Visual Arts

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Chapter 5, MMADD about the Arts
Teaching VISUAL ARTS in the K-6 Classroom
Deirdre Russell-Bowie
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Visual Arts

• Every child is an artist.
• The problem is
• how to remain an artist
• once he or she
• grows up.
• (Picasso)

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The benefits of teaching Visual Arts

• Enhances personal expression
• Develops imagination creativity
• A vital form of communication of ideas thoughts
  in a non-verbal way
• Develops problem solving skills
• Develops language
• Fosters self esteem
• Develops fine motor skills

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Visual Arts

• Visual Arts Lessons
• Introduction
• Motivating
• Set rules and routines
• Use stimulus (picture,
• music, artwork, poem,
• story, etc)
• Demonstration
• If new skills are to be learned
• Make explanations clear
• Repeat instructions, question for understanding

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Visual Arts

• Visual Arts Lessons
• Development of skills, techniques
• creative artworks
• Allow children time to be creative
• Be available to comment, praise, encourage,
  extend, keep children on task
• Plan ahead for early finishers
• Reflection and sharing
• Talk with children about their artworks
• Teach and reinforce the language of art
• Check achievement of indicators from lesson plan

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Visual Arts

• Practical tips for art lessons
• Collect resources NOW
• Check out school resources
• Check out libraries, internet sites
• Keep materials clean, tidy, labelled
• Develop routines
• Have children bring art smock

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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• People
• Real
• Imagined
• Different cultures
• Different contexts
• Portraits
• Realistic/abstract/cartoon

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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• Emotions
• Art can be used to express emotions
• Use emotions as a stimulus for art
• Often easier to draw than write about how you feel

Unknown Joy Unknown joy is a mystery but we
keep trying to find it in the world around us. JB
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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• Other Living Things
• Animals
• Birds
• Fish
• Reptiles
• Plants
• Trees.

I am the independent falcon I am like the
independent falcon who lives by itself and
doesnt need anyone to follow. I am strong and I
never give up. TD
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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• Objects
• Still life
• Fruit
• Flowers
• Vegetables
• Toys
• Cultural objects

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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• Places and Spaces
• Landscapes
• Cityscapes
• Australia /overseas
• Remembered / pictures
• Real or fantasy
• Outer space

The Country Australia is a very dry country, so
I chose yellow and orange to show this. JL
Sydney Harbour Bridge from observation
(Charcoal)
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Visual Arts

• Subject matter
• Events
• Celebrations
• Special occasions
• Festivals
• Cultural, historical, religious
• Direct experience
• Reading / internet / pictures

New Years Eve
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Using the language of Art

• Elements of Art
• Line
• Give artwork shape
• Bring focus / emphasis
• Define or separate an object
• In the classroom
• Draw contours
• Life drawings
• Still life
• Buildings, squiggle pictures

My life rulesThis artwork represents my life
because everything in it means something to me.
The big heart stands for kindness. The 4-coloured
ball represents fun. The fish represents love and
hate. The road signifies my love of cars. KH
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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Tone
• Use of light and shade
• Tonal quality affected by use of light and dark
  colours
• In the classroom
• Use spotlight to show how one side can be light
  and the other dark draw or paint this effect

Picasso-styled self-portrait uses tone to express
the artists emotions.
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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Colour
• Primary colours
• Secondary colours
• Tertiary colours
• Brown, Grey
• Complementary colours
• Opposite
• Analogous colours
• Near

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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Colour
• Cool Colours
• Warm colours
• Monochromatic colours(Colour black/white)
• In the classroom
• Create artworks exploring the different
  categories of colours

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Visual Arts
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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Shape
• Flat, 2D area defined by a boundary
• Geometric
• Irregular
• Use lines to form boundaries
• Can make 2D look 3D
• In the classroom
• Draw 3D objects on paper, concentrate on outline
  and shape

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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Form
• 3D shape
• The space that an object takes up in its
  environment
• Looks different from different angles
• In the classroom
• Create sculptures, carvings, papier mache artworks

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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Space
• Area between shapes and forms
• Perspective gives 2D depth and reality
• Crowded, empty
• Positive (object) or negative (area around
  object)
• In the classroom
• Draw landscapes with background, middle and
  foreground
• Examine artworks for perspective and create
  similar artworks
• Explore negative and positive space

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Visual Arts

• Elements of Art
• Pattern
• All around us
• Effective in art
• Symmetrical / Asymmetrical
• Geometric / Irregular
• In the classroom
• Create geometric and irregular patterns
• Use printing techniques to create patterns
• Explore the work of Escher create similar
  artworks

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Visual Arts

• Line
• Tone
• Colour
• -Texture
• Shape
• - Form
• Space
• Pattern

• Elements of Art Test yourself!
• L
• T
• C
• T
• S
• F
• S
• P

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Visual Arts

• Art Forms
• 2D
• Drawing
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Marbling
• Photography

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Visual Arts

• Art Forms
• 3D
• Sculpture
• Mask making
• Puppets
• Collage
• Paper making

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Visual Arts

• Art Forms
• 3D
• Ceramics
• Cards
• Textiles
• Silk painting
• Batik
• Tie Dying
• Weaving
• Digital forms

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Visual Arts

• Art Appreciation
• What does it represent to you?
• Who created it?
• What is it called?
• Why was it created?
• What media and techniques were used?
• In what historical, cultural and geographical
  context was it created?

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Visual Arts

• Art Appreciation
• What message or emotions does it convey?
• What might have happened before or after what is
  portrayed in the artwork?
• What elements of visual art were used to convey
  the message? How?
• How does it compare with other artworks you have
  explored?
• What is your personal response?

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Visual Arts

• With this WEALTH of different visual arts
  learning experiences at your fingertips
• how could you EVER consider that colouring in a
  STENCIL would be a valid Visual Arts activity????

STENCILS
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Developmental Stages

• Disordered Scribbling / Manipulative
• Controlled Scribbling
• Named Scribble/ Symbolic/ Shape Stage
• Recognisable / Pictorial Stage

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Scribble /Manipulative Stage (2-4 years)

• The child enjoys the muscular sensation of
  scribbling or watching marks appear
• The child is not trying to draw, model or build
  objects, the experience is purely kinesthetic
  (movement)

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Controlled Scribbling

• Lines stop and start at different points
• Begins to make circular movements on the page.
• Experiments with dots and lines

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Manipulative Stage (2 - 4 years)

• Children all start by experimenting with
  materials
• Scribble drawings
• Squeeze and pound clay
• Use one colour of paint and makes a patch
• Simple 2 piece construction
• Experiment with collage

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Symbolic Stage (4 - 7 years)

• The child
• Begins to make lines and shapes
• Begins to name some of these shapes
• Interest in pattern making begins
• Circle evolves to represent a head
• First recognisable figures appear
• Beginning of naming
• Usually not recognisable to adult

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Symbolic Stage (4 - 7 years)

• One shape may represent more than one thing
• Begins to attempt more elaborate shapes
• Emergence of form and pattern
• Concern with shape and balance
• Does not know beforehand what she is going to
  draw
• Name may change several times during drawing
• Emergence of mandala and sun

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Representational Stage (7-10 years)

• Beginning of recognisable figures
• (figures, houses, animals, vehicles, plants)
• More complicated patterns
• Figures become more detailed
• Outward facing presentation
• People floating in space - no horizontal ground
  line
• Decorative element, development of symmetry
• Announces beforehand what it will be

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Later Representational Stage

• Use of ground line and skyline
• Appearance of profile
• Objects are shown in relationship to each other

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Visual Arts Education

• For further information, see Chapter 5 in MMADD
  About the Arts An introduction to Primary Arts
  Education
• by Deirdre Russell-Bowie, published by Pearson
  Education Australia