1 Chalice Arts UK Limited Unit 2 Friendship Inspired by the Story of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde by Stephen Bruce Stephen Bruce 2015
2 General Introduction This unit forms part of a scheme of work for art designed to support schools wanting to develop art lessons based on the National Societies 15 Christian values that many Church of England Schools have adopted. The units in this scheme have been written by Stephen Bruce at Chalice Arts UK. Stephen is a art educational consultant and former head teacher. This scheme of work provides an opportunity for pupils to engage in making art and at the same time focuses on teaching and reinforcing the core Christian values in a visual way. Chalice Arts UK provides a variety of art projects for schools. information about the author and his work can be found at: www.chaliceartsuk.co.uk More
3 Displaying pupils artwork linked to the core values is a very powerful way for schools to ensure they are prominent and in constant focus. More information about the National Societies values for schools can be found at the following website: http://www.christianvalues4schools.co.uk
4 Friendship The Bible has many sayings about friendship: A friend loves at all times. (Proverbs 17:17) Friends are not afraid to tell each other the truth and a friend s loving criticism is worth more than the empty compliments of someone who does not really care for you. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. (Proverbs 27:6) if one falls down, a friend can lift him up. (Ecclesiastes 4:10)
5 Trust, feeling comfortable in each other s company, being able to share joys and sorrows are all features of friendship and these are things of immense value. True friendship enables each person to grow and ensures that the unique individuality of each person is recognised. All this echoes the value placed by God on the preciousness of each person. Hymns like What a friend we have in Jesus point to a relationship that is at the heart of Christian believing. Knowing that God is our friend is to recover something of the acceptance and close companionship that people of all ages need and crave.
6 The Selfish Giant was a selfish person but he learnt how to be a good friend. He learnt the qualities of friendship based on loving one another, trust, caring, sharing, kindness and thinking of others before ourselves.
7 A painting by Stephen Bruce inspired by the Selfish Giant. Some questions to ask children: Why is the giants face blue? Why is one side of his face turning pink and yellow? Why is there snow in the garden? Why are the trees bare? Why can you see green under the snow? Why is the giant smiling? Why does the giant look like he is crying and smiling?
How to teach portraits 8 A series of slides demonstrating how to draw portraits This guidance focuses on frontal portraits. Making a drawing of a face can broken down into small steps. Drawing a head shape. Draw an oval slightly wider at the top than bottom. This is the basic head shape. (Men usually have a more defined jaw line but for the basic principle an oval a good start).
9 Marking out key guidelines Draw a light vertical line down the centre, then draw a horizontal line halfway between the top and bottom of the oval. This line will give you the eye positions. Divide the remaining space below in half. This will be for the base of the average-nose. Divide the space below that into thirds. The mouth will be at the top of those thirds, the rest will be the chin.
10 Drawing eyes The basic eye shape is an almond shape with a slight downward point near the nose. The space between the eyes is one eye length. Five eye lengths fit across the average face.
11 Drawing the nose Half way between the eye line and bottom of the face is the bottom of the nose line. The basic nose shape is a slightly flattened U shape and a letter C shape and a backwards letter C shape. The width of the nose extends a little beyond the corners of the eyes. Noses do vary a lot between individual so this is just a guide.
12 Drawing the ears The ears are drawn between the eye line and the nose line and consist of a letter C shape or backward C shape. Ears are wider at the top and come in towards the face at the lobe.
13 Drawing the mouth The mouth line is either drawn a third of the way down from the nose line to the chin or half way from the nose to the chin. I have chosen to use a third of the way down. This means the centre line between the lips sits on the third line with the top lip above and the bottom lip below touching the half way line approximately. The corners of the mouth line up approximately with the pupils of the eye.
14 Drawing the neck and hairline The neck is usually as wide as the jaw line (approximately the bottom lip line). The hair line is approximately one quarter or one third from top of the head to the eye line. The hair itself usually extends above the top of the head depending on hairstyle.
15 Activity 1: Practice marking out the guidelines. Activity 2: Use a separate piece of paper and practice drawing eyes, noses, ears and mouths Activity 3: Put the features on a face.
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17 Art Activity Option 1 Painting portraits of the Selfish Giant Example Learning Objectives To develop a deeper understanding of the school value Friendship through linking it to art. To use story and a painting as inspiration to make their own paintings of a giant. To understand the basic composition of a portrait and to be introduced to acrylic paint and colour missing skills. Resources Power point and illustrated versions of the Selfish Giant story. Canvas boards or water colour paper, acrylic paints/ or other paints, size 4 brushes, palettes, water pots, table coverings, art aprons, pencils.
18 Key Points of the Teaching Sequence Children should be familiar with the story of the Selfish Giant and have discussed the qualities of friendship. Discuss the painting by Stephen Bruce. Ask some of the questions suggested on slide 7 to explore the symbolism within the painting. Explain the activity the children are going to make a painted portrait of the Selfish Giant to help remember the qualities of a good friend. Model drawing a face using the guidance provided. Children can practice in sketch books or on paper or go straight to their canvas board and sketch a portrait of the selfish giant. Have examples from children s books available to look at and the painting by Stephen Bruce. Model using acrylic paint and the children can then begin to paint in an imaginative way to interpret the Selfish Giant and his garden changing from winter to Spring. You also might consider using sketch books to work out initial ideas using pencil drawing and also for making notes about portraits, practicing drawing facial features and about the properties and safe use of acrylic paint and colour mixing examples.
19 Example of children s work Year 4 St Peter s CE Primary School Hertfordshire
20 Example of children s work Year 4 St Peter s CE Primary School Hertfordshire
21 Example of children s work Year 2 St Peter s CE Primary School Hertfordshire
22 Example of children s work Year 2 St Peter s CE Primary School Hertfordshire