Fun Art Club (Age 7-10) Unique Interests? Draw and Paint Your Favourite Things.

In this weekly Art Club children get the chance to bring a favourite toy, object or book to the lesson. They will talk about their favourite object and we will use it as a starting point for an Art work to be created during the class. This could be anything from a realistic drawing of a favourite cuddly toy to an imagined landscape inspired by a ferocious toy dinosaur or set of lego knights. This is very much pupil centred in that they will bring their own toy/book/object and apply their own imagination and ideas. I am there to guide them all the way, from providing technical drawing advice on creating texture and realism to suggesting ideas and images to enhance their imaginary worlds. If the pupil has a favourite book I can help  to recreate an imagined scene from the story or copy a favourite character using correct proportions. The pupils bring  their own ideas and individual interests and I provide the teaching to help them achieve their goals whatever they may be!

Each week will have a specific theme through which we will explore the chosen toy/object/book: 

Week of 19th September. Topic/theme- Drawing skills:
Pupils will explore different ways to use line using a variety of simple media. Quality of line will be explored in both pencil and pen. How to use line drawings to record a quick impression of your object/theme will be considered as well as using mark making techniques to record detail and texture. Figure proportion and measurement will be included if students would like to draw figures or cartoon characters.

Week of 26th September. Topic/theme- Colour.
This week pupils will be encouraged to use some amazing ways to add colour to a piece of work. Pupils can bring whatever colours they have to the lesson and I will guide them on how to make the most of that particular medium. It could be watercolours or oil pastels, wax crayons or pencil crayons, each have different properties and produce different effects. Pupils may wish to bring a particularly colourful object/toy to the lesson or add imaginative colours to a plain drawing.

Week of the 3rd October. Topic/theme- An imaginative scene.
During this sessions pupils will be encouraged to draw their object/toy/character from a book in a particularly imaginative way. A dream scene could be considered, a fantasy landscape or world .... the scope is endless in this session. Any media can be used - the larger the paper the better as complex scenes and scenarios will be encouraged.

Week of 10th October. Topic/theme- Cartoon Storyboard.
In this session pupils will be shown how to create a cartoon storyboard. They will consider different options for a story which includes their chosen toy/object/book character. They will be taught how to draw different viewpoints and cartoon action pictures to create an exciting cartoon strip final adventure.