Term1: Digital portraits using Sketches school App in IPads.
Take selfie and save in photos
Open Sketches school, open page and upload photo. Zoom into areas (eyes, nose, mouth) to trace image. look for all the lines you can see and then the shaded areas and zoom out from time to time.
Term 2: Still life: Set a still life in the centre of the room for students to draw
Set up a still-life in the podium. You will need easels and boards and three different coloured felt pens or colour pencils.
Students will stand around the still-life and and keep their right eye closed. they can put their hand over it or use a patch. Its important that their feet remain in a fixed position. Use one colour and draw an outline of what you see. By closing one eye your able to flatten what you see.
Open your eyes, stay in exactly the same position, change the pen colour. draw the same scene on top again, this time with your left eye closed.
Finally, change the colour pen and open both eyes. Now draw the same scene again. once again you might find this surprisingly difficult as your binocular vision struggles to recalibrate between your drawing on the paper and the subject matter.
Extension work. Look at the still-life, close your eyes and draw what you have seen in the still-life.
Term 3: Landscape and Mark making.
Term 3: Close up of keys or other objects