» Meaningful Art Homeworks

LESSONS

Illustration

• 7 WORDPLAY Students see how an illustration can give a new meaning to an everyday word.
• 9 SURREAL! With this activity, students become more aware of the surrealists, and they produce a drawing with an unreal aspect to it.
• 11 CULTURAL TATTOO Students look at art from different cultures and design a tattoo based on some of the cultural images they have looked at.

Typography and Symbols

• 13 POP ART Students produce a magazine cover using pop art-style lettering.
• 15 HOROSCOPES Students design a logo to go with their birth sign.
• 17 SCRAPS OF ME Students make a collage based on their own interests and hobbies. In the process, they learn more about pop art.

Looking - Drawing

• 19 STILL LIFE This activity focuses students' attention on scale, by asking them to draw an ordinary object to an extraordinary scale.
• 21 DISTORTED PORTRAITS Students produce a distorted self-portrait. This could be a preparation for making masks in class.
• 23 THE SPACES IN BETWEEN This page gives students the opportunity to learn about Mondrian. It also involves the use of shading techniques and silhouettes, and develops an awareness of pattern.

History of Painting

• 25 PICASSO PORTRAIT Students use pictures from a magazine to produce a cubist-style collage based on a face.
• 27 CUBIST COLLAGE This homework increases students' knowledge of cubism, as they produce their own version of a cubist still-life.
• 29 STUDY OF AN ARTIST This page provides a framework for studying an artist.

Graphics

• 31 CARTOON STRIPS Students create a cartoon strip, using techniques that show movement.
• 33 COMING UP TRUMPS Students focus both on graphics and on portraits, as they design a playing card featuring either a self-portrait or a portrait of a famous person.
• 35 EGYPTIAN CLOCK This activity increases students' awareness of different cultures and periods in art.

Textile Design

• 37 COLOUR AND PATTERN This activity raises students' awareness of pattern and design, focusing on designs like those of William Morris.
• 39 TEXTURE RUBBINGS This page increases students' knowledge of texture and pattern.

Pattern

• 41 FLOWER PATTERNS This page improves observational drawing skills, showing how patterns can be made from still-life drawings.
• 43 MAKING WAVES Students produce a drawing that creates a sense of movement.

Mark-making

• 45 CONTOURS With this activity, students produce a self-portrait using a continuous line.
• 47 BUILDING ON LINES Students are asked to produce a drawing of a familiar scene, using line without shading.
• 49 SHINY EFFECTS Students produce a shaded pencil drawing that shows reflective effects.

Colour

• 51 SILHOUETTES In this activity, students produce a drawing using silhouetted shapes.
• 53 MAKING A POINT Students produce a drawing based on dots, so that they explore how dots can be used to create tone, form and shape.
• 55 HOT AND COLD With this activity, students learn how colour can show mood and emotion and make parts of a picture stand out.

Perspective and Shading

• 57 TOWNSCAPES Students use three different sizes of building to create a townscape picture.
• 59 LINE AND TONE Students focus on line and tone, to use a new technique on familiar objects.
• 61 PERSPECTIVE Students produce a drawing that focuses on tonal perspective.