Pretend Play & Magical Thinking

For this activity, I chose to transform the wire plug into an elephant by using the artistic style called "Surrealism". "Surrealism means super-realism. It attempts to  create a magical, dreamlike world that is more intense than real" (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009, P. 204). By using a real object and transform it with our imagination. Just like the wire plug, the wire is long as the elephant trunk, and the shape of the wire plug would be the body of the elephant. Last by adding the eyes, ears, legs, and tail, the elephant will come to life.

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^thEd.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.

Grocery shopping with a twist

The food category I chose to do this blog is my favorite fruit "STRAWBERRY". From this category, I could think of strawberry candy, ice-cream, juice, and with chocolate dipped, shortcake, cheesecake, jello, jam, salad, muffin, pie, wine, bubble tea etc. Strawberry is not only delicious, but also nutritious that it contains a range of nutrients. What really inspire me is how one thing (strawberry) can turn in to a variety of treat in different shape and texture for us to enjoy. According to Schirrmacher & Fox (2009), texture refers to the surface quality of a work of art. Just like strawberry itself may taste sour and juicy, and ice-cream maybe cold and sweet etc. And the shape of these products (strawberry candy, ice-cream, juicy...etc)  are turn into either geometrical or non-geometrical shapes that vary from one another.

Out of the list of my example, I have chosen to sketch four of my favorite product made from strawberry, and they are strawberry candy, chocolate dipped strawberry, strawberry ice-cream and strawberry juice. Each strawberry has their own shape, although they are very alike, some are bigger than other, rounder than tho other. Chocolate dipped strawberry is very similar to strawberry except with chocolate the texture may taste better and sweeter, especially yummier :) Candy vary from both shape like lollipop, jellybeans, marshmallow...etc and texture can be hard, soft or chewy. Ice-cream, depending on how we scope it it may have a different shape, and the texture is very cold and it will cool you down from anger haha. Strawberry juice, there is no shape because it had turn into liquid, and the texture is more watery but sweet. THEY ARE JUST DELICIOUS !

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^thEd.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.

"Collaging" with Scissors

"How I understand and see the world"
Personally, I believe there are many different views to view our own world depending on different aspects and situations. Because this is creative art, I have chosen a more artistic view to share.

I chose to use the word "COLLAGING" to fill in the blank of ________ with Scissors. As John Locke stated, the human mind at birth is a blank slate (nature), and as we grow up and we will start collecting our own experience (nurture) and fill it in to create our own picture. Just like my art work, I start off with a blank piece of white board, then I fill it up with pictures both related to myself (like my families, stuffs that I like etc) or pictures I found interesting. My theme of this is to make it real, because it is about myself and the way how i understand the world. As Schirrmacher & Fox (2009) stated, Realism is "the artist's attempt to make art objective and like the actual object".

See the girl who is blowing bubbles at the right corner? That's me. I believe everyone is fill with colour deep inside of them, and it is up to us to decide how we want to view the world with colour or not. The whole board is mainly black and white (representing the world), and the bubble represent how I see the world, as the bubble pop, the area around it will turn into colour (the world is so big, and I am so small which only some spots are filled with colour, the remaining black and white represent the world that I have not yet seen, and the world we refuse to see.) It should be very common that most of us viewed colour as happy and black and white as sadness, which I would love to pop all my bubbles so my world is fill with colour (happiness). To me, I believe colour is one of the most important element in art, because each colour represent a sense of mood that would affect and help us to view things differently.

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6^thEd.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.