Visual Arts Challenge 1 EDN236 2015

WARM UP

• Take an A4 sheet of paper and cut a 21 by 21 cm square

• Fold your square in diagonal and again in the opposite direction

• Unfold it and you will have the sheet with two diagonal fold  marks

• Fold all corners to the centre

• Turn over and fold all corners to the centre again

• Turn over and insert your fingers in the pockets and  play

 

ACTIVITY

 

• Identify a toy character you have or may have had

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• Identify its name and its history.  This will inform the picture book activity that you will undertake during your on-campus intensive week

• Write a short history  (no more than 150 words) of your toy /character. Remember your are including this in your Learning Journal

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• Draw the character

• If you have a toy character place it in front of you and start by drawing the silhouette on a sheet of paper using a HB pencil

• If you don’t have the toy character find an image representing the character and draw its silhouette using a HB pencil

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• Draw details of the character

• Using  different colour textas or pencils  draw the details of your character

 

What is the learning?

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WARM UP

• Observing and constructing:

• To take a piece of paper and transform it into a three dimensional object

Practical:

• The use of visual arts materials

• Representation and Viewpoints:

• To build a context through imagined and real events or histories

Cultures and Histories:

• To build a narrative based on personal or imagined experiences

Conceptual:

• To develop an idea into a visual representation

Practical:

• The use of visual arts materials

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