Well I have to say a big well done to my art boys...what STARS...
once again I sprang a ballerina art lesson onto them and they embraced it and did SO well.
This was a really fun experience and a good lesson in sculpture...
We first warmed up with some exercises on using soft or chalk pastels...I gave each artist an Edgar Degas painting to work from, with a little cardboard window or viewer, we placed it over a section of the painting and they had to try copy that portion of painting, trying to get the texture and colours similar to Degas.
I gave them each an ear bud or 2 to use as a tool and instructed them to use one finger as another tool. Chalk pastels can be messy and can become muddy very quickly, they were also instructed not to blow...ooh this was a huge temptation...
and one guy asked me " ah can't we just blow once?"....
We watched a couple of YouTube clips - Edgar Degas and Getting to know Degas...there are quite a few lovely ones to watch, the idea being to familiarise the students with as many of the artists works as possible.
These classes are not to create artists but to instill a love and knowledge of art and the great Masters by looking and coping their works...
We then began with our Degas project for the morning...creating The little Fourteen-year-old dancer out of piper cleaners and tin foil...
They made a figure shape from pipe cleaners, then layer upon layer upon layer of tin foil to create the dancer...complete with foil tutu...
aren't they great?
very nice work .....
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