Basic 8 · Creative Arts and Design
Drawing
Notes on Drawing for Basic 8 Creative Arts and Design. Open a topic to start.
- Drawing Tools, Drawing from Observation, Memory and Imagination, and TempoIn this topic you will explore manual and digital tools and materials for drawing, shading and colouring, draw from direct observation, memory and imagination, and tell how fast or slow music is using Italian tempo terms.
- Freehand and Outline Drawing, Weaving and Dance-Drama on Social IssuesIn this topic you will practise freehand and outline drawing with manual tools, explore weaving as a medium for visual artworks, and create a dance-drama on a socio-cultural issue.
- Digital Drawing, Printmaking Techniques and Creating a Musical PieceIn this topic you will use digital tools for freehand and outline drawing, shading and colouring, experiment with printmaking techniques to make visual artworks, and design a musical piece in a Ghanaian genre.
- Digital Design Projects, Making Prints and Displaying Dance and DramaIn this topic you will complete a digital design project, produce a printed artwork using relief and stencil techniques, and plan and display dance and drama pieces from different times and cultures.
- Generating Design Ideas, Artworks on Topical Issues and Appraising PerformancesIn this topic you will generate design ideas and templates for simple models, produce an artwork on a topical issue, and organise an appreciation and appraisal of dance and drama performances.
- Three-Dimensional Models, Ghanaian Visual Artists and Art ComposersIn this topic you will develop three-dimensional models of simple shapes and forms from nets for display, identify Ghanaian visual artists whose works reflect history and culture, and distinguish how works of Ghanaian art composers reflect history, culture and topical issues.