Aims

Overall Aims

To transfer knowledge and skills to pupils that enable a better understanding of and control over painting particularly with regards to colour and tone with wider implications in art, design and general aesthetics.

To provide teaching staff with a framework of knowledge and skills to consolidate, sustain and transfer such skills to future generations.

To help build a future framework around which a school can base part of its art practice in general and colour use in particular so that pupils can have a coherent and consistent approach throughout their primary school years, without constraining creative output, with a simple but rigorous approach that builds year on year.

To create an awareness of transferable concepts, in particularly how complex systems can be built up from much simpler parts, and the dynamics and equilibrium that exist between abstract concepts such as colour, tone and scale.

 

Specific Workshop Aims

 

Year 1

Age 4,5 and 6

Improved brush handling

Letting the tools and materials do the work, vision appropriate to the technique.

Introduction of simple colour mixing with primary colours to obtain secondary colours

Introduction of basic colour juxtapositions

 

Year 2

Age 5,6 and 7

Improve on brush handling

Introduction to simple colour mixing

composing with secondary colours and variations of complementary pairings

 

Year 3

Age 7 and 8

Same as years 1 and 2

Basic understanding of the effect of mixing white with spectral colours.

Judging the tone of colours in terms of light and dark, lighter and darker

The ability to match tones of different colours.

Introduce the idea of edges

 

Year 4

Age 8 and 9

Same as for years 1, 2 and 3

The mixing of a neutral grey, the understanding of how all colours arise out of the three primaries and how they relate to grey.

 

Year 5

Age 9 and 10

Same as for years 1, 2, 3 and 4

Using the colours for more complex compositions.

The incorporation of already familiar motifs whilst keeping the integrity of the colour approach.

the ability to mix colours including the use of white and incorporating a mixed grey.

Responding to the composition and colours as work progresses.

Working across edges and scumbling.

To see that complex things can arise from simple rules.

 

Year 6

Age 10 and 11

All of the above with the addition of:

Working with greater detail.

To work with more complex layers using what lies underneath a paint layer to creat effects and new colours not obtainable otherwise.

To not be afraid to rework and area in a total different way.

To see that complex things can arise from simple rules.

© alexis rago 2008

Aims