The sixth phase of natural aesthetic education: ink and wash wet extension painting

Written in front: Compared with the first five periods of natural aesthetic education, the relationship between artistic activities and nature in this period is relatively weak. The main task is to do some review and thinking, and welcome professionals and parents to come and shoot bricks!

After the solar term in Grain Rain, Hangzhou did not hesitate to bid farewell to the late spring and went straight to the early summer. Grapefruit flowers blooming everywhere in the community, with sweet fragrance, play hide-and-seek with people in the cold south wind in the morning and evening. Looking for flowers, you can walk to the lotus pond in the community. I can't help thinking here: Is the designer of this landscape just a fan of Monet's paintings? You see, weeping willows, lotus flowers, iris flowers and Xiao Mu arch bridge are very similar to Monet Garden in giverny. Moreover, our "garden" is not only beautiful, but more importantly, it is also rich in a kind of food (three shouts): crayfish! Crawfish! Crawfish ~ ~

So don't go far away for activities during this time, just enjoy the beauty from around you near home!

First, master the method of ink wetting, and feel the joy brought by this "uncertain" beautiful pattern that is difficult to predict accurately in advance!

Secondly, according to the characteristics of ink texture formed by wet extension, imagine adding a few lines or colors to improve the picture.

Third, in the process of drying rubbings, learn to arrange time as a whole and enjoy the fun of crayfish fishing.

1. Necessary materials: plastic plate (storage box cover), salt, ink, rice paper, small drop bottle (empty eye drops bottle), small watercolor pen, watercolor or traditional Chinese painting pigment, palette, pen washing container. The fishing rod of crayfish can be used freely, and the bait is pig liver, so the bait rate is high!

Second, alternative materials: waste paper with better water absorption.

Second, safety supplies: anti-mosquito liquid, etc.

Participants in this activity are a two-and-a-half-week-old child and a five-year-old girl. Because they live very close, they each carry painting materials or crayfish fishing gear and walk to the pavilion next to the lotus pond in the community.

First of all, I showed the children some wet ink paintings that my daughter and I drew at home the night before, and asked them if they could guess whether these smooth patterns were drawn with strokes or in other ways. The children showed puzzled expressions in succession.

So I took out the plastic board, poured some water and a few spoonfuls of salt, and asked the curious children to come up in turn to help me stir the salt evenly and melt it in the water (salt is added to increase buoyancy and make the ink float on the water, which is easier to be sucked up by rice paper).

Then, I poured two drops of ink into the pen container, diluted it with twice as much water (to avoid the ink being too thick and easy to sink), and then sucked half a bottle of ink with a small suction bottle.

Then, once again, let the children take turns to drop a drop of ink on this clear salt water. (Different salinity in water and different ink concentration will affect the shape and color of the texture. )

Wow, the ink drops falling into the water bloom like flowers in an instant! Then bring a watercolor pen and gently stroke the ink with one end of the pen, and the flowers in this water will continue to spread and bloom, enchanting and hovering.

At this time, take a piece of rice paper and gently dip it in water. Suddenly, everything in the previous second spread out and hovered, and immediately stopped on the paper, as if all the good things were quiet and eternal in an instant.

The children's expressions changed from doubt to surprise, and they couldn't help dropping ink into the water again and again, and then came to the rice paper to show this unpredictable and accidental beauty.

Because the goal of the second part of the activity is to add some perfect pictures on dry ink rice paper. Then, on this sunny day, it is the best way to put the wet rubbings on other absorbent paper (you can also use other blank rice paper directly, because sometimes the ink on it will accidentally form another "ink painting" and flatten it in the sun. And in this drying process, you can happily catch crayfish! I made an appointment with my children. Half an hour later, when the wet rubbings dried up, I went back to the pavilion to continue painting.

In half an hour to an hour, the sun is enough to dry wet rubbings. And the children who catch crayfish have already had a full harvest!

After returning to the pavilion, I chose the wet rubbings I made just now. I thought in advance that because each painting is different in abstraction, each child's exposure to painting is also different, so the original plan is: if the children can't tell what the pattern produced by wet extension looks like at the moment, let them take the painting to the natural environment around the small pond to observe and compare it and see if it will inspire. However, in practice, it was found that as soon as the three children picked up the pen, they quickly immersed themselves in their own imagination or exploration of colors and strokes, and did not hesitate too much or know how to put pen to paper as expected. Although I didn't completely "let go" at the beginning, I still tried to remind my children to look at the texture formed by ink painting, what things in life can correspond, and then add several characteristic forms appropriately to form a composition picture with a certain sense of control. However, seeing them firmly immersed in their own small world and seriously involved, I simply changed the original plan and let them play freely, explore and construct themselves! See what happens.

Results Three children showed three different behaviors. Except for the first texture, the child shouted: Like a fish! Moreover, except for painting it as a fish and painting it as a big red in the New Year, the other two children did not further describe it according to our adults' expectations, such as the swan with wings (peacock) and the running water in the mountains. This is normal. After all, everyone's experience is different, and it is impossible to form a completely consistent cognitive state and expression, not to mention the gap between children and adults.

One of the two children seems to cherish the ink and wash patterns in the picture. At first, she didn't want to change it She just drew a fireball of heat and speed in the blank to match what she thought was the "devil" theme. At the end of the painting, she improvised an absurd and happy story for her mother.

Another child is more interested in the brush strokes and colors formed on Xuan paper than the ink and texture on the paper. We seem to have forgotten the wet rubbings we just made. Quietly and intently, we dipped our brushes in various colors of pigments and drew something that looked like a rainbow to us adults. But when asked what she painted, the answer was not "rainbow" but "I don't know"-"the result" meant nothing to her. It seems important that when pen and paper are intoxicated with paint, she is exploring miracles. (Oh, it's a pity that my royal photographer was busy fishing crayfish and missed her work after adding "Rainbow" ~ ~)

These direct experiences are very important in children's creation, and it is also necessary to give children time to explore the aftertaste. The so-called flowers to bloom.

I have done five activities before, and by the end of this issue, it seems that it is my turn to make God laugh ~ ~

Nowadays, when we praise children's paintings more and more generously and are keen to praise them as young artists, as a parent, I am still eager to know the difference between these children's works and those placed in museums and art galleries, especially those that seem exaggerated and casual. As a non-art major, I have always hoped that I can get to know something through the process of contact with children. Perhaps, those works that can be called works of art are because they can stimulate the viewer's relatively ordinary * * * sounds (some of them are not without * * * sounds, but the time has not yet come), as if because of some frontier (such as life, emotional experience or knowledge structure similar to the viewer), the viewer's heart will fluctuate when he sees it, and he is even willing to continue to communicate with the details of the art and his own heart. Children's works, especially children before the age of six, are spontaneously created without the guidance of adults. Because of their relatively few life experiences and various sensory experiences, they usually only show their own very personalized and personalized inner experiences, and the works they show are not so easy to cause the audience's common * * * sounds, just like our own privately recorded diary of very personalized experiences and pure inner monologues, no matter how gorgeous and beautifully structured. It can't be called a work of art if it can't arouse readers' attention.

From this perspective, although we often see some examples, such as Matisse and Picasso. To express their views on learning from children, what they learn from children is only a unique perspective of "primitive" and "narrow", not the content of the picture. At the same time, children and creativity are not naturally equal, which means that children's creativity can neither be underestimated nor overestimated. For children, in addition to accumulating life experience as much as possible, especially direct experience, it is necessary to constantly broaden the "five senses" and even the special sensory abilities of orientation, time and gravity, guide them how to summarize after careful observation, and constantly practice and develop the thinking habits of analogy, transformation and synaesthesia between concrete and concrete, so as to further enhance their creativity.

Sunshine, air and love, the most precious things in the world are priceless. Cherish every comfortable and hazy day!