Thema: Arts & Crafts

For the stories unit, pupils first of all practiced skills at blending and modifying color tones with paint before creating background landscape paintings which later included trees, story characters and other props that came together to create a small model of a stage set that could be used to help ...

On Thursday, February 11, Berlin Cosmopolitan School will open our Art Space for the exhibition of grade 9,  11 and 12 (Abitur). In this exhibition, called "Eine andere Ausstellung" ("A different exhibition") the students will show a variety of their art work of the last semester. You will see not only drawings, ...

For the 2nd Grade Unit of The Elements, Mr.Dulloo and Mr.Carter's students explored the medium of water and watercolors inspired by the work of artist Paul Klee. For 2nd Graders, they did an impressive job! [caption id="attachment_3859" align="alignright" width="300"] Selection of 2nd Grade Watercolors.[/caption]

During the class unit on signs, pupils were encouraged to think about shapes and colours used on signs that they see in everyday life before creating their own imaginary signs that express their own rules and preferences. We looked at the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and asked pupils to try ...

For the unit on the body systems, we started with some drawing exercises to improve understanding of the proportions of the human body. Then pupils began the process of creating their own 3d model of a human figure. This was assembled using rolled up newspaper, masking tape and paper mache ...

Alongside the class theme of food webs, pupils worked in groups each corresponding to a different diverse habitats e.g. desert, mountain, rivers, rainforest to create 3d dioramas illustrating essential elements of the food web for each environment. To help present the landscapes, animals and vegetation to best effect, pupils worked ...

We began the school year by working alongside with the class unit on stories. After some drawing exercises to help with drawing faces and representing emotions through various facial expressions, pupils created small cut out cardboard characters and various backgrounds as both aids to developing a story and props for ...

For the Architecture unit, pupils started with some drawing exercises to help differentiate important historic architectural styles. To help understand how architects 2d drawings can represent 3d buildings, simple 2d facades and plans were illustrated, cut out and folded to make small 3d houses. The floor plans developed by each ...

For a cross-curricular project between the German and Art departments on design and advertising, Grade 7 visited and reviewed the 'Mucha, Manga, Mystery' exhibition at the Bröhan Museum.

This term, the class have looked at urban and contemporary art that steps out of the traditional gallery environment. To complement their work and highlight the power of cross-disciplinary arts, the class visited the stunning, multi-media David Bowie Exhibition. They experienced sound and vision in the form of GPS audio-guides ...