Drawing Sketches

1st activity: Drawing skills. Students have to practise some techniques of how to use a pencil, how to give tonality and texture to a picture. They ar not allow to use rubber (difficult to believed but possible) 
They have to make 4 sketches:

1. Drawing from observation. They have to observe something and draw it.
2. Drawing from memory. They have to observe something some minutes, see shape and details. Then the thing is taken out and they have to draw from memory. When finish, they can see the differences and similarities from the original.
3. Drawing from imagination. They are told to think that they are on the beach, or in the mountains or in a bedroom. They have to imagine how is it, where, what's on it, persons, animals, plants, objects...
4. Drawing an invention. They have to invent  machines, objects, vehicles.... 

Planning the year

Art in English

4^th level

Year: 2018-2019

Teachers: Anna Esteban 

The goal of this year is not only to teach art theory and techniques through English, but also encourage and develop critical and creative thinking to help the pupils learn about the world in which they live and become lifelong learners.

Aims:

• ·         Introduce basic art skills and vocabulary
• ·         Develop pupils’ Language skills
• ·         Promote creativity and self-expression.

The activities will be presented using simple instructions, giving vocabulary support and providing opportunities to use the new Language.

Activities:

1.   Drawing:

•  Drawing from observation, from memory, from imagination and invention. Sketches to realize the differences.
•   Drawing from observation:  Draw your own Shoe/boot/trainer.

•   Draw 4 sketches of the school in draft and do an art work from one of the sketch with the help of photos.

2.    Painting:

•    The Colour theory: Primary and secondary colours (mixing them and do tonalities

•     Cool and Warm colours, they choose one and do an art project based on an artist.

•     Work on an artist style (Monet maybe) see the impressionism, use pastel or watercolours.

3.    Sculpture:

•   Work with clay: Unreal animals, cooperative work.

•   Papier maché, build the 1^st letter of their names.

•   With white clay, do geometrical figures (cub, sphere, cone, prism…)

4.    Crafts with paper:

•   Collage, seascape, a maritime landscape

•   Reflection, create aliens using their names in printing way.

•   Do Italian paper to wrap a notebook, pencil or card…

•   Stained Glass  window, using the “Monastry Roseta “as examples of art.

Students will work on activities from each group every term.

Warm and cool colours

After seeing the theory and the colour wheel, they have to chose the colours: warm or cool to use and make an abstract picture.

Painting, colour wheel

Colour Theory

•     Children have to start using primary colours; then, they mix them to get secondary and intermediate colours. They have to paint the colour wheel and look the importance of it to see the relationship between colours.

    They can learn and decorate the palette chant and the colour qualities (how the mood is influenced by the colour)