VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING DRAWING SCULPTURE CONSTRUCTION PAINTING

VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING DRAWING SCULPTURE CONSTRUCTION PAINTING 1. Find a character from a book, TV show, comic or movie that you like. Can you draw them? Can you draw them in the same style as the artist who made them? 3. Make some salt dough: -2 cups flour -1 ½ cups salt -1 ½ cups water 4. Collect and clean boxes and containers from your recycling and create a building, car, house, or something you can play with. 6. Mix some coffee or coloured spices in water and use it to paint a landscape, portrait, abstract, or still-life. 2. What can you see outside your window? See if you can draw it. Mould the dough into 5. With sticks, leaves a figure of your and interesting things choosing. Put it in a from your garden, build sealed container in the a house for an fridge when you’re imaginary creature to done. live in. Find something else in the kitchen or bathroom that would make interesting paint.

VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING TEXTILES PRINTING COLLAGE 7. Make and decorate a puppet using an old sock. 9. Look for some interesting leaves and plants in your backyard. Push them into the dirt and see what patterns they make. 11. Make a landscape, portrait, still-life or abstract using: 8. Look in your wardrobe, and put together an outfit you would NEVER wear. What makes it look weird? What makes it look good? Can you describe the texture? Patterns? Colours? Use the ‘paint’ you made to make prints on a plate from the kitchen using your finger and hand prints. Wash the plate when you’re done! -Things you find in your garden -Bits of torn paper and cardboard from your recycle bin -Newspaper or magazine

VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING DRAWING SCULPTURE Line up some toys, figurines, or objects from around the house against a piece of paper. Can you see their shadows? Trace around them. Collect and clean boxes and containers from your recycling. Cut or tear some shapes, or the letters of your name. Make slots in each letter and attach them so they stand up by themselves. Can you follow these instructions and draw the puppy? CONSTRUCTION PAINTING Collect and clean boxes and containers from your recycling. Cut or tear to build an abstract face. Using a small amount of sauce, jam, or spread, paint a portrait of someone you like onto a plate. Clean up afterwards! Use something yummy to paint a piece of toast. Are you brave enough to taste it?

THEORY VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING Can you find objects in primary and secondary colours and build a colour wheel? Find paper, cardboard or bits of recycling in different colours and textures. Can you build a colour wheel? PRINTING COLLAGE Put some hot water and a little Find as many of these items as bit of dish liquid in a container. you can, and arrange them in a Put some spices, spread or creative way. sauce in the container. -5 different leaves Mix until the colour changes. -A stick that is longer than Blow into the mixture until your hand make bubbles. -A spotty or strange rock Put paper on top of the bubbles. -A flat rock 3 Find some leaves to make flowers -A flower -10 blades of grass -Something you love to play with -Something that can be recycled -Something brown -Something heavy -Something light -Something that needs sun to live -Something that smells interesting

VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING DRAWING SCULPTURE CONSTRUCTION PAINTING Michelangelo painted on the roof of the Sistine Chapel by laying on his back on a raised platform. Stick some paper under a table or a chair and give it a try! Bundle some sticks and twigs together. Put the bundle into a container, or bury it in the ground. What sorts of things can you decorate your tree with? Collect some straight sticks and twigs. Break them so they are all roughly the same size. Connect them with cotton thread, string, or your shoelaces! Cut or tear a piece of scrap paper or card and poke through another stick to make a sail. Cut a small piece of soap off the bar in your bathroom and use it as a crayon. Draw a picture onto a scrap piece of paper or card. Press hard. Paint over the top of your picture with a wet tea bag, and it will appear! v WILL IT FLOAT? Follow steps to draw this boat. HOMEMADE PAPERCLAY Find as much scrap paper as you can and tear it into tiny pieces. Put the paper shreds into a bowl and pour in hot water. Stir it all up until it’s mushy. Pick up the mush, squeeze out as much water as you can, then spread it over the outside of a bowl. Let it dry. Peel it off and decorate. What can you make out of cut, torn and twisted plastic bags? Fill up your drink bottle and take it outside. Squeeze water slowly onto the concrete. What can you ‘paint’ with water before it dries?

VISUAL ARTS HOME LEARNING TEXTILES PRINTING COLLAGE LAUNDRY LANDSCAPES Can you make a portrait or a landscape using your washing? (Make sure you put it all back when you’re done!) Print onto a piece of scrap paper or card with a used teabag. Can you find any shapes that look like objects or animals? Trace around them. Scoop up some gravel, soil, dirt or tanbark. Spread it out onto a flat surface. What can you draw into it? Can you move it around to make a picture? Use some string, or some shoelaces to make a picture or some shapes. Lay a piece of kitchen foil over the top and gently press down. Colour in the foil if you have textas!