Visual Arts - Stage 1 Term 1 (5 Week Unit)

VAS1.1 Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
continues to explore characteristics of people around them (eg parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, friends, and others in their local area) and focuses more on details, such as facial features, body weight, height, colour of eyes and skin, hair colour; where people live, work, go to school and play, who they enjoy being with investigates details of objects, places and spaces and other living things (eg windows and doorways in old or new buildings, the shapes of shadows, patterns of shells, animals kept in captivity or in the wild) talks about significant features and relationships within their artworks, referring to such things as size, scale, proportion, colour.

VAS1.2 Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements.

thinks about how they can interpret the teachers or others requirements for artmaking (eg use of materials, investigation of subject matter, scale and purpose of the work) experiments with the properties of different drawing and paint media and tools such as graphite(lead) and colour pencils, fibre tip pens, crayons, paint, brushes, rollers, scrapers, sticks and computer applications in drawing to create particular effects in an attempt to capture likenesses of things depicted seeks to emphasise particular features suited to the purpose of artmaking through, for example, distortion, exaggeration, elongation, viewpoint, a focus on light and dark, colour, scale.

Week 1

Teaching and Learning Activities Landscape art with oil pastels and paint Show students Jean Marc Janiaczyk landscape. Talk about the proportions of the painting. How much sky and land is there? Show students where the horizon line is. Talk about shadow and light in the painting. Look at the use of colour. Display a picture of Carrington Public School. Point out the shapes in the building. Model drawing a landscape of the school and gardens. Students draw and paint their landscape. Still life drawing with charcoal Collect a variety of bottles, cups and containers. Name the 3D objects students can see. Talk about the curved surfaces. Arrange some objects for drawing. Turn off the lights and shine a torch on the objects from one side. Discuss observations. Model how to draw the objects and depict curved surfaces. Model how to shade and smudge with the charcoals. Students draw their still life and spray art to seal charcoal. Portrait drawing skills Introduce the term portrait. Teach students about the proportions of the face. Students look into a mirror to understand proportions of the face. Look at the Leonardo Da Vinci portrait sketch. Look at the close up of the eye. Students sketch the eye, focusing on drawing lines that they see. Students

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sketch the nose. Take photos of students for next lesson. Self portrait Revise proportions of the face. Model how to draw a self portrait from a photo. Students draw self portraits from a photo of their face. Picasso portrait View images of Picasso portraits. Discuss the elements of these. How are they different to the self portraits we did in the last lesson. Model how to create a Picasso style portrait. Students complete their portraits with oil pastels on black paper.