Character
Painting Poster
Stella Martinet a
Philiphine living in Thailand, A talented member of Bangkoks painting group
was of course ideal to manage the Painting station where we asked the kids to
draw all together one big poster with everybody's face. She was assisted by
two Thai students from KMUTT K Daeng and K Som. The kids have
been asked to paint each other in the way they see the other person. Not so
much the outside, but the inside of each characteristic. Have a look at some
of the Picasso, Munch, Dolle, Miro and Dali they created.
In Stella's own words,
see text within the visuals
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"It was a delight to see these groups of children creating lovely works
of art. And it feels rewarding just
knowing that you were a part of this colorful process. My gratitude to you
Lukas for inviting me to share
what I can for such a worthwhile undertaking. Also, many thanks to my station-mates,
P. Daeng and K. Som for doing the thai translations for me. It was nice
getting to know you and having chit chats withboth
of you. Hope to someday share time with you again." |
"The more mature participants’ (teens) drawings were obviously
with more details and precision. Almost all
of them used the “glitters” except for one or two teens who preferred
using the black colored pens.
Among the glitters
used, gold was the most sought-after, followed by the colors silver, red,
green, blue.
For the girls,
pink was often used. Styles varied, some works had touches of or similar
to Japanese cartoon characters. Among the mediums used, crayons were the
last preference." |
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"It was fairly easy for the succeeding groups to do the task that we
requested them to do because of the impressions left by our first batch.
We needed just a little explanation and they did it on their own. Some were
so spontaneous that the paintings were done in about 3 minutes. Others really
took their time and we even have to stop some of them otherwise, they would
go on and on and there wouldn’t be space left for
the next groups." |
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| This
station was sponsored by The Car leasing in North Thailand, Pattanasin
Leasing Ltd. |
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In her own words: The
first bunch of children that came to us were originally reluctant to paint the
faces of their friends on the wide white paper we provided, with reasons such
as they do not know how to paint and that it’s difficult to do it. But
after showing them a very simple illustration of how they can do it and a little
motivation,the children began to express their creativity. Some took longer
than the others but the eagerness wasthere. It took them longer than 12 minutes,
but of course that was okay.
It was fairly easy for the
succeeding groups to do the task that we requested them to do because of the
impressions left by our first batch. We needed just a little explanation and
they did it on their own. Some were so spontaneous that the paintings were done
in about 3 minutes. Others really took their time and we even have to stop some
of them otherwise, they would go on and on and there wouldn’t be space
left for the next groups.
The more mature participants’
(teens) drawings were obviously with more details and precision. Almost all
of them used the “glitters” except for one or two teens who preferred
using the black colored pens. Among the glitters used, gold was the most sought-after,
followed by the colors silver, red, green, blue. For
the girls, pink was often used. Styles varied, some works had touches of or
similar to Japanese cartoon characters. Among the mediums used, crayons were
the last preference.
We had a total of 8 groups
that came to our painting station and all of them except for one boy, did what
was asked of them. First, I tried to motivate him but he stayed quiet. Feeling
the need, K. Som came to the rescue, but even with her gentle persuasion, the
boy just stayed as an observer. He wouldn’t even be persuaded to write
his name. But that’s okay with us, no problem. I just hope he enjoyed going
to all the other stations and the rest of the activities in the afternoon.
It was a delight to see
these groups of children creating lovely works of art. And it feels rewarding
just knowing that you were a part of this colorful process. My gratitude to
you Lukas for inviting me to share what I can for such a worthwhile undertaking.
Also, many thanks to my station-mates, P. Daeng and K. Som for doing the thai
translations for me. It was nice getting to know you and having chit chats with
both of you. Hope to someday share time with you again.
Congratulations everyone
for a superb job! With my best regards…
Stella Martinet