Duration: 3 hours
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Research or learning phase (1 hour)
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Designing and creative phase (2 hours)
Acquired skills and objectives:
- Discovering local visual culture
- Enhancing culture of origin and diversity
- Raising awareness about environment through recycling
- learning creative techniques
- experience in co-working (team and community building)
- skills in digital audio-visual content making
Ornamental chocolate
1.Discovery phase : searching for inspiring ornaments, drawings, calligraphy, etc. Here, we worked on the bases of medieval Arabic illustrated manuscripts :
2. You draw your patterns on transparent paper and learn the technique of chocolate painting :
3. You realise your chocolate painting :
Here is how you draw with chocolate :
You can also work with sugar icing on cakes or cookies. It's a nice way to create encounters between different arts and crafts traditions, for instance between German, Austrian and Hungarian traditions of creating gingerbread objects and Islamic art.
