Abintra Art - Week 21 (2012 - 2013 School Year)

ECA has been working on creating their very own Superimposed Geometric Figures. By choosing two colors to form a pattern, friends experience gradations in two dimensions. They love this lesson! 

ECB experimented with an art technique Claudia did when she was a child. They place four nuts on a piece of paper, then place a strainer covering the nuts. With a paint brush they paint all over the strainer creating a dust of paint arount the nuts. When they remove the strainer and the nuts they see the nuts stamp on the piece of paper.

ECC is practicing using reusable art paper to make new creations. Collaging is a way to create unique pieces that exhibit contrast in color and shape. The act of gluing helps strengthen the hand for writing and hand eye coordination.

LE had a geometry in art lesson by reviewing the tessellations of M.C. Escher.  They created their own tessellation designs and painted them in a pattern of their choice. 

Tesselation by Max

Local artist, Stacey Irvin, visited Abintra to do a presentation of her work for LE, ME, UE, and MS.  Stacey is an award-winning world and humanitarian photographer.  She presented her photographic journey through China, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Kenya. Stacey’s presentation portrayed the visual metaphors in photography that UE and MS have been studying through the work of Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange. 

Our aftercare artists have been thoroughly engrossed with the construction of miniature treehouse sculptures. Utilizing a variety of materials, such as logs, branches, wood scraps, and wire, each student created highly imaginative and unique mini environments. Some treehouses included animals, swings, hammocks, ladders, and elevators. One artist built a space called "The Disco Room", and yes, that is a room constructed solely for the purpose of disco dancing!