The concept of the workshop is for students to gather an understanding and background on the importance of spatial representation and perspetive. Often when a child draws the is no concept of space, perspective and often reprensentation is in accurate, something that everyone loves about childrens’ drawings and paintings. However, it is important for them to understand how perspective works because it relates to how we see daily objects.
I originally got the idea from Japanese print making. They use colours to represent far and near objects. However, this was difficult to try and explain in simply of class, so keeping a spatial representational focus and using layering and shapes to emphasis distance is what we will be doing.
It is important to do this workshop with Wat Ku Kam because they have no art education. It is very beneficial to explain the basics of art to children, especially if it is something they would like to pursue in the future.
Objectives:
- To produce media works in the visual arts
- To produce individual works in the visual arts
- To create simple/coherent/complex organization of elements.
- To transform gestures and their extension, the tools: put together volumes (paper)
- To create spatial representations
- To understand foreground, middle ground and background through colours and size
- To have fun
Materials:
- Construction Paper
- White Paper
- Scissors
- Pencils
- Glue Sticks
- Paint, paint brushes, palettes, water bowls
Introduce yourself and then have the kids as well as the other volunteers helping you to do the same. (5 minutes)
Step 2: Lesson
Here I will explain what it is we will be learing about, why it is important, etc. (13 minutes)
Foreground, middle ground and background. The foreground refers to the area closest to the viewer, which is found at the bottom of the picture. In the foreground things appear larger, depending on their size. (Give example, hold two objects at different lenghts and show pictures). The foreground often contains a lot of detail because it is close, therefore the detail is visible.
The middle ground is found about half way up the image. And has not as bright colours and less details that the foreground. (show where it is located)
The background is the highest part of the page, it will be closest to the horizon line. This dulling of colour and decreasing of detail creates the effect of “atmospheric perspective”. Which is a fancy way of say that it looks like it is in the distance. (Show where it is located)
Step 3: Drawing
- Explain that we will be creating an image that is focused on colour and perspective/distance/spatial representation
- Have students draw three lines on their paper to represent foreground, middle ground and background.
- Have them draw their image. It can either be a landscape or a still life.
Step 4: Colours
Next they will need to think of what each part of the picture will be. And either make a mark to represent or scribble the colour over the area.
2 minutes
Step 5: Cut out
This part gets tricky.
- Once they have picked their colours they can get the appropriate construction paper that they will need.
- Next they will draw on the construction paper the shape of whatever they want in that colour (show example)
- Once all the pieces are cut out glue them on from the “background to the foreground”. Meaning the shapes that are in the distance they should glue first and then the closer ones should be glued last.
Step 6: Clean up
Make sure everyone helps with the clean up
5 minutes