GRADE 5/6 VISUAL ART
BELOW IS A LIST OF CREATIVE ACTIVITIES THAT CAN EASILY BE DONE WHILE AT HOME. USE OF HOME SUPPLIES MAY BE NEEDED FOR SOME ACTIVITIES.
UNDERSTANDING ART IN CONTEXT TO CULTURE & SOCIETY
REFER TO THE LIST BELOW TO HELP YOU CREATE IMAGES BASED ON YOUR OWN PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES ABOUT ART AND THE WORLD:
- PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - Do you make art for fun or have a hobby that you enjoy doing? Engage in making a piece of art for the pleasure of it, or continue your favorite hobby!
- SOCIAL COMMENTARY - Art is used to help people voice how they feel about things that go on in society. Art can give voice to people who want to discuss important issues. Do you believe in a particular social issue? Use your artistic voice by developing a slogan and creating a picket sign do demonstrate your thoughts.
- RELIGION - Art is used to represent and celebrate religion. Art as religious identity reflects heritage, unity, and culture. Do you celebrate religious and cultural holidays? Create a work that reflects your heritage.
- COMMERCIAL PERSUASION - Media and commercial advertisements are used to sway people to buy products and form opinions. Look at a few ads and commercials online. Notice how they use mood, colour, emphasis, and word/letter style to get you to "buy in" to what they are communicating. Create your own advertisement for a product using these visual elements and principles.
- STATUS - Art is used to show importance and wealth. Statues, paintings, flags, jewels, etc are common art pieces that show the importance of an individual (like a king or queen) or larger group of people (like a family or nation). Think about your future career(s). Compose an art piece that reflects your future status and role in society. Or design a flag to show your family heritage. Use colours and symbols to show meaning.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
REFER TO THE LIST BELOW TO HELP YOU CREATE IMAGES BASED THE GENERATION AND USE OF YOUR IDEAS:
- Collage: Using magazines, newspapers, scissors, and glue from home, cut and paste together a collage of items. Make sure the items are found under a specific theme. Include a strong focal point to draw the viewer's eye to a particular area of your piece.
- Shadow Art: (For this activity, you will need to work on a table, very close to a wall). Collect a number of toys. Assemble the toys together into a random formation. Turn off the lights and shine a flashlight onto the composition so as to project it's shadow onto the wall. Draw a picture of the shadow! Challenge: Select more toys and continue to add them to the cluster. Try to make the shadow take on a certain appearance. Draw the shadow and then take a picture of the toy cluster in the lit room. Compare your two images!
- Breakfast With The Artist: Google the images of artists Vincent Van Gogh or Paul Cezanne - get to know their signature artistic styles. Notice how works have lines, shapes, and textures in common to the specific artist. At your next breakfast, fill up your plate with the food that you would normally eat. Take a picture of your breakfast plate using your device (look down at your plate for a frontal view). Recreate an image of your breakfast using the artistic style of Van Gogh or Cezanne.
- Sculpture-In-The-Round: Create a 3-dimensional sculpture using empty containers from your recycling, plus tape and glue. make sure you consider all sides of your sculpture. Challenge: Take a photo of your sculpture then draw it out showing your knowledge of how to communicate one idea visually in multiple ways.
- Creature Mash-Up: Create an art image by combining the parts of 3 different animals. Give your creature a new name. Look on line and in books to practice drawing the animals.
aRT lANGUAGE & TOOLS
REFER TO THE LIST BELOW TO HELP YOU LEARN ABOUT THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ARTISTIC DESIGN (VISUAL ART VOCABULARY):
LINE: A MARK MADE BY A TOOL; A LINE IS WHAT CONNECTS TWO SEPARATE POINTS.
- BLIND CONTOUR: LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR. COMPOSE A CAREFULLY DETAILED BLIND CONTOUR OF YOUR FACE AND APPEARANCE. DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR PAPER. DO NOT TAKE YOUR PENCIL OFF THE PAPER.
- CONTOUR: REST YOUR HAND COMFORTABLY BESIDE YOUR PAPER AND PENCIL. COMPOST A CAREFULLY DETAILED CONTOUR LINE SKETCH OF YOUR HAND. DO NOT LOOK TOO LONG AT YOUR PAPER. DO NOT TAKE YOUR PENCIL OFF OF THE PAPER.
- VARIETY: LINES CAN BE STRAIGHT, JAGGED, SOFT, THICK, THIN, UNDULATING, AND LAYERED. PRACTICE DRAWING DIFFERENT TYPES OF LINES TO CONVEY A RANGE OF EMOTIONS: DREAMY, HAPPY, EXCITED, SCARED, ANGRY, BORED, ETC. FIND AND SKETCH FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LINE VARIETIES IN OR ON YOUR HOUSE (EXAMPLE: WHAT IS THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HOUSE ON THE EXTERIOR?).
- GESTURE: COMPOSE QUICK SKETCHES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. SHOW THEIR MOVEMENT AND ACTIONS. DO THIS BY SKETCHING SIMPLE STICK FIGURES AND FILLING THE LINES IN WITH SQUIGGLES PRACTICE SIZING THE FIGURE TO PROPER SCALE. CHALLENGE: CREATE A SERIES OF STICK FIGURE GESTURE DRAWINGS OF A FAMILY MEMBER OR PET PERFORMING A PARTICULAR ACTION.
- DIRECTION: COMPOSE A PATTERN (REPEATED MARKS) THAT SHOW LINES RUNNING HORIZONTALLY, VERTICALLY, AND DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE PAPER.