IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Christmas is here, and we like getting and giving presents, lots of presents to show that we care for others, to make people around us happier.

Here are some ideas you can CREATE. 

WHAT DO YOU NEED? to be creative for a start,  and then time to do it.

YOU ALSO NEED: A white mug and permanent markers of different colours and thickness. You can also use specific material for porcelain. 

MANDALA ART

You have done beautiful creations with the mandalas. Here are examples of the different ways arts and crafts uses mandalas:

    

Remember this?

The following is done with... GUESS!

BOTTLE CUPS!
 

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION 2016

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

PRIZES will be given on Thursday the 21st during the first Break Time in Meetings Room

 FIRST WINNER: Carla Plaza Cabrero (1F ESO)

 WINNER CATEGORY A: Rubén Velasco López (1F ESO)

 

WINNER CATEGORY B: Viktoriya PLAMENOVA BLAGOEVA (B1B)

 

SECOND PRIZE: Hugo CASTILLEJO TORRES (E2A)

 

SECOND PRIZE: Pablo GÓMEZ GARCÍA (1B ESO)

 

CAREERS IN ART

DRAWING PROGRESSION

DRAWING PROGRESSION (FROM AGE 12 TO 18)

Sometimes when we see amazing art it’s easy to just think “oh that person must be really gifted” but this progression gives hope that maybe anybody can create beautiful art if they are willing to put in the effort. 

TYPOGRAPHY

TYPOGRAPHY is what language looks like. 

It is the art and technics of type design.

Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

 Type the sky

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Eatphabet

Types
A pop-up book.

 

More examples:

• Draw me a song: take a look to these wonderful typography examples. Posters.
• Modular typography: Made typography using half moon shape as the negative space between box shapes. Then translated into cardboard sculptures mimicking the same design elements. Sculptures.
• Fillingraphy on typography. Cakes!

LAND, EARTH AND BODY ART

WHAT IS LAND ART?  AND BODY ART?

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT.

These are some of the original Works of Art done by our students of 1st de ESO from the IES Laguna de Joatzel (Getafe) in el Cerro de Los Ángeles. School Year 2013-14.

This is an original example of Land Art done by students from 1st ESO from the IES La Serna (Fuenlabrada) School Year 2011-12.

FIGURE-GROUND

How many faces can you see here?

This is a perfect example of one of the Gestalt Laws of Perception: Figure Ground or the Law of Prägnanz. 

"Human brain tends to interpret ambiguous or complex images as simple and complete. In an image the composing elements are perceived as either figures or ground. Background and foreground can be exchanged and in both case they assume a precise meaning."

RECYCLED PAPER JEWELLERY

After Easter we will be doing jewellery with recycling materials. Here we have a few images and videos to help us. You can practice this paper jewellery on Easter, or bring new ideas to class.

HAPPY "EASTER JEWELLERY"!

MATERIAL NEEDED: Magazine pages, acrylic paint, triple thick gloss glaze or nail polish, chains, beads or any other decorative item that you like, gold leaf foil, jewellery findings, cotton or anyother type of cords that you like, paintbrush, white glue, superglue and IMAGINATION.

HERE ARE SOME ORIGINAL EXAMPLES DONE BY CELIA ÁLVAREZ

TEXTURES IN ART

Texture

The visual elements of an image are THE POINT, THE LINE, THE SHAPE, THE COLOUR AND THE TEXTURE.

During these passed first and second terms we have seen four of these visual elements: the Point, the Line, the Shape and the Colour. The next visual element to see is TEXTURE.

TEXTURE is a powerful art element because it can quickly evoke memories and emotions. Start becoming more aware of textures all around you—the carpet, in the clothes you’re wearing, and the fur on your cat. Check these presentation and video to get a better idea of this concept: 

Presentation by Rosa Fernández

KANDINSKY PROJECT

These are two of the projects suggested related to kandinsky, you can search online for another one you like and just do it:

KANDINSKY TREE OF LIFE

KANDINSKY "CONCENTRIC CIRCLES AND SQUARES"
"Farbstudie Quatrate".

WASSILY KANDINSKY

Esto es lo que vamos ver en la Sala de Exposiciones del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Primero haremos un recorrido por la obra de Kandinsky y luego experimentaremos con distintos materiales en el Taller.