Commonwealth Games
Copyright © 2006 Zart Art
Provide students with a pencil and paper. Let us do very quick sketches of people in action using Lines only. We used to make ‘stick figures’ in this way. We will now use the same technique to draw people in action who look real.
Have a student stand in front of the class with his or her arms by the side and legs
together. Look at Jayde. Use lines only to sketch his body and the position of his arms and legs. How does this sketch look? It is very stiff. Now do a second sketch with the arms out to the side and see that the figure still looks very stiff. Talk with the students and help them become consciously aware that almost any action means that arms and legs bend at their elbow or knee joints. Have the students now take a different position with legs and arms bent in a different pose. Look at Jayde now. When you sketch him will the sketch looks the same as the stiff
ones you made first? No it won’t because his arms and legs are now bent. This makes the figure look more real. Make the sketch and see how different it is to the first ones you made. What makes the major difference? It is that the arms and the legs bend at the elbows and the knees.
Have the student now take up different positions for the students to quickly sketch him in. Have him bend, stretch, appear to catch a ball, appear to be diving into a pool, appear to be jumping for a ball, appear to be jumping over a hurdle.
Look at the sketches. They are figures in action and looking much more interesting than the first stiff ones we made. However do these ‘stick’ figures look like real people? No they do not so we need more skills to make figures in action look real.
Figures in Action using shapes.
Provide students with oil pastels and paper. Use a flesh coloured oil pastel on its side to make a figure the same way we made the figures in action above. Now however the figure will be made up of shapes instead of lines. Use one of the sketched figures from above as a reference. Make a shape for the head, a wider shape for the body, thinner shapes for the arms and legs. Remember that the arms and legs bend when they are in action. Your sketches of figures in action are beginning to look more real. Make students aware that all the shapes they make with the side of the oil pastel at this stage will be square or rectangular. Keep practicing different actions. Use the pastel to make the line where each foot will be. The angle of the feet is very important to make the figure look real. Maybe we need to have someone pose again so we can see where the feet are in each action?
Have students select more sketches as reference for more figures in action, or use a student to look at. This time we will make the figure look even more real. Are the arms and legs the same size all the way down? Of course not. They are larger at the top than the bottom. Place your pastel on its side and pull a shape that is wider at the top than the
Bottom. This will take a little practice to get the wider part in the correct place. Try making bent arm and leg shapes only until you can get the shapes right. Have a student take up some actions, which represent different sporting events that will occur at the games.
Now make a figure in action with arms and legs shaped more realistically. Keep using the flesh coloured oil pastel only and make figures in action using all the skills you have learned to date. Try getting more shape into the feet. Use the oil pastel on its side to make hands and fingers. Keep working until you have a figure in action that you are pleased with. Remake this figure about A5 size
Adding detail to the figures in action for realism.
Provide students with oil pastels, paper and a soft lead pencil (6B Noris Maxi). Work on the final figure in action that you have just completed and are happy with. Use the oil pastels to now clothe the figure in the outfit that such a sportsperson would wear. Make the colour as bright as you can as you are now colouring in with the pastel. The colours must be the real colours of the selected sport. Show any other colours that are on the clothing.
Use the oil pastel to make the hair on the sportsperson’s head. Is there a lot of hair? Will it sit still on the head or will it be moving in some way to go with the action of the figure? Remember that nothing is ever just one colour so light or dark might be added to the hair for more realism.
Line work for detail and decoration.
To complete the work, show as much detail as possible on the selected figure using the soft lead pencil. Students should know that a pencil can be used to add detail to an oil pastel drawing by using it in different ways:
To outline shapes, to make patterns on top of the colour, to cross hatch to show tone or shadow.
What detail will you need to add now to make the figure look more real? Pattern lines in the hair? The facial features? Tell students not to do too much detail on the face, as simple lines and shapes look best on flesh coloured oil pastel. Will you outline the body?
Curved lines will be used now to outline the shapes for more realism. Help students realise that it doesn’t matter if they go over or outside the oil pastel shapes.
What detail will need to be drawn onto the clothing? Writing, logos, pattern of stitching, metal parts on shoes, nail details, hair on legs etc. Stress that the more detail that is added, the more realistic the work will look.
NB. This technique can also be done in the area of painting. The same steps would be
followed using cardboard pieces (form cuts) and paint instead of the oil pastel. The paint would need to be dry before going over it with a soft lead pencil.Materials
Poly Egg 70mm
Tinsel String black
Zart Paper Magiclay
Joggle Eyes with lashes
Chenille Stem yellow
Ostrich Wool black
Supertac
Feathers black and red
Felt black
Edding 2000 Marker Yellow
1. Take an equal length of Tinsel String and Ostrich Wool and wind them around a Poly Egg covered in Supertac. Keep winding until the egg is completely covered in black. Set aside to dry.
2. Make two small feet by twisting and cutting a yellow Chenille Stem. Poke the feet into the bottom of the covered egg.
3. Model a small beak out of Zart Paper Magiclay and colour it with a yellow marker.
4. Glue on two Joggle Eyes and the beak.
5. Create a crest of feathers, Tinsel String and Ostrich Wool and glue it on to the top of the bird.
6. Cut a long feather shape out of black Felt, cover it with Tinsel String, Ostrich Wool and black and red Feathers.
7. Glue the tail feather on to the back of the bird.
Materials
Hessian Black
Feathers Black and Red
Cardboard 51 x 64cm
Zart Paper Magiclay
Polyballs 50mm
WireForm Medium
Markers Black and Yellow
Acrylic Wool Yellow
Black Core Board
Felt black
Nylon Filling
Supertac
Hot Melt Glue Gun
1. Fold a piece of black Hessian approximately 30 x 40 cm in half and cut out a dome shape that is approximately 20cm at the bottom and 30cm tall.
2. Cut a wing span out of cardboard approximately 40cm across.
3. Cover both sides of the cardboard with black Hessian. On one side only glue on black feathers, black Felt and small pieces of fringed black Hessian to resemble the cockatoo’s feathers.
4. On one side of the dome shape repeat the feather look with strips of fringed black Hessian, (a rectangle with triangles cut away from one side) black Felt and feathers in overlapping layers.
5. Glue the two dome shapes together along the seams with the wings in between the two shapes. Set aside to dry
6. Use Wireform to create two feet each with three claws. Wind wool around the feet to completely cover them.
7. Fill the body with Nylon Filling and glue the feet into the body with a circle of black card to seal the bottom.
8. Cut a section off two Polyballs to give them a flat side. Use a yellow and black marker to colour the balls to resemble eyes.
9. Model a beak from Zart Paper Magiclay, colour it with a yellow marker and use a Hot Melt Glue Gun to glue it into place.
10. Make a crest with a zig zag strip of black Hessian and black Felt and black
Feathers.
11. Glue the crest to the top of the head.
12. Cover a piece of black Hessian with the layered feather look to create a tail. Use strips of black Hessian, Felt, black and red Feathers in overlapping layers.
13. Glue the tail to the back of the bird.
Materials
Cardboard Hat
Food Dye or Ink
Oil Pastel
Felt Australian Animals
Chromacryl Paint
Craft Glue
1. Use Food Dye or Ink to colour the flat cardboard template and set aside to dry.
2. Use a black Oil Pastel to draw the silhouette of a gum tree or other colours to create a typical landscape scene.
3. Decorate the Felt Australian Animals with Chromacryl Paint and set aside to dry.
4. Assemble the hat, using a stapler to staple the two side and top flaps together at the back of the hat.
5. Glue on the decorated Felt Australian Animals.
Look at paintings of Australian landscapes and talk about the colours that are predominately used. What colours depict the dryness of our climate? Why are sunsets so brilliant in colour? Where do you think our native animals inhabit? When do they forage for food? Describe the shape of a gum tree? What is a silhouette? Stimulate discussion and research with questions such as these to give students a starting point to decorate their hat. Just imagine all spectators wearing an Aussie hat at the outdoor events to protect them from our sun. Students can design a typically Australian hat and have a hat parade as part of the Commonwealth Games celebrations.
Materials
Fairy Floss Sticks
Metallic Plain Foil Paper
Metallic Prism Paper
Metallic Embossed Paper
Metallic Kinder Squares
Supertac
Low Melt Glue Gun
Sequins
Markers
1. Use a number of Fairy Floss Sticks to create three separate panels of triangle and diamond shapes.
2. Glue the sticks together and set aside to dry.
3. Cover each created shape with a different Metallic Paper; glue each paper shape on to the back of each of the three panels.
4. Glue one piece of Metallic Paper to cover the entire back of each panel.
5. Decorate the front of each panel with a marker and Sequins.
6. Use a low Melt Glue Gun to glue the three panels together in a triangular shape that stands alone.
Use the Internet to research the story of Federation Square and debate whether the six-year project has been worthwhile. Look at this contemporary architecture and discuss the elements of art that make up the structure.
Materials
Metallic Plain Foil Paper
Metallic Prism Paper
Metallic Embossed Paper
Metallic Kinder Squares
Metallic Pattern Paper
Cover Paper black A3
Glue Stick UHU
1. Use straight lines to cut shapes of Metallic gold and silver papers in different sizes.
2. Play with the shapes on a sheet of black Cover Paper until you are happy with the design to resemble the glass panels of Federation Square.
3. Glue the shapes on with a glue stick.
Materials
Cover Paper 38 x 56 cm black
Cover Paper A3
Cartridge Paper A3
Digital photograph
Fluorescent Oil Pastels
Kinder Squares Fluorescent
Sequins Hologram
Sequins Diamond Assorted
Corrugated Cardboard A4
PVA
Liquid Glitter
Look at the front entrance of Luna Park; point out different shapes and colours that make up the building.
1. Draw an outline of the front entrance of Luna Park or design an outline that might be submitted as a new entrance.
2. Draw the gateway into the park and colour it in black. Cover this black rectangle with Liquid Glitter.
3. Take a digital photograph of each class member laughing. Use Photoshop or similar program to enlarge the laughing face to approximately A4. Print each face and cut away the bottom half of the mouth.
4. Use Fluorescent Oil Pastels, Kinder Squares, Sequins and Corrugated Cardboard to decorate the front of the building.
5. Glue the face over the gateway entrance.
6. Glue the collage on to a sheet of brightly coloured Cover Paper and then mount the collage on to a sheet of black Cover Paper.
Materials
Zart Paper Magiclay
Polyballs 25mm
Corrugated Cardboard A4
Papier Mache Book
Chromacryl Paint
Fluorescent Paint
Glitter
Liquid Glitter
Supertac
Sequins Diamonds
Pearl Rice Beads
Pins
1. Use Zart Paper Magiclay to model a face with a wide-open mouth as a replica of the Luna Park mouth. Make the back of the face a flat surface to eventually be glued on to the painted Papier Mache book.
2. Paint the face in bright fluorescent colours and set aside to dry.
3. Paint the Papier Mache Book with Chromacryl or Vipond Paint and set aside to dry.
4. Cut a Polyball in half and glue each half on the face as the eyes, paint on the iris and pupils.
5. Cut multiple triangles of Corrugated Cardboard from small to medium size ranging from 5cm to 8 cm sides.
6. Make small slits in the Magiclay head to poke the triangles of cardboard in and around the head. Start at the back of the head with the larger triangles and poke and glue them in place around the head. Work forwards with the triangles, alternating the peaks in rows of each colour.
7. Add Glitter around the mouth and lines of Liquid Glitter around the eyes. Glue on Sequins and pin on Pearl Rice Beads around the eyes as extra decoration.
8. Glue the decorated Luna face on to the painted Paper Mache Book.
9. Create drawings or poems about Melbourne or favourite rides at Luna Park on cards which might be kept inside the book. Include information on these cards that a tourist might take away from Melbourne as a souvenir.
Materials
Oil Pastels
Cartridge Paper A3
Cover Paper A4
Cover Paper black 38 x 51cm
Metallic Paint
Chromacryl Paint
Form Cuts
PVA
1. Look at the shape of the Arts Centre spire and its base. Draw an outline of these two shapes on separate sheets of paper.
2. Colour the two shapes with brightly coloured Oil Pastels overlapping and smudging the colours into one another.
3. Use Form Cuts dipped into black paint to mark in the lines to represent the wire structure of the spire and base. Set aside to dry.
4. Add lines of gold paint to represent the lights of the spire.
5. Cut the two shapes out and glue the spire shape to the base.
6. Use brightly coloured Oil Pastels to draw a happy face or shape of a creature.
Exaggerate the nose, lips and ears to create a theatrical face like a clown or comical character or creature.
7. Cut the face or creature out and glue it on a contrasting sheet of Cover Paper.
Cut the shape out leaving a border of Cover Paper around the shape.
8. Arrange and glue the spire, base and face/creature on to a sheet of black Cover Paper.
Materials
Wireform Coarse
Polyball 50mm
Joggle Eyes with lashes
Mini Patty Pans
Acrylic Rovings
Giant Chenille Stems
Low Melt Glue Gun
Satay Stick
Cotton Gloves
1. Use old scissors or wire cutters to cut a large triangle of Wireform. Wear Cotton Gloves to protect the hands from the sharp end points of the wire.
2. Stretch the bottom of the triangle out and pinch the two sides of the triangle together to form a cone.
3. Make a small nick with a pair of scissors into the bottom of a number of Mini Patty Pans.
4. Thread the Patty Pans on to three Giant Chenille Stems. Make a loop at the end of two stems for the feet.
5. Poke the two leg Chenille Stems into the bottom of the wire cone and bend the end of
each one over to secure the legs in place.
6. Attach the other Chenille Stem to the top of the wire cone for the arms. Use a Low
Melt Glue Gun to secure them in place.
7. Glue lengths of Acrylic Rovings to a Polystyrene Ball for hair.
8. Glue on two Joggle Eyes and draw on a nose and mouth with a permanent marker.
9. Poke a small length of Satay Stick into the bottom of the Polystyrene head and glue the other end of the stick into the top of the wire cone.
10. Poke small lengths of Acrylic Rovings around the bottom edge of the Wireform.
Materials
Cover Paper A3 Blue, Red & Yellow
Cartridge Paper 110gsm A4
Zart Drawing Blocks
Liquid Glitter Fairy Dust
Corrugated Wave Card
Corrugated Ripple Card
Corrugated Card A4
Oil Pastels
Metallic Embossed Paper A4
Sequins in a Jar Embossed
Supertac
Popstick coloured
Cardboard A4
Masking Tape 18mm
Popsticks coloured
Corrugated Wave Card
Supertac
1. Hold together two sheets of cardboard 25 x 21cm and fold a crease line 3cm in from one edge as shown. Fold the sheets in half.
2. With the two open sheets held together, cut across one half to the crease line and then a triangle off each corner of the second half.
3. Separate the two sheets and lay out flat.
4. Glue coloured Popsticks on to the front of each sheet, from the fold line in, and across the sheet. Start at the bottom of the sheet and work the sticks up the sheet slightly overlapping the previous one.
5. Glue Popsticks on to each triangle and when dry trim the edges.
6. When both sheets are completely covered and dry join the two sheets together to form the structure of the bathing box. Use the uncovered flaps on each end to fold into the other sheet and secure with Masking tape.
7. Border each side of the front and back triangles with three Popsticks.
8. Cut a rectangle of Corrugated Cardboard big enough to form the roof and glue the card into place. Decorate with strips of Wave Corrugated Card.
9. Glue a rectangle of Wave Card on to the front of the bathing box for the door.
10. Cut one white Chenille Bump into four equal lengths. Bend each piece to create four seagulls. Glue on small tufts of grey feathers and two Joggle Eyes.
11. Use a Low Melt Glue gun to glue a seagull on to a length of Florist Wire and glue the wire to the bathing box. Glue other seagulls to the roof of the bathing box.
12. Decorate the box to create a unique design. 11cm 11 cm
Background
1. Tear the yellow Cover Paper in half across the width of the paper (landscape).
2. Glue one half of the yellow Cover Paper across the bottom of the red Cover Paper. The red becomes the sky and the yellow the sand.
3. Tear long strips of blue Cover Paper and glue these thin strips across the red Cover Paper.
4. Cut out a circle of Cartridge Paper and cover it with swirls of yellow and red Oil Pastel to represent the sun.
5. Use Zart Drawing Blocks to create lines of colour that cover the red sky.
6. Glue the sun on to the red sky.
7. Cover the entire background with Liquid Glitter.
Bathing Box
1. Use strips of Corrugated Wave Card, Corrugated Ripple Card and Corrugated Card to create a colourful bathing box. Begin by overlapping the strips to create the box. Use the plain Corrugated Card for the roof, door and step.
2. Decorate the box with shapes cut out of Metallic Embossed Paper.
3. Glue the bathing box to the background.
4. Collage other shapes of things you might find or take to the beach on to the background.
Materials
Craft Fun Foam Sheets
Black ballpoint pen
Arbee Craft Glue
Metallic Pen
Chenille Stems black
Paper clips
Silly Springs
Polymark Pen
Fluorescent Oil Pastels
Glitter
Look at pictures and discuss the shape of Melbourne trams, old and new styles. Look at them from all angles and make quick sketches of different viewpoints. Focus on one aspect and draw an enlarged section of it with all its detail. Find pictures of trams that have been decorated by artists and different advertising slogans.
Discuss options of decorating a tram for the Commonwealth Games that would give tourists a true indication of what Melbourne has to offer.
1. Cut a long rectangle shape (approximately 40 x 16 cm) out of Craft Fun Foam as the starting point of the tram shape.
2. Cut away the bottom edge to show where the wheels and front grill will go.
3. Cut the same length of Craft Fun Foam in another colour in the shape of the tram roof and one for the side, front and back panels.
4. Cut strips of another colour Craft Fun Foam for the window frames.
5. Glue the roof on to the top edge of the rectangle of Craft Fun Foam.
6. Glue the side panel on to tram shape.
7. Glue the strips of Craft Fun Foam on to create the window frames across the side of the tram.
8. Cut out two rectangles of Craft Fun Foam for the doorways and two slightly smaller rectangles for the doors. Decorate these smaller rectangles with Oil Pastels and black pen outlines in a Commonwealth Games symbol or other symbols to represent Melbourne.
9. Glue the doorway and doors on to the tram.
10. Cut out and decorate three more panels to decorate the side of the tram and glue these in place.
11. Cut out a rectangle of black Craft Foam (approximately 40 x 4 cm) the length of the tram. Lay the rectangle under the bottom edge of the tram and mark where the wheels will go.
12. Cut away the long edge to create the wheels of the tram. Glue this shape on to the back of the tram so that the wheels show.
13. Glue a Silly Spring in between each wheel.
14. Cut out two small circles of Foam and one slightly larger circle, cover these with glue and sprinkle Glitter over them to create the three front lights.
15. Glue the lights in place on to the front panel of the tram.
16. Cut out small rectangles of Craft Foam for the tram number and destination signs and glue them in place.
17. Use a black Chenille Stem to create the power booms.
For displaying the trams a length of fishing line be tied across the room and the trams might each have two paper clips glued to the top of the tram to enable the trams to move along the line.
Materials
Cardboard A4
Metallic Foil Paper
Corrugated Construction
Strips Corrugated Card A4
Stripes Paper Green
Metallic Embossed Paper
Chenille Stem
PVA
Kindergarten Squares
1. Draw the basic shape of the front of a tram on an A4 sheet of cardboard and cut that shape out.
2. Cover the shape with green Stripes Paper.
3. Use Kindergarten Squares, Metallic Embossed Paper and Metallic Foil Paper to collage the front of the tram with details such as the front grill, windows, lights, tram number and destination signs.
4. Use black Corrugated Card and Corrugated Construction Strips to add the trims, such as the bottom grill.
5. Add a black Chenille Stem to the top of the tram for the power boom.
6. Fold an A5 sheet of cardboard into four and fold the two sides back on to themselves, forming a “T” shape. Glue the “T” shape on to bottom of the back of the tram to create a freestanding collage.
MAT E R I A L S
Polyball 60 mm
Spills
Mosaic Squares Giant
Edding 2000 Marker black
Posca Markers
Mosaic Plastic Tiles
Sequins In a Jar Embossed
Cover Paper A4 black
PVA
Pins
1. Use a permanent black marker to divide a Polyball into small squares.
2. Colour each square in with Posca or permanent markers to create a brightly coloured ball.
3. Cut the decorated ball in half and cut one half into two for the feet of the sculpture.
4. Cover a sheet of A4 Cover Paper in Giant Mosaic Squares and set aside to dry.
5. Use markers to decorate two Spills in lines of colour to resemble mosaic legs.
6. Create two eyes using a black marker to outline two Plastic Mosaic Tiles and glue a Sequin on to each tile.
7. Make two small slits into the top of the decorated Polyball half, for the eye tiles to be pushed into. Secure the tiles into the slits with PVA.
8. Poke the two decorated Spills into the bottom of the decorated half Polyball (body) and the other ends into the quarter pieces of decorated Polyball (feet). Use PVA to secure the Spills into the polystyrene.
9. Cut out two arms and a nose from the mosaic covered black Cover Paper. Pin or glue these to the mosaic sculpture.
MAT E R I A L S
Cover Paper A3 black
Mosaic Squares Giant
Mosaic Squares Metallic
Jewels
Chenille Stems Giant Fluorescent
Dowell Rod
Wooden Base
Vipond Paint black
PVA
1. On a sheet of black A3 Cover Paper, glue the Giant Mosaic Squares on to one half of the sheet. Leave a small space between squares to look like the grout between mosaics.
2. Cover the second half of the sheet with the Metallic Mosaic Squares in the same fashion, set aside to dry.
3. Cut two asymmetrical shapes out of the area covered in the Giant Mosaic Squares. Lay the two shapes down on to black Cover Paper and cut the same shape out leaving a 5mm border of black showing around each shape.
4. Glue two Chenille Stems in between the black Cover Paper and the Mosaic covered shape, cut out for the head. Glue the two shapes together with the Chenille stems coming out of the bottom of the shape for the neck of the creature.
5. Cut two eye shapes, a nose and wing shapes from the black Cover Paper covered in Metallic Mosaic Squares. Glue these shapes down on to a sheet of black Cover Paper. Cut the shapes out leaving a 5 mm border of black showing around each shape.
6. Glue these shapes on to the head and body shapes. Add small circles of black Cover Paper and a jewel to add detail to each eye.
7. Paint the Wooden Base with Vipond Paint and set aside to dry.
8. Glue a 30 cm Dowel Rod into the hole of the Wooden Base.
9. Wrap a Giant Chenille Stem around the Dowel Rod covering the bottom half of the rod with colour. Take the Chenille Stem away from the rod and put it aside in its spiral shape. Repeat the wrap with another Chenille Stem, but this time glue the start and finish of the Chenille Stem to the rod.
10. Glue the neck Chenille Stems and the covered Dowell Rod and the extra spiral Chenille Stem in between the second mosaic covered shape with its black Cover Paper backing. Glue the second leg to the Wooden Base.
11. Glue the Metallic Mosaic shapes on to the body to add whimsical details to the sculpture.
12. Cut out feather shapes from the Giant Mosaic covered Cover Paper and glue these on for the crest of the bird.
