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Our Journey in Creating Art Toys:
In a rich learning environment led by Sam Lo and Daniel Yu, we began
our exciting art making sessions, investigating our ideas and challenging
ourselves with the new mediums -- Super Sculpey and Epoxy Putty.
Ideating through sketches and research, all the teacher-participants
began to translate our discoveries and endless possibilities through
sculpting.
A Reflective Learning Art Journey through:
PLAYING
Engaging the mind with fun
activities, feeding the mind
with knowledge without
judgement or consequences. CREATING
INVESTIGATING REFLECTION
Self-directed learning
through exploration and
experimentation with
medium.
Personal interpretation of
an ‘Alter-Ego’ manifested
through intention and self-
discovery.
Sharing our thinking processes
and outcomes through
articulation of our ideas and
showcase of artworks.
Recounting the Journey of Toy Sculpting: Telling Our Stories Awakening Our Inner Artist at STAR
The symbolic representation of our ‘alter-ego’ character that we created
is part of the creative play scenario — we had to investigate, explore
and play with the Super Sculpey to understand how it worked before
we created our final artwork. We examined the material with curiosity
and interest. It was a playful exploration of materials, trial and error, and
a process of self-discovery. This was when I began to understand that I
was not just creating art. I was telling my story. The sessions were about
telling our individual stories and childlike fantasies through our artworks. Creating your own art puts you at the heart
of the art-making process. We create our
stories. What is yours?
“Everything you
can imagine is
real.”
Pablo Picasso
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