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| Curriculum: Art: Sketching techniques. |
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Since visual arts is extensive, Spiny Babbler has separated specific areas to emphasize. Art mediums, movements, personalities are packaged into three distinct areas and each is covered by a three-month package.
- Sketching techniques. Pastel, charcoal, drawing tools. Cave painting, renaissance, outside art. Follow up on samples by the early cave dwellers, Leonardo da Vinci, Grandma Moses, Van Gogh.
- Painting techniques. Acrylic, water, oil (following impressionistic, expressionistic, and minimalist approaches). Follow up on samples by Monet, Georgia O’ Keeffe, Frank Stella.
- Modern art techniques. Enamel, cloth pieces, sand, twigs, paper cutting. Abstract expressionism, collage, mixed media. Follow up on samples by Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Andy Warhol.
- Art experiments. Using the artist’s body, wood, metal, and other material. Living, installation art this session involves a study of work by Sylvador Dali and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Sketching Techniques:
This curriculum covers the first offering. The offering is based on pastel, charcoal, drawing pencil mediums. Cave painting, renaissance, outside art are the movements that the course will cover. Samples to be covered include the early cave dwellers, Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, and Grandma Moses. |
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| Being creative. Participants look at flowers, buildings, pond, and animals and see them through new eyes. They attempt to understand how to look at things and imagine new shapes, colors, angles, and composition using pencil and pastel. |
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| Art history. A field trip to a Temple Square to sit under living history to learn about artists and how they influenced the shape of the alphabets, documented agriculture, and helped shape the modern sciences over the centuries. They create charcoal work of the field site. |
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| Still life. Children visit farmlands and address specific objects, plants, and tools and reinforce their drawing and sketching skills using charcoal and pencil. The first building block for practicing artists, still life provides essential knowledge regarding light, shades, and placement. |
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| The art material. Participants visit the durbar square and the coal shop. They learn when and how coal started being used, how it was processed to prepare pencils, the history of pastel and the artwork that was created using this material. |
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| Landscapes. Pastel can be a powerful medium through which to convert the regular scenes that we see into wonderful artwork. Children go to an area such as Swayambhu or Godavari side and practice their landscape-making skills gaining inspiration from the Van Gogh series of landscapes. |
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| The leading movements. Participants by this time have identified cave paintings, renaissance, and outside art. Further stress is placed so that participants are able to identify these schools of paintings and learn how they came about. |
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| Portraits. Visit the studio of a recognized Nepali artist. Using the forms of charcoal, pencil, and pastel, participants make portraits of the artist in the form of outside art and see her/his work and learn about their lifestyle. |
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| The artists. By this time, the children have learned about several leading artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Grandma Moses, and Van Gogh. They hear stories and see paintings by the artists and understand to which movement they belonged and why their achievements are significant. |
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| Framing time. Participants visit a frame shop, see and touch different working surfaces and see how framing is done to enhance their artwork. From learning to protect their work from exposure to the process of cleaning glass, they understand how the final products are prepared. |
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| Preparing for exhibition. From the work that they have done, participants fine-tune one image for exhibition. They identify what they like about the artwork and learn to share what they are thinking in front of an audience. |
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| Exhibition. Children say to an audience of adults and other children what they see in the art that they have made. Parents, children share the images and share a fantastic drawing room ready framed artwork. Parents/guardians are asked to judge the children’s work. |
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| Party and awards time. Children have fun, fun, and fun and take home fantastic framed artwork home and a DVD of the finest artwork that they have made to show proudly to their parents, friends, and teachers! |
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