ART PROGRAM

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

STAGE 1
OUTCOMES VAS1.2
VAS1.3
VAS1.4
INDICATORS -investigates details of objects and renders them in different
media
-seeks to emphasise particular features suited to the subject
matter
-talks about significant features and relationships within their
artworks, referring to such things as size, scale, proportion and
colour
SUBJECT
MATTER FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
FORMS Drawing, Painting, Printing, Collage.
RESOURCES RESOURCES: actual fruit and vegetables, pictures of fruit
and vegetable, works of artists using fruit and vegetables
MATERIALS: oil pastels, watercolour paints, acrylic paints,
Artline pen, printing inks, collage materials eg.
cardboard, artpaper, coloured paper, rollers

APPRECIATION -talks about how artists gain inspiration and understands

individual differences in perception
-acts as the audience to others artworks
-recognises art terms eg. Blending, mapping, earth colours
- talks about the use of techniques to gain effect
PERSPECTIVES Environment
LINKS HSIE

ASSESSMENT Students were able to:

-extend their skills in a variety of media to create effects
-represent qualities of the subject matter to create likenesses
that are recognisable to others
- work cooperatively on class projects that must have areas of
agreement
- step outside the role of artist to that of audience and give
positive criticisms of others work
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE 1
SUBJECT MATTER : FRUIT & VEG

1. LARGE FRUIT DURATION: Two Lessons

Students will-
- Look at pictures on cards of various fruit noting the characteristics of
the fruit and the detail in pattern
- Use oil pastel to render the fruit in large scale on full sized artpaper
using the colour deeply and intensely
- Select the appropriate colour for the fruit and use blending techniques
to colour it
- In black oil pastel put text around the base of the fruit following the
line of the drawing
- Sponge sepia tones in edicol dye as a background

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. MONOPRINTS DURATION: Two Lessons

Students will-
- View actual fruit and vegetables describing their signature shapes and
colours
- Work on A2 size artpaper to draw outlines of three fruit or vegetable to
fill the page
- Watch a demonstration by the teacher on printing a monoprint off the
table using block printing inks
- Take turns at printing their three items by redrawing the fruit in pencil
when the paper is laid on the inked table
- Peel the paper from the table to reveal the print and using a frame
select an area of interest in one of the images, cut that image out
- Use watercolour to give a flat even appropriate colour to that fruit or
vegetable and frame the work on a complimentary coloured card
- Discuss the difference in the two images created from blended drawn
image to a printed monochromatic one
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

3. DELICACY OF WATERCOLOUR DURATION: Two Lessons

Students will-
- Again observe selected fruit eg, strawberries, pears and grapes.
- Continue their close observation that will be enhanced by prior
knowledge of fruit shapes and the variation in colour caused by light
and by the ripening process
- Use artline pen to draw the fruit and watercolours to give the variations
that they can see
- Carefully tear the outline of the fruit and glue the torn work onto a
complimentary coloured square of tissue paper
- Collage letters from a magazine to give describing words for the fruit
eg. juicy, ripe
- Talk about the use of techniques and media to gain effect and the
change in mood of each piece

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment