As an extension of play, this week we asked our OVC group to re-present their ink blots as larger paintings. By giving them certain “constraints”, the students opened up to new possibility. Instead of ordinary paintbrushes, students picked random objects from a grab bag to use as their painting tool - objects like string, toilet rolls, newspaper, straws, and pipe cleaners. The squeals of surprise were the best and these children had a ball playing and learning their new painting tools.
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Tip from the Olivia Gude of the Spiral Workshop: instead of buying packets of coloured paper, instead give students the opportunity to paint as many saturated colours and hues as possible using tempera or acrylic paints. Not only does it make learning about colours more fun, it becomes the student’s own investigation. Use these papers for cut-out collages!
Another tip: what to do with all that left-over paint?! Why mix it into an ugly grey pot or throw it down the drain? Use it up on extra pieces of blank paper and add it to your class’ collection of painted papers.
Day 5 of the Piet Patsa Community Arts Centre and the finishing touches are added to create a really fantastic hub for our creative activities and workshops in South Africa
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Day 4 continues…the Pete Patsa Arts Centre has quickly been transformed into a jewel in the rural farmland of Viljoenskroon, South Africa!
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Day 4 of the mural painting at the Pete Patsa Community Art Centre, the overall result is beginning to reveal itself and we are very proud to have such talented young artists from the community working on this project… More pictures of the finished result to follow…
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Day 3- Children from the local area continue to create the ‘Litema’ mural paint designs on Dramatic Need’s Community Art Centre. Keep checking for updates on the process..
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Day 2 of the painting of Dramatic Need’s Pete Patsa Art Centre in South Africa. Children from the local community are helping to recreate the four winning mural designs from a previous Mural workshop on the 4 walls of the art centre making it a more vibrant and exciting place for Dramatic Need to carry out our great work! Keep posted for more updates of the project…
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Day 1 of painting the Pete Patsa Community Arts Centre. 15 students are learning to mix maths skills with art as they layout the mural design using a scaled grid. Tomorrow the painting will begin, keep tuned to follow the progress…
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