Art Lesson CD
-ROMfor Acorn Computers only
by Christopher Jarman
K-1and K-2 pupils and their teachers.
Plus 93 PhotoCD Images to stimulate
painting and drawing (worth £60 on its own!)
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WHAT IS ART LESSON?
Art Lesson is an extended lesson in art which can take a week, a term or a year
to work through. It offers over 280 colour pages of ideas, stimulus material and
activities in many different art media to work through.
Art Lesson is for the non-specialist art teacher at Key Stage 2 and above.
Teachers may find it useful at Key Stage 1 with some children.
CONTENTS OF THE DISC
1. Copyright Page
2. The Buttons
3. Credits
4. Introduction
5. About this program
6. Printing out Pages
7. The Buttons again
8. How to use Art Lesson
9. Controlling Animations
10. Backdrop if required
11. Teachers Demonstration
12. The Art Room
13. Art Exhibition
a. Childrens' Art.
b. Artists' Work.
14. Photographic Studio
7 pages of extra colour photographs with enlargements for further stimulus
in art activities
15. Store Room
4 pages giving the lists of materials
required for all the art activities
16. Colour Studio
1. Mixing Paints
2. Complementary Colours
3. Learn about Tone
4. Colour Matching
5. How to paint Reflections
17. The Themes
1. Driftwood
2. Lichen
3. Birds
4. Frost
5. Leaves
6. Natural Forms
7. Wood
8. Brick and Stone
9. The Sea
10. Pictures from life
18. Help Pages
Art Room guide
Tone-1
Colour Matching
Complementary Colours
Wood Carving
Making a Bamboo Pen
Wax resist
Tone-2
19. Quiz page.
20. Certificate to show that a child has completed Art Lesson.
The name can be typed in and the certificate printed out.
INTRODUCTION
Providing the teacher makes sure that space and the right materials are
available, any pupil should be able to work through the themes and activities
and gain a great deal from them. The program is based upon long classroom
experience. It will provide a sound introduction to observing and drawing from nature.
The program contains a collection of high quality photographs showing some
of the enormous variety of patterns to be observed in the world around us.
Many of the pictures are from nature, others are human-made. Some are regular
and symmetrical such as seed-heads or stone walls. Others are irregular like
lichens or plant forms, and some are ready-made scenes to paint.
Throughout history artists have used such patterns to inspire drawings and
designs of all kinds. Using these pictures as starting points we can do the
same.
There are also many examples of pupils‘ work, along with animations, lessons
in drawing and painting and hints on the use of materials.
From the Art Room, clicking on the various parts of the room will take you
into the rest of the program. You can get help with this by clicking <select>
on the teacher's tray. Experiment until you have learnt what happens.
You can return to the Art Room at any time by clicking <select> on a button
with a small picture of the Art Room upon it.
Pupils should begin with the first two or three themes to understand how the
program works. After that, they may pursue an individual path through them at
their own pace.
Experience in using the program should also open pupils‘ eyes to the vast
source of inspiration that exists in the world out there!
The content has been guided by the National Curriculum Guidelines for
Key Stage Two AT 1 and AT 2 .
THE THEMES
Each of the ten Themes contains four or five art activities showing how
selected photographs may be used. It will soon be apparent how flexible the
program can be. Teachers will be able to use many of the pictures as part of
their planned studies both in Art and in other areas of the curriculum.
PHOTO CD
93 high quality photographs are also provided on PhotoCD as an extra resource
on the disc. These may be used by teachers or pupils to make sprites for use in
other applications or in DTP work. They may be saved or printed in all the
usual ways.
The application !PhotoView will be needed for this. This utility and
instruction comes with the support disc for your CD Drive. You should
have upgraded to CDFS 2.21 or later.
The idea behind this program is simple. By showing photographs of the kind
of images which have always stimulated artists, and continue to do so, it is
intended to encourage pupils, and teachers who may have little or no formal
art training, to look more closely at the world around them for their
inspiration. This will be done by demonstrating that what is seen in real life,
photographs or in other artists‘ work, may be transformed by the creative
imagination into something new.
Pupils will be taken through the creative process by examples and suggestions.
They will then be expected to move forward from each exercise towards their own
discoveries and creations. Some methods and techniques in art will be
explained, and suggestions made about the use of materials throughout
the program.
The themes covered are wide and general but conforming to the National
Curriculum. They are broad enough to allow as much flexibility in subject
matter as possible so that the principle ”of an integrated approach to
teaching• can be followed. The skills encouraged are the most basic and
fundamental to the budding artist.
Skills Encouraged are ;
Direct experience and observation
Design - Light and colour
Design - Lines and shapes
The Themes should be followed in order, but the various skills are supported
right across them as appropriate. However both specific activities and
particular skills may be accessed either using the menu at the beginning, or at
times by use of the Help button on the screen.
A few key paintings and sculptures have been selected which show how the
artists were influenced by direct experience and observation, but who have
transcended the mere reproduction of what they observed to create something new.
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