Teaching Primary Art by Teacher Superstore

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Teachers’ Notes

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SECTION ONE: JUNIOR PRIMARY ART ACTIVITIES Activity 1: Mini Masterpiece: Wassily Kandinsky Activity 2: Mini Masterpiece: Piet Mondrian Activity 3: Mini Masterpiece: Pablo Picasso Activity 4: Papier-Mâché Plates Activity 5: Wild Things Activity 6: City Silhouettes Activity 7: Memory Paintings

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SECTION TWO: MIDDLE PRIMARY ART ACTIVITIES Activity 8: The Four Seasons Your Art Room Activity 9: Line Making Activity 10: Charcoal Eyes Activity 11: Inspired by Joan Miró Activity 12: Chinese New Year Pendants Activity 13: Tree Silhouettes and Leaf Prints Tree Template

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SECTION THREE: SENIOR PRIMARY ART ACTIVITIES Activity 14: Pop Art Activity 15: Surreal Fish Bowls Fish Bowl Template Activity 16: Good and Evil Mask Mask Template Activity 17: Hokusai Wave Paintings Pop Art - Australian Cultural Icons Basic Art Room Materials

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As a practising Primary School Art Specialist, I know how hard is can be to regularly plan and create effective, and hopefully inspiring art projects for multiple year levels. Not only do your projects need to engage students, but they also need to teach them about the various elements of art, expose them to different artists and art vocabulary, and provide them with opportunities to be assessed. All of the projects included in this book have been created with this in mind. The projects are labelled either Junior, Middle or Senior. This is a guide only as many of the lessons can be easily modified to suit either older or younger age groups.

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Lessons are linked to the broad focus areas of: Art Ideas, Art Skills and Art Responses. These broad learning areas mean that projects can be easily linked to most art curriculums. I have tested each project in my own classroom and have made adjustments as I have taught each one to ensure that all of the projects are as user-friendly as possible. However, they by no means cover everything and should be used within a wider teaching program. It’s important to also have unstructured lessons where the focus is on the process rather than the end product and where students are simply encouraged to experiment.

Throughout the book, I refer to A4, A3 and A2 paper sizes. A4 paper is equivalent to 210 × 297 millimetres, A3 to 297 x 420 millimetres and A2 to 420 x 594 millimetres.

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General Tips  Mounting Artwork: A4 and A3 paper sizes are mentioned throughout the book in the following activities: 1-3, 5-7, 10-11 and 17. If you would like to mount the students’ artwork completed in these activities, it is best, before you start the activity, to slightly reduce the size of the A4 or A3 drawing paper on which the children will create their artwork. This will make mounting the artwork much easier. The art piece can be centred onto A4 black paper or coloured card which will leave a border around the artwork.  Reducing A4 or A3 Paper: Use a Stanley knife to trim approximately one to two centimetres off one short edge and one long edge. It is possible to trim five or six sheets of paper at once.  Design Sheets: Glue design sheets to the back of mounted artwork. This makes it much easier to keep each student’s work together (especially if you are using it as an assessment piece).  Check that all students have put their name on the back of their work.

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Teachers’ Notes Some tips for setting up your own art room Organisation is key to having a functional art room. Create a system for storing all art materials so that you always know what you have and where to find things. Make the items that you use regularly easily accessible and clearly label anything that is going to be stored away for a length of time.

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Find a balance between keeping useful bits and pieces, and hoarding! In most art rooms, space is precious, so only keep things that you are going to use.

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Make resources that you can keep and re-use. This is particularly important for beginning teachers or for teachers who haven’t taught art before. Posters and general art displays should be laminated so that they can be wiped down. I found that making a display sheet for each project made displays more effective and much easier and they could also be reused if you repeated the project later on.

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Stretch your resources. You can find art materials in all sorts of places. Find organisations or businesses in your community that might be able to provide recycled items – these often create projects that are the most interesting.

Photograph and archive! I try to take photographs of each project, but especially the ones that have multiple steps. Photographing artwork not only reminds you how a particular project developed, but is also a good way to share the process with other teachers and future students who may work on similar projects. Publish the photographs in the school newsletter or on the school web site.

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Don’t forget to develop your own knowledge by talking to other art teachers. Find good web sites and blogs to give you inspiration for new projects.

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Enjoy what you do! This is probably the most important part of being an art teacher. Students will respond to your own attitude towards art. If you are enthusiastic and always willing to ‘have a go’, then they will too.

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See pages 28-29 for more general tips on how to set up a functional art room and see page 55 for a list of basic art room materials. I would like to thank the staff and parents of Highgate Primary School for their support in the production of this book. Most importantly, I would like to thank all of my students who inspire me daily.

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Activity 1

Mini Masterpiece: Wassily Kandinsky Focus: Art Ideas/Art Responses

Age Group: JUNIOR

Time: 3 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1

 Materials  Design Sheet (page 8)  Colour examples of Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings

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 Coloured pencils

Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 8 for each student. Step 2: Show students the following examples of Kandinsky’s work: On White II (1923), Composition VIII (1923) and Composition VII (1913) and display them in the classroom. Step 3: Discuss the types of colours, lines and shapes that are used in the paintings (e.g. circles, straight lines). Encourage students to think about how the paintings make them feel and why they do or don’t like them. Step 4: Ask students to complete the Design Sheet on page 8.  Tip: To help younger students complete task 1 of the Design Sheet, write up a list of the words on the board to help them, e.g. colourful, energetic, geometric. To help students complete task 3 of the Design Sheet, show them the Students’ Art Gallery on page 7.

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 Materials  Mini Masterpiece from Lesson 2  Oil pastels or wax crayons  Black wax crayon  Black card 6

Step 1: Tell students that they will begin their Mini Masterpiece based on Wassily Kandinsky’s work. Step 2: Students should use their plans on their Design Sheets to sketch their design onto an A4* piece of paper in pencil. They should then use oil pastels or wax crayons to colour their Mini Master designs.  Tip: Remind students to refer back to Kandinsky’s original paintings while they are working.

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 Completed Design Sheet from Lesson 1

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Step 1: During the first half of this lesson, give students time to complete the colouring of their designs started in Lesson 2. Step 2: Encourage students to use a black wax crayon to outline the main shapes and lines of their designs in the final stages. Step 3: Once students have completed their artwork, they should mount their pieces onto black card or paper and add their name. See tip for Mounting Artwork on page 4.

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 Student Design Sheet

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Use the box below to write down as many words as you can that describe the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky. Think about the different colours, shapes and lines that he has used.

Look at the picture below. Use the empty box to write down the names of all the shapes that you can see.

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Activity 2

Mini Masterpiece: Piet Mondrian

Age Group: JUNIOR

Focus: Art Ideas/Art Responses

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 Design Sheet (page 11)  Colour examples of Piet Mondrian’s paintings  Pencil  Ruler

Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 11 for each student. Step 2: Show students Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow (1930) and Composition 10 (1932-42) by Mondrian and display in the classroom. Step 3: Discuss the types of colours, lines and shapes that are used in the paintings (e.g. primary colours of red, blue and yellow and thick, black straight lines). Step 4: Ask students to complete the Design Sheet on page 11. To help them complete task 3 of the Design Sheet, show them the Students’ Art Gallery at the bottom of page 10.

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to rule up their artwork in pencil onto A4* drawing paper (see example 1 on page 10). Step 3: Students should then use oil pastels or wax crayons to colour selected areas of their design (see example 2 on page 10).  Tip: Remind students to refer back to Mondrian’s original paintings while they are working.

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 Materials

Step 1: During the first half of this lesson, give students time to complete the colouring of their designs started in Lesson 2. Step 2: Students should glue strips of black paper over the top of their pencil lines (see examples 3 and 4 on page 10). Step 3: Once students have completed their artwork, they should mount their pieces onto black card or paper and add their name. See tip for Mounting Artwork on page 4.

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 How to Create a Mini Masterpiece: Piet Mondrian

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 Tip: This activity is particularly suited to Year 1 students as there is no writing involved on the Design Sheet.

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Circle the type of lines and shapes that Mondrian uses in his paintings.

Look at the picture in the first box. Use the empty box to try and copy the picture.

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Activity 3

Mini Masterpiece: Pablo Picasso Focus: Art Ideas/Art Responses

Age Group: JUNIOR

Time: 3 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1  Materials  Design Sheet (page 14)  Colour example of Pablo Picasso’s paintings

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Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 14 for each student. Step 2: Show students Weeping Woman (1937) and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by Pablo Picasso and display. Discuss how Picasso has shown different angles of the face in his paintings. Step 3: Encourage students to find different parts of the face. Explain that they will be drawing a front view and a side view of a face then combining the two views together on the Design Sheet.  Tip: It is advisable to demonstrate to the class what constitutes a ‘front view’ and a ‘side view’ of a face. Show the students the Students’ Art Gallery on page 13 to help them visualise this idea. Step 4: Ask students to complete the Design Sheet on page 14.

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Step 1: Tell students that they will begin their Mini Masterpiece based on Pablo Picasso’s work. Step 2: Students should use the plans on their Design Sheets to sketch their design onto A4* drawing paper in pencil. They should then use oil pastels or wax crayons to colour their designs.  Tip: Remind students to refer back to Picasso’s original paintings while they are working.

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 Completed Design Sheet from Lesson 1

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Step 1: During the first half of this lesson, allow students time to complete the colouring of their designs started in Lesson 2. Step 2: Once students have completed their artwork, they should mount their pieces onto black card or paper and add their name. See tip for mounting artwork on page 4.

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Activity 4

Papier-Mâché Plates

Age Group: JUNIOR

 Plastic plate  Vegetable oil

Step 1: Tell students that over the course of two lessons, they will create a basic plate mold by pasting at least four to five layers of newspaper strips onto a plastic plate. Show them example 1 on page 16. Step 2: Demonstrate how to spread vegetable oil over the inside of the plastic plate (this is so that you can later remove the papiermâché mould without it sticking to the plate). Step 3: Show students how to take pre-cut strips of newspaper and dip them into a container of diluted PVA glue and layer them onto the inside of a plastic plate. Ensure that the newspaper strips are sufficiently covered in glue and that they lie flat against the plate, but not so much that they leave a pool of glue. Step 4: Once students have seen the process, they can begin to cover the insides of their plates with oil, including the outer rim, and cover their plates with four to five layers of newspaper.

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 Lesson 1

 Materials

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Focus: Art Skills/Art Ideas

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 Papier-mâché plate  Acrylic paint  Paint brushes  Pencil  Coloured pencils

Step 2: Once the papier-mâché process is complete the plates will need to be left to dry for a few days. Ideally they should be removed from the plastic plates after a day or two then turned upside down so that the bottom of the papier-mâché can also dry out.

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Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 17 for each student. Step 2: Provide a number of different colours of acrylic paint for the students to choose from. Step 3: Each student needs to paint the inside and rim of their plate with one solid colour , it may need more than one coat of paint to achieve this. Show them example 2 on page 16. Step 4: Once the students have completed their paintings and are waiting for them to dry, they can work on their plate designs on their Design Sheets. If you are working with older students, encourage them to create a fairly intricate design, however they should avoid using fine detail that they will struggle to reproduce on their actual plates. Show them the Students’ Art Gallery on page 16. Allow them approximately 15 – 20 minutes to complete their Design Sheets. 15

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Step 1: Using their completed Design Sheets from Lesson 3, students should begin painting their designs onto their plates. Encourage older students to use a number of colours and to try blending two or more colours together. Each student should also paint the inside and rim of the plate.

 Papier-mâché plate  Acrylic paints  Paint brushes

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 Papier-mâché plate  Acrylic paints

 How to Create Papier-Mâché Plates

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Step 1: Each student should paint the outside and bottom of the plate using the same background colour as the inside of the plate. Optional: To varnish the inside of the plate, paint on an even more diluted mix of PVA and water (75% water and 25% PVA glue).

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Activity 5

Wild Things Focus: Arts Ideas/Art Skills

Age Group: JUNIOR

Time: 4 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1

 Materials  Design Sheet (page 20)  Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 20 for each student. Step 2: Discuss the features of different animals, such as an eagle’s wings, a rhino’s horn and a duck’s webbed feet. Look at the book, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and see how the ‘wild things’ are made up of different animal features merged together. Explain to the students that they are going to be creating their own ‘wild thing’. Step 3: Brainstorm a list of animals as a class – make sure that you include creatures with very distinctive or unusual features (e.g. webbed feet, spines, trunks, scales etc.). Step 4: Ask students to complete their Design Sheets and plan a design for their own ‘wild thing’ combining different animal features. It is best if they stick to around three to five different body parts.  Tip: If you are working with Year 1 or 2 students, make sure that they are able to see the animal names on the board to help them with spelling.

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Step 1: To begin their art pieces, students should firstly create the background on a piece of A4* paper. Explain to the students that they will be painting their background with edicol dye (or tempura paints) and it will be made up of colours only and no pictures. Step 2: When they are choosing what colours to use for their background, they should consider where their creature lives: in a dark cave, a nest in a tree, in a rainforest or a desert? Step 3: When students have finished painting their backgrounds and are waiting for them to dry, they can begin to create their ‘wild things’. Referring back to their Design Sheets, they need to sketch their creatures onto some thin card with a pencil. The card should be no bigger than A5 so that the finished creature will easily fit onto the background.  Tip: Remind students not to have a lot of small detail that will be difficult to paint. Students will be painting their creature in Lesson 3.

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Wild Things  Materials  ‘Wild thing’ pencil sketch  Acrylic paint various colours  Paint brushes  Water container  Materials

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Step 1: Using a permanent marker, each student should outline his/her ‘wild thing’ and then carefully cut it out. Step 2: Once it has been cut out, you will need to use hot glue or PVA to glue the students’ creatures onto their painted backgrounds. See Students’ Art Gallery below.  Tip: This is a great opportunity to ask for parent/adult helpers!  Optional: The finished artwork can be mounted onto black or coloured card. See tip for Mounting Artwork on page 4.

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Step 1: Students should paint their ‘wild thing’ with acrylics.  Tip: Remind students that this is a creature from their imagination so they can use whatever colours are available.

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Draw a picture to show what your ‘wild thing’ will look like.

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Name Your Wild Thing

Make up a name for your ‘wild thing’ using the names of the animals that you have used.

Activity 6

City Silhouettes

Age Group: JUNIOR

 A3* drawing paper *see page 4  Chalk pastels

Step 1: Show students examples of sunsets and talk about the different colours that they can see. If they have not previously used chalk pastels, then it is a good idea to demonstrate to the class how you can use your finger or a tissue to blend pastels together. Step 2: Students should begin their pieces by creating the background for their city silhouette. Using an A3* piece of drawing paper, the students need to first draw a horizon line approximately halfway up their page. From there, they need to draw their sun and its reflections, and colour the entire page with chalk pastels (see example 1 on page 22).  Tip: This can be very messy. It is a good idea to have wet cloths/ wipes ready to wipe down tables, and a bucket or sink of soapy water for students to wash their hands when they are finished.

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 Materials  Example pictures of sunsets

Focus: Art Ideas/Arts Skills

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sizes. Step 2: Using a white or light coloured pencil, students need to draw the outline of their city skyline onto an A3 piece of black paper (see example 2 on page 22).  Tip: Tell the students to start their skyline just under halfway up the side of their black paper and to make sure that their buildings are different sizes and shapes. Step 3: Once students have drawn the outline of their skyline, they need to carefully cut along the line.  Tip: Demonstrate cutting out the skyline to make sure that students don’t cut out each individual building. Step 4: Using a glue stick, each student needs to glue his/her silhouette onto the chalk pastel sunset (see example 3 and Students’ Art Gallery on page 22) . Younger students may need help to make sure that their silhouettes and the sunset pages line up.  Optional: Using the white or light coloured pencil, students can draw the windows of each building.

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City Silhouettes  How to Create City Silhouettes

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Activity 7

Memory Paintings

Age Group: JUNIOR  Materials  A3* drawing paper *see page 4  Pencil

Time: 3 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1 Step 1: Have a class discussion about favourite memories. Ask the students to share some of their favourite memories of events or occasions. This can be anything from a birthday party or playing with friends to reading a book in a favourite spot. Step 2: Ask students to use a pencil to draw a ‘memory bubble’ on an A3* piece of paper. Encourage them to make their shape as large as possible without going over the edges of the paper (see examples on page 24). Step 3: Inside the bubble, the students need to draw a picture of their chosen memory.  Tip: Remind the class not to add any words or make their images too intricate as it will be hard to paint later. Step 4: Once their pencil design is complete, students will need to use a black wax crayon to trace over all of their pencil lines.

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Step 1: In order to complete the students’ paintings, there are a number of options (depending on the time that you have available and the age of your students). They can either use a black permanent marker to add a simple pattern into the area outside the bubble or they can work back with a permanent marker to outline any areas that need extra definition and can add a sentence (independently or with assistance) about what their memory is about. The sentence can either be written around the edge of the bubble or on the back of the painting. These paintings also look great when mounted onto black paper or card. See page 4 for Mounting Artwork tip.  Tip: If students are adding a sentence, get them to write it in pencil first, before going over it in permanent marker. 23

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Activity 8

The Four Seasons Focus: Art Ideas/Art Skills

Age Group: MIDDLE

 Lesson 1

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Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 27 for each student. Step 2: Discuss the change of seasons and how it affects the environment. Ask students to give examples of images and colours associated with each season (e.g. autumn is associated with earthy colours, falling leaves and cooler weather). Step 3: Explain that they will be creating a design for each of the ffour seasons and that they will have a choice of mediums with which to complete each design. w SStep 4: Ask students to complete task 1 on their Design Sheets by describing each of the four seasons. d  Tip: If you are working with a younger year group, then you may need to remind them what adjectives are and provide them with some examples. SStep 5: Students should then complete the four panels on their Design Sheets using pencil.  Tip: Encourage students to concentrate on patterns and shapes rather than images. If they have enough time they can colour their designs using coloured pencils.

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Activity 9

Line Making

Age Group: MIDDLE

Focus: Art Ideas/Art Skills

Time: 1 x 50 minute lesson

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 Materials  Six to seven pieces of coloured paper per student  Scissors  Black paper  Glue stick

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Step 1: Introduce this project by drawing three different lines on the board – include a straight line, a spiky line and a curvy line. Ask the students to tell you which line could be described as an ‘angry’ line. Most students will select the spiky line. Discuss how different lines can convey an emotion or feeling. Demonstrate how to vary the thickness or density of a line by changing the pressure with which you draw it.

Step 3: Ask every student to select their largest piece of paper and draw a line near the top of it. Remind them to think about what their line represents (an angry line, a wandering line, a fiery line etc.).

Step 5: Students should repeat the process with each piece of paper. When each one is glued down it will sit just below the one before it (see example 2 on page 31). Remind students to leave enough room between each line to write a short sentence about what each line represents. See Students’ Art Gallery on page 31.

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Activity 10

Charcoal Eyes

Age Group: MIDDLE

Focus: Art Skills

Time: 2-3 x 50 minute lessons

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2 Step 1: Demonstrate how to draw an eye 1 by following the six steps right. Step 2: Give each student an A4 piece of scrap paper. Ask them to fold the paper 3 4 in thirds and then in half. They should then unfold the paper to reveal six sections. 6 Step 3: Ask them to number the sections 5 one to six. Step 4: Give them 20 minutes to practise drawing an eye. Make it clear that the demonstrated steps in Step 1 are to be used only as a guideline as every person’s eye is unique! Step 5: Students can begin work on their final eye using an A3* piece of drawing paper. Get students to sketch their eye in pencil first and remind them to take up most of the space on their paper. Step 6: Once they have the main features of the eye in pencil, they need to go over it using a charcoal pencil (charcoal sticks can also work but are a little messier!). At this stage, you want them to just concentrate on outlines only.  Tip: This project can also work really well using a variety of other materials, including: drawing ink, watercolours and water soluble graphite sticks.

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Activity 11

Inspired by Joan Miró

Age Group: MIDDLE

Focus: Art Ideas/Art Skills

Time: 4 x 50 minute lessons

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Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 36 for each student. Step 2: Show students the following two examples of Joan Miró’s paintings: Daybreak Tagesanbruch (1968) and People and Dog in the Sun (1949). Step 3: Discuss the common characteristics of Miró’s work, e.g. the use of strong black lines, circles and dots, semi-abstract figures and bright colours. Step 4: It may be useful to demonstrate to the class how to create artwork using Miró’s characteristic strong black lines, circles and dots, semiabstract figures and bright colours. Step 5: Students should then complete their Design Sheets by describing Miró’s work then planning their own design in pencil. Step 6: If they have time, they can begin to colour their designs using coloured pencils.

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Activity 12 Age Group: MIDDLE

 Design Sheet (page 39)  Pencil

Time: 4 x 50 minute lessons

Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 39 for each student. Step 2: Discuss what the students already know about Chinese New Year. Ask the students if they know which Chinese New Year animal represents the year in which they were born. If students do not know, there are numerous calendars available on the internet that they can access.  Tip: Find a printable Chinese New Year calendar that you can display in the classroom, in order to save having to look one up during the lesson. Ideally it should include clear pictures of all of the associated animals. S Step 3: Give each student a piece of air dry clay (approximately the s of a matchbox). size S Step 4: Demonstrate how to roll the clay into a ball and press it d down so it forms an even disc shape (see example 1 on page 38). Remind students to keep an even thickness to the pendant to avoid i developing cracks. it S Step 5: When students have completed Step 4, instruct them to use a pencil to make a hole near the top of the pendant for the string to g through later. go S Step 6: Students should then use a wooden toothpick or skewer to p pinprick their name onto the back of the pendant (see example 2 o page 38). All pendants should then be left to dry . on  Tip: If the clay begins to dry out and crack, get students to dip their fingers in water and smooth over the cracks.  Tip: The pendants will take about a week to dry out completely. During this time they will need to be turned a couple of times to avoid leaving a damp area on one side. Step 7: Students who have enough time can start their Design Sheet. Remind them that they will be painting on a very small scale and not to make their design too complicated. Their design needs to be based on the animal that represents their birth year, but can be representational or abstract.

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Step 1: Using a black fineliner, students should trace around the main elements of their painted design (this may not be necessary if the design is quite abstract), and add their birth year (see Students’ Art Gallery). Step 2: While the fineliner is drying, students can add their string (or leather) and finally paint the back of their pendant.

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Activity 13

Tree Silhouettes and Leaf Prints

Age Group: MIDDLE

Focus: Art Skills

Time: 4 x 50 minute lessons

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Step 1: Discuss the change of seasons and how it affects trees and the colour of their leaves. Look at pictures of different leaves and get students to practise drawing the outlines of different shaped leaves. Step 2: Instruct students to draw the outline of a leaf shape on a kitchen sponge and cut it out. Step 3: Students should then use hot glue or PVA glue to paste it onto a thick cardboard base.  Cardboard base: the base should be approximately the size of the student’s hand.  SAFETY NOTE: Ensure that students are adequately assisted if you are using hot glue.

Step 1: Students should use their sponge leaf to make prints by using a brush to paint on two or more different colours (see example 1 on page 41) and printing onto a sheet of A3 paper (see example 2 on page 41). Step 2: While the leaf prints are drying, the students should use a white coloured pencil to draw the outline of a tree onto black paper (see example 3 on page 41). For younger students you could photocopy the Tree Template on page 42 onto overhead film and project it onto the wall so that the students can trace it onto their black paper. Step 3: Students should then cut out their tree outline and glue it onto a light coloured background (see example 4 on page 41).

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Step 1: Students should outline their leaves on their dry leaf print (from Lesson 2) with a black permanent marker and add veins to their leaves (see example 5 on page 41). Step 2: Instruct students to carefully cut out each leaf. Step 3: Students should then arrange their leaves onto their tree silhouettes and when happy with the arrangement glue down the leaves (see example 6 on page 41).

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Step 1: To complete their final piece, students should use a dry leaf and a black wax crayon to make a number of leaf rubbings. Step 2: Instruct students to cut out the leaf rubbings and glue them falling from the tree and at the bottom of the art piece (see example 7 on page 41).

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Activity 14 Age Group: SENIOR

 Design Sheet (page 45)

Time: 5-6 x 50 minute lessons

Step 1: Photocopy the Design Sheet on page 45 for each student. Step 2: Discuss Pop Art and its general concept. Explain that pop artists took ordinary, everyday items and made them into art. Step 3: Show students Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell Soup Can painting to illustrate this idea. Also look at some examples of Andy Warhol’s portraits of famous people, including h ’ Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson as well as Roy Lichtenstein’s graphic style cartoon images. Step 4: Explain that the students will be creating their own Pop Art style painting using Australian cultural icons. Discuss what an Australian cultural icon could include. This could be anything from a jar of Vegemite, to the Sydney Opera House or even the Wiggles! Step 5: Students should then use what they have learnt in this discussion to independently complete their Pop Art Design Sheet.

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Julia – Year 6 - Highgate Primary School

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List eight different cultural icons that are unique to Australia.

Use four of your listed icons to create four separate designs that incorporate the Pop Art style.

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Activity 15

Surreal Fish Bowls Focus: Art Ideas

Age Group: SENIOR

Time: 3-4 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1

 Materials  Out of the Blue by Samy Charnine (www. charnine.com/ paintings/page4/ Blue_Surrealism.htm)

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 Other examples of surrealist artwork

Step 1: Look at and discuss a number of different surrealist painters and their work (e.g. Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy). Step 2: Discuss how the subject matter of surrealist paintings is often based on the imagination and dreams. Step 3: Look at the painting Out of the Blue by Samy Charnine and discuss how the painter has changed the placement of the images within the painting (e.g. the clouds have been placed inside the fish bowl and the fish are floating outside of it), to create a surreal image. Step 4: Explain to the students that they will need to create their own surrealism inspired artwork using the Samy Charnine painting as inspiration. Step 5: Photocopy the Fish Bowl Template on page 48 for each student, this will be the starting point for their work. How they incorporate the fish bowl can be left up to them, (e.g. the bowl could be upside down, it could be broken or something inside the fish bowl could be growing or climbing out of it).  Note: some students may like to draw their own fish bowl. Step 6: While students plan their design for the inside of the fish bowl remind them about the characteristics of surrealism, (e.g. the combination of two or more ‘ordinary’ images that when put together and out of their familiar context, become ‘surreal’). Encourage students to think of ordinary images that could be placed into the fish bowl to make it surreal (e.g. a lounge room, hot air balloons or a birthday cake!). Step 7: Once students have come up with a design, they can begin sketching it in pencil onto the fish bowl template.

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Step 1: Provide a number of different mediums for students to work with, such as: oil pastels, chalk pastels, wax crayons, watercolour pencils, etc. Step 2: Encourage students to combine different mediums and to try new techniques. Step 3: If you are working with older students, they should be able to work with a degree of independence during this project.

 Lesson 3 Step 1: Students should be able to finish their artwork in this session (although some students may need an extra session to complete their work).  Optional: Cut out the fish bowl and mount finished artwork onto black or coloured card (see Students’ Art Gallery on page 47).

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Amaru – Year 6

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 Student Design Sheet

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Activity 16 Age Group: SENIOR

Focus: Art Ideas/Arts Skills

Time: 5 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1

 Materials  Mask Template (page 51)  Pencil  Coloured pencils  Felt tip markers

Step 1: Photocopy one Mask Template per student (page 51). Step 2: Discuss the types of characters found in classic fairy tales and myths and how there are, generally, very clear distinctions between the ‘good’ characters and the ‘evil’ characters. Step 3: Explain to the students that they will be designing and painting a mask that shows both a ‘good’ and ‘evil’ side. Step 4: Ask the students what types of colours, images and patterns they associate with each side. The ‘good’ side will often be lighter and involve more pastel colours, curvy lines and rounded shapes. The ‘evil’ side however, may be associated with darker colours such as: black, red and yellow, sharp and spiky lines and more geometric patterns. Step 5: Students should use pencil to plan their good and evil designs on the Mask Template. Remind them to include a dividing line down the centre of their mask as part of their design. The dividing line could also be decorative. Students can then use coloured pencils or felt tip markers to colour their designs.

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 Lesson 2 © Rea d E dwillPneed ub l i ca t i on s Step 1:y Each student a full face cardboard mask. Step 2: Students should draw their central dividing line directly onto their cardboard (see example 2e ons page 50) and paint each side a •f orr e vi ew mask pu r p os o n l y • different colour (see example 3 on page 50). This is only the background colour and they may have to paint several coats to achieve a good solid colour. Step 3: The masks can then be left to dry.

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 Materials  Mask designs from Lesson 1  Pencil  Cardboard masks  Acrylic paintvarious colours  Paint brushes  Water container  Materials

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 Mask design from Lesson 1  Cardboard mask  Acrylic paint various colours  Paint brushes  Water containers

Step 1: Using their Design Sheet to guide them, students should use a pencil to lightly draw the main features directly onto the painted mask (see example 4 on page 50). Step 2: Students can then begin to paint the pencilled areas (see example 5 on page 50). To achieve the best results, use high quality acrylic paints in a variety of colours. Step 3: Students should complete any fine details and outlines and check that they have not left any area of the mask unpainted.

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Step 1: Students can decorate their painted mask using sequins, glitter and feathers (see example 6 on page 50). Sequins and glitter can be attached using glue sticks or PVA glue. It is more effective to use hot glue if attaching feathers.  SAFETY NOTE: Ensure that students are adequately assisted if you are using hot glue. 49

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Students design and colour the Mask Template (page 51) in Lesson 1.

Students draw a dividing line down the centre of their mask. The dividing line can be decorative.

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 How to Create Good and Evil Masks

They may have to paint several coats to achieve a good solid background colour.

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5 Students paint their design and then add fine detail.

During the final lesson, students can decorate the painted mask using sequins, glitter and feathers. The mask is then ready for display.

 Student Design Sheet

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Activity 17

Hokusai Wave Paintings Focus: Art Ideas/Art Skills

Age Group: SENIOR

Time: 4 x 50 minute lessons

 Lesson 1

 Materials  Copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai  Pencil

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 A4* drawing paper (see page 4)

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 Scrap paper for practice drawings

Step 1: Examine and discuss the artwork, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai. Step 2: Explain that the students will be creating their own version of this image using edicol dye inks and that they will be drawing themselves into the picture (alternatively you could use watercolours, tempura paints, or ink). Step 3: Instruct the students to practise drawing waves in the same style as Hokusai on scrap paper. They should try to imitate the fire-like edges of Hokusai’s waves. Step 4: Once they have developed some confidence drawing their waves, they can sketch the main elements of their image on to an A4* piece of drawing paper (see example 1 on page 53). Remind your students to sketch their images very lightly in pencil. Step 5: Students now need to put themselves into the picture. They could be in the water, on a boat or even climbing the mountain in the background (see example 2 on page 53).

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page 53). Remind them to start with the lighter colours first and gradually build up to darker shades. Step 2: Once this has been done, they can add some very pale blue to the edges of each wave and some diluted black and brown ink into the sky (see example 4 on page 53).  Remind them to only paint sparingly on the tops of the waves so that they remain mainly white. Step 3: Students should use a darker brown ink to colour any boats and to add any shading around the base of the mountain (see example 5 on page 53). Step 4: Paintings can then be left to dry.

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 Lesson 3 Step 1: To complete the wave paintings students should use a fine black marker to add outlines to the waves, mountain and boat and to add additional detail to any figures (see example 6 on page 53) .  OPTIONAL: Mount onto black card (see mounting tip on page 4).

Hokusai Wave Paintings  How to Create Hokusai Wave Paintings

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Shades of brown inks should be used to colour boats.

A fine black marker can be used to add outlines to the waves, mountain and boats, and to add details to any figures.

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Pop Art – Australian Cultural Icons

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Basic Art Room Materials Paper

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• HB lead pencils (2B and 4B pencils are also useful) • Black permanent markers • Fine line markers • Rulers • Scissors • Erasers • Sharpeners • Glue sticks • Hole punches • Staplers

A4 drawing paper A3 drawing paper A2 drawing paper A selection of lithograph or butchers paper A4 and A3 black paper A4 and A3 coloured paper Assorted specialty papers (corrugated/ metallic/ tissue /sugar /cellophane/ crepe etc.)

Acrylic paint Watercolour paint and pencils Tempura paint Gouche paint Edicol dye (or food dye) Drawing inks Oil pastels (regular / metallic / water soluble) Chalk pastels Conte crayons Coloured crayons Black wax crayons Charcoal / charcoal blenders (paper stumps) Coloured pencils Textas Clay (variety of types) Printing ink / fabric paint Variety of painting and priming mediums

PVA Glue Stick on eyes Popsticks Matchsticks Cottonwool / cotton buds Wool / yarn / twine Straws Feathers Glitter Sequins / spangles Ribbon Wire Balloons

Paint and ink brushes (variety) Glue brushes Stencil brushes Clay modelling tools Craft knives Hot glue gun and glue sticks Hard rollers and soft / sponge rollers Palettes (variety of sizes) Water containers (e.g. ice cream containers) Buckets Cutting mats Pins (for displaying artwork)

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Plastic and glass containers (with lids) Old newspapers Fabric remnants Bottle tops Ribbon and string Buttons and beads Shells Dried flowers and leaves Interesting objects for still life drawing

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Optional Tools • Guillotine • A3 Laminator

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