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Happy Passover w. Elijah’s or Miriam’s Cup

While Elijah’s Cup is the 5th untouched cup of wine, Miriam’s Cup is for water from each guest’s cup to celebrate the crossing of the Sea of Reeds. It was said that Moses’ sister lead the women in dance and song with tambourines when they safely reached the other side.

In the spirit of Passover and the Seder meal, Children designed their own versions of Elijah’s or Miriam’s Cup exploring the art of Decoupage (A French word using the process of a glue mixture over papers and tissues.) To cut, in French, is “Couper” explaining the cutting of the papers before applying them.

Then we decorated freely with jewels to make the special cups stand out at any Seder Meal!

Other versions may include Sculpey or glass paints.

Looking forward to Tomorrow’s Lynda Benglis project. + not too many hairdryers at once!

Ellsworth Kelly shares with kids color mixing techniques- without one primary color. How? Join a Museum Adventures tour and find out!

Kidz Central Station’s Lauren Pohl joins us for a Modern Museum Adventure!

Museum Adventures took Lauren Pohl, founder of Kidz Central Station, on a tour for 4-5’s to visit a list of artists tailored to young learners: Rosenquist, Yves Tinguely, Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly. In just one tour (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), we learned about advertising, color and everyday objects (Rosenquist), discovered lines in everyday objects (Tinguely), made lines, dots and patterns (Lichtenstein) and made our very own color wheels and color-mixing window collages (Ellsworth Kelly)! There wasn’t much time to explore the stop-motion animation of William Kentridge’s installation, Refusal of Time, nor Al Held’s colored shapes… but then again, a good tour knows when to stop, leaving more for next time! Check it out:

: Loving the lines we found in ordinary objects!

: Making patterns a la Lichtenstein

: Ellsworth Kelly- Spectrum Fav’s 1

: Ellsworth Kelly- Spectrum Fav’s 2

: Showing off our work.

: Finished! with Al Held in the background

Chagall Teaches Fantasy & Color Mixing!

Cold dreary days looking out of my window inspired the use of vellum and a basic color-mixing lesson using copies of his animals to draw or trace, color and overlay with colorful blues, pinks and yellows to make the secondary colors…

: Flying Goat

: Flying Fish

: Put together to make one Stained Glass like Chagall’s windows in Israel.

: Rooster

: Flying Horse

: Goat

Hey color aficionados- Why is it you can still make a rainbow with pink?! (Ask Ellsworth Kelly.)

Learning through the 4 Tempraments

: The 4 Tempraments

: Gosha showing the shapes of the different faces (and different colors!)

: Our “Melancholic” portraits

: Gail prepping her base

: Beatrice’s Phlegmatic (!) face

: Soley, Oli and Abe prepping the Phlegmatics

: Gosha’s watercolor classes rock!

Visiting artist Gosha (http://www.FineArtsandYoga.com) taught us so much about what it means to be Sanguin, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic- very new concepts to all of us! Each one is different, has a different color and how each difference relates to physical traits in the face. Our students were able to try the Blue and Green- which made some of them choleric not to finish them all!

A big THANK YOU to Gosha whose patience and energy are always welcome!

Please visit her website to learn more about art, yoga and the perfect combination of the 2.

Claes Oldenburg-Inspired Pillows!

While learning about color mixing, 3-8 year-olds have fun constructing colorful stuffed “Soft Sculptures.” See slideshow:

: Sewing

: Stuffing

: Side 1

: Side 2

Yves Klein’s lines for kids

Can’t wait to share this with our 3-5’s today! Basic lines may seem rather basic and unimportant to focus on, however, recognizing and purposefully implementing them into desired outcomes is really the key to any drawing.

Murikami Superflat Goes 3D for Kids

Takashi Murikami provided us with a multitude of learning opportunities! Takashi Murikami project Takashi Murikami project 5

Takashi Murikami is from Japan. He loves “Superflat,” a word he made up! It means colors and shapes look flat on a page, not round. In this piece of art, we made Superflat go 3D: With a sphere… but the only way you can tell from the front is to notice the light casting shadows and shapes having perspective.

Students learned about working larger to smaller, a technique used in painting, as well as contrast, form, perspective, pattern and optical illusion.

How do you go from an example of Venice to this?

In our Venice Mini-Set Building Parent-Child Workshop Saturday, students learned exactly that. Artist Cliff Gokenbach showed us how…

Check out the slideshow below, to see how it was done. Some students are already working on their next city dioramas at home!

(We love it when parents become learners with their children:) Way to go Mariella!

And a great big THANK YOU to Cliff!

: Transfer process: cover back of photo with pencil

: Flip image and draw base

: Transfer the cityscape

: Transfer the bridge

: With acrylic-based paints, water down and make a “wash” after outlining with a permanent marker

: When they dry, attach with folded card stock and tape

: On small paper tubes (easy to make), paint blue and “twirl” when adding the white stripe!

: Make several and attach by poking a hole with a pencil into the foam base

: Draw or transfer a Gondola!

: Add other details- like people and the tops of the poles (this was done with Model Magic)

: We loved how it turned out!

: And so did mom! Venice Set Building Parent-Child Workshop Saturdays, lead by Cliff Gokenbach

: Cliff taught us that through learning how to transfer from any photograph or drawing, then using Sharpees, washes and values, students re-created Venice complete with poles and Gondola! Model Magic for the tops of the poles made it pop!