Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Infante week 3: moving onto canvas


Following on from last week’s design work the girls at Infante moved onto canvases this week, starting with painting acrylic base colours, learning from Maddie about how to mix secondary colours from primary.
 

Emphasising the theme of community, we looked at images of the Meninadança Pink House Respect Puzzle as reference, and marked up the canvases in such a way that each canvas will be connected to its two neighbours by continuing its pattern onto them and having their patterns continue onto its surface.    Once this idea was clear the girls were happy to begin painting onto their canvases.  One pair actually worked together on one canvas, seeming to have more confidence in painting together than separately.

 
Emma Romana and I marking up the canvases – this is Emma who is on placement with ICYE here in Cochabamba that I bumped into in the boarding queue for Heathrow back in September.  It is also Emma who originally introduced me to Infante and who is my collaborator with this group along with SB volunteer Maddie – thanks for the introduction Em!
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