Juliart: 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

What makes me happy (one part): If I can paint. I painted it in our accomodation on the wall. And the best thing is you can get inspiration from everything around you, you don't have to buy it,it's in your head.

I had inspiration from this kind of colorful patterns from Africa:

for example this colours on these old walls in the morningsunshie are inspiring, at least for me

or these umbrellas

We visited the Sint-Bavo church where we couldn't see the the altar ufortunately. But Philip told an interesting story about it, that why are two altar pieces missing.
We went to the Design Museum here in Gent.
We got a paper from Philip with ideas, questions on it.

I think it's ipmportant if you bring children to a museum to give them different aspects so they not just run trough the museum but observe the things, learn something, get isnpiraton.
In my highschool we loved visiting museums in the "Night of museums",because in this one night every museum is open till late night, waiting people with special programs.

I enjoyed the design museum here, I've seen a dust mite through a loupe. It was disgusting. One of my favourite item from the museum was a table from books covered with acrylate and a ventilator without windmills:

In this session Philip showed us awsome programes on the net what we can use with the cildren.
Then we created our own lesson plan for introduceing a painting with these programs.
This is our's:

(with 6 years old)

- project for at least one week

- What kind of bugs do you know? Which is your favourite?

- if they have they can bring books from bugs, pictures, their own stories with bugs

- SCREENCAST-O-MATIC picture and sound of the bugs

(later they have to recognise the bugs from th sounds)

- imitate the bugs (movemnets) – the we make pictures with FOTODANZ -we would do like this with the children:

- and we would paint bugs on the wall with fingers

- bugs from paper with stud

by the way: check out her, she's one of my friend in hungary, she's very talented I like her works, can use them with children as well

Schall Eszter

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Comic books

Comic books are very famous in Belgium. Today Philip told us about Nello and Patrasche „A Dog of Flanders”. The story is widely read in Japan, and has been adapted into several films and anime.

Here you can see the belgian comic book about the story

Then we made giant "comic books" together but in a different way.

- big paper on every table

- first choose a random puppet (I chose a kinder egg figure :D )

- place the figure on the paper

- draw something around it

- go the the next table bring your figure, place your figure and draw something again

- tear out something from a newspaper, go to the next table and draw something around it as well

- go further and write something

- then make anything from newspaper to complete something ( I made a paperhat for one of the figures)

- tear out a word from a newspaper what you can place in the "comic book"

I liked this way of cerating it was very easy, simple but fun.

Then we sit back to that table where we started and we preapared our own small version from what we saw on the big "comic book".

Here's mine :D

Saturday, March 22, 2014

the park next to my place at night

my Nora puppet :)

we started to make our own puppets from Papier-mâché

we talked about shadow puppetry, this is what came into my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTdzCAGH3lU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHa1BqcNYQc

and this was my favourite story with puppets when I was a child, it's in hungarian but you can enjoy the nice set behind and puppets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJg_NBlJlyg

we painted the puppets today