2.1 Drawing and Painting

• Drawing: line as an element (dry media: charcoal, pencil, local paper)
• Drawing: tone, smudging, blending and variation
• Balance of forms in a picture
• Observing drawings for line, tone and balance
• Drawing a still life of balls with balance of forms in a space
• Creating tone on a drawing by smudging
• Warm and cool colours; colour temperature on the colour wheel
• Recession and progression; emotional symbolism of colour
• Painting an imaginative seascape using poster colour on local paper
• Mat mounting, display and talking about own and others pictorial composition

• explain balance in a picture
• draw a picture to apply balance
• analyse cool and warm colours for colour temperature
• paint a scenery based on colour temperature
• appreciate own and others pictorial composition

“How can balance be achieved in a drawing?”

“What emotions do different colours evoke in us when we look at them?”

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1. Line in dry media
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   Line describes edge, direction and texture; practise thin, thick, curved and hatched marks with charcoal or pencil on local paper.
2. Tone, blending and variation
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   Tone is light and dark; build a five-step scale by laying charcoal and smudging, keeping a clean highlight.
3. Balance of forms in a picture
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Balance is even visual weight; compare a crowded corner with forms spread across the space, including negative space.
4. Observing line, tone and balance
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Read existing drawings: name the line, the tone range and whether the forms balance, using Kenyan examples and sports stills.
5. Draw balls in a balanced space
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   Set up three balls of different sizes with overlap and one light, then draw contours in charcoal or pencil filling the page.
6. Smudge tone on the ball drawing
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   On the same still life, lay shade, blend toward a highlight and add a cast shadow so the balls look solid.
7. Warm and cool colour temperature
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Split the colour wheel into warm (red, orange, yellow) and cool (green, blue, violet) and mix poster-colour secondaries.
8. Recession, progression and colour emotion
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Cool colours recede and can feel calm or distant; warm colours progress and can feel energetic; choose a temperature for a mood.
9. Paint a seascape by colour temperature
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Paint an imaginative seascape in poster colour on local paper, using either a mainly cool or mainly warm key.
10. Mount, display and appreciate
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Mat-mount the seascape or ball drawing, display it, and take turns talking about own and others pictorial composition with respect.