Introduction

The development of students’ creativity, skills and

imagination progress are in a sequential process.

Teaching art will enhance students’ creativity,

imagination, and self-esteem, critical thinking, and

learning.

Learning progression map

5 Activities chosen to identify and apply one or more art elements

to create artworks

Activity 1:

Indicator:

Identify and investigates different types of lines-wavy, straight, jagged,

curved, zigzag, broken, spiral, thick and thin lines

Activity:

Show to the students different types of line .

Students identify various lines in the things they see around them.

Make different types of lines using clay.

Draw lines using different kinds of colours in their drawing book.

Activity 2:

Indicator:

Recognizes basic shapes ( circle, square, etc.) and free-form organic shapes

( puddle, water drop, leaves, flowers, clouds etc. ) and use them to make works of

art.

Activity:

Ask students to identify different shapes around the class room, such as shape

of the door, clock, table top etc.

Ask students to identify various shapes in the things

they see around them.

And then students draw shapes they observed from

the class..ex.clock,tables

Activity 3:

Indicator:

Recognizes basic shapes (circle, square etc) and free‐form/ organic shapes

(puddle, water drop, leaves, flowers, clouds etc) and use them to make works of art

Activity:

Take the students out of the classroom to observe different types of

shapes and symmetry in the natural world.

Ask them to make an abstract painting using their imagination by using different

shapes identified from outside.

Ask the students to use shapes in their paintings.

They can draw hot sunny day or

they can create more ideas using their own creativity.

Activity 4:

Indicator:

Identifies primary colours (red, yellow and blue). Mixes primary colours to make

new colours

Activity:

Discuss with the whole class about an image of a painting .

Explain primary colours and how to combine primary colours to create secondary

colours.

Discuss about different ways they can create painting using primary colours

Create a painting using primary colours and experiment

how to create secondary colours by mixing two primary

colours.

Activity 5:

Indicator:

Identifies lightness and darkness of a colour (e.g., light blue/ dark blue)

Activity:

Discuss with the students about shades of colour.(light or dark).

Explain how to make dark and light colours by adding black or white colour to

another colour.

Demonstrate by adding some white to make it light and some black to make it dark

Ask them to make a painting using dark and light colour .

Student’s Artwork Description

Student’s Artwork Description

It is a picture of a sunset to a beach

Student was trying put all his imagination into this picture

It shows the peacefulness of the sunset

The sea is calm

Birds are flying over to find a nesting place

A person is playing peas fully on the beach

There is a house with some trees

Two dhoanis are located in the sea

It is beautiful drawing. The student has used his creative imagination to put

all in his mind show the actual feeling of a sunset.

Key stage 1 student’s artwork was chosen for this project

Picture Analysis

It is a picture of a sunset to a beach

Pencil was used to outline the images

Pencil colour was used to bold & highlight the images

The colour of the sea is completely dark. Could have been better if the sun rays

reflection clour on the sea along with darkness

Good choice for the birds colour which black and it matching with the theme

It will even better if the beach colour is little more bright as sun is little above the

horizon which shows more brightness to the atmophere.

Little more black colour to highlight the two dhoanis would have been even better

It is beautiful drawing. The student has used his creative imagination to put

all in his mind show the actual feeling of a sunset.

Discussion

Positive

Well Used of colours as a sunset

Elements are in its correct places and it has a repetition

All the elements are used in rhythmic way

It is an asymmetrical balance picture

Visual texture is also used somehow

Negative

Should have completed colouring specially in clouds

Colour tones could have matched with one another

Conclusion

In this assignment, I have realized that arts education

helps students to develop skills that are needed for most

jobs in later life, including creative thinking, problem

solving, exercise of individual responsibility, sociability

and self-esteem.

References

1. Shirumeen Ahmed & Mohamed Ashir (2015), Exploring Creative Arts, teacher’s

guide, A joint publication of National Institute of Education, Maldives and

Cambridge University Press, India.

2. Anna Reyner, (2008), Art Influences Learning, Articles, The Professional Resource

for Teachers & Parents , Excelligence Learning Corporation, Retrieved from:

http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=

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