Week 1 Term 3

Welcome to Visual Art

 Matua Brent or Mrs Newbold will be your teacher for the term and they  are looking forward to working with you.

The focus for the term is "Forest and Birds'.  Throughout your time in Art you will be practising to improve your observational drawing skills, learning how to use colour and learn how to create balanced compositions.  The end result should be an eye-catching piece of art.

Achievement Objectives covered during this term

Understanding Visual Arts in Context

Students will investigate the use of colour and form in a variety of artist models works and identify the contexts in which they were made, viewed or valued.

Developing Practical Knowledge

Students will explore and use the art-making conventions such as drawing and  painting, applying their knowledge of the elements of colour and line, through the use of processes and materials.

Developing Ideas

Students will develop ideas and thoughts to create an artwork based around a forest and bird in response to a variety of motivations, imagination and the study of other artists works

Communicating and Interpreting

Students will describe ways in which meanings can be interpreted and communicated in their own and others works.

Tasks to do:

• Create a title page for your art book called FOREST AND BIRD
• Practise observational drawing of a bird and a plant and add these creatively to your title page
• On the next page of your book select three different plants and a nikau palm to practise drawing
• On the next page, select three different types of birds to draw.

N.B. With all of your drawings, the focus should be on learning to look and copy with accuracy and proportion.  We are just focussing on the outlines of the forms and main details at this stage

Use this image to complete one of your plant drawings.  Look carefully at the marks made and try to recreate them as accurately as you can.