November – ‘Perspective!'

Never too young to learn about ‘one point perspective’!

Today we’ve opened the doors to the basics of architecture by introducing ‘one point perspective’ drawings. Class discussed the meaning of ‘perspective’ and its relation to space and distance.

Working within the constraints of ‘Buildings, Trees and Road’, participants were tasked to exercise their understanding of today’s lesson.

Learning outcome: Introduction to One Point Perspective, Art composition and Creativity

November – How do you feel today?

Researchers found colours are able to spell or tell a variety of emotions ranging from joy and comfort  to hostility and anger. Today we discussed the types of emotions and the participants were given the task to choose their own colours to represent these emotions.  Against all norms,  participants were not pre-empt which  colour represents which emotion.

In addition to that, we incorporated a ‘fun-crafting factor’ by creating an ‘emotion cube’ to showcase the many colours and variants of emotions and  as a tool to express their feelings.

Learning outcome: types of emotions,  colour representations and what is a cube

November – Body Tracing Self-Portrait

Today our students worked in pairs to create self-portrait body tracings.
They were given large brown sheets of paper that were placed on the floor together with paints and rollers to create their masterpiece.

Our aim is to encourage working in pairs as well to allow students to explore the world outside of a plain white drawing block. It was nice to see students enjoying the freedom given, making the artwork their own, by the different colours they chose and how they decorated their self-portraits.
This activity allows students to be free to express their individual creativity.

Learning outcome: freedom of expression and space, team work, creativity

November – Peribahasa

‘Buat baik berpada-pada, buat jahat jangan sekali’. We started off with inviting everyone to give their input on the proverb. Next, we discussed its meaning and each related an example of a good deed. To help instil such positive values, the students were then tasked to plan and illustrate them in a comic format.

Most childhood education experts agree that building children’s character must begin from young, and best done in a fun, graphic and interactive manner. Besides developing knowledge and skills in executing the process of art, today’s activity also aims to instil positive values, gently guiding the children towards what’s right, and to work towards good value-based living.

Learning outcome: Instilling positive values in children, introduction to malay proverbs and the sampling process of comic illustration.