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| Heart Hours @ Art Hours |
Our activities include Drawing, Painting, Origami, Clay Modeling, Calligraphy and more...This post is dedicated to all the art and craft work related with this Valentine Season.
Before I begin to elaborate on the activities we did, let Art Hours wish you all readers a very Happy Valentine's Day (belated wishes). Do you know why Valentine's Day is celebrated? Well, the reason or the roots behind the Valentine Day is not very clear...there are many stories that revolve around the day. Some say it was celebrated to honor a St. Valentine who was martyred on 14th Feb, while some say it was declared by Chaucer to celebrate it as a mating season of the birds and since then it has been celebrated as a day associated with romance. Whatever the reason maybe, today it has certainly become a commercial success and is celebrated all around the world with the exchange of gifts, cards, flowers and more...
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| Valentine's Day Wishes |
It was fun as we discovered different variations of the origami heart models designed by origami artists around the world. Some required square sheets, while some required rectangular sheets. Also, some models were made using just a single sheet while some required the use of multiple sheets. All were fun to make, and here's what we tried.
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| 1 - An Origami Square Box with a Heart insert 2 - Clover Heart frame 3 - Two Hearts 4 - Heart Stand 5 - Dual colored Heart 6 - Heart Insert 7 - Dual colored Heart - variation |
Below, are some Traditional Origami Heart models and its different variations. Very often, I post tutorials on this blog and recently I posted one on the winged heart as you see in the picture below. It was a recent post and it didn't take long to make. Here's a link on how to make the winged heart and how to hide secret messages in its compartments. Just click here to view the tutorial.
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| 1 - Heart with a crane 2 - Winged Heart 3 - Standing Heart 01 4 - Standing Heart 02 5 - Heart insert 5a - Heart insert 6 - Dual colored Heart - Variation 1 7 - Dual colored Heart - Variation 2 8 - Easy Heart model |
The next on our list below are the Origami Roses; we made some on the request of a client and some just for fun. All of them were single sheet models, except for model-4, which is a magic rose box and is modular origami involving the use of 6 units. Model-1 shows some red and pink quilled roses complete with a calyx, leaf, and stem. Model-2 is a jeweled origami rose, which didn't come out the way it should, but it was a challenge folding it.
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| 1 - Quilled origami roses 2- Jeweled origami rose 3 - Twisted roses 4 - Magic rose box |
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| 1 - Quilled origami rose 2 - Origami rose - Kawasaki rose variation |
From our Students' portfolio, we have some Calligraphy and Origami work below. Made by kids in the age group of 8-9 year old, the students are learning both calligraphy and origami, and it was an exercise they loved doing since it combined both the above-mentioned skills. So based on the valentine theme for friends, Art Hours students tried their hand at Calligraphy using simple Mid Schooler style fonts to send out a beautiful message this Valentine Season; "True Friends are like a candle burning in the dark." and they learned to make an origami easy heart and a candle too.
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| Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section |
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| Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section |
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| Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section |
From the Students' Drawing section for kids in the age group of 6-8, the exercise was to explore with the heart shape. We got some interesting drawings by the kids from this age group.
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| Drawing with Hearts - A mouse, a flower, a princess, a house |
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| Drawing with Hearts - A caterpillar, a cat face, a fish |
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| Drawing with Hearts - A Flamingo pair, Butterfly, Umbrella |
From our Clay modeling section we did make a lot of clay hearts, clay Diya and more...Here is a link to the tutorial for making clay heart pendant or clay trinkets using air dry clay. I had posted a tutorial earlier this month, you can check it out here.
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| Clay Heart Trinkets |
Hope you enjoyed the glimpse at the 'Heart Hours' at Art Hours and I hope the links to the tutorials attached are helpful.
Do come and join us...we do a lot of art and craft activities every week at - The Gardens, Dubai. To know more about our activities you can click on this link here.
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