Children’s Studio of Fine Art
For the children’s workshop children from 3 to 12 years are welcome.
Age-specific procedures and tasks
To ensure optimal care of children, the groups are limited to age and a maximum of 6 children.
Awareness exercises, drawing, nature study and constructive
In the studio, children learn how to deal with their creative power. Accompanied by helping them deepen their sensory perceptions and to improve their technical skills. This is to trust in your intuition will be strengthened. Through the positive use of his intuition, both the personality as well as the self-esteem is promoted.
Teaching basic principles of drawing, painting and composition
In addition to the sensual part also placed on the theoretical aspects of graphics design value, eg Space and color theory, conceptual work, or the introduction into the history of art.
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Sequence of courses
The courses start in the group.
There is an exercise to stimulate the senses, eg through music, a play, meditation, or a natural experience. After the theoretical introduction to the specific topic by the trainer takes the task and the individual work.
After the course, the group comes together again to share experiences and discuss work.
1st Example: request-ritual
A staircase leads to the attic. Above is a closet, the door is unlocked. The cabinet is a candle and a mirror. The room is dark. It plays classical music.
Ritual: Every child comes with a candle in his hand alone upstairs. Above it opens the door of the cabinet. The child sees his face in the mirror, the face appears in the candlelight. It wants or thinks of something important. Dannacher it closes the door and comes down, the candle goes to the neighbor. What you saw in the mirror may not be told. Dannacher free work on „demand-cabinet“.
Meaning / purpose
The children are part of a ritual. You make an exciting and mysterious experience. And now it’s about the experiences, emotions and feelings in colors, lines, bring in a drawing to express. Between feeling and expression (mood, materials, tools), a jumper must be found.
2nd example: relationships among the objects themselves and with us
The starting point is a ladybug. He was lying dead between the stones. In the studio he was on the table under the microscope and its appearance was discussed.
1st Step: the ladybird was drawed with the pencil.
2nd Step: The children were asked to set the environment where the ladybird was found in relation to him. Where was it stocked? Why did he die? What has surrounded him? The drawing was developed.
3rd Step: On the basis of the drawing the children made a painting.
4th Step: With closed eyes, the children have thought of the ladybug. For a moment they should concentrate on what pictures came up to their mind. With closed eyes, they gave instructions to the instructor what color they see. He has provided the paint and the child starts to paint – eyes still shut.
Meaning / purpose
The children learn they see the objects, put them up in relation to their environment and to recognize that the environment has an influence on the object. They learned that the environment has an impact on ourselves. Finally, the children have released from the environment and have entered into relationship with themselves, led to the creation of their own images by closing their eyes. The experience to make ones intuition visible on a painting is a creative act
1. step: drawing
2. Step: painting
3. step: painting with closed eyes
