Reflection on Graffiti School (I): Infinite Creativity
Not long ago, I saw some paintings by mark alan, who was praised as a genius painter by the media. Ink and wash series is full of casual beauty. Marc Allante is well known by netizens because he dug up his childhood paintings when he moved and exposed them with great interest. These years' paintings show his growth and creative process from childhood to adulthood, from graffiti to pop art.
Pop art, that is, neo-realism, is loved by the public, especially young people, and can be seen everywhere in daily life with its characteristics of youth, fashion, popularity and exaggeration. Colorful walls on the street; Clothes and backpacks on fashionistas; Pop art can be found in colorful and expressive illustrations in magazine picture books. And its common name, or graffiti, is more appropriate.
The word graffiti comes from Lutong and is called "tea fairy". His son often likes to scribble with a pen dipped in ink. When Lu Tong wrote a poem, he sighed: "Suddenly, he turned over the case and inked it, like an old crow smearing a poem." Now graffiti is really a pen used to describe young children, or a self-deprecating and casual work. This graffiti school, from the German graffiti master studio, brings the interesting and creative essence of graffiti to the extreme. The whole book seems to be graffiti and disorganized, but in fact it conforms to the law from shallow to deep, from the outside to the inside. The simple and interesting strokes at the beginning attract readers to follow suit and stimulate interest and creativity; Then add painting knowledge and graffiti skills to improve readers' ability to graffiti casually.
The book Graffiti School is divided into thirteen lessons according to the theme. The first lesson is the simplest and most difficult introductory lesson-creating images. It's simple, because graffiti is natural and casual. It is different from Leonardo da Vinci's familiar learning method of drawing eggs. Graffiti can't be copied, just as two identical circles can't be drawn with strokes. Especially for children and toddlers, they can't completely control their hand muscles, so it is difficult for them to ask for fine painting. Every doodle is free, and they can draw the shape they want without any training. However, it is hard to say and difficult here. If there is no creative ability, the lines and shapes can only be called messy stitches or useless shapes. The reason why random patterns become graffiti is because human beings have added their strong imagination to them and given them vitality. Creating images is a course that inspires us to use creativity: draw some basic graphics that we can't see why, and use our imagination to create paintings that conform to the characteristics of graphics. Ink can turn into elephants, and messy lines can also turn into butterflies. Fortunately, this book is very suitable for parents and children. Children's wild imagination and adults' manipulation of fine links will certainly make a lot of amazing graffiti.
Knowing what graffiti is, the next course focuses on imparting knowledge and skills. Traditional painting needs to pay attention to the key points of composition and color matching. Indeed, knowledge of space geometry and color matching ability is an essential basic skill. For example, composition will tell children how to express distance, and color society will lead children to understand the magic after color meets ... With this book, even parents who are amateurs in painting will not make mistakes. There are many interesting technical chapters in the book, such as the making of seals and crayons. In the primitive magic world of graffiti, not only brushes and hairbrushes can dominate, but also small cardboard and Xiao Mu knives can be as cool and dazzling.
In primary school, the art teacher often asked us to prepare some leaves and sharpen pencil scraps, and create our own painting assignments by pasting and coloring. There is also this link in "Graffiti School", using leaves and flowers, glue and so on. Decorate existing paintings; Besides leaves, pencil scraps, flowers and plants, can you create with other readily available substances? Cotton swabs, habits, cake paper plates, sponges ... all right? The answer, of course, is that anything is possible. Just remember, keep an imaginative heart.
Comics and alphabet graffiti chapters are slightly more difficult, but you can exercise your observation and expression skills repeatedly and master some basic comics, which is suitable for older children to ponder and learn. The final graffiti museum incident, through a compact story, runs through the previous study, which is a review of the previous study and an improvement of the comprehensive application of techniques. At the end of the book, 14 teacher's selfie is full of personality and childlike innocence, which is enviable? Then follow this book well. I believe that after successfully completing the mission of the museum and obtaining the certificate of "Graffiti Artist", we can also draw our own unique self-portraits.
Saint Exupery in The Little Prince, because the graffiti paintings in his childhood were misunderstood and ridiculed by adults, put away his brush and bid farewell to his beloved paintings until many years later. How I want to give such a graffiti school to him at a young age and help him defend his love of painting. This is a book full of fantastic ideas. Great artists bend down and share their proudest skills with small artists. Let children swim confidently in the world of painting by entertaining, learning and being happy.
Reflections on graffiti schools (2): Describe the world with children's innocence and expression.
What children never lack is free imagination and creativity, and eclecticism and recklessness were originally their exclusive words. Otherwise Picasso wouldn't have said, "When I was their age, I could paint like Raphael, the master of the Renaissance, but it took me a lifetime to learn to paint like them."
However, perhaps hindered by the norms of parents and adults, or perhaps trapped by the process of socialization, many children's boldness finally gradually disappeared. However, there will still be people who describe the world with children's innocence and expressions, which is my deepest feeling when I face graffiti schools.
Whether it is images, composition, colors or endless creativity, the author tries to give children freedom and surprise as much as possible. Of course, it is not too much to call it temptation and inducement. The biggest highlight of this book is the release of children's nature and the infinite development of children's thinking.
Take "creating an image" as an example. First of all, "you can draw a round, pointed, oval, crooked or crooked". In this way, children naturally dare to let go of their hands and feet and open their arms! Of course, the author also has requirements-"but don't draw too small and don't draw too big." We can see that such a simple request is a piece of cake compared with the previous bold letting go. Then, the eyes can be drawn as "some are up, some are down, some are on the top of the head, some are only one (viewed from the side), and some are two (viewed from the front)". As for the body, it is even more unexpected. We always ask for matching and fitting, but the author's hint is-"If you add a belly that doesn't match your head at all, it will be fun!" This request is really fun! Next, the author encourages children to draw as many different figures as possible, such as: fat body, thin body, big nose, small nose, round ears, pointed ears, long legs, short legs, hair, beard and even-animal horns!
God, can you imagine how beautiful this photo is?
No matter the tips in the book or some examples, people are always dumbfounded and can't help drawing birds. He said, "How about a hat or a pair of glasses?"
As for color, he said, "You can draw some boundaries on purpose" or "Sometimes it will be especially nice to draw only a small piece of color!" You say, how can this make adults who always let their children paint or fill the border?
For the complex contrast between big and small, more and less, front and back, deep and shallow, the author solves it with ease and is full of fun.
Both dry and wet brushes are great. Don't think that the author can only be funny and meticulous, and even the cleaning and placement of brushes will be taught by hand. As for seals, collages, crayons, ink marks, leaves and flowers, etc., it is also a whimsy.
Of course, if you think this is just a manual, you are all wet. A thick book, the biggest length is reserved for children. Moreover, because the thickness of the paper is guaranteed, each work can be completed with various brushes and pigments. So I thought, calling it "school" might be a little narrow-minded and creative graffiti? Graffiti drawing board? Is it more appropriate? Ok, this question is thrown to everyone.
Reflection on Graffiti School (3): A few simple steps to teach you graffiti skills!
Non-art majors don't have time to draw, so they want to draw a few strokes on paper.
Like a child, starting from scratch, the original graffiti can be so simple! Open your brain!
"Graffiti School" is simple, easy to walk a few steps and teach you graffiti tips!
First, create an image.
First, draw some different figures. It can be drawn as a circle, a pointed shape, an ellipse, a side or an arc. Then draw eyes, some above, some below, some above the head, some with only one, some with two. Finally, draw the body, draw the arms, legs and tails on the body … draw whatever you want!
Don't worry that you are not an art major, you can easily doodle your own unique image!
Look at the composition again, it's very simple!
There are many tricks in this book, which can easily bring vitality to the picture and create a tense atmosphere. Come and have a look!
(1) large and small If an image is drawn very large, it will stand out more than other things in the picture. On the contrary, those smaller images will lack expressiveness.
(2) More or less blank space in the picture will make the picture look quiet. If you want to express a sad or sad situation, this trick is very useful; If you want to be very lively, draw the picture to the edge, it will be full of energy and excitement.
(3) If you draw an image very small before and after, it seems to be far away from you. And things that are painted very big will look very close. In this way, the picture can present a close-up and a distant view.
(4) The large image next to the small one will appear larger; Draw a small picture next to the big picture, it will appear smaller. This law also applies to the relationship between depth and depth. If the picture is mainly dark, then a small part of light color will appear more shiny, and vice versa.
Is it simple?
As long as I master these skills, I can easily doodle my feelings without learning art, and you can also have your own unique creation!
The image is shaped and the composition is good, and color is also the key issue.
Are you as confused about the harmony and collocation of colors as I am?
There is a chapter in "Graffiti School", which can easily solve this problem!
Three primary colors: yellow, red and blue.
Three colors: orange, purple and green. In other words, mixing the three primary colors on a plate or palette will produce new colors.
Yellow and blue turn into orange.
Red and blue turn purple.
Blue and yellow turn green.
Yellow, red and blue turn brown and gray, which may be close to black.
By the way, if you mix a lot of pigments with a small amount of water, the color will be very strong and bright. If you mix a little pigment with a lot of water, the color will become light and soft.
If you mix black and white, you can get gray. The less black is used, the lighter the gray is. You can also use these two colors to make all the primary colors and middle colors darker or brighter.
With a little skill, you can "pretend" to be an art major. Graffiti a work of your own, don't worry at all!
Creating images is simple, composition is not difficult, and colors are clear. Read it again, this book is still a lot of fun!
With the coloring game, you can easily color here, master a little coloring science, and make coloring a more enjoyable and relaxing thing.
There are many interesting chapters in this book.
After reading this book, I realized that graffiti can be as simple as that!
Reflections on Graffiti School (IV): Enlightenment of Children's Painting
I've been thinking, are there any books that can help children draw quickly? Painting seems to take a long time. The important thing is that children are active when they are young, and it is difficult to draw quietly. In other words, interest is the best teacher. Let children get interested, this is the most important thing.
This graffiti school is so interesting! Can't help doodling!
In addition to basic composition and color matching, there are various interesting games, such as coloring games, collage adventures, crayon games, ink creativity, Nelle and Flantz cartoon classes, letter graffiti and so on.
I didn't expect graffiti to be so interesting!
Collage adventure, put different pieces of paper together in different ways to make pictures. You can use colored, patterned or textured paper, wrapping paper, old letters, photos or art paper. There is a blank to fill the refrigerator with food, which is really interesting! You can also post houses, shops, cars and trees on books!
Crayon game, you can use different crayons and paint colorful background colors. You can also draw a thick layer on the background color with black crayons. What's more interesting is that you can also scrape the car with a coating! Scenery, houses, monsters, puppies … anything!
There are also fun ink ideas! It can be done with watercolor paints and crayons. First, fold a piece of paper in the middle, add water to adjust a color, and smear some on the paper. Fold the paper in half and flatten it before opening it. Repeat this step several times. When you find an image on paper, draw an outline with a colored pencil. Color the image and decorate the details. This is particularly interesting!
The game of leaves and flowers is also very interesting. You can recycle some waste paper, glue or glue sticks, use thick books, pencils or watercolor paints, and also use leaves and flowers! Collecting leaves and flowers and sticking them on people is very interesting!
In Neil and Flantz's cartoon class, you can quickly learn how to draw wonderful cartoons!
Judging from the expression, movement and painting sound, it's fun and simple! Most importantly, children can easily feel the fun of graffiti and fall in love with painting.
This book is really a good painting enlightenment book!
Reflections on Graffiti School (V): Creating Beauty with Children
All along, I have a dream in my heart, and that is to learn to draw. I didn't study art as a child, but now I only know some stick figures. Every time I want to study hard, I will be disturbed by trivial things in my life and stagnate. Therefore, I want to take my child to learn painting after I have a child at home. But a friend who teaches children painting said, "Now the children's painting training class is to play with children for an afternoon. What can such a small child understand, and the teacher doesn't know how to stimulate their creativity. " Perhaps, the cultivation of this art is a waste of children's creativity.
I have seen many teaching materials for children's painting and seen the introduction of this book-13 graffiti class+14 artists+more than 70 graffiti techniques. This lineup is exciting. From creating images, compositions and colors to using leaves, seals and ink, this book provides many good ways to stimulate children's creativity, and children's creation is a surprise gift.
The first revelation from this book is that it is not so difficult to create, but to find the right method. Everyone is a great artist. If you are not confident as an adult, you might as well create ideas from ink and wash. This lesson reminds me that when we were watercolors in junior high school, we dared to use various colors to reconcile. A watercolor painting with folded paper is a beautiful color painting. At that time, we dared to create, and now we can have a creative competition with our children.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and children's imagination is richer than that of any adult. Give him a pen, and he can continue painting, like a born artist. When my friends and I went to her training class to practice this book, the children could draw a kind of charm with both form and spirit, regardless of figures, flowers and animals. This is the child's innate observation and association.
The second revelation is that the ability to discover beauty is more important. There is a sentence in the preface, which I deeply agree with, that is, "art, art, beauty comes first, art comes last." Adults often lose the ability to discover beauty in trivial matters, and it is not surprising to see everything. And the children I want to cultivate are this kind of appreciation of beauty, curiosity and awe of the world and nature. When children learn collage and create with flowers and plants, they can always find some interesting materials and some humble flowers and plants, and the formation of creativity is often natural.
It is not that the world lacks beauty, but that we gradually lose the ability to discover beauty. Cultivating children's painting and creation from an early age also hopes that children will not lose their initial heart and the joy of life as they grow up day by day. I hope that when children are sad, depressed and bored, one more thing can make them happy again.
The last revelation is that parents should not miss the growth of their children. In the training class, many parents send their children to school and pick them up two hours later. This is really a perfunctory way of education. Chinese-style education has trapped children in the quagmire of studying and attending training courses.
At the age when children are most curious, parents should spend more time with their children, get close to nature and explore the outside world. If you don't know how to start, this "Graffiti School" can undoubtedly be your parent-child interaction enlightenment book. When this book is a graffiti teaching book or a creative enlightenment book, the most important thing is to create beauty with children.
Graffiti School Comments (6): Is your child still doodling on the wall? Go to graffiti school to study!
A brief comment on graffiti school
Since the child entered the interest period of painting, although she signed up for an art painting class and prepared painting supplies to remind her not to paint on the wall, the walls at home have become her canvases one by one. I believe many parents have this kind of helpless experience. Children are naturally fond of graffiti. Driven by curiosity, although they are keen on "creation", it is a headache for parents. Because most parents don't know the principle of painting, they won't systematically guide their children with professional knowledge such as children's psychology and art. In the face of graffiti that children may start at any time and place, they carefully criticize and worry about how to educate and guide. Graffiti School (Houlang Publishing Company Edition) produced by German Graffiti Master Studio provides a perfect solution for children and parents who like graffiti.
Graffiti Master Studio consists of 14 artists from Germany. Their works are often exhibited internationally, and they have won many international awards and nominations, showing their profound artistic creation skills, rich creative experience and unique artistic perspective. Because of their love and enthusiasm for art, their graffiti books and game books are often internationally renowned and become popular bestsellers in the publishing industry.
Although these artists have different styles and main directions, they are all good at leading children into the interesting and beneficial painting world from a childlike perspective and in a way that children like. In the book "Graffiti School", there is no profound and complicated theory, and letting children draw directly is the biggest feature. Taking interesting stories and tasks as clues, the author has collected and arranged various wonderful graffiti methods for children, which is enough to make children give up "painting on the wall" and turn to books and graffiti themes that can be seen everywhere in life.
This book starts with basic techniques such as "sculpture", "composition" and "small coloring", so that children can establish a sense of norms and rules from the beginning. For example, in the "composition" part, we explain from four aspects: big and small, many and few, front and back, deep and shallow, and use the method of page comparison and difference amplification to deepen children's understanding and understanding. On this point, my children and I have a deep understanding. My children like drawing very much. People, animals and flowers are all her favorite graffiti objects, but the proportion of the images she draws is seriously out of balance. When I pointed out her shortcomings and asked her to correct them, she gave such and such reasons. In order not to affect her interest and self-confidence, I also gave up, but this imbalance was obviously inappropriate and she never corrected it properly. In the two classes of "Creating Image" and "Composition" in this book, children are taught to pay attention to the composition of graffiti in a direct contrast way, which makes them easy to accept. From this lesson on, children consciously pay attention to the size and proportion of their painting objects, and the position before and after, which makes me secretly happy.
Although this book has only 13 graffiti class, there are as many as 70 graffiti techniques, and the graffiti themes, scenes and effects are also very rich. In addition to common pencils, crayons and watercolor pens, all kinds of discarded newspapers, cartons, leaves, flowers and cloth strips at home can be used for graffiti. These courses have arranged concise material preparation and production instructions according to the simple to complex demonstrations. In addition to the basic courses, there are also advanced courses such as self-made seals, mosaic works of art and comic creation. Parents can work with their children and have a happy parent-child time. For example, when I watched Leaves and Flowers, my children and I went to the park to collect leaves of various shapes, and put them in a thick book according to the method in the book, ready to flatten and dry, and make our own works.
"Beauty and meditation, only art and wisdom" is a sentence I saw in a painting tutorial class. Graffiti, a child's favorite way of self-expression, can also play a role of meditation and wisdom if used properly and persisted for a long time.
After graduating from graffiti school, your child's canvas can definitely be moved from the wall to the drawing paper.
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Reflection on Graffiti School (7): Come on, this is an introductory book for children's graffiti.
The secret garden popular in the circle of friends some time ago is known as a hand-painted coloring book for exploring fairyland.
I bought a book with the wind, picked up a colored pencil and drew silently for a few minutes when I was in a bad mood. After painting, you can see the amazing effect instantly, which is quite effective immediately. It is really cured in a short time.
Now that I have this graffiti school in my hand, I can't help thinking of the secret garden.
If the adult world is suitable for the secret garden with fixed rules and simple operation, then the coloring book suitable for children is undoubtedly this graffiti school.
13 graffiti class, more than 70 graffiti skills. ...
Get out of the bondage of the adult world and let the children's original graffiti creativity be completely released.
Appropriate simple materials, such as colored pencils, crayons, pigments, etc. Together with simple leaves and flowers or twigs and worn-out newspapers, large areas of blank space in books are waiting for children to create freely.
This book tells you that it doesn't matter even if you don't have any painting foundation. You can still draw excellent works with spots and scribbled lines. As long as you use your imagination, troubled lines and maybe two eyes are a cute little ant ... (even I always get a B in painting in primary school, and I have the motivation to brush again. _)
With the graffiti in the previous chapters as the foundation, I will definitely have a certain understanding of spatial geometry and color matching ability, and also have simple composition skills, because the book will tell children how to express distance, how to overlap and fold colors …
In addition, there are many interesting courses in the book, such as seal making, crayon drawing game, ink creativity and cartoon class.
The best part is the letter graffiti part. Everyone of us knows ABC, and letters are often used in writing. I remember learning letters in kindergarten was boring, but through this book, you can "draw" letters. Through the tips given in the book, colorful letters of different sizes and shapes are presented to children in different ways, and children are guided to "draw" letters step by step, which not only teaches them letters, but also helps them.
Do you want to see every letter become a beast, a monster with claws and wings, a lovely sea fish, or a shocking fantasy image?
Take a look at this book. You can even form a castle with the letter ABC. ! Can you imagine?
As long as you use your imagination of color and space, everything can be obtained through simple graffiti!
In short, with this book, even parents who are amateurs will educate their children so easily.