2.- PAINTING

Painting it's the basic way to express with colour.

Painting is an essential activity in developing children's art.

Colour is a vital part of our everyday lives. It helps us to describe who we are and how we feel. It attracts our attention and gives out information.

The artist can be: Van Gogh, Seurat i Klim, the 3 artists with techniques and styles very different. All artists are suitable to work from any point of  view, life, technique, styles,art works....

There‘s plenty of information in different formats:

·         Books, pictures, photographs, stories, ,

·         Examples of children’ s work

·         Web pages and links to the artists.

There can be use different paintings: poster, acrylic, water colours, oil pastels, pencil colours, felt-tip pens, chalk…

Objectives:

• To analyse the elements of the work and their relationship
• To learn vocabulary related to the works and life of the  artist/ artists.
• To explore colour by developing paintings.
• To develop the ability to use colour in design.
• To encourage students to experiment with style.
• Art appreciation of great artists

 Activities:

·         Work on each artist style. Identifying the style and techniques of each artist. Eg:Van Gogh used strokes, Seurat used points and Klim used lots of shapes. Through power point or prints Students will do a sketch picture about each artist in their style. They can use a finder or viewfinder to focus on part of the work they want to do the sketch.

·         Work on information about the artist, their works, their life, style..., learning about their personal and professional life. Doing language activities as mind maps, crosswords, memories…

·         Mixing styles, if you choose 2 or 3. Once they decided what to do they can divided the paper in two, half or diagonal, and start applying paint in one style and finish doing in another style.

·         Group work, cooperative work. In an A3 art paper, they divide into 4 parts and they have to decide what and how to work, accepting style or styles, colours…

·         Colour theory, Children can start using primary colours; then, they mix them to get secondary and intermediate colours. They will see differences between warm and cool colours, complimentary and harmonious colour, Tints and Shades…They can create their own pattern using 3, 4 or 5 colours.

They will combine both theory and practice.