and thats how he would get his ideas. His favourite music genre was Jazz. His favourite jazz singer was Richard Wagner.

He would listen to the music and pick out four different colours that matched the moods and emotions that he thought were happening in the song.

He was born in Moscow (Russia) and he loved music and he learnt how to play the piano and the cello as a kid.

His art is Abstract art. Abstract art is art that is a lot of different colours and shapes that can be seen differently to different people.

Today we listened to four different types of music and we tried it out for ourselves. It was really hard trying to get the circles the right shape.

My favourite part was when we got on to the blending stage because I like to blend colours to make all new and improved colours.

Bye.


Sunday 3 August 2014

Mug Time

Mug Time.

Hello. Today Marie (the clay expert) came in to Enrich@ILT and took the kids that do clay for passion projects. She showed us how to make a mug/cup.

First she ran us through how to make them and how to score (make an X mark in the clay over and over) them together.

First we had to roll the clay out and then the next step was to wrap the cup of your choice in newspaper. This step was kind of hard at first but then when you got the hang of it, it was easy.

We ran out of time to finish it though so next week we are learning how to make the handle and what we do when we cut the top and bottom off the cup.