PRIMARY 1 LESSON

1ST WEEK

       LESSON 1- LESSON- DOODLING

Preparatory Stage

Everything  around us  has a shape. A shape is drawn using a line. A line is made when you move the tip of your writing or drawing tool from one point to another. An example of a drawing tool is a pencil and crayon.

Types of Lines
The are 5 types of lines. All the things we see around us can be drawn using these lines.

 SHAPES

  A shape is a closed line.

Types of Shapes

 (A) Regular or Basic Shape and     (B) Irregular Shape

                                      (A)  Regular Shapes (Basic Shapes)
Below shows the basic shapes that make up most of the other shapes we find around us.

                                      (B)  Irregular Shapes
                                      Any shape that is not a Regular shape is an Irregular Shape.

2ND WEEK

                                          DOODLING(MAIN LESSON)

Doodling means drawing a continuous line that crosses itself several times to create shapes.

Example:

You have to take note that the shapes created are either Regular or Irregular Shapes.

*Exercise-1
(a) Make a Doodle
(b) Identify the regular shapes in your doodle and colour them in different colours.

Ans.

*Exercise-2
(a) Make a Doodle
(b) Identify the irregular shapes in your doodle and colour them in different colours.

WEEK 3
                                             LESSON 2-MAIN TOPIC-TEMPLATES

How to Colour Your Traced Out Objects

1. Colour in one direction.

2. Colour uniformly / that means you colour without leaving patches.

3. Colour within the boundary of your shape.

Below Shows The Three Wrong ways of Colouring a Shape

Correct Way of Colouring

Colouring is in 1 direction (horizontally), there are no white patches and the colour work has been done within the shape of the circle, they have not crossed the outline.

TEMPLATE

A template is the shape of an object that is cut out from a hard flat material like a paper card used for tracing.

Tracing 
This is when you draw the shape of an object using a template.You trace by drawing along the shape of your template with your pencil onto a sheet of paper.

Shapes used to make templates can either be man made or natural. Man made things include tables, chairs, cars and many more. Natural shapes can be the shape of a leaf, dog, fish and many more.

Below Shows a Template.

WEEK 5/6

                                              DESIGN & PATTERNS

To design is when you make something in an artistic way. Artistic way means you make something which is different from any other persons own. When you design you do not copy other people's work. You create from your own mind. You can look at other peoples work to help you generate ideas. It is called DRAWING INSPIRATION. Those who copy exactly other peoples work and make them their own are thieves.

*To make a pattern, you need to repeat a design several times. You can use man made and natural objects to make a design. You can arrange stones, leafs and even human beings to create a design. Below shows human beings arranged and repeated to form designs and patterns.

Performers line up during a dress rehearsal of the World Cup 2010 opening

ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

If you want to make a design on paper, you would have to use the following elements.

                                            Lines    |     Dots    |    Shapes   |   Colour

                                      Below shows a Design

*Identify the lines,shapes,colour and dots in the design above.

Pattern (Balanced Pattern)

 Non Balanced Pattern

                       MEMORY DRAWING & IMAGINATIVE DRAWING

                                             Memory Drawing

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Memory drawing is when we draw something we have seen before: It can be that we saw it with:               
                       (a)  our naked eyes,

                       (b)  on TV 

                       (c)  in a magazine 

                       (d)  comic book or a story book
                       (e)  on a computer

When we draw from our memory,it means we bring back a picture of what we have already seen before. If you want to memorize something very well, you need to be a good observer. Good observers are people like you who look at things very carefully. Very carefully so that in the future they can remember and tell someone or draw what they saw or what they learnt. 

                                            Imaginative Drawing

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Imagination is when you think about something that you have never seen before.

Imaginative drawing is when you draw something you have never seen before. All the things we see around us,including living and non living things at first were not in the world. Someone imagined it, and made it. Everything in the world was imagined.

                                              Direct Print

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Direct print is done by painting a textured surface with colour and pressing it onto another surface to transfer the texture onto the surface.

Surfaces on which these prints can be done include walls,paper,cloth and even on our skin. Paints used to paint our skin are special paints. You need to ask permission from your parents or art teacher before applying them to your skin. We can use man made or natural objects with textured surfaces to make direct prints. Natural things include tree barks, leaves,our palm,cut open fruits,vegetables and many more. Man made things include tennis ball,the outsole of a shoe, coin and many more.

OBJECT DRAWING

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If we want to be smart and creative people who solve problems in their lives, we need to be good observers. Good observers are the people who solve problems in our society. Most of all the inventors were very good observers. They saw a problems by looking carefully and created solutions to them. When we are drawing objects we need to become good observers.

A good observer is a person who looks at things carefully. Good observers look at these things when they are looking at objects. First they look at:

                    (a) Shape      (b) Colour    (c)  Texture   (d) Size   (e) Height

When observing objects to draw,in order to show how good we are as observers we need to draw boldly.

CONSTRUCTION AND ASSEMBLAGE

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We play with different materials we pick from our surroundings,wood,paper,plastic packages,fabric,cans,tins and many more. We can also use materials to make objects such as houses,mobile phones,aeroplanes and kites. We cut join,glue,and wrap when we construct. We can also,tear papers and cards with our hands to make certain objects we desire to make.