UNIT III

CREATIVE
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PREPARED BY:
ROSELYN GUTAS
LESSON 1

CRAYON ART
GET SET
Get a crayon. In the box below, make lines with your chosen crayon using its tip, sides and bottom. Make as
many lines as you like.
How do the lines you made differ from each other.

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Even broken crayons can be useful yet. By using the bottom or the sides of a crayon, wider and uneven lines can be made.

You can also heat up crayon to melt them.

Crayons can also be used with other materials like oil or chalk for in interesting effects.

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Scribble lines in this box. Use the tips, sides and bottoms of your crayons.

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Transfer Design

What you need:

 Oslo paper, a ballpen, a crayon, a piece of white chalk

What to do:
1. Fold the oslo paper crosswise at the middle.
Open it and rub chalk on the entire right side.
Be careful not to go beyond the folded line.

2. Rub crayons over the layer of chalk. Use different colors and apply them thickly.
Be sure to cover with colors the entire right side of the paper but leave the left side uncolored.

3. Close the paper along the folded line. Now, using the ballpen, draw a picture on
the side with colors under it. Press hard as you draw.

4. When your drawing is complete, open the oslo paper and see your transferred picture.

Etching

What you need:

oslo paper, old crayons ( broken ones will do ) any small sharp object for scratching the colors

What to do:

1. Rub thick layers of crayons on the entire surface of the oslo paper. Use all the colors you like except black.
2. Rub black crayon over all the different colors you applied. Apply thickly until no other color is seen except
black.
3. Now, using the pointed object, draw a picture on the black layer of crayon by scratching out line to form
shapes.
4. Remember, scratch out lines but do not remove large portions of black. The more lines you make, the better
your picture will appear.

Crayon Resist

What you need:

a box of crayons, waterproof set, brush, water, oslo paper, newspaper sheet

What to do:
1. Using crayons, draw any picture on the oslo paper.
2. Place the oslo paper on the newspaper sheet.
3. Brush any color you like over the picture and the entire surface of the oslo paper.
4. See what happens to your crayon picture.

Lesson 2

PRINTING
GET SET
Study the design on this gift wrapper. What shape is repeated many times?

How would you like to make your own gift wrapper?

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Wrapping paper makes gifts special. Most wrapping paper are shapes and colors repeated all over the material.

Wrapper printing is best done by machines. However, you can also do your own design and print it on paper to
produce your own wrapping paper.

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Activity 1:
Think of a good design for a wrapping paper. Draw the design many times in this box:
 Activity 2:
Get a stamp pad with ink. Print your thumb many times in this box.

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Vegetable Print

What you need:

oslo paper, watercolor set, brush, water, pechay stems newspaper sheets

What to do:
1. Cut the lowest portion of the pechay stems as shown below.
The cut away portion will look like this and can make flowerlike prints.
Cut at least four of these.

2. Place the oslo paper on the newspaper sheets.

3. Brush a color on the flower like part of the pechay stem and start making prints on the paper.
4. Get another piece. Brush another color and make prints.
5. Continue changing colors and making more prints until the whole surface of the oslo paper is covered with
colorful prints.

LESSON 15

Watercolor Art
GET SET
Study this painting. Can you see a picture of an object in it?

Do

you think you can make a water color painting like this one?
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Some paintings do not show clear pictures of objects. They show only colors, irregular lines and interesting
shapes. These are called abstract painting.

You can make an abstract painting with watercolor. Watercolors are fun to use. You can mix and blend colors
using brush and water. You can make interesting pictures with them.

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Activity 1:
Practice using watercolors on an oslo paper. Start with very small amount of water. Brush strokes of colors on
the paper. Make new strokes of different colors on the paper. See what happens.

Activity 2:
Make experiments with red, yellow and blue watercolor. Mix red and yellow together. Then, mix yellow and
blue, then blue and red, watch the color produced.

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Flowing
What you need:
oslo paper, watercolor set, brush, water, newspaper sheets, cotton swab

What to do:
1. Place the oslo paper on the newspaper sheets.
2. Wet the entire surface of the oslo paper using the cotton swab.
3. Using the brush, wet one particular color with water and get a good amount of it. Put the color on any space
on the oslo paper.
4. Tilt the paper to one side immediately until the color flows down. If the color does not flow, add a little more
water using the brush.
5. Use a different color, This time put the color on the opposite side.
6. Tilt the paper until the color runs to the other side.
7. Continue changing colors and adding more lines.
8. Let your work dry.

Lesson 16
 Mosaic art

GET SET
There are ways to color this leaf design.

You can color it with crayon.

You can use marketing pen to color it.
You can also use water color on.

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Another way to put color on a shape is by using mosaic art.
Mosaic art is the process of coloring shapes using tiny piece of objects like seeds, pebbles and buttons
or irregularly cut pieces of materials like seed, eggshells paper or glass.
In a mosaic, the small pieces could be arranged with spaces in between or close together.

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Activity 1:
Color this mosaic pattern.
 Activity 2:
Fill in this design with small shapes as shown in Activity 1.

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Paper Mosaic

What you need:

1/8 illustration board, a set of construction paper, scissors, pencil, glue, cotton bud

What to do:
1. Draw a design with simple shapes on the illustration board. Draw only the outside form of each shape.
For example, if your object is a fish, don’t draw its scales anymore. They can be shown later with small
pieces of paper.

2. Select the colors that you will use from your set of construction paper.
3. Cut each piece of paper into small pieces. Separate them according to color.
4. Using the cotton bud, glue the small pieces of paper on your picture, Combine colors for every object
to show its shape well.
5. Take care not to use too much glue. It will make your work messy.