Assignment 2: The Creative Art Process

109 Madison Marquis EXP2
The Creative Arts Process

1.Two things i feel comfortable doing in my future classroom to support the concept of aesthetics for children would be helping the kids become aware of art in their everyday lives and taking children on walking trips to discover and observe the colors, shapes, and textures in trees, plants, clouds, buildings and vehicles. Resources that i would want to use for discovering and observing nature would be making a bulletin board about different types of forests, such as a tropical forest. A background that i would use for helping kids become more aware of art in their everyday life would be having a art wall to hang their art projects from the past and having art shows for parents to see.
2.Three points i would share with this child who created this art work would be color, shape, and creatively. A child response would be explaining in detail about his or her picture. For example, A child would say, I drew a monster, heres the eyes, heres the noise and heres the scary mouth. Complimenting children about there art work gets the child thinking and using creatively to make new picture.

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The four characteristics of the creative process are: Shape and form, Line, Space,Color (Mayesky, M (2015) p.46-47) This artwork reflects on color because they used primary colors and secondary colors such as violet,orange and blue. The type of shape and form is organic free form and geometric because they used circles,squares and rectangles to created this picture. Space refers to the areas above,below,between,within and around an object. For example: The tree in photo 3-6 had height and width. Young children learn to created space by size and placement of shapes. Lines have a direction like horizontal and vertical in this pictures the houses have straight lines. (Mayesky, M (2015)

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4. Three guidelines for materials with good aesthetic potential would be Patterns,Balance and Unity. (Mayesky, M (2015) p.48) An example would be adding houses on both sides of the picture to balance or using the same color more than once to balance out the color in the artwork. Having more then one house brings out a sense of unity to bring it all together. Everything in nature is different but it comes together to create unity such as a forest. Patterns come together to create picture such as shape and color. Patterns provide harmonies effects in works of art. (Mayesky, M (2015) p.48)

5. Three things i can do as a teacher when guiding a child using an aesthetic material would be helping children become more aware of art in their everyday lives, (Mayesky, M (2015) p.48) Providing many opportunities to look at and talk about art, For Example, holding up a flag, children should be able to look and point out some art. The last things i would do is encouraging children to look at one another work and ask them questions. (Mayesky, M (2015) p.49) I would have a art room in my classroom so kids would be able to hang up art work that they are proud about and children will look at one another work and be able to ask questions like, How did you make those colors? or i love that shape you made. It will encourage children to be more creative with their art work.

References

Mayesky, M. (2015). Creative Activities for Young Children (11th ed.) Stamford CT: Cengage Learning