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Basic 1 · Creative Arts · Planning, Making and Composing

Making Art from My Imagination

In this topic you will create your own artwork using tools and materials around you.

By the end of these notes you should be able to:

  • Name art tools and materials
  • Use lines, shapes and colours
  • Make an artwork from your imagination

What you already know

  • Art in our community

Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.

Strand
Visual Arts
Sub-strand
Planning, Making and Composing
Indicator
B1.1.2.2.1 – Create own artworks from imagination using available tools materials and methods

Introduction

Close your eyes. Picture your dream house or your favourite animal. Now open your eyes. You can draw what you imagined!

1. Tools and Materials

Tools and materials
ToolsMaterials
pencilpaper
crayonsmanila card
scissorsold cartons
glueleaves and seeds

2. Elements of Art

  • Line: straight, curved, zigzag
  • Shape: circle, square, triangle
  • Colour: red, blue, yellow and more
Examples of straight, curved and zigzag lines; circle, square, triangle; and colours
Figure 1: Lines, shapes and colours Draw three kinds of lines and three shapes.Illustration: Sirbus

3. Making a Collage

Steps

  1. Draw your idea lightly with a pencil.
  2. Cut shapes from old cartons or paper.
  3. Stick them on manila card.
  4. Colour the rest with crayons.

Safety: Hold scissors by the handle. Never run with them.

New words

imagination
Pictures and ideas in your mind.
collage
A picture made by sticking pieces onto paper.
line
A mark made by moving a pencil.
shape
The outline of something, like a circle.

Summary

  • We use tools and materials to make art.
  • Lines, shapes and colours are elements of art.
  • A collage is made by sticking pieces on paper.

Class activity: Dream Collage

  1. Think of something you would love to have.
  2. Make a collage of it with cut pieces of old carton.
  3. Colour it and write your name on it.

You need: Pencils, Crayons, Old cartons, Manila paper, Kente, Adinkra samples

Exercises

Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.

  1. 1. Which is an art tool?

    • A. Crayon
    • B. Leaf
    • C. Carton
    • D. Seed
    Show answer
    Answer: CrayonWe use crayons to colour.

  2. 2. A picture made by sticking pieces on paper is a…

    • A. Collage
    • B. Song
    • C. Dance
    • D. Pot
    Show answer
    Answer: CollageThat is what a collage is.

  3. 3. A circle is a shape.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: TrueCircles are round shapes.

  4. 4. We should run with scissors.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: FalseIt is dangerous.

  5. 5. Pictures and ideas in your mind come from your ______.

    Show answer
    Answer: imaginationWe imagine things in our minds.

  6. 6. Name two materials for making a collage.

    Show answer
    Answer: Any two: paper, old cartons, leaves, seeds.We stick these on paper.

Homework

  1. Draw your dream house using different lines and shapes.