- Gallery Visit (4 hours)
Physically visit an art gallery, exhibition or museum. Select a piece of work and develop a project for the primary classroom based on your study, research and understanding of the piece and its context.
Evidence: your portfolio MUST contain evidence of your attendance (e.g. ticket stub) and direct study of the piece eg your own notes and photographs, diagrams or scanned in rough sketches. It is essential that you see and engage with the piece directly as well as in reproduction.
I have chosen this image from the Katy Dove exhibition held in Dundee where I was able to preview a range of her artistic work. This simple piece shows an array of colour whilst showing the difference between neat work and a more abstract piece.
Project- Shade and colour in Nature
I would begin by taking each individual colour and focusing on relevance to the outside world within each colour. This connects the children’s understanding to real life and allows them to feel the links with the learning. For example take the colour green which has connotations of nature and purity, which they can relate to plants, growth and health. The children could begin to connect two colours together, for example the orange and red could be an exotic flower found on the stem of a plant. I feel an important part of Art is appreciating colour and its connections to where we find the colour for younger pupils. This task will allow for better understanding as an introduction into colour which can lead to activities further on.
Examples of learning can be taking these individual colours and mixing two together to create new colours. This can progress to taking three colours and mixing them. As the task goes on, white and black can be introduced to create different shades of the colour. These new colours can fit within nature and the children can recognise where these colours can be found and the connotations of each.
Another exercise can be taking these colours and new shades to create their own colour palette which can be developed to creating a picture representing nature. This picture will show their findings of colour and range in shades and tones.
By the end of this project, the children will be more comfortable with colour and mixing colours to create new ones. They will be confident with varying tones and shades and have the ability to match them to the outside world and nature.
Here are the pictures and evidence from the exhibition of Katy Dove;
