COMENIUS CORNER
TASKS 2013-2014
Building Bridges through Art consists of eight tasks in a two-year period. Here you can see how we work on our project.
Linocut of a native bird
November, 2013
Our Paintings
November, 2013
Task 1: Linocut of a native bird
Each student chose a native bird. After some research on the net, our students started drawing their bird, then traced it with a tracing paper onto linoleum in order to carve it with a gouge. They covered the linoleum with water ink and finally tranferred it onto a newpaper sheet or a blank paper. Next to the picture, they wrote a physical description and habitat of the bird.
Some of the birds we painted and described are: the quail, the buzzard, the partridge, the goldfinch, the Eurasian jay, the common raven, the European robin, the hoppeo, the blue tit and the Western capercaillie.
Writing of a native bird
Below are three samples of the physical description and habitat information of the birds. You can read about the Eurasian jay (by Paula Sánchez), the hoppeo (by Ruth Rubio) and the blue tit (by Sergi Sánchez).
Task 2: Self-portrait
This time each student had to draw a self-portrait. They first practised drawing a standard portrait on a DIN-A4 paper and using a graphit pencil. They learned about face proportions and shadows. Then they drew their self-portraits with a carbon pencil, which they painted with flashy colours. Prior to the task, they wrote a detailed description of their faces.
Self-portrait with carbon pencils
January, 2014
Our Drawings
January, 2014
Writing of a self-portrait
Below are the writings of the students in which they describe their own self-portraits. You can read them and play to guess what is the corresponding drawing shown in the video above.
Task 3: Poster of a national festivity
The students worked in groups of 4. The aim of the task was to make a poster of Sant Jordi, the Catalan Patron Saint. They first brainstormed some ideas around the words "festivity", "national" and "Sant Jordi". Then they learned several printing techniques for the background such as the stencil technique. After that, they learned how to customise some letters for the title. Then they put everthing together and a wonderful poster came out.
Videos of the Posters of a national festivity. April, 2014
Our Posters
April, 2014
Task 4: Clay Fruit Vegetable Head
Do Biology and Art go hand in hand? Task 4 proves they can! The students first made an assignment on Food Art based on Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work. After that, they the students learned about emotions with emoticons and smileys! Then, they learned how to do an organoleptic analysis of some fruits and vegetables. Finally, in pairs, the students made a sphere with clay and shaped it into a fruit or vegetable. They gave it an emotion and painted it in bright colours.
Food Art Compositions. May, 2014
Fruit Veggie Heads. June, 2014
Task 5: Landscape
Each student had to draw a picture on a piece of paper and divide the picture into different layers. Then, they copied the picture on a piece of trace paper and followed the lines of the picture on each layer. Next, they drew the first layer on a piece of wood and did the same with the other ones. When done, it was time to see and polish the layer. They put all the layers in order and painted them and let them dry. Finally, they stuck them with glue. They created their own landscape!
Our Landscapes
November, 2014
Task 6: Wire Sculpture
What do you need to create your wire sculpture? Pictures from internet, papers, pencils to draw, a wire, wire cutters, pliers, round nose pliers and a tin soldering. The result? An interesting sculpture made by the students. They presented it with a poster in order to know all the process.
Our Posters
January, 2015
Our Sculptures
January, 2015
Task 7: Upcycling
What is Upcycling? It is a new term for reusing materials and reducing our footprint. It is the act of taking something no longer in use and giving it a second life and a new function. In doing so, the finished product often becomes more practical, valuable and beautiful than whatt it previously was.
This is what our students do in Technology . They design and create new products by reusing old materials.
Look through the pictures below and see some of the most brilliant ideas of our upcyclers at school!
Upcycling
Task 8: Architecture and Perspective Drawing
The last task of the Building Bridges through Art project was about perspective drawing. The students learned the techniques used in perspective drawing such as the "vanishing point" and practised it by drawing a room. Then, they chose a landscape and drew it using these techniques and finally they coloured it with hot and cold colours by using the Optical Colour Mixing technique. This technique shows how two or more colours that are placed near one another can create an illusion of a new colour, similar to the result when the two are mixed in pigment. Have a look at the best five pictures below.
