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To elaborate the steps of a project articulating written and pictorial language in a notebook.
OBJECTIVES
To explain an artistic process
To articulate written and pictorial language
To enrich the technical repertory
SKILLS
Being able to a chart
Being able to elaborate and fill in a visual Arts notebook.- Being able to achieve a painting project featuring vegetables from the garden.
MATERIALS
Vegetables
Cardboard covered in white drawing paper
Gouache, brushes, pastels, paper plates
REFERENCES
Gérard Gasiorowski « peintures de fleurs en pots » (paintings of flowers in pots )
PROCEDURES
Before the session, explore, describe, elaborate charts about the texture, the colours and the shapes of the vegetables.
1) Make a list of the associated ideas originating from this exploration : healthy food, a feast for the senses, a commercial for the brand mark of soups or fertilizers, or a tale like « Jack and the magic bean » or on the contrary of the « Snow White » type, with poison in the apple…
2) Present the project : how to stage a vegetable so that it expresses an idea, a slogan, a story ? Elaborate individual researches and projects on the notebook.
3) Look for a gouache palette (see « a trip through a coloured vegetable garden » in relation with the painting by Gérard Gasiorowski). Draw each project with pencils, then paint it in gouache on large cardboards.
FOLLOW-ON-ACTIVITIES
Work on the theme of the scientific herbarium. Create a giant herbarium of the vegetable garden.
Write down short poems about vegetable gardens.
Display the boards in an exhibition….
TRANSPOSITION
These activities can be transposed in classes of any age.
ASSESSMENT
It will check the pupil’s ability to :
Reuse the pictorial (colour, drawing…) and written (lexical filed linked to vegetables) vocabulary.
link up or oppose the artistic or scientific process.
Françoise Jon Les Violettes Elementary school, Mareil-Marly, Yvelines , France