Fernando Llort El Salvador Folk Paintings Grades 3-6

By Andrea

Lesson Background:

I am now teaching 2 different IEC (Introductory English Centre) classes on a Wednesday morning for an hour each week.  The children in these classes are just divine and I feel such joy creating beautiful art with them.  I decided to begin exploring the art from their mother countries with them, so we have begun to have a focus country for our artworks each session (although we seem to be taking multiple sessions to complete works now that I only have 1 hour per class per week!).  We begin each session by looking at the country on a world map, asking the students who come from that country to tell us about it, and then exploring some art or an artist's work from that country.  Then while we work I put up Youtube images and folk music from the country on the IWB to play as we create our art.  It's bliss!

We began this new venture by looking at El Salvador.  We looked at the gorgeous vibrant art of Fernando Llort, a famous folk artist...

  

Lesson Materials:

-Printed copies of some of Fernando Llort's artworks
-A sample of my own attempted drawing plus my final coloured version
-Lead pencils
-Coloured good quality thick textas (I like the jumbo Faber Castel ones: https://www.bigw.com.au/product/faber-castell-jumbo-connector-pens-20-pack/p/4182122/)

Lesson Steps:
1.  We studied his works and talked about his use of shape and colour.  We talked about how his works were like jigsaws/puzzles and how the whole page was totally filled with images and shapes.  We discussed how to fill spaces with interesting shapes and images, and we discussed his subject matter- what he could see in the villages around him.  We brainstormed things we could include in our own artworks.
2.  The children used samples of his work plus our brainstormed ideas to draw their own artworks.
3.  I demonstrated how to use contrasting and bright colours, and patterning to colour their pictures, leaving no white gaps and always colouring in the same direction (it's scary how many kids don't know how to colour and just move their textas in any direction they feel like!).
4.  The children used the textas to colour their artworks.

Grades 3-6 Student Artworks:

By Adska

By David

By Justin

By Nada

By Navine

By Seo Yeon

By Phon

Watercolour Castles

Par Mawi's gorgeous castle

Lesson Background:
I have been teaching art to our senior IEC (Introductory English Centre) students (Grades 4-6) for one morning each week.  I have SUCH fun working with these beautiful kids!  They had been learning about fairy tales so we painted some castles together.

Lesson Materials:
1 sheet A3 trimmed art paper
lead pencil
watercolour paints and brushes

Lesson Steps:
1.  We began by looking at pictures of castles and using English vocabulary to practise naming parts and the shapes we could see.
2.  We drew our castles with me guiding the drawing in a step-by-step process, offering lots of opportunities for adding their own styles and ideas to make their castles unique.
3.  We painted the castles.
4.  We outlined them with black sharpies when dry.

Student Artworks:

Alex's castle

David's castle