Visual+Arts

=2011--2012 =

=Week 1-4 =

Introducing the class in English.

Learning new words related to the classroom. Essential Agreements

An introduction into LANDSCAPE.

Without giving a definition in words. The teacher will give guidelines describing and provoking kid’s imagination.

e.g.: it’s outdoors, it can contain mountains, trees, even cities and rivers.

HORIZON LINE. SKYLINE. (the line between the SKY and the GROUND)

Understanding the PAPER. Orientation and edges (OUTLINE). SILHOUETTE. CONTOUR.

They will draw from LEFT to RIGHT and considering TOP and BOTTOM. Recognize the Shape the Paper has and reflect upon it visually and spatially.

Once outdoors they will go through 3 tasks:

1) Mountains (talk about “Los Farallones”)

2) Tree Tops

3) Building (Architecture-“The Triangle”). = = =Week 5-8 =

LANDSCAPE

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Students will be shown a series of images projected in the classroom in which understanding the relationship of the landscape and the skyline, the top and the bottom of the image is easier and clearer than observing from the natural.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">A brief discussion about the FRAME (the rectangle in which the image is placed by the creator) will be held, we will analyze shortly the orientation on the paper (visual-spatial awareness on a surface)

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">We will see than in order to describe a landscape we can use more than a skyline or the horizon. Secondary lines and organization of the details (COMPOSITION is underlying but it won’t be mentioned) e.g.: elements that populate the landscape; far and near, small and large respectively.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">They will reconstruct a landscape using merely the skyline, colouring TOP and BOTTOM and placing certain elements into it in order to clarify their position in the image (above, below, on top, inside, bottom, etc).

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">These elements will be cut out from paper WITHOUT previously drawing them (for the kids to visualize the LINE before drawing it), and then pasted on the paper in which they’ve drawn the skyline.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">They will create an Imaginary Landscape following the DRAFT-FINAL staging process.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">They should apply previous knowledge:

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-Using the skyline/horizon as organizer of space.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-Show awareness of size and distance in order to compose the elements in the landscape.

<span style="background-color: #bc2606; color: #84e359; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">-From soft lines to definitive lines preventing excessive erasures <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"> <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #b689e1; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">second term <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #6a2aa7; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">ILLUSTRATION  <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #ba33ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">wE STARTED USING OUR IMAGINATION BASICALLY TO BRING A CREATURE TO LIFE AND MAKE A STORY OUT OF IT. <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">NEXT WE WILL LEARN HOW TO USE PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH COLLAGE AND DRAWING SO WE START CONNECTING SEQUENCES OF IMAGES AND TEXT AND give COHESION TO THE FRAMES OF THE STORY. <span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #9b33ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"><span style="background-color: #e9ff00; color: #ff33d4; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">AND FINALLY THE CLASSIC DRAWING TAKES OVER THE CLASS...PURE INSPIRATION FROM A READING CONNECTED FROM THE SPANISH LESSON.