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Learning Experiences Outside the ClassromTe Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Phone: (09) 577 0138 ext 7703jeremy@tetuhi.org.nz

Jeremy Leatinu’uEducation Coordinator

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Te Tuhi pre visit: Lesson 2

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During this lesson we will explore…

• How to make something Abstract

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Let’s explore how to make something abstract…

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In the last lesson we learnt that abstract painting can use colour and shape to show the world in a different way

We learnt that colour and shape can help show our environment, the things we use and how we feel

Abstract Painting

Lets focus on shapes for now and think about the kinds of shapes we know…

Here are some shapes you may know…Let’s name some of these shapes…

octagonhexagon

cone

cylinder

cube

Oval

square

rect

ang

le

diamondcircle

triangle

Oval

square

rect

ang

le

circle

triangle

diamond

octagonhexagon

cone

cylinder

cube

circle

triangle

Many of these shapes can reflect and remind us of things such as…

To create an abstract painting of an object we should think about…

• The kind of shapes we see on the object

• What colours can we use to describe the object

Let’s start by thinking about this cell phone…

We may use warm, bright and playful colours if an object is fun to use

What basic shapes can we see in this cell phone?We want to focus on using the basic shapes to create an outline drawing…

The next step is to fill our shapes with colour…I have chosen to use primary and secondary colours such as…blue, green, purple and orange

I have chosen to use primary and secondary colours such as…blue, green, purple and orange

Using primary and secondary colours are great because they look very different to one another

I’ve chosen these colours to describe how playful and fun technology can be

Let’s look at another piece of technology we may be familiar with…Now we have an abstract painting that shows a cell phone in a very different way…

Here we have a laptop. To create an abstract painting of this let’s find some basic shapes to create an outline drawing…

Now we add colour to show how playful and fun a laptop can be to use…I have decided to use red, blue, yellow, orange and green…Let’s look at another piece of technology we may be familiar with…Now we have an abstract painting that shows a laptop in a very different way…

Here we have a playstation portable. To create an abstract painting of this let’s find some basic shapes to create an outline drawing…

Now we add colour using primary and secondary colours…In this painting I have decided to use red, blue, yellow, orange, green and violet…I have also left part of my painting white. This is so you can clearly see the shape of the buttons…

Abstract Painting

To abstract these objects we:

First looked for basic shapes on the object to help draw an outline of the object

Then we used colour to describe the object

We used warm, bright and playful colours to describe how fun the object is to use

Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…Now that we know about how to abstract

something…

So what have we learnt so far?So what have we learnt so far?

We learnt…

• If we looked carefully, we can see many things in the world have basic shapes

• We can use colour to describe an object and how we feel about it

• To abstract an object we need to think about the kinds of shapes an object has

• You can show a painting of an object in a very different way

rect

ang

le

End of lesson

In the next lesson we will explore “the kinds of technology people use”

End of lesson