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Teaching Art

Component 4: Main Forms and Proportions

CURRICULUM FIT:
Level 1: Learn the shapes of things as well as develop decorative styles (A) All shapes can be reduced to basic shapes, i.e., rectangular, circular...
Level 2: Shapes can suggest movement or stability.
or Component 6: Colour can be made to appear dull or bright.
Level 3: Modify forms by abstraction, distortion and other transformations.
or Component 6: Tonal interchanges enhance a work.

CURRICULUM FIT:
Level 1: All shapes can be reduced to basic shapes, i.e., circular, triagular, rectangular.
Level 2: Images can be portrayed in varying degrees or realism
Level 3: Shapes can be abstracted or reduced to their essence.

CURRICULUM FIT:
Level 1: Shapes can be depicted as organic or geometric
Level 2: Images can be portrayed in varying degrees of realism.
Level 3: Shapes can be abstracted or reduced to their essences.
Also Component 6 concept D: The character of marks is influenced by drawing or painting tools and methods.

Component 5: Actions & Viewpoints

CURRICULUM FIT:
Level 1: Forms can be overlapping to show depth or distance
Level 2: Drawing strategies (gesture for action, contour for edges, massing for bulk) are helpful in depicting animate forms.
Level 3: Surface reflections, shading and shadows affect the viewpoints.

Component 6: Qualities & Details

CURRICULUM FIT:
Level 1: Forms can be overlapping to show depth or distance
Level 2: Drawing strategies (gesture for action, contour for edges, massing for bulk) are helpful in depicting animate forms.
Level 3: Surface reflections, shading and shadows affect the viewpoints.