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The document outlines the creative art curriculum for a class taught by Mr. Abolarin at Eucharistic College, covering topics such as printing, beadwork, and design over the first three weeks. It details various printing techniques, types of beads and their uses, and the principles of design, including elements of art and basic geometric shapes. Additionally, it provides materials needed for each topic and examples of design applications.

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Js 1 Creative Art Topic 123 1

The document outlines the creative art curriculum for a class taught by Mr. Abolarin at Eucharistic College, covering topics such as printing, beadwork, and design over the first three weeks. It details various printing techniques, types of beads and their uses, and the principles of design, including elements of art and basic geometric shapes. Additionally, it provides materials needed for each topic and examples of design applications.

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JS1 CREATIVE ART NOTES 3RD EUCHARISTIC COLLEGE

TERM Teacher: MR ABOLARIN


DANIEL ARISTIC COLLEGE
Instructions: copy the notes from week one (topic 1) to week three at least (3
topics). You will copy the remaining notes in class.
Scheme of work
1st week: PRINTING
2nd week: BEADWORKS
3rd week: DESIGN
4th week: ABSTRACT DESIGN

TOPIC 1. PRINTING
Printing is the process of transferring a design or art impression from one surface
to another.
It is the art of making an impression of words and pictures on paper, fabric etc.
with hand or heavy machine.
TYPES OF PRINTING
1. Block printing
2. Screen printing or silk screen printing
3. Stencil printing
4. Lithography
Block printing: is the art of printing designs, drawing, texts or images using a carved
piece of wood or other type of block to imprint an image on fabric or paper.
Screen printing or silk screen printing: is a method of stretching silk mesh over a
wooden frame, blocking out chosen areas by various methods and making a print by
forcing ink through the unblocked areas with squeegee.
Stencil printing: to start with, simple stencils can be made from cut paper such as
newspaper, cardboard, wrapping paper etc. All you need to do is to cut with a knife
or pair of scissors, a razor blade or tear away parts of the paper to make an abstract
design. The hole made in the paper will be the shape of the image to be printed.
Lithography: is a method of printing images or texts from a smooth surface such as
zinc or aluminum plate
Materials for printing
1. Printing ink 6. Paper for cutting 11. Newspaper or cardboard
2. Squeegee 7. Cello tape 12. Poster colour
3. Brushes 8. Rag for cleaning
4. Stencil knife 9. Litho ink
5. Mesh 10. Pair of scissors

TOPIC 2 BEADWORKS
Beadwork is the art or craft of making things with beads. eg jewelry, handbags
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them
with a sewing needle or beading needle and thread or thin wire or sewing them to
cloth.
Bead is a small decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of
material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood or pearl and with a small
hole for threading or stringing.
Bead making is common craft among the people of Nigeria and it is of great
importance to their culture. The bead, as an ornament, may signify power and
authority. Beads are identified by various names according to their nativity,
durability and composition.
Red stone beads (agate) are found in Maiduguri.
Glass beads (Sege) in ILE-IFE.
In bead making the major material used in finishing a beaded necklace or armlet is
hook and eye.
TYPES OF BEADS
Beads can be made of many types of materials in modern manufacturing, the most
common bead materials are:
1. Wood beads
2. Stone beads
3. Glass beads
4. Plastic beads eg pony beads, acrylic fancy
5. Metal beads
6. Crystal beads
7. Ceramic beads
MATERIALS FOR BEADWORK
1. Pliers e.g round nose pliers, flat nose pliers
2. Wire cutters
3. Bead cord or thread
4. Beads
USES OF BEADS
Beads are used for various purposes. Some of the uses of beads include the
following:
1. Beads are used as jewellery accessories e.g Necklace, Earrings, Bracelets,
prickets, beaded chains, Bangles
2. Beads are put on clothes as accessories
3. To decorate picture frames
4. Beads are used for religious purposes for examples the Catholic and Muslim
rosaries
5. Decorative greeting cards

Topic 3. DESIGN
Design is the art of organizing the element of art i.e lines, forms, tones, textures
and colours meaningfully and attractively to express oneself.
It is the art of organizing or arranging line, shape, motif, symbols and images to
communicate an idea.
Design is the orderly arrangement of elements of arts such way that we achieve and
interesting result
ELEMENT OF ART AND DESIGN
1. Lines
2. Colours
3. Form and shape
4. Texture
5. Space
6. Tone
MATERIALS FOR DESIGN
1. Ruler 5. Mathematical set
2. Drawing board 6. Drawing book
3. Knives or razor blade 7. Gum
4. Brushes 8.paint or poster colour
EXAMPLES OF DESIGN
1. Pattern making 6. Book or story illustration
2. Poster 7. Textile design
3. Book cover 8. Batik
4. Greeting cards 9. Dye
5. Emblem
BASIC FORMS OR BASIC GEOMETRY SHAPE
All lines are used to form shapes and drawing is the art of putting lines together.
When these forms of lines are put together, they create the basic forms. The basic
forms include cylinder, cones, cubes, pyramids, sphere, rectangles, ovals, circle, and
hexagons. All these shapes above are called geometric shapes
Object we see around us, no matter how complicated they may be, can be
reduced to their forms. A tree is a cylinder with a lot of branching cylinders on top
of which is an irregular ovoid. A building is normally a rectangle block with a
pyramid on top
A human figure comprises of cylinder, cones, sphere, hemisphere, etc. A vehicle or a
car contains almost all the basic forms
OBECTS DERIVED FROM BASIC FORMS
1. Cylinder-Tin, drum, tree, trunk, water, pipe
2. Cones- Funnel, tower, sharpened pencil end
3. Cubes- Cube sugar, maggi, cube boxes
4. Pyramid- Coal pot, tower
5. Sphere- Ball, bulb, orange, globe
6. Rectangle- Box, table, bed, book, cupboard.
7. Hexagon- Pencil, biro, or pens, tower.

TOPIC 4:
HOW TO COMBINE BASIC FORMS OR GEOMETRIC SHAPES TOGETHER TO MAKE A
MOTIFS FOR DESIGN.
ABSTRACT MOTIFS

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