Lessons...
Yesterday, I did abstract drawings with some students from 1E3. The materials were crayons, Chinese ink, markers, pencils, erasers, etc. The students were told to try a few things; these include drawing with their non-masterhand, drawing with eyes closed, imaginging the things they see as upside down, and responding to random topics I threw them (e.g. of topics include atomic explosion, drawing fish bone, nature etc.) They also drew with unorthodox materials like newspapers and tissue paper. The students produced some drawings that I was quite pleased with, and I told the students to put the drawings up on the classroom wall. I do not know about the students, but I felt proud of the drawings. I thought if more students had taken part in the activity, the walls would have been covered now.Today, I did something quite adventurous with 1N1. I gave them a sheet of paper each, with a topic or question behind and they are to express the topic with the materials I provided. On top of that, they will switch their papers and and work on their classmates' drawings. At first, the students were quite reluctant to use the paints I provided. Then they started to make quite a bit of a mess. At the end of the lesson, they actually completed some twenty-over drawings that I put up on their classroom wall as well.
Of course the management part of the lessons was quite tough, but at the end of it I was quite happy and pleased with the results.
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English lessons with 3E7 *seem* to be getting better, but I'm not sure.
2 Comments:
Your art lesson with 1E3 sounds interesting :) hope you have the time to draw, just as i wish to have the time to stand and stare!
hey hey...take care and do find time to catch cheesecake if you can. The ideal time to go to SAM should be near end Sep. There's a retrospective on Tapies's works. Tapies is one of the very good abstract artists...(can google him for a start..)
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