Lesson · Grade 3 · Arts Education
Developing an Image: Elaborate, Repeat and Simplify
- Grade 3
- Arts Education
- 1 min 7 s
- British Columbia
- BC3-AR-10
The video starts from a simple line drawing of a leaf and changes it with three common image development strategies. Elaborate adds lines, a pattern of dots and colours; repeat turns the leaf into a grid of copies and then a flower-like ring; and simplify erases the details until one flat shape is left. It ends with the start leaf and the three new images side by side and a one-line recap.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
How can one simple drawing grow into new ideas?
Start with a simple image, like this line drawing of a leaf.
Transcript
What the lesson says
How can one simple drawing grow into new ideas?
Start with a simple image, like this line drawing of a leaf.
Artists develop an image by changing it on purpose to find new ideas.
Three common image development strategies are elaborate, repeat and simplify.
To elaborate, you add more detail to the image.
Add more lines, a pattern of dots and colours.
To repeat, you use the same image again and again.
Turn the copies around one centre, and a new design appears.
To simplify, you take details away.
Keep only the main shape, and the image becomes bolder and quicker to read.
One simple leaf grew into three new images.
Elaborate adds detail, repeat reuses the image, and simplify takes detail away.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 3
Arts Education, Visual arts: image development strategiesBC3-AR-10
- British Columbia, Grade 4
Arts Education, Visual arts: image development strategiesBC4-AR-09
Previous: The principles of design: balance, contrast, emphasis, pattern and unity
- British Columbia, Grade 5
Arts Education, Visual arts: image development strategiesBC5-AR-11
Previous: The principles of design: balance, contrast, emphasis, pattern and unity
- British Columbia, Grade 6
Arts Education, Visual arts: image development strategiesBC6-AR-07
Previous: The principles of design: balance, contrast, emphasis, pattern and unity
- British Columbia, Grade 7
Arts Education, Visual arts: image development strategiesBC7-AR-11
Previous: The principles of design: balance, contrast, emphasis, pattern and unity
This lesson is also listed in Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6 and Grade 7.
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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