Grade 1

Patterned insect project (Weeks 1-5)

Have a look at these insects? Which insect would you like to use for your art project? In term 2, we are going to draw patterns inside an insect, then cut it out and paste it onto a collage. PLEASE GET A PRINTED COPY AT THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL (9.00-3.30) FROM TODAY (20/4)TO WEDNESDAY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PRINTER.

Ant-.docx

Dragonfly.docx

Woodlice.docx

Spider.docx

Butterfly.docx

Dragonfly2.docx

Buttefly.docx

Dragon Fly.docx

Cockroach.docx

Pattern Insect (Weeks 1-5)

In term 2, we are going to create intricate patterns inside a chosen insect. This will take about 3 weeks because there is a lot of detail going into our insect. In week 4 and 5, we will cut out our insect and paste it onto our collage. Remember, this is a 5 week project so don't rush through.

Have a look to the left.

This is what a your 'Insect Collage' may look like.

What you will need:

Materials

- Internet

- Grey Lead Pencil

- A4 paper. Recommended A3 (you could tape multiple pieces of A4 paper together)

- Scissors

- Coloured paper for background.

- Fine liner black marker or black pen to draw the patterns inside the insect.

- Natural objects from outside.

Think about:

-What insect will you use ?

-What materials are being used? (yes, you may start collecting natural objects from outside or collecting colored paper for your background).

-How would you cut out your insect? (think about your insect, will you be able to cut this out to paste it on your collage?).

What to do:

Students look at Google to find your favorite insect.
After selecting your insect, use google image search to find a template (e.g. Ant Template). Make the insect template is large so you can draw patterns on them. Print out 2 A4 copies of the same insect. One for a plan and to practise our patterns (using grey lead). And the other for your good copy (using black pen or fine liner black marker).

If you don't have a printer, you could ask a family member to draw one for you, or you could draw one yourself.

All insects have patterns. Have a close look at the picture on the left of a wing of an insect. Can you see all the tiny patterns? What patterns can you see?

What patterns can you see on this butterfly?

PATTERNS

Let's look at the patterns on the left hand side of this page.

When we draw a pattern,the pattern stays the same from one side to the other. The pattern does not get larger or smaller but stays the same all the way across.

3. Now practise drawing each pattern. You will need to focus and really take your time so the pattern looks exactly the same. What other patterns can you draw?

4. When you finish, give yourself Self- Feedback (see Art Learning Procedure for more information).

Self- Feedback questions.

Are my patterns looking the same all the way across my page?
Do my patterns stay the same size?
Are my patterns tiny and detailed?

Planning your pattern

5. Using one of your templates, start to practise drawing your patterns into different sections of your insect. This is our plan for the real one so use your grey lead. You can do as many patterns as you like but remember to keep your patterns the same size. Please use patterns that might be on your insect. Please don't use love hearts as we wouldn't find this pattern on an insect.

Make sure:

-your patterns repeat (that's what a pattern is)

- the patterns are small and microscopic

- every mark counts

- focus.

-take your time

6. Once you have completed this, give yourself Self- Feedback (see Art Learning Procedure for more information).

Self- Feedback questions.

Are my patterns looking the same all the way across from section to section?
Do my patterns stay the same size?

Doing the real one

Now, we have finished our practise one, let's do the real one.

You will need:

-a fine liner black marker or black pen

- your 1st template (to copy the patterns onto our real one)

- your 2nd template (your real one or good copy).

7. Now copy your patterns from your 1st template to your 2nd template (good copy), thinking of what worked well on the practice one, and what you could improve. Use a fineliner black marker or black pen to draw the patterns inside the insect. No grey lead please.

Make sure:

-your patterns repeat (that's what a pattern is)

- the patterns are small and microscopic

- every mark counts

- focus.

-take your time

Self- Feedback questions.

Are my patterns looking the same all the way across from section to section?
Do my patterns stay the same size?
Is this my best work?

Cut out your insect

You will need:

-scissors

8. Cut out your insect. That means cut around the edge of your insect. Be careful not to cut off the antennae if your have one!

Here are a few cutting tips:

-Roughly cut out the bulk of the paper away so later it doesn't get in the way when you are doing detailed cutting.

-Instead of turning your scissors when cutting around curves, try turning the paper instead.

-Take your time. Slow and steady.

-Sometimes little snips improves accuracy.

-I know it's challenging to cut accurately, but the more you practice the better you get!

Making your collage

Now we are going to make a collage, for you insect.

You will need:

-Coloured paper or natural things from the garden

-Glue

To make your collage, you can make it look 2D (flat) or 3D (that means not flat but sticking out of the page). For example, if you want to put a leaf on your collage, you could make a little fold underneath the leaf to make it stick up.

Please make your background the place where the insect really lives.

Look at some examples on the left.

Gluing Tip Alert:

-When you are gluing things on, remember that you put the glue on the thing you are about to stick on, not the other way. If you do it the other ways, you will have shiny glue all over your artwork. It doesn't look great.

-Every edge of the thing you are going to stick on needs glue. We don't want any 'dog ears' and we don't want bits of your beautiful artwork falling off.

Stick your insect onto your collage

Congratulations on finishing your art project!

Keith Haring Inspired Project (Weeks 6-8)

This unit is all about the American Artist, Keith Haring. Keith Haring is a famous street artist from the 1970's and 80's.

In the 1980's he came to Melbourne and created these awesome murals on the left.

He loves to paint simple people in movement with lots of colour.

In this unit, we will be practicing drawing Keith Haring people, and then you will create your own artwork inspired by Keith Haring.

Materials for Project:

A3 or A4 paper

Erasor

Grey lead pencil

Textas

Session 1 (Week 6)

Watch the Youtube video to the left.
Now, its your turn to draw a Keith Haring person in grey lead.
Fill your page up with Keith Haring figures
Look at your drawing, and see if you can improve any of your figures.
Once you are really happy with your figures, go over with texta. Think about the different colours you want to use.

Session 2 (Week 7)

Lets think of each member of your family. What actions do they often do? Here are some examples: kicking a football, mowing the lawn, celebrating with arms up, sleeping, acting like a monster, stretching, exercising, jumping, getting excited etc.
Look at the picture to the left. Do any of their actions make you think about actions your family do?
Rewatch this video to remind yourself on how to draw Keith Haring style figures.

Practise:

On a spare piece of paper, practice drawing your family members in a Keith Haring style, doing actions.

Good Copy:

Now for the final artwork! For today, please use grey lead only. Thinking of what you learnt from your practice copy, on a new piece of paper draw your family members doing actions. Make sure you fill up all your paper. If you run out of family members to draw, repeat the same family member doing a different action.
Look at your artwork carefully. Are their any lines you could improve? Are you happy with the spacing between family members? Is this your best quality artwork?

Keep this for next week.

Session 3 (Week 8)

Get your final copy of your artwork. Choose two of your favourite texta colours. You will be using one colour to go over your family members.
With one colour, trace over all your figures. Your tracing needs to be really smooth and neat. To achieve this you need to go really slowly, take your time and focus. You might find if you go over it a second time, your mark making looks bolder and neater.
Look carefully at the Keith Haring artwork to the left. Do you notice the movement marks next to the characters. These are a special trick to emphasise the movement of the character. With your other colour texta, add the movement marks to emphasise the movement of your characters.
Look over your artwork. Are there any marks that you feel you could improve? If there are, draw over them.

Congratulations, you have finished your project.

Project: Bees and a beehive (Weeks 9-10)

For this two-week project, the students are going to learn how to draw a branch, beehive and a bee from the front and side view.

Session 1 (Week 9): Drawing a Branch and Beehive

Materials:

Black and Brown Texta

Yellow, Orange, Brown pencils

Grey Lead

Rubber

A4 or A3 Paper (can tape two A4 together and work on the non-sticky tape side) for background including beehive and branch.

A4 Paper for Bee

Orange Texta

Orange pencil

Branch:

Watch the YouTube clip to learn how to draw a branch.

Have the A4 paper in landscape position for the drawing. If you want, you could tape two A4 pieces of paper together at the back to make an A3 background.
Re- watch the YouTube clip and pause for different sections to draw the branch. DRAW in GREY LEAD first.
Give yourself feedback on your branch (What parts are you proud of and what parts could be improved?).
Give yourself feedforward (based on your feedback, how can you improve your artwork through refining it and/or adding more detail?)
Once you are happy with your drawing, trace over with a brown texta.
Now, colour in your branch using brown pencil. Use brown texta to highlight marks in the tree.
Practise weighting the pencil to get different tones for colouring. Try to leave no white gaps and try to stay within the lines. If you want, you could press hard underneath the branches, where the light doesn't shine on the branch, and lightly where the sun is shining on the branch.

Beehive:

1. Watch the YouTube clip to see how to draw a beehive.

Before you draw, think about the sizing of the beehive

We will need enough room on the A4 page to fill a beehive and 2 or 3 bees. The bees will need to be smaller than the beehive.

2. Re- watch the YouTube clip and pause for different sections to draw the beehive. DRAW in GREY LEAD first.

3. Give yourself feedback on your artwork (What parts are you proud of and what parts could be improved?).

4. Give yourself feedforward (based on your feedback, how can you improve your artwork through refining it and/or adding more detail?)

5. Once you are happy with your drawing, trace over with a orange texta.

6. Now, colour in your beehive using an orange pencil.

7. Practise weighting the pencil to get different tones for colouring. Try to leave no white gaps and try to stay within the lines. If you want, you could press hard on the parts of the beehive where the light doesn't shine, and lightly where the sun is shining.

Keep this drawing for next week

Session 2 (week 10): Drawing the bee/s (Frontal View and side view), Cutting it & Pasting it on the Background

Materials:

You will need your branch and beehive drawing from last week.

Black Texta

Yellow pencil

Grey Lead

Eraser

A4 paper (for side view)

A4 paper (for front view)

Scissors

Glue

In this session, you can draw one or two bees. It's up to you.

1. Watch the YouTube clips to see how to draw a bee from the front and side view.

2. Get your fresh A4 paper out. Think about the size of your background, and how big you bee needs to be. Should the bee be bigger than the beehive?

Start drawing the bee with a greylead. Re-watch the video as many times as you want to get your bee looking accurate and amazing.

6. Once you are happy with your drawing, trace over with a black texta.

7. Using your black texta, colour the bee strips on your bee.

8. Now, colour in your bee using a yellow pencil.

9. Practise weighting the pencil to get different tones for colouring. Try to leave no white gaps and try to stay within the lines. No scribbling please.

Cutting out your bee

Here are a few cutting tips. Remember then from the last project. (Please note, we won't cut out the antennae, we will draw them on the background later).

-Roughly cut out the bulk of the paper away so later it doesn't get in the way when you are doing detailed cutting.

-Instead of turning your scissors when cutting around curves, try turning the paper instead.

-Take your time. Slow and steady.

-Sometimes little snips improves accuracy.

-I know it's challenging to cut accurately, but the more you practice the better you get!

10. Glue your bee on to your background.

Congratulations, you've finished your project!

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