Art with Hannah

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Color Blocks

How would you make 100 squares that are the same size on a rectangular shaped paper evenly distributed and all filled in? Would you leave a few blank square margins in between? Would you fill in all the numbers and leave one corner with margins? One thing for sure, you will have to decide quickly because you have only 30 minutes to do the task...

Hannah

...I made 99(9x11) squares and one final square with margin. The next step is, you get only 4 colors to mix 100 different colors in 60 minutes with a round tipped brush. (The brush type rule was applied to only Katherine and myself)

Katherine

Katherine came up with a funky design! She finished the task in 65 minutes!! Not bad with the challenges that I put her through with. Good job, Katherine!

Sarah

Sarah spent a little more time (app.90 minutes), and she was allowed to use a flat tipped brush. Nice coloring job, Sarah!

Emily

Emily made a nice color range board! It took Emily about two hours to finish the task.

Min

Min had fun making all the colors, and she made sure all the colors were different. It took Min close to two hours.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Fruit Loops

Take a stroll around the grocery store fruit section, and you'll see nature's seasonal candies. Yes, I'm talking about fruits!

Fruits have been artistically expressed for millions of years. From early caveman to the renaissance to modern and post modern studies, every generation of artists have depicted fruits in their art. And for good reason: fruits are visually stunning and diverse. There are round apples, oval watermelons, and pear-shaped ... well, pears! Colors are oftentimes named by their associated fruit (i.e. Orange). There are bumpy and smooth textures, even hairy textures!

This month, Hannah's Art School will study the many different varieties of fruits, and all their unique shapes, colors, textures, and sizes. We will develop several projects--one may be a challenging still life; another project may be a marketing campaign encouraging the public to enjoy the health benefits of fruits--each artist would develop a campaign message and a public service logo; yet another project may involve creatively inventing your own fruit--think it's far-fetched? Think again--ever heard of a graple? Neither had I, until I saw one being sold in Wegmans! Yes, fruit botanists know how to merge different types of fruits together to create incredibly delicious hybrid fruits! So many different varieties and creative mergers to explore (imagine peeling a banana and seeing long orange wedges oozing with kiwi juices!).

Excellent job, everyone!!! We wrapped up nicely with hard work and extra effort to put our hybrid fruit creation all together. Everyone did a fabulous job on presenting their own creation too. What a fun project this was; maybe we will be able to see these type of fruit soon in the grocery stores!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Story Time!

At the Montessori school, we have been busy creating characters, scenes, and stories for our play house story time. Kids were so excited to see the play house I brought in (not done yet), and we were eager to be on stage!

Inspired by the play house that I made, the students wanted to design their own play house.

It was, after all, not about what kind of new art technique they learned. Art is, and should be fun and exciting. I see the students be excited about the class not because they learn a new technique in art but because they have fun learning, expressing, creating, sharing, and thinking!

I hope they can enjoy making art, looking at art, talking about art, and living with art.
We had so much fun telling our stories to each other, and enjoyed watching as part of the audience.