Tuesday 12 November 2013

Week 3 - Visual Arts


In this week’s art lecture we were given some great pointers as to how we should construct and create a visual arts lesson plan. We learnt about the teaching/learning process, which has three steps: 1/ Exploring (Experimenting), 2/ Developing (Making) and 3/ Reflecting (Studying). I feel that all steps are very important to include in potential lessons but I want to ensure that I allow for sufficient time for reflection in my arts lessons.

We were given a concrete example of these steps in action, which I found helpful.

A teaching and learning process for visual arts

1.     Exploring – show them a segment of a doco or film on turtles, maybe bring a turtle into class, read a story about a turtle, sing a song about a turtle, we could be turtles (drama) How do I get them enthused? Time to experiment and play with new materials – Don’t just brainstorm its lazy!
2.     Developing – making the artwork
3.     Reflecting – an opportunity to evaluate their work/work of others, time to appreciate – maybe a little written reflection


In this weeks tutorial we used our sketched portraits from last week to create painted cubist portraits. Firstly we cut our portrait up into four pieces and wrote the two colours that we wanted our portrait to be painted on the back of each segment. We swapped the segments of our portrait with our classmates and proceeded to paint the pieces in whatever colours were indicated. We were encouraged to not only use paintbrushes but to experiment with a wide range of tools such as tootbrushes, forks, sponges, rollers etc to create a variety of interesting effects.

Below is an example of one of the cubist portraits:


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