This a workshop that I have been looking forward to, maybe because I have seen a lot of art work and I really do not know how to decode them, especially those from the children that needs me to decode, so that I can sail towards the source.
Before the workshop, I always have the mentality that an artwork need to be very proper, very realistic, the colours should be right, good colour combinations and etc, but oh mine, how wrong was I. Even today the children sent to art studio for tuition, the centre will of course teach them of the mixture of colours, that is fine but what is not fine is that each of them will be given a drawn template to copy the drawing and colour – another ‘cut and paste’ learning procedure? That I know, because both my children gone through that, and when they come back and show me the drawing I will bit my lips and said “oh it is okay, oh it is nice” but to my mind then it is not okay, because the character was not drawn okay and the colour were bad combination.
Towards the end of the workshop, I remember that one participant asked Alex how can she teach her son since that her son motor skill is very poor, and the reply was a question "Do you need motor skill to do art?" Suggestion : hand painting, where you mess up both hand with colours the paste it on cloth or paper or sponge up colours and paste.
NOW, I know that art piece comes from within our heart, our unconscious, our feelings, our hurt, our sorrow, our celebration, our happiness, all from our inner self.
At the beginning, we broke into groups. Each group will have to choose a name, my group chosen the name Michelangelo. Besides knowing that he is a great artist painter, I really do not know his work.
If a painter gains greatness, it makes you curious as to why that may be so. Thus understanding how he is considered as someone with special and unique contributions to make to the cultural richness of humanity would help us to come to understand what such richness of our own humanity is about.
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