The Most Expressive Art Award 2013 年度最佳作品表现奖

For the 1^st time, Angels’ Art Studio decided to award all of her little angel students an award for their creative artworks being produced over the year. Our intention and objectives are to:

·         Encourage our students;

·         Build up their sense of self-achievement and self-value;

·         Experience happy memories and memorable journey in learning art.

We really appreciate their efforts and creativity. All the artworks produced by each individual will be gathered and the best one will be selected. Therefore, every single child has an equal opportunity to win this Special award. It is also our Greatest gift of love that we can give to our students.

We’d like to grab this opportunity to give our deepest heart-felt gratitude to the invited judge – Mr. Tan Tong, a well-known senior artist in Malaysia, who went through serious and professional artwork selection process for all of our students.

Below are the awarded artworks, and comments are given from the 2 judges: Mr. Tan Tong and the founder of Angels’ Art Studio, Ms. Sarana Khoo. These comments are for the parents to have deeper understanding on their children’s work why it’s to be the best piece and also have better understanding on what children’s art is about.

 

Cheng Ian Meng   庄炎茗   (4+ yrs, 2013)

Title : Experimenting, Exploring..

试验中、探索中

Comments 评语：

小孩在作画过程中一直不断试验，大胆地探索混合媒介在纸上“搞破坏”。先是黑粉彩涂鸦一番，然后挤满糨糊，贴上剪纸，再随意粘上粉彩棒，完成！

通过思考；运用自己的双手双脚来制作、创造、破坏；让世界产生变化，而那种变化可以直接让自己的双眼、耳朵和肌肤来感受 -- 这种游戏对孩子来说，没有比这更快乐的了！

This little artist kept experimenting and experiencing mixed media on the paper. Firstly doodled around with black pastel, spread the glue all over the paper, stuck the paper cutting and lastly glued randomly glued the pastel sticks!

Through the thinking process and actions, it changes the surrounding world differently through using the limbs to produce, create, destroy and feel with owns eyes, ears and skin directly. ---- Such game is forever the most enjoyable game for children.

 

 

Kareena  Karthikeyen    (4 yrs, 2013)

Title : The Sleeping Red Snake

睡午觉的红蛇

Comments 评语：

笔触纯真、直接。画题和画面有趣可爱，表现出了红蛇懒懒睡午觉的姿态，令人看了会心一笑。绘画是孩子的一种表达方式，儿童画里总是充满了故事，也充满了像诗般的意境。所以欣赏孩子的作品时，不仅仅看看孩子画了什么形象，更要认真地听听孩子讲述画里的故事，讲述自己的感受与发现。很多时候儿童画是“听”了才能够明白的东西，而不是用“看”的。他们的画只有被“听”了才更具表达意义和理解意义，无形中也增加了表达和学习沟通的乐趣呢。所以作为父母和老师最重要的态度就是用心去“听”，去了解，去感受，无须多于的批判批评！

The strokes are innocense and direct. The title and the scene are cute and interesting where the lazily sleeping red snake is well expressed in the painting.

Art is a way of expression for children. There are always full of stories and poems in children's art. Therefore, when we look at their art, we not only see what they draw, but rather we Listen to what the stories/feelings/discoveries they want to tell in the drawing. Most of the time, the children's art is meant to be LISTENED, rathen than to be seened merely. It is when being listened, the drawing turns out to be more meaningful and understandable, as well as bringing lots of joy in expression and communication learning. As a parent and teacher, the most important attitude is we use our heart to LISTEN to them, to understand them and to feel them. They do not need additional judgements and criticism from us.

 

Esther Low Chiao En  刘巧恩    (5 yrs, 2012)

Title : My Father

我的爸爸

Comments 评语：

笔触有力豪放的挥洒，用色亮丽，整幅画令人感到很生动有生命力,也很有感染力。

与小孩感情最亲密的就是父母，几乎占据了他们大部分的世界，所以他们常常会画自己的爸爸和妈妈，以表示对他们的爱。小孩一般上都会用自己的符号和方式来表现自己的爸爸妈妈，并表达自己的愿望。一幅孩子为了表达自己的爱与感动的画，即使在技术上尚未成熟，也能感染赏画者的内心深处。而小孩从内心深处所要表达的愿望也得到了满足。简单来说，这就是艺术活动所带给我们心灵美的感动，是一种人生美丽的快乐呀！

The wild spontaneous brush strokes with strength and the bright colours have created the feeling of Life and have a strong visual appeal. 

Parents are the most intimate people to the children. They are their world. This is why quite often the children use their own symbols or own ways to present their Papa & Mama, and to express their own wish. An artwork that contains love and dreams will touch the people's heart, even though it is not skillfully presented. They feel contented when their inner wish can be expressed fully, too. This is the most beautiful part that the Art gives us. It's also one of the true beautiful happiness in life!

 

Amirul Haikal b. Zaharol    (6 yrs, 2013)

Title : The Snake and the Precious Blue Crytal Ball

守护蓝色水晶球的蛇

 

Comments 评语：

孩子的想象力丰富，观察力很好，表达能力极佳，描绘能力很强。从水彩上色来看，也能看得出孩子可以把水彩控制得非常好。以一个6岁之前未被正式教过学画的孩子来说，这手部可以控制得如此稳定是非常难得的。他的绘画能力可以说非常的强，很有天赋。只要好好培养、正确地引导、父母多让孩子的生活经验丰富，在生活中多创造美好快乐的回忆，孩子自然而然能够发展得很好。

请减少孩子看电视玩电玩的时间！让孩子和大自然在一起，和朋友在一起过那种生气勃勃的生活。父母也要和孩子一起多多地体验生命中的感动与快乐。无论是多么小的事，只要是发自内心的欢笑和喜悦，就是有生命力的生活，就能够延生出幸福的、充满感染力的好作品。

This  little artist has great imagination, good observation, very expressive and has strong drawing skills. From the way he painted water colours, we can see that he can control his hand very well and very steady. This is increadible for a 6-year-old kid who never learn art before! With proper guidance, consistent learning, the parents put in efforts in creating natural life experience and happy memories, will then make the child develop better and better as he grows.

REDUCE the unhealthy TV time and computer games for children! Do let them be with the Nature most of the time and let them enjoy the lively life with friends. The parents should spend more time to experience the happy and touching moments in life together with their children. No matter how small the thing is, it will always be the precious true life experience of joy  as long as it makes the hearts smile. As such, it will definately create a blissful, expressive artwork with inner beauty.

Lakshmi Sasikumar  ( 7 yrs, 2013)

Title : The Girl with Blueberry Jam

爱吃蓝莓酱的女孩

Comments 评语：

画中女孩，把蓝莓酱吃得满嘴脸都是，可爱极了。用色自然，选用自己喜爱的颜色而非被大人指导彩上被指定或是客观的颜色（例：头发是黑色的、脸和手是米色/橙色的 等等）。背景随意地点上色彩斑点，像纷飞的花瓣让画面产生了很有感觉的情景。

真正的儿童美术教育，应该是引导使孩子的天赋发光并感受到内心真正的喜悦，而不是将孩子的绘画天赋引向大人所期望的模样里。那是复制，不是创造。

The girl in the painting looks innocently cute with her favourite blue berry jam all over her mouth and face. The harmony colours were chosen by the little artist herself, rather than being directed/taught by the adults in using the objective colours, such as the hair is black, face and hand are peach or orange in colour etc. The background is full of feelings  with the spontaneous and colourful dots that look like the flying petals.

The proper and true children's art education should be guiding the children in shining their inner gifts of lights and the true happiness from their heart. It is not about leading them towards fulfilling the expectations of the parents and teachers. They need creation, not imitation.

 

Wong Zi Xun   黄子薰   (7 yrs, 2012)

Title : I am Love, I am Beauty, I am Joy

我是爱、我是美、我是快乐

Comments 评语：

这幅画体现了孩子的本质，那就是爱、美和快乐，也是人原有的本质。简单，却很感动。

纯真的儿童画有时能够唤起大人内心单纯的感受，单纯的快乐。小孩的内心世界是美丽的，大人更应该好好守护他们美丽的心，以爱来灌溉他们的心灵。

This painting has greatly expressed the essences in children - the Love, Beauty and Joy, which are also the true essences in human being. Simple, yet touching!

The innocent children's art sometimes can remind the inner simplicity and joy deep inside the heart of us. Their inner world is such beautiful, we should guard their beautiful heart and nurture them with true love.

How Yuen Xin  陶彦杏  (7 yrs, 2012)

Title : Natural Tracking with Daddy

和爸爸郊游记

Comments 评语：

孩子有愿意尝试改变惯例一层不变的着色技巧，在老师给与自由发挥的时候也尝试画出自己的感觉和生活经验并努力把它给表现出来。只要多给与机会和时间，配合多元灵活教材的美术引导，小孩可以慢慢被引导突破自己逐渐画出自己的风格，创造自己的图案与符号。

孩子的绘画作品不是教出来的，而是培养出来的！等孩子差不多10岁以上才比较有系统性地教授绘画技巧也不迟，也开始变得有意义。在这之前太快太早教孩子技巧、素描还是学画造型，都等于是拔苗助长！这不单把孩子给套在框框里，间接扼杀了创造能力与想象能力，也会毁掉孩子的天资。作品渐渐变得平庸无趣，孩子不敢探索创新，渐渐地也就失去了绘画的热忱，那将会是很可惜的事。

The little artist was willing to try different method instead of keep using the usual way of colouring, even when she was given a free topic, she was willing to try to express her own feelings and life experience onto the paper. Given more time and oppotunities, along with multiple approaches of guidance in art, she'll slowly breakthough herself and come out with her own true uniqueness, her own art language and icon.

Children's art is not being taught, but rather it's being CULTIVATED or Fostered. It is never too late to let them learn the proper techniques and skills more systematically at 10-year and above. Teaching the tecnniques/sketching/forms at younger age is actually setting the children into a limited frame and killing their creativity and imagination.  It will affect their natural endowments too! The art lesson is getting bored and artworks are mediocre. Moreiver, it's to be regreated that the children don't dare to explore anymore and gradully losing passion in art .

Joshua Wong Yong Zhen   黄永政   ( 7 yrs, 2012)

Title : The Story below the Full Moon

满月下的故事

Comments 评语：

满月之下，仿佛有人在呐喊、有人在求救、有人握着武器、好像还有一条龙/蛇似的动物...等等，让人充满了想象空间。

比起指导孩子上色画造型，让孩子自主发挥的作品，通常都会让人看到意想不到的故事，造型，自己的风格，还有一些原创的味道在里头。在儿童美术教育里，引导孩子创造出拥有自己风格的作品并保留孩子独特的艺术语言是非常重要的，因为这无形中将协助孩子自我意识上的建立与成长。

Under the Full Moon, there seemed people screaming, yelling for help, someone is holding weapons, a creature that looks like a dragon or snake... etc, it's full of imagination on such a full moon night.

Rather than teaching the children how to paint and draw, make them to create with all their self-initiative, we normally can see the unexpected stories and forms, own style originality and surprises in the artworkds. In children's art education, it's very important for us to guard the chidren into the path of creation that have their own personality, and remain their uniqueness in art. This will help the them in developing and building up their Self-consciousness.

 

Wong Qian Ru  黄仟儒　(7 yrs, 2010)

Title : The Gossipping Women

三姑六婆

Comments 评语：

人物的表情非常丰富有趣，尤其是嘴巴的特写描绘，带出了画中每个人物独特的角色和性格。很精彩的一幅作品！

绘画是每个人与生俱来所拥有的能力。从幼儿的成长过程中就能开始非常自然地培养获得的能力。一岁的时候获得一岁的能力，两岁的时候获得两岁的能力，随着年龄的增长，其与年龄相应的绘画能力也就会自然地表现出来。每个孩子都是独特的，每个人的成长速度和条件都各不相同，所以作为父母和老师切忌拿自己的孩子与其他人（甚至是兄弟姐妹之间）作比较，以免导致孩子心理不平衡，失去自信，或是不健康的较劲。

The facial expression of each human are very interesting, especially the mouth part which has greatly expressed the unique charateristics and personalities of each gossiping woman. Great Work!

Art drawing is the innate ability that everyone of us possesses since we are born. It is gradually being developed naturally along from a growing toddle. 1-year toddle will have the ability for 1-year, 2 year toddle will have the ability for 2-year, and as the age grows, the level of art ability that matches the age will be epxressed naturally.  Every single child is unique, and each of them have different pace of growth. Therefore, parents and teachers should not compare among the children (even among the siblings) in order to avoid any emotional imbalance, lost of self-confidence or unhealthy competition.

 

Joshua Wong Ju-Hua   黄祖华   (8 yrs, 2012)

Title : I Met with Two Butterfly Fairies

遇上两只蝴蝶精灵

Comments 评语：

画中的故事与画面唯美，色彩的搭配出色又和谐。小孩从叶子图案排列中创造出了蝴蝶精灵的造型，可想而知他的创作是透过一开始的逻辑思考加上创意思维所产生出来的成果，真的是值得嘉许！

虽然说艺术都是比较偏右脑的，但绘画创作也需要左脑的逻辑思维来协助找出解决问题的方法。所以说有品质与理念正确的多元美术教育不但可以培养美感与提升审美能力，同时也可以协助孩子的左右脑平衡与开发潜力如观察力，思考力和创造力。

The story and the scene in the art are beautiful. Colours are vibrant yet harmany. The little artist has created the form of butterfly fairies through arranging the leaves patterns. It can be seen clearly that his end result was created from the logical thinking process as well as the creative process. Well Done!

Though the art always deal with our right brain, however art creation does need our left brain to find solutions that involves logical and analytical thinking process.  Therefore, a genuine children art education with multiple approaches and proper concepts not only able to nurture the aesthetic sense in children, but also able to balance the left-right brain, as well as develop their innate potentials in observation, thinking and creation.

 

Veeshahles  Yuveneswaran   (9 yrs, 2012)

Title : The Sleeping Angel

午睡的小天使

Comments 评语：

画中有点扭曲的小天使，有点像20世纪伟大的大画家-毕卡索所表现扭曲人物造型的感觉，有趣又充满艺术的美感与味道，佳作一幅！小孩看着小天使的雕像，专注地观察并用心地画在纸上。我们不能拿实体的雕像与成果来作比较，但要看出小孩的用心与专注，就已值得鼓励，更何况她画出了自己的风格与艺术造型，更加应该被嘉许。

比起批判，人总是喜欢被称赞被鼓励。小孩也一样，多鼓励多称赞，少责骂少批评，也别让你一句无心的话而伤了他们幼小纯美的心灵。每个小孩都是独特的，多用心发掘你孩子的内在美和优点吧。

The distorted sleeping angel seems like the style of distorted human form drawn by Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists in 20th century. It is truly artistic! This little artist drew a status of a sleeping angel with great observation. It can't be compared with the real status but the work done with a patient heart worth to be encouraged. Moreover, she has created her own unique artistic style and forms, in which it deserves more praises.

It's our Human nature to prefer praises rather than criticism. So do praise more and criticize less, and mind your words that will harm their innocent hearts. Every child is unique, do discover more of your children's inner beauty and strengths.

 

Derrick Chan Kok Cheng  曾国正  ( 9 yrs, 2013)

Title : Happy Snake 2013

吉蛇拜年 2013

Comments 评语：

双瞳有神的吉蛇生动灵活，笔触和色彩让吉蛇仿佛在舞动着。每一笔每一触都显露出小孩下笔时的自信与落落大方。

真诚的鼓励和赞赏、给与肯定和适当的引导、还有为孩子创造绘画活动的环境与氛围，绝对能让孩子建立起自信心、自我成就感、自我价值感，以及感到被重视。

The Happy snake with big round eyes looks lively with vitality, it seems it's moving with the lively brush strokes and paints. The self-confidence and poise in this little artist can be seen and be felt through every single brush stroke.

The sincere encouragement and praise; the acknowledgement and proper guidance; and the efforts in giving children the environment and ambiece for art activity --- all these are important elements for children to build up the self-confidence, self-achievement, self-calue and the feelings of being cared very much through Art.

 

Eugene Foo   (10 yrs, 2012)

Title : My Beautiful Garden

我美丽的花园

Comments 评语：

剪贴、用笔描绘、再加上水彩的混合媒介的作品，画面里的植物和昆虫生动有趣，天空的表现手法也具有个人特色，是幅极佳的作品哦!

这个世界上绝对没有不会画画或是画得很烂的孩子，只有不会引导的老师。绘画是每个人与生俱来所拥有的能力，那画得好或不好，其实只是技巧能力和绘画经验上的问题而已。只要多画多练习多探索多体验，这些问题都可以解决，最重要的是孩子有没有绘画创造的意愿。

An interesting piece of artwork using mixed media of paper collage, drawing skills and water colour painting. The plants and insects look lively. The sky is expressed in a unique way with personality. It is a piece of good and well-expressed artwork in overall.

There's no such child who cannot draw well , ONLY the teacher who doesn't know to guide well. Art drawing is the innate ability that everyone of us possesses since we are born. Either good or bad, it is just the matters of techniques/skills and art experience. These problems can be solved with practice, increase in experience and exploration. The most important thing is that the Child himself has the willingness to do it.

 

How Yann Yii  陶彦妤  (10 yrs, 2012)

Title : Crows on the Tree

树上的乌鸦群

Comments 评语：

孩子有愿意尝试改变惯例的绘画技巧、愿意主动、愿意学习、愿意自我探索 -- 这些都是良好的学习态度。孩子有自己的主见，并勇于向老师表达自己的想法，这是值得嘉许的。作为父母还是老师，最重要的是好好聆听孩子内心的声音，尊重孩子，适时让孩子自己作主做决定，并学习为自己的决定负责。

只要多给与机会和时间，配合多元灵活教材的美术引导，孩子可以慢慢被引导突破自己逐渐画出自己的特色，创造自己的艺术语言和创作符号，并掌握更好的绘画技巧。

The little artist was trying to breakthrough her own convention way of painting, being initiative, willing to learn and self-exploration -- all these are good learning attitudes. Having a mind of her own and able to express her own opinions to the teacher are  commendable. As a parent and teacher, we should listn to the children rather than giving orders all the time. It is a matter of respect and let them be the one who can decise for themselve in a proper way and learn to be responsible for own decision.

Given more time and oppotunities, along with multiple approaches of guidance in art, she'll slowly breakthough herself and come out with her own true uniqueness, her own art language and icon.

Pravinderjeet  Kaur    ( 10 yrs, 2012 )

Title : The Grandpa Tree

树爷爷

Comments 评语：

透过绘本,小孩表现出自己印象中以及内心所感觉的树爷爷。画中的树爷爷虽然独自一棵树，但它并不寂寞，因为有鸟儿的歌声，有野花野草的香，有蝴蝶的美，还有微风的情来相陪伴着它。

用心欣赏，儿童画里充满诗情画意。或许小孩并没有这个意思，但画画往往能够显露出自己的潜意识。所以绘画是其中一种很好的抒发管道，让内在压抑的情绪、心灵和思想得以抒发。

Through story illustration book, the little artist painted the Grandpa tree out of her feelings and impression. The Grandpa tree isn't lonely even though he's the only tree on the land. He is being accompanied by the sweet voice of the bird, the fragrance from the flowers and grass, the beauty from the butterfly and the love from the wind.

When we appreciate an art with our heart, we can feel the beauty of poetic sense in children's art. Perhaps the children don't mean that much, but painting sometimes can reveal one's subsconscious without he/she realizes it. Therefore, art painting is one of the good ways for inner expression, expressing the suppressed emotions, mind and feelings.

 

Wong Xin Ru  黄欣儒　(11 yrs, 2010)

Title : Walking Alone with A Flower

独自散心

Comments 评语：

经由不同色调的碎纸而拼成的一幅撕贴艺术，画面非常有感觉，表现出画中女孩那悠闲愉快独自散心的情境。

儿童美术教育是情感教育，来培养孩子拥有一颗懂得欣赏美的心、有一双懂得寻找美的眼睛、和一份懂得珍惜美的情，从而在自己的人生里创造出美丽的风景。

A very nice paper collage art that showed great patience of the little artist in arranging the forms in various tones. It does bring out the serene ambience with the little girl walking alone in the breeze.

Children's Art Education is all about educating being sentient and affection. It nurtures the child to have a heart that appreciates Beauty, to have a pair of eyes that sees Beauty, and create BEAUTY in one's own life.

 

Wong Yechen   黄仪倩    (16 yrs, 2013)

Title : The City of Snake

繁华的蛇城

Comments 评语：

画中故事丰富有趣，让人看到了蛇蛇所生活的小城会是什么样子的。将蛇拟人化，融入人的世界里后，竟是如此的滑稽又可爱，太有趣了！

艺术就是生活，生活就是艺术。儿童美术教育既是美感教育。让孩子学画，不是说一定要栽培他参加比赛拿奖或成为未来的画家还是什么的，而是培养他们有一颗懂得在生活里看到美，找寻美的心灵。

The story of the painting is interesting, make the people able to visualize how a snake city look like. The snakes are personified as human beings, so we can see how the snakes drive and ride motors like human etc.. It's truly amusing!

Art is Life and Life is Art. Children's art is about cultivation of aesthetics. When a child learns art, we never focus on training them for art competition or train them into becoming a future artist, but we focus on the importance of fostering them to have a heart and mind that see and feel the beauty in life.

 

 

 

 

Angels’ Art Studio Malaysia

* Bringing Out Your Children’s Creative, Aesthetics and Expressive talents Through Art *

小天使之艺画室

儿童艺术班

* 带着孩子，拿起画笔，走入喜悦与爱的创意彩色世界里遨游 *

 

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