Month: September 2019

The topic of our lesson is “figurative painting”. We plan to teach a spontaneous, sketchy and experimental way of painting. The goal is to experience painting as something free and creative. We don’t want to take the traditional, naturalistic and academic approach at painting humans but instead want to use different short exercises to challenge the students.
In our double-lesson we are going to work on the topic “self-portrait painting”. We plan on starting with short and experimental exercises, in which we try out different approaches to painting a self-portrait. The goal is to get the students started and let them experience the many possibilities of painting. After these short exercises, we will discuss a self-portrait of Paul Gauguin. The discussion will lead the students to ideas for an own self-portrait. In the second half of the double-lesson they will then get time to work on a personal, expressive self-portrait, showing their wishes, feelings or stories.

Estella, Hripsime, Fabio, Bastian

During our lesson we want the students to observe objects in different ways and transform them into drawings. In this transforming process a lot of things are happening. They receive sensual stimulus in the brain, which are converted into some kind of an output. Therefore, drawing is also always a form of translation of what we see, hear and feel. To enhance this sensual experience, we selected objects that are especially appealing when it comes to shapes, surfaces and material (styrofoam, technical tools, organic shapes etc.).
We start our lesson with three smaller exercises in which the students should explore their senses through observation and drawing. In the second half of the double lesson they will take their time to develop and create something out of their previous observations into an association.
With our exercises, we want to improve the students ability to observe with their senses, in order to realize, that an objects has more characteristics then they would think.

During our lesson we want the students to observe objects in different ways and transform them into drawings. In this transforming process a lot of things are happening. They receive sensual stimulus in the brain, which are converted into some kind of an output. Therefore, drawing is also always a form of translation of what we see, hear and feel. To enhance this sensual experience, we selected objects that are especially appealing when it comes to shapes, surfaces and material (styrofoam, technical tools, organic shapes etc.).
We start our lesson with three smaller exercises in which the students should explore their senses through observation and drawing. In the second half of the double lesson they will take their time to develop and create something out of their previous observations into an association.
With our exercises, we want to improve the students ability to observe with their senses, in order to realize, that an objects has more characteristics then they would think.

Aim for our lesson

Artistical Expression:
Find new ways for perceiving an object. The lesson is about observation and they learn to think in different perspectives and with different senses. Every picture we create is a translation of sensual stimulations. And this process contains interpretation and deciding on how you bring them onto material.

Methods, Techniques, Strategies:
Develop a sensitivity for shapes, materials and surfaces. Paint with Gouache. Learn about the science of colors, especially Complementary Color Combinations. Recognizing shadows and lights in a object and transforming them into colors.

Analytical Reflexion,
Awareness, that everything we create after an image or an object is always a translation and interpretation of itself

Astghik, Raya, Simon, Lysanne

Our aim is to open up creativity in collaborative group drawings, to use them as inspiration for their own works. We will start with more playfull and collaborativ exercices like „Cadavre Exquis“ a slowly make the drawings longer, preciser and in the end single works where they can integrate their previous experiences. We want to show them in this process artists that work in a similiar way and also share their approaches for finding new forms and ways to visualise something. Our exercises are about combining four different objects into a drawing as one object or composition.

Jean-David, Nicole, Sevada, Marine