OECTA 3-day Workshop - Toronto

Introduction

• Introduction and prayer
• Read the story “The Dot” / Story Bit
• Arts Loot Bag
• Overview of workshop (chart paper)
• Slide show of artworks

*Ice Breaker Activity: Inner and Outer circle

Plasticene Art Project

• Introduce plasticene projects
• Show Gr.5/6 picture books and plasticene illustrations
• Show steps in organizing project - handout
• Show plasticene technique. Review foreground, middle ground and background theory

Make and Take Plasticene Art Samples

• Make a sample nativity scene and put in frame provided
• Make a plasticene page from a picture book of their choice and glue it into the shadow box provided

Wax Resist - Van Gogh's “Starry Night”

• Discuss painting “Starry Night” referring to art resource
• Make a mini version of “Starry Night” using technique
• Show Halloween Pattern Story (ex. On Monday, I saw one ghost, On Tuesday, I saw two spiders…)

Colour Theory

• Discuss Primary, Secondary and Tertiary colours and colour wheel and their place in the environment
• Food colouring and water mixing experiment
• Make coffee filter butterflies
  You can turn the coloured filters into a butterfly, turkey or flower

Literature Links: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Life Cycle of a Butterfly (Science), Thanksgiving stories, Mother's Day, Spring

• Discuss warm and cool colours and refer to art samples: Halloween Silhouette, Serengetti Silhouette and Van Gogh's Sunflowers
• Briefly discuss tints and shades

Pointillism

• Discuss pointillism technique
• Make a sample picture using a theme of your choice (ex. Fall, Remembrance Day, Winter, Spring, Summer, Religious)

Charcoal Drawing

• Discuss technique and drawing medium
• Make a sample picture with a Remembrance Day theme

One-Point Perspective Drawing

• Review foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line
• Create a landscape picture following one-point perspective technique (can also be done on paper or foam plates)
• Show techniques for drawing nature objects and shading techniques

Still Life Drawing

• Draw samples of fruit
• Draw a still life composition
• Discuss contour, shape, colour and texture (using vocabulary and drawing techniques)

Sketching (go outside)

• Using charcoal, sketch a tree (Alfie's Long Winter, Science)

Collage

• Make a leaf rubbing collage (Alfie's Long Winter, Science)
• Character Writing - Alfie's Long Winter
• Show “All About Me” photo collage (Write a biography)
• Make 2 mosaic pictures using fun foam and mosaic squares

Batik

• Make a wax picture transfer using sand paper and fabric

Sand Painting

• Discuss how to make coloured sand
• Make a picture with coloured sand (Egyptian and Native Symbols)

Sculpture

• Describe foil sculptures (ex. Dragon, human)
• Demo clay pot techniques = pinch pot, coil pot, slab pot and tile
• Make a plasticene sculpture (ex. Totem Pole, clay pot, tile, sculpture)

Science Links - Structures: marshmallow and sugar cube igloo, bird's nest, beaver dam, medieval castle, log cabin (Pioneers), Salamander on leaf (Salamander Room)

Line & Shape Art

• Discuss types of lines in art, the world and show Math links
• Show a sample tepee (Science: Structures, Social Studies: Native People)
• Show math related artwork

Scratchboards

• Describe how to make a scratchboard
• Make a “Scratch Monster” (Halloween Stories)
• Discuss texture and line
• Show how to create a 3-D display of this artwork

Painting on Aluminum Foil - Winter Theme

• Show examples of student artwork done on foil and describe the different ways to add snow in a 3-D effect
• Paint sample snow scene on foil. Use with any snowman or winter story

3-D Newspaper Tree & Tissue Paper Tree

• Show the story “The Name of the Tree”
• Make an Ungalli tree with tissue/crepe paper and fruit loops

Writing links - write connections: Text to Text, Text to Self, Text to World, story elements, favourite part etc. on leaf, roots or branches

Professional Resources and Books

• peruse resources and picture books on display

Paper Bag Princess

• Watch play on cd
• Review handouts, organization, characters
• Discuss props, scenery, costumes
• Make samples of podium cloth, dragon skin, dragon claw, world, paper bag costume etc.
• Review sound effects

Sound Effects

• Dragon burning up forests with fiery breath (exaggerated inhale and exhale)
• Elizabeth knocking on the dragon's door (woodblock and mallet)
• Dragon flying around the world (“Woosh” sound by cast)
• Castle being smashed by dragon (hit a drum with a mallet)
• Dragon tired and then asleep (dragon characters snore while asleep)
• Fire burns up forest (scrunch a bag or paper to create crackling sound)

More Drawing Techniques

• Demonstrate a variety of drawing techniques
• Create a design using some of the techniques taught

Water Colour Painting Techniques

• Demonstrate water colour painting techniques
• Create a water colour painting with some of the techniques taught

Integration Links Exercise

• In small groups, take an activity and link it to curriculum expectations to Visual Arts and to other subject areas.