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My little sweethearts got to use their favourite art supply of all time... glitter! 💥✨💥 Needless to say they were super excited not just for creating their Diwali themed art but also to get their hands on some glitter! 🤦🏻♀️ Happy Diwali everyone!
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This year we took a look at how we prepare our homes for Diwali. The children drew and painted a house decorated for the occasion complete with fireworks in the sky!  Divali is in the air and while the Hindu community is immersed in prayer and fasting, the rest of us can't wait to take in the colour, food and fashion that culminate on Divali day! My Picassos are creating an abstract-styled Indian dancer but my Warhols tackled one that's a bit more realistic. They got the chance to really focus on painting a figure in motion, while also getting to work in all those fun elements like colour and using brushstrokes to show movement! Just love this piece! A couple of my girls opted to paint a lady all decked out in a gorgeous sari so not a dancer but still very very beautiful! I got this gorgeously illustrated and colourful book from my subscription to The Little Bookworm and both my children and I enjoyed it so much I knew I had to read it in class! It's a picture book version (with a twist of course) of how Ganesha came to write the epic poem of Hindu literature the Mahabharata. Reading through the pages of this book gave us the opportunity to talk about lots of things. like Hindu sweets, Hindu Gods and the bright and beautiful colours of India. Take a look as they use collage to recreate an image from the book. Each child hit the pieces to make Ganesha in a little jumble and they had to sort through and put the pieces together to make the complete picture, then they stuck and decorated! Divali is in the air and while the Hindu community is immersed in prayer and fasting, the rest of us can't wait to take in the colour, food and fashion that culminate on Divali day! When I first came across these Indian Dancers by local artist Danielle Rahael I was immediately drawn to them! I love her use of colour and her the fact that she stays true to her abstract style while also infusing our Trinidadian culture! Thanks Danielle for giving my Picassos such a fine example of how a local artist can interpret our life, our colours and our vibrancy into a style that is not always easy to digest. Check out my 7 to 11 year old Picassos as they try their hands at recreating an Indian Dancer in the style of Rahael in celebration of Divali! Our focus here was on colour. They took turns using the colour wheel to figure out their split complimentary colour scheme starting with the colour of their backgrounds. Then they drew and painted in Rahael’s signature style!  Teaching art in an environment as diverse as ours really is a joy and a privilege! Not only am I never in need of a topic (we literally sometimes have a celebration every other week 😀) but I also get to research and dig into different types of art that I might not ordinarily do and bring it to my art kiddos! So this week the focus is on Diwali as our Hindu brothers and sisters are about to celebrate the Festival of Lights! For our project we took a look at Rangoli... This is not my first rodeo into Rangoli 😂 check out the last time here... But we're doing it differently this time. They made some lovely designs drawing them free hand and then filled them in with colored salt to mimic the powder used in the real deal. Then they outlined with black glue to add a bit of KAPOW! Don't bother looking that up guys, it's another one of my growing list of nonsense words that the kids seem to love! The finished product pics were still wet but when the liquid evaporates the salt crystals dry and harden and the result is a fairly durable little decoration. 
My Doodlebugs also got into Diwali mode this afternoon as we spoke about what Diwali means to the Hindu community. We looked at pictures of the Temple by the Sea and then they painted a simplified version to what the Picassos are doing :)
Very sweet results! Take a look. I was looking for a unique way to acknowledge Divali this year and came across this practice called Rangoli Art. This amazing video shows some artists at work creating some intricate designs using coloured chalk. To mimic this result I got some simple rangoli designs and let the kids transfer them onto black paper. Once the designs were down they coloured them in using chalk pastels! It was the first time many of them used chalk pastels so of course there were multi-coloured hands and lots of smudging but it was a fun process and it's only our first foray into this new medium. The results were stunning though... Shubh Divali... in advance! Thursday Picassos took their turn at our Rangoli art project! |
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