ART PROGRAM

BIRDS

STAGE 2
OUTCOMES VAS2.2
VAS2.3
VAS2.4
INDICATORS - focuses on details of subject matter and areas of interest
- seeks to investigate traditions in artmaking
- emphasises or exaggerates certain qualities of subject matter
by focusing on details
- expresses opinions about how well subject matter is
represented and appreciates the skills involved
SUBJECT BIRDS IN DESIGN
MATTER
FORMS Drawing, Painting, Collage
RESOURCES VISUALS: artwork of Indian Haveli Painting showing birds
as part of the composition, artwork of teacher Deborah Barrett
that centres around birds as the main subject of the
composition,
MATERIALS: oil pastels, watercolour paints, acrylic paints,
Artline pen, collage materials, cardboard, artpaper, polytrays,
large scroll paper
APPRECIATION - talks about the meaning of the artwork and how the subject
matter realistically represents things in the world
- recognises art terms eg. delineation, design, haveli, stylised
- discuss symbolism and realism
- sees themselves as artists
PERSPECTIVES Australian artists
LINKS HSIE

ASSESSMENT Students were able to:

- draw likenesses from observation
- identify qualities of objects
- use colour theory in their artwork
- manipulate the media
- see themselves as artists
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE 2
SUBJECT MATTER: BIRDS IN
DESIGN

1. EXTEND AND REPEAT DURATION: Four Lessons

Students will-
- Use artline pen and a scrap of a street directory map glued onto artpaper
to extend each line and shape to the outside of the page and then to repeat
in different sizes the icons and symbols from a bird drawing
- Continue to fill the page with varying sizes of symbols also incorporating
broken lines, or arrows or topographical elements
- Note the colours in the scrap of paper and determine to use only those to
watercolour the field and the icons
- Select a colour and use it in 4 shapes, another colour in 3 shapes, another
in 2 and the last colour in 1 shape
- Select both large and small shapes to colour and concentrate on a
balanced outcome
- Look at the work from a distance to ensure there is harmony and balance
- Add any extra lines or shapes needed to complete the work
- Critically look at the work of Imants Tiller and relate it to their own work

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. BIRDS IN COLLAGE DURATION: Four Lessons

Students will-
- View images of artwork in Indian havelis incl. teachers own drawings
- Discuss the ‘stylised’ images and the decorative elements
- Use book images of many types of birds to draw three different birds,
working on the large shape and using little detail
- Talk about the commonality of the teardrop shape that relates to the
birds body, wing and head
- Cut out four different size teardrop shapes from card
- Draw a series of birds in a variety of positions using the teardrop
shapes
- Note that birds legs are backwards to humans and that they are of
varying lengths
- Fold a piece of long half A2 paper into a zig zag book of four pages
 - Discuss how an artist may make a narrative in picture frames and that
this may be a story of a bird flying away, in the nest with chicks etc.
- Use interesting collage paper to make a bird in each quadrant
- Add eyes, beak and detail in artline pen
- Use the same colour pencil to draw the legs for each bird
- Sparingly add other collage material if needed for nest, feather etc.
- Discuss the use of the teardrop shape to create many different images
- Retell their own narrative

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment