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Art
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PLACES AND SPACES IN ART :
A
PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES ON ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Kindergarten
– Grade 1 – Grade 2
Teacher’s
Guide by:
Joanne
K. Guilfoil
GRADE 1
SAMPLE LESSON: BUILDINGS:
A
GABLE ROOF
TECHNIQUE: Marker Drawing
ART
REPRODUCTION: Gagnon, Clarence, Near
Baie Saint-Paul ( Catalog #1.10)
Evening on the North Shore –
1924 (similar
work)
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=12866
More
works by Clarence Gagnon can be found online
PREPARATION
Review
We
have seen cave drawings and made a pastel drawing. Now we will
go outside and explore roofs on buildings.
Motivation
Focus
on the art reproduction: This is a picture of buildings,
villagers, and the beautiful Quebec countryside in winter. The
brightly colored houses of the Baie Saint-Paul region inspired
the artist, Clarence Gagnon, to paint them. Gagnon had trained
as an artist in Montreal then worked as a painter and
illustrator in Paris, France. However, he returned to the Baie
Saint-Paul region of Quebec to paint the people, hills, and
villages there. Can you see them in this painting?
Clarence
Gagnon used large rough brush strokes and brilliant colors.
He ground his paint himself. In this painting he wanted us to
see clearly the pink house with icicles and the yellow house
with clothes hung out to dry. Can you imagine having a pink
house? How about a yellow house? If you could paint a house,
what color would it be? Ask them to look at the yellow house
again. Can you see how the water and icicles drip from the slant
of the gable roof ?
Notice the triangle shape
of the gable, and the
snow still on the gable
roof. Gagnon also wanted us to see the other houses in the
background and the snow in the hills, and to notice the children
playing. What are they doing? Do they look cold? Clarence Gagnon
is well known for his paintings of this region of French Canada,
and its early buildings.
Can you find the clothes hanging on the line and the horse in
front of the sleigh standing beside the building?
Artists who plan the shapes
of buildings are
called architects.
Have
you seen houses like this in our community? where?
Objectives
The
student will:
-
explore
and describe the houses of Baie Saint-Paul, and other buildings
(from photographs) using words for shapes
and colors
-
identify
the shapes of a gable roof in
the painting and photographs
-
create
a drawing of a house with a gable
roof
-
look
for architectural elements in their own community
Vocabulary
shape,
color, gable,
gable roof, building,
exterior
Materials
markers,
white paper or newsprint 12" x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm),
photographs of houses. Optional: triangles and squares, 3 x
3" (7.7 x 7.7 cm)
Alternate
materials: construction paper crayons, pastels, oil pastels on
colored paper.
PROCESS
Discussion
Guide
students in discussion about the buildings depicted in Gagnon’s painting. Ask who they see in this
painting and what the children are doing. The buildings are houses where people live. How can you tell? Help them
recognize the time of year shown here and the type of weather
conditions. Explain that the gable
roof is designed to shed water, snow, and melting ice. Help
them to see the gray sky, blue mountains, and yellow and pink
houses. Ask the students to find the triangles, rectangles, and
squares in the building
exteriors. How many can they find? Ask them to find the many
shades of orange, yellow, and blue. What are the shapes
and colors of the
houses? Help them to see the yellow and blue rectangles and
triangles. Show them the largest triangle. It makes the gable
in the gable roof.
Activity
Create
a drawing of a house with a gable
roof. Find objects in the classroom that have triangle
shapes. Ask students to look again at the art reproduction and
trace over the gable roof with their fingers, then draw a triangle in the air.
Distribute the materials. Tell students that they will draw a
house with a gable roof.
Show them photographs of houses and help them identify gable
roofs. Some students may need to trace the pre-cut shapes
(square on the bottom of the page, triangle above) on their
paper using the markers. While they are drawing, remind them
that they are placing the triangle above the square to make a
house with a gable roof!
Ask them to imagine the time of year and include details such as
icicles, rain, sun, trees, and flowers in their drawings. If
they add another house or a tree, it will be beside the house,
or to the right or left of the house. Time permitting, encourage
students to incorporate other buildings and people to complete the pictures.
Clean-Up
Collect
art materials.
Closure
Display
the drawings at eye level. Ask students to trace over with their
fingers the gable in
the gable roof in
their drawing. Help them compare and contrast the drawings in a
way that celebrates the variety (of windows, doors, chimneys) in
the buildings. Help
them see the drawings as exteriors
of buildings.
Evaluation
The
student should have:
-
identified
geometric shapes (triangle, rectangle) in the gable roof of the yellow house (in the painting)
-
made
a drawing of a gable roof on a house
Scoring
Criteria
The
extent to which each student:
-
describes
gable roofs, triangles, rectangles, squares, and bright colors
in houses in the painting and in own artwork
-
manipulates
drawing materials to show lines and shapes
in a gable roof
and some spatial relationships (above/below, left/right)
Extensions
Be
a Gable Roof Detective
Help
students search house, family, or architectural design magazines
for photographs of a variety of roofs.
Have students cut out and arrange the roofs by shape (triangles, rectangles, other combinations). Help them glue
these gable roofs on
drawing paper and complete their details with wax crayons to
make a neighborhood or village.
Become
a Builder
Show
students how to fold a piece of construction paper lengthwise,
in half, to form a 3-D gable
roof. Using same color construction paper, help them cut two
triangles to make the gable
ends. Help them tape or glue the pieces together. Have
students place the roof
on a milk carton or box covered with paper to create a small
village. Provide markers so they can draw details: windows,
curtains, doors, shingles, siding. Time permitting, the students
may wish to complete their village by adding 3-D trees, fences,
people, and so on.
Where
in the World?
Show
students photographs of roofs
from houses around the world. Decide on a locale. Help them make
a 2-D roof for a house. To help them with this task, pre cut or
have students cut roof
shapes (e.g., pagoda, tepee, yurt, condo, thatched hut) using
construction paper or light-weight cardboard. Cut or ask
students to cut paper strips to simulate side walls of the
house. Gather other materials (e.g., foil, cloth, leaves, grass,
twigs, papers, hay, threads) to simulate roofing
materials. Have students glue items of their choice on a roof
shape to simulate
building materials such as grass, tile, wood, metal. Help
them attach the paper-strip sides to the roof
shape to look like a house. Arrange the 2-D roof shapes on a
wall in the hall to resemble a village, neighborhood, town, or
subdivision.
Print
a Roof
Have
students cut triangles and squares from potatoe halves or
oil-base clay. Help them use water paints or tempera paints to
print a square, then a triangle on top of it, to make a gable
roof on a house. Repeat in a row making a row of houses with
gable roofs.
Preview
(next lesson in series)
Next
we will go inside a building. We will look at a cook stove as
part of a room interior and we will make a crayon-resist
painting of a cook stove.
QUESTIONS ?
Call
Rachel Ross, Art Education Consultant, at 1 800 361-2598 or
write to rachel.ross@artimagepublications.com.
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