How to represent different motions with the human figure and explore the relationship between different colors?
Display of my Grade 5 Student's Finished Artwork
A digital collage I made using the images of all their warm and cold motion figures.
To become more familiar with the term “motion” and how to represent it through art.
To explore the relationship between colors by learning about warm and cold colors.
Students will become more familiar with the artistic elements of the human figure.
Students will explore different artistic techniques for communicating motion.
Lesson Rationale (Adapted to my Unit on Fable Stories)
Fables play an essential role in the art of story-telling for teaching children about morals. Fables involve themes and characters that appeal to children and the stories are often humorous. The characters are often played by animals that behave and talk like people, but maintain their animal traits thus display human-like behavior. Through such stories and fables children develop there literary skills.
These stories were originally invented by a slave named Aesop, who was a famous story-teller in his time. Aesop lived in ancient Greece, and his stories were often used to entertain guests at parties. He was rumored to have a very ugly appearance, and he was often mistreated He would come up with stories that aimed to teach people a valuable lesson. His stories would eventually inspire Jean La Fontaine to also create children’s stories that aimed to teach morals.
In the story “The Frog and the Ox”, a frog encounters an Ox and wants to become as big and strong as that Ox. So the frog exercises to get bigger and stronger, but that was not good enough so he exercises some more. He exercised so much to the point where he became so big that he exploded. The moral of this story is that vanity may lead to self-destruction. The frog cared so much about how he looked; he eventually got so big he burst. He used different physical exercises to become bigger. Exercise involves motion, and students will explore the different types of motions by creating a colorful human figure to demonstrate a specific form of exercise. Students will familiarize themselves with representing figures using simple shapes.
For Art Educator:
Examples of project prototype
A human figure template to show the class
A color Wheel
Human Figure Model to demonstrate motion
One piece of black construction paper
Colored construction paper of various colors
A printed example of motion (silhouette or photograph)
Black Board Display Introducing Project
Materials Displayed in the front of the Classroom
“Project Prototype” by Sinthia Cousineau
Step 1: Picking a Motion
Select one motion silhouette from the images provided by the teacher.
Step 2: Gather Materials
Pick one black construction paper to be the background.
Pick either 3 warm colors or 3 cold colors.
Step 3: The Human Figure
Use the human figure template for inspiration when drawing and cutting out the parts for your human figure. You can also cut out the figure and glue the parts on the colored paper, and cut those parts out. Make sure to use all 3 colors you have chosen.
For students who are more advanced in art, they could design their own human figure template.
Step 4: Recreating the Motion
Use the parts you made to recreate the motion of the figure on the silhouette.
Step 5: Gluing it together
Glue the pieces on the black construction paper.
Step 6: Hand in
Sign your name and give the project to the teacher.