African Animals
Students will have fun creating a range of African animal artworks. We’ll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different African animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, ink drawing, and printmaking, whilst having fun in the African savannah.
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2
K-2 students will have fun creating some African animals! We have an awesome baboon artwork to print and collage and a colourful giraffe to make. There is a spotty leopard to print and draw. There is lots of texture to create with sponge painting, and printing with household objects when making these three fun artworks.
Photographic images are provided for the baboon and leopard artworks so children can see realistic images to reference for their artworks. We’ll use printing, collage and drawing techniques to create the art. Students will enjoy finding out about African animals and creating these colourful artworks.
Grade 3 and 4
Celebrate Africa with a glowing African Sunset artwork. Create silhouettes of well-known African animals to roam the grasslands. Create a colourful cartoon drawing of a cheetah with chalk pastel on black paper and have fun with the zany zebra. The Zany Zebra with bright colours is a much loved project with grades 3-4. It can easily be adapted to a realistic drawing if desired.
In this unit students will learn about colour, shape, and form. We’ll look at analagous colours and learn some drawing and painting techniques.
Grade 5 and 6
In the African Animals unit for grade 5 and 6, students will learn how to use ink washes and create depth with shadows in the ink drawings of an elephant, rhino and lioness. There are reference images and example artworks included in the lesson plan with step by step instructions to create them.
Students will practice their observation and drawing skills to create these animals drawing from a range of images. They will develop their observational skills as they focus on the details of their chosen subject. Students will learn the importance of tone and will develop drawing, rendering, blending and highlighting techniques to create a beautifully detailed ink wash drawing.
The lion pencil drawing is all about detail. We have provided a template which can help students to get the basic shape face to start. Then there are reference images and details on how to create layers of colour, with variety and emphasis. We use brown paper as a mid-tine for the paper and highlights and shadows with details on how to create a fur like texture as well.
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