Each property is briefly described below followed by a series of questions that are designed to aid the child to understand the property through verbal answers.
Sensory (descriptive) Properties:The art elements of line, shape, texture, and color. large and small size, deep and shallow space, dark and light, etc.
1. What colors do you see? 2. Are there any lines? 3. Can you see a round shape? 4. Is there a dark color? 5. What is the biggest shape? 6. How deep is the perspective?
Formal (analysis) Properties: The way the art work is organized. Unity, repetition, balance, contrast, dominance, rythm, variety, etc.
1. Are there repeated shapes? 2. Are there opposite things? 3. Is one thing more important? 4. Can something be changed? 5. Is the color needed over here? 6. Are there light/dark things?
Expressive (interpretation) Properties: The mood, feeling or philosophical concepts of the work.
1. Is this a sad/happy work? 2. Why did the artist make it? 3. What is the artist telling us? 4. Would you like to have this? 5. Does it make you feel good/bad? 6. Would your guardian (s) like it?
Technical (judgement) Properties:How the work was created. The medium used (watercolor, oil paint, acrylic, bronze, wood, etc.). The tools used (brush, pencil, crayon, ink, pen, printing press, camera, ect.). The method used to make the work (drawing, photography, painting, sculpting, printing, ect.).
I think what you are supposed to do is just show what is what. For example, you would label the slip clay as slip clay and the workable clay as workable clay, etc... I don't really understand what else it would be asking.
This technique is literally called the dotting technique, and was
popular amongst the neo-impressionists. In painting, this technique can
also be called pointillism.
The elements of design are the parts that define the visual, the tools and components that a person uses to create a composition. ... The principles of design, on the other hand, are all about how a person uses the elements to create a visual and convey a message.
