這次課堂我們介紹一位藝術家阿爾欽博托（Giuseppe Arcimboldo，1527年－1593年），他是義大利文藝復興時期著名肖像畫家。他的作品特點是用許多的水果、蔬菜、花、書、魚等各種物體來堆砌成人物的肖像。四百多年前的作品也多麼富有創意！

除了鑑賞了藝術家的作品，也不斷的反覆練習著觀察與拚貼的技巧。小朋友觀察每一種水果與蔬菜的外型與觸感，圓圓而光滑的蘋果、像月亮一樣的香蕉 …他們運用了豐富的聯想力來創作特別的造型。

在生活出現平凡無奇的生活物件，經過精心設計展示，每件物件都可以建立出獨屬自己美態。

插畫家吳怡欣及攝影師丈夫林林兩人走遍街頭巷尾的雜貨店、菜市場、五金行、寵物店甚至軍用品店採買兩百五十件生活用品。 在華山文創產業園區的「普通。美」展覽中，原來這些看似普通的生活用品在燈光一打下去，會散出很美的光影。

或許我經常畫畫，總是喜愛把物件分明、灰、暗三個色調，看似簡單的物件在畫紙上愈難表達。當你認真觀察身邊的小東西，你會發現即使單色的設計，也會看到很多的色彩。

當靜心定眼細看時，每個人都可以從普通的物件中發掘出獨屬自己美的邏輯。

展覽時間：7/19(四)-8/15(三) 11:00-21:00

展覽地點：華山文創產業園區  紅磚六合院 

入場性質：免費參觀  

林嘉儀導師是居住香港的藝術工作者。她曾在英國伯明翰城市大學修讀藝術教育碩士課程。她在不同中小學校開設畫班，現於國際學校從事藝術教育工作。

2009-2010  MA Art and Education
                          Birmingham City University

2008-2009  BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Graphic Design)
                           Birmingham City University

工作經驗：
Youth Pre-employment training Program 展翅‧青見計劃
Emmanuel Primary School 靈光小學
Swiss art studio瑞士畫室
Po Leung Kuk C.W. Chu College 保良局朱敬文中學
Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School 官立嘉道理爵士中學(西九龍)  
Caritas Jockey Club Integrated Service 香港明愛青少年及社區服務(樂富)
School of Creativity 創意學堂
Sky Studio天地畫室 

Chloe Lam is an artist living and working in Hong Kong. She received her Master degree in Art and Education and Bachelor degree in Visual Communication (Graphic Design) from Birmingham City University. 

She also enjoys writing song on piano, guitar and ukulele, and study multidisciplinary in arts and music in Master degree.She holds variety of art projects in different schools and studios. Using multidiscipline and innovative art activities to elicit student’s talent and express feeling, emotion and ideas .
http://chloelam.weebly.com/

We visited a “HK farm” yesterday, so you may think that we properly go to Fan Ling, or Yuen Long. However, we went to Kwun Tong.

HK farm is an organisation established by farmers, artists and designers. Their aim is to communicate the value of rooftop farming and benefits of locally produced food.

Having a farm on the roof, it sounds impossible in Hong Kong, especially in Kwun Tong factory. They are growing vegetables, herbs and even composting and harvest honey on their rooftop farm. It is really amazing when you see their honey. Even the bees are working really hard, they can only product 60 jars of honey per year. There is a lot of benefit on having a farm on the roof, like reduce carbon emissions. It is not only environmental-friendly, but also set a great example of unban agriculture in Hong Kong.

This visiting gives an inspiring example on how farmers, artists and designers collaborating their idea together and setting up a rooftop farm. They are also working on different environmental -friendly project, like collecting wood and re-design different products. They are very friendly to show you everything they have done, and we also tried the herbs tea. It was really fresh, even thought I still don’t remember the names of each herb, maybe I should go more to take some workshops in their farm.

When you hear the story beside them, it is really encourage people who want to start a new business or a project. Looking forward to seeing all green on most of the rooftop. May be the next popular job is being a farmer!!


HK Farm
http://www.hkfarm.org/ 

Today I visited  Kwun Tong Artists' Studios with Yew Chung International school students, which arranged by Miss Eldridge. Thank you so much. 

Graphic Airlines- street artists 
http://www.graphicairlines.com Graphic Airlines  are established in 2002 by TAT & Vi. Their aim is to ENJOY THE VOYAGE! The characters created by design duo Graphic Airlines champion the "aesthetics of ugly". 

在香港成為一個藝術家好像是遙不可及的事情，
金錢與藝術的角力永遠令到得多人迷失。由2002 年成立的Graphic Airlines  堅持自己的風格，在多個地方展出，擁有自己品牌商品。他們的故事看似有很圓滿的成果，但十年的路途又有誰人有他們的堅持？
希望今日的學生都可以體會到他們對藝術的熱誠！
堅持創作總會慢慢找到出路！