Studio Purple is a colorful class! That is, the children have been drawn to colors from the very beginning of our year. Exploring translucent color and light in blocks, we moved this very same provocation to our easel. How would the influence of light and the possibility of moving color dots inform the children’s painting?
In some cases, the dots and light cast onto the easel provided the children a means to interact with the objects through their movements in their brushstrokes. Long, winding and avoiding strokes along with edging lines and fill-ins created beautifully abstract works.
For others, in this case Madeline R. and Eleanor, the projected colorful dots and light did not necessarily influence but rather we wondered if they were influenced from another space in our studio. The girls chose to pay homage to something near and dear to both of them, “home”, as well as creating a familiar structure we’ve explored in other ways.
“It’s a house that’s magical.”
“It’s a house. There’s no snow, no Winter…”
-Madeline R.
Ada chose to use the addition of colorful dots and lights to guide in her creation of a “candy making machine.”
“Want to look at this?”
“Yeah, now even a line!”
“A candy making machine…”
“Here’s where it get’s made and here’s where it gets zoomed out.”
-Ada
Liam works similarly as Ada with the addition of first arranging the colorful dots on the projector himself, as he wishes, before proceeding with his painting…
“A bridge.”
“All of the lines are pieces and if there are cracks in the middle, you have to go on the side.”
“The dots let me know where to go.”
-Liam