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Development
As an accident i deselected the quick selection tool and used the hue/saturation tool again. This changed the whole piece and made all the colours change including the stencil and made it all blend together. This changed the whole perspective of the piece and made it all come together and look finished.
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Aelita Andre
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As I was looking into children art development I came across a video of a young child prodigy painter. Aelita Andre, (born 2007), is an Australian born artist of Russian heritage. She is an internationally recognized artist whose solo exhibition at Agora Gallery, New York, in 2011 sold out in seven days. Created with the joy and free spiritedness of her youth, her expressively colourful abstracts are remarkable evidence of her spontaneous intuitive impulses. Intention and message are at their most abstract in her.
The video that I watched is entitled ‘Secret Universe', the video that I watched about her shows the world how she sees it through fantasy first instead of reality. The video shows us a glimpse into how she creates her pieces and describes it from her own point of view saying “the best things just paint and watch them rise in your own way”. She also gives observations about herself, her paintings and her unique thoughts on life itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7GT3qOZYM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hWMvSrZx8
Aelita Andre paints in acrylic and sometimes uses added items such as plastic dinosaurs, butterflies and penguins, and various other items. Aelita dances and splats the paint to create swirling layers of paint splatters and at times uses iridescent neon glitter to form an intricate, kinetic whole. The structural rhythms are unmistakable and completely instinctive, reflecting an understanding of composition far beyond her years. Complex yet accessible, sophisticated yet unguided, Aelita's artworks communicate a sense of excitement and allow a unique access into the creative mind of a child.
She starting painting from 9 months through an accident when her father put a canvas on the floor for himself with paint pots surrounding it and she started painting on it since then she has done exhibitions all over the world. Aelita’s work is abstract and she doesn’t paint in realism at all in her own words she paints “all incredible abstract spiral galaxies”. The most one of her paintings has ever gone for is 50,000 dollars.
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Research Into Art and Creative Development for Young Children
Book I used
Art and Creative Development for Young Children
By J. Englebright Fox, Robert Schirrmacher
When I went into more depth into children’s art and development I wanted some questions answered like ‘why do children do art in early childhood?’ and ‘What skills can they learn from doing art?’
I found a book at my local library called ‘Art and Creative Development for Young Children’ written by By J. Englebright Fox, Robert Schirrmacher. The book is written for upcoming teachers or individuals who are teachers already in child care, nursery, or infants through year 3 settings. The book takes a child-centred approach to art education. Updated throughout, the book includes an in-depth discussion of technology to aid teachers in understanding the role that technology can play in children's visual art appreciation and production. Guidelines for establishing an inclusive art program in classrooms for young children are included for early childhood professionals. Activities and recipes make the text a valuable resource for in-service teachers.
The first section of the book talks about creativity and the different ways it can be defined:
· Ability to see things in new ways
· Boundary breaking and going beyond the information given
· Thinking unconventionally
· Making something unique
· Combining unrelated things into something new.
As the book looks into creativity and development it contains looks of research and gives a good insight of what happens to children when they do art and what it shows. When children have a problem and our trying to solve it their thinking is described as: synergistic- combining existing elements in new ways. Another way is serendipity- making unexpected discoveries while looking for something else.
Art involves activity, hands on doing, exploring, experimenting, trying out and manipulating. As infants they develop grasping which allows them to hold objects. Older infants can hold crayons and be guided into making marks. Young children are more skilled with gross motor and fine motor skills which are large and small muscles. So they can use large onto small brushes. The art activities they do provide experience and help in developing gross motor skills. Art can also develop eye coordination and visual sharpness with the eyes. This is shown for example in cutting with scissors.
Large muscle skills are perfected before fine motor skills. Such things like cutting with scissors, painting with a smaller water colour brush, thin pencils, thin crayons and modelling clay require children to use smaller muscle groups in the wrists, hands and fingers. As the strength increases the child’s control on writing and other activities increases. The brains emotional centre is tied to the ability to learn. Emotions, memory and learning are closely linked as different parts of the brain are activated in the learning process. This also encourages children to explore their emotions and ideas.
Most children express positivity in their art. This results in positive mental health and expression of feelings. Research has found that children disclose their deepest convictions, feelings and dreams with crayon, pencil and paint. It helps them express objects, ideas, places, experience, events and feelings that are significant which is important because sometimes they are unwilling to talk about emotional topics.
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Skills Children Learn When Doing Art
When it comes to the skills that children can learn whilst they are doing arts and crafts there are three main skills:
Motor skills - A motor skill is simply an action that involves your child using their muscles. Motor skills are large movements your child makes with their arms, legs, feet, or his entire body.
Fine motor skills- Are smaller actions usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers—with the eyes.
Art develops physical skills. As children use fingers to finger paint, they are improving the control of the smaller muscles in their hands. Along with drawing with crayons or markers, this helps children develop fine motor control that they need later in writing.
Cognitive skills- refers to the use of mental activities and skills to perform tasks such as learning, reasoning, understanding , remembering, paying attention and more .
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Creating my patterns
I created some patterns by using Photoshop. I manipulated the children's designs by either merging different patterns together or moving different shapes or objects to create new patterns.
Here are some of the patterns that i started making i am not confident in using Photoshop so i cropped and cutted the patterns out and put them on a new document because i found this the easiest way to understand.For the future i would like to learn how to create patterns using Photoshop using vector images.
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Research Into Children's Art/Development
Website I used:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8k487h
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/its-not-just-scribbling-its-mark-making
When thinking about my sister and school kids creates drawings for me it gave me lots of questions such as can art help child development and why they do it at such a young age. I thought It would do some research on the topic.
The first website I looked into was a BBC website which contained an article called ‘Can art and crafts make children more confident?’ This article is aimed at parents who are wondering questions like are arts and crafts is really worth the energy? Or can art help children development?
The website gives an insight and answers common questions parents may think. The articles explains how doing arts and crafts can bring a big benefit for children and parents- from relationships, meaning and education.
The website contains a video that answered the question ‘Are arts and crafts essential for life?’. In the video we meet a women called Ruth Churchill Dower who runs a network for early years art. In the video she conveys the advantages in taking part in arts and crafts and says there are many benefits. Arts and crafts creates a shared learning experience for the parent and child. Learning together shows your child that you’re taking them seriously – that you understand that they’re not just messing around when they play which builds their self-esteem.
For children who perhaps can’t yet express what they’re feeling in words or make sense verbally, being creative gives them the opportunity to display what they are trying to say. For example you could ask your child a question about what they are drawing so they can confer back to you.
Tasks such as problem solving,connecting,shapes,sequences and patterns is the same part of the brain that then once they are older use for more complex maths. While kids are making a picture or a model, your child is making all their own judgments about where to put things which is really encouraging their independence.
When watching the video, Ruth states that being creative ‘’enhances their confidence to be bolder’’. Also being independent when creating can help children ‘’take risks’’. Furthermore making things that they’ve fantasized up or painting things that go ‘’beyond their imagination’’ supports children to conjure up possible answers and find different ways to approach problems. Making art is a great, safe way to discover that it’s okay to make mistakes and that getting things ‘wrong’ can lead you to a whole new idea. By imagining what’s possible it can make children stronger and break through obstacles once older.
By doing arts and crafts in early years in creative environments can generate new connections in the brain and body at this age can really fire up these new synaptic connections. Therefore art can help children to join all the different parts of their brains and their bodies, shape a well-rounded personality and promote mental wellbeing – as well as improving physical connections such as the fine motor skills they’ll need for activities like writing later on.
From looking at the article there was a link to another BBC website the cbeebies website which talks about how art can help children learn how to write.
When your child begins to try-out different-shaped scribbles and patterns, this is identified as 'mark making'. It is the beginning of a journey on the way to being able to write. The website tells the reader that mark making is significant for many reasons. It is a visible way for children to tell stories and express feelings, record what they have to say, solve problems and discover solutions - and sometimes it is just an outlet for pure physical enjoyment.
When being creative with my sister I get a big A3 roll and place it on the table and secure the corners with something heavy so it doesn’t roll back. Then I gather some paint, pens, stamps and crayons and experiment with different ways to make marks on the paper.
This is a link to the earlyarts website if interested:
https://earlyarts.co.uk/7-benefits-of-arts-in-the-early-years/
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Wallpaper research
Through my project I have been concluding what my final outcome may be for my final major project. From talking to sunny about it he suggested doing wallpaper with a repeat pattern with the inspiration taken from the children’s pieces I asked them to do. So I have conducted some research into wallpaper design to see if it was something that could possibly be my final outcome. I started my research off by looking into wallpaper design n the basics of interior design by the main types of wallpaper. From looking at a blog post written by Anna Samygina it gave me knowledge that the first wallpaper machine was created in 1785 and printed coloured tints. Since then she told me that wallpaper has changed and become an important part of interior design. From reading the blog I have found that there are main variations of wallpaper. In the blog it talked about traditional wallpaper and had said about 2 of the most iconic designers to create that type of wallpaper. This progressed onto looking at the designers William Morris and Sanderson. William Morris designs were very old and traditional and detailed which I don’t intend to use on my prints/ wallpaper.
Sanderson prints were set out in collection with matching colours and were more fashionable. Some of the wallpaper designs were intricate but others I thought were timelessly elegant that is perfect for modern living because they used light pastel like colours with a repeat pattern.
The sort of style is what I aim for my piece/prints to be like. From doing this research I am intending on doing a research page on Sanderson wallpaper. After looking at those wallpaper designers I looked at more wallpaper prints and come across a website called wallpaperfromthe70s. In my project I am looking into children development and there drawing I thought I would look at the kids wallpaper. I liked the relation they created childhood memories which they transferred into wallpaper. Furthermore I liked that they had a good meaning behind the creation of the wallpaper designs which is what I have in my project.
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My Tumblr Blog
I thought I would create a Tumblr blog to show my journey through my project. Tumblr is so easy to use .It’s made really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. I wanted to create a blog which contains rich media, and if you don’t know much about the technology it sits on, then it’s hard to beat the simplicity and capability of Tumblr. The site, and the technology, is free to use and customisation capability is high. I used Tumblr because it’s easy to customise the layout, design and functionality of my blog without being an HTML whizz. When thinking about what I wanted on my blog I wrote down a few bullet points.
· Simple & easy to use yet still engaging in a creative way that’s not instructive
. My online appearance reflects the essence of my project as a whole
· Good first impression of the website
· Good content NOT irrelevant
I wanted to show:
· Clear ideas of what my project is and how it has developed through my website
· A combination of technical ability and creative vision
· Simplicity with an impact
To create my Tumblr blog I searched ‘Tumblr layout codes’ and came across a blog called vote themes.
http://v0tumthemes.tumblr.com
This website is a free fully customizable tumblr layout. The themes are easy customisable and simplistic makes them effective which I like but I will be making it brighter by changing parts of the code. I also like how the layouts are very modern and clear so it will be easy for people to view my website.
Once I looked through all of the themes I picked a theme called ‘sigh’.The theme contains:
Features:1 - 4 Columns.
Background Image
Header Background Image
Hover Over Effect
Image Fade
Fixed Header
Shadow Under Header/Images.
Adjustable Margin Size
Custom Header/Border/Links/Title/Body Color.
I picked this theme because I didn’t want to many images on one page as it over crowd the blog. I also like how it had a big title to catch people eyes and let them know what my page is about.
When thinking about what colour scheme i wanted i thought i would have something that related to my project. i chose bright colours because it reminded me of children. When experimenting with my theme i found that you could have a gif as the background. Knowing this i went onto tumblr an searched drawing gif and other things that could find me a gif of the idea that i had in mind. For my end result i used this gif i felt as if this worked best because it reminds me of children’s drawings.
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