SCHOOL: Novi Marof Primary School
GRADE: 7. and 8.
TOPIC: Art interferences (Erasmus+ SOFT)
SUBTOPIC: Learning textures
ART TEHNIQUE: digital photography and combined fine arts techniques
TIME: 4 school hours
THE OUTCOMES OF THE TOPIC:
Students explore and interpret different contents shaping the ideas they express by using visual language.
Students demonstrate fine motor skills by experimenting with different visual materials and procedures in their own expression.
Students use the technical and expressive capabilities of new media technologies in their art work.
Students discuss the work of art by linking personal experience, visual language and the thematic content of the work as a whole.
Students describe and compare their visual work with work of other students, thinking about the creative process and point out possible changes to the solution.
THE OUTCOMES OF THE SUBTOPIC:
Students express themselves creatively and plan their actions using methods to simulate creativity in the ICT enviroment.
In collaboration with other students, the student transforms existing solutions and creates new pieces and come up with ideas.
Students, with the support of teachers and independently, seek out new informations in nature and successfully apply it when solving problems.
Students show interest in different areas.
Students have good communication with each other and cooperate successfully in different situations.
ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS:
1. We talk abouth textures in the classroom.
What is texture? It is a cartain surface, a character of the surfice. Give examples! Rough, smooth, warm, coold, shiny, matt, colored, colorless, soft, hard, light, dark… what senses do we need to know textures? Sight and touch/ visual and tactile.
2. The students, divided into groups, independently exlore the textures in nature (visual and tactile), in the immediated vicinity of the school and take pictures of the textures.
3. Students process digital photographs in programs Windows photo editor, PhotoScape, Photo Pos Pro…
4. Redefine photos.
Can we mimic textures? What art techniques would you use? Can we use imagination? As an incentive, I am showing a graphic of Rhinoceros made by Albrecht Durer. We analyze the details. Students in groups arrange fine art, upgrade and redefine digital photo printing.
5. We organize an exhibition in the central space of the school and at Microsoft Teams and Yammer (Office 365) and at eTwinning.