Playground design

As part of our "Line" lesson, students from Level 6 designed their own playground and it was fun seeing how with only twisting, rolling, twirling and curling the paper stripes they created these amazing designs. Thanks Ms Louise for sharing the idea about art project!

Primary colors

Preschool students were so excited to mix colors and paint an ice cream of 'different flavors' in art class. They learned about the primary colors and the colors you can get by mixing two of them. Each student chose two primary colors to mix and tested the result in their picture. Adorable!

"Beautiful Oops" to start the new school year

A new amazing, artistic school year just started! I am so excited for having a new art room and  the students are enjoining the big spacious classroom as well. I know that this year again my talented students as always will create projects that are meaningful and artworks they can be proud of! 


We started out with this empowering and inspirational book "Beautiful Oops!". When you THINK you have made a mistake (and what kid or grown-up hasn't) Think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful.  "A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It's OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn't ruin a drawing,not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? Don't be upset about it when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator."

Every student received a paper with a tear, smudge, coffee spill, paint drip and many other "mistakes" I prepared for them before class. They were challenged to turn those mistakes into an artwork. I was amazed by their creativity and problem solving skills. Just look at their creative solutions:

Mosaic

Middle school students and few high schools students during art class are working on a mosaic using broken bathroom

tiles to embellish the water taps bought from the student council. This is how it looks, and it's only the beginning. These hard-working young artists are always motivated to put extra effort in order to beautify the school campus.

Design workshop in Gallery SIA

Students from level 12/13 and high school went to a design workshop in the gallery SIA, where they had a demonstration about industrial design and learned how they can create useful objects from very simple materials that we can reuse like paper and plastic bottles. It was interesting to hear about and learn new creative ideas and have a one of a kind practical experience from a professional designer working under the design brand Tvornica.

Here is a link from this gallery where you can regularly visit exhibitions, talks, and many other open events: http://www.seriousinterests.co.uk/

Here you can see the unique designs of the Macedonian design brand Tvornica: http://off.net.mk/zezalici/kanta/zapoznajte-ja-tvornica

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Well-deserved treats for level 11

One of my methods for promoting the success orientations during art class is collecting paper cookies in a jar- one cookie for each demonstrated success orientation during class. Students need to work as a team in order to earn a cookie. The level that has the most number of cookis at the end of a semester wins an art party. The past two quintiles, level 11 got the most points and won a party in art class with real cookies. They enjoyed the treats, played a memory game with famous paintings and had lots of fun! Good work level 11, continue with demonstrating the success orientations this year too!

Student Art Auction a Great Success

papier-mâché sculptures

We started working on our 3D lesson by creating paper mache sculptures. It was fun looking at the kids turning their ideas into sculptures. We used discarded materials like plastic bottles, cups and cardboard for the structure, and put over few layers of paper mache.