Children's Painting Course

1. Curriculum-based comprehensive creative arts course

2. The reference class lasts for 90 minutes.

3. Tool materials: cardboard, kraft paper, marker, alcohol, marker.

Curriculum idea

Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.

Suddenly want to catch the song of the tree, immediately stop singing and stand by the tree silently.

In hot summer, you can always hear cicadas calling for summer in the treetops. How much knowledge and secrets do you know about this small and blockbuster insect?

Observe and understand

Cicada, also known as cicada, is a medium-sized and large insect of the Homoptera Cicadellidae. It has a black body, two pairs of membranous wings, four transparent wings and clear wing lines. When it is motionless, its front wings overlap its rear wings, and when it flies, its four wings spread out. The compound eye is prominent, with 3 eyes and the base of the wing is dark brown. They live in temperate to tropical regions of the world, and most of them are distributed in the tropics, inhabiting deserts, grasslands and forests.

The secret in the song

Cicada's small body is a blockbuster, so do you know how cicadas make a loud song? It turns out that the vocal organ of the male cicada is in the abdominal muscle, like a drum covered with a layer of eardrum, vibrating to make a sound. Because the vocal cord muscles can stretch 1000 times per second, and the cover plate and eardrum are empty, which can play a role of * * *, so its sound is particularly loud. However, cicadas' chirping is not "blind chirping"! These passionate songs with different tones, some are assembly calls, some are courtship sounds, and some are rough and clear when they are caught or scared to fly away.

Pest or beneficial insect

We often see cicadas in trees because cicadas like to eat the sap of trees. They stick their mouths into the trunk to suck juice and suck a lot of nutrients and water into their bodies to maintain their lives, but this will also affect the normal growth of trees and bring them harm. However, it is very one-sided to classify cicadas as "pests" on the surface, because cicadas have very high nutritional and medicinal values, which are not only the source of precious animal protein, but also the precious raw materials of many chemicals.

The art of cicada

Cicada's wings are almost transparent, and the idiom "as thin as cicada's wings" can illustrate the difficulty of drawing cicada's wings. As the most vivid part of cicada, wings test the painter's painting skills very much. Among the famous cicada painters, Mr. Qi Baishi painted cicadas in great detail, even the abdomen and back can be seen through the transparent cicada wings, and some places are even thinner than real cicadas. But the cicada painted by Mr. Qi Baishi is by no means a simple and mediocre simulation of natural scenery, but a selective scrutiny and refinement!

Painting practice

In today's art class, we learned to draw cicadas in summer. In the painting, the trunk of a big tree is cut out with kraft paper, and the marker is skillfully combined with alcohol to reflect the lush leaves and mottled light and shadow in summer. Finally, through the observation and summary of cicada, the image of cicada is described in detail, showing the beautiful summer scene of cicada singing in the tree. Take a look at the reference tutorial!

Scene description

"cicada-cicada-",cicada sings in summer. This song is high and low, so comfortable and pleasant, so tactfully crisp, adding a deep affection to nature. You are really an "insect musician" and a "singer of nature"! Let's draw together today!

After-class evaluation reference

1. In today's art class, we learned to depict cicadas on trees in summer, which inspired children to express cicadas and their habitats with rich lines and colors, cultivated children's observation ability and generalization ability, and improved their ability to express lines and colors.

2. In painting, the children vividly summarized the appearance characteristics and rich details of cicadas by careful observation and using smooth and rich lines; In the performance of the environment, the color is bright and the texture is rich, which reflects the vitality and lush in summer; The image of cicada in the whole work is profound, the picture is full, and the surrounding environment sets off the main body, which embodies the beauty of nature and the vitality of life.

Emphasis and difficulty in teaching

1. Enjoy pictures of cicadas and cicadas painted by artists. According to the characteristics of cicadas, children are inspired to express the structural characteristics and details of cicadas by line drawing.

Cicada, also known as cicada, is a large insect in the family Cicadae of Homoptera, with black body, prominent compound eyes, 3 eyes and dark brown wings at the base. Cicada has two pairs of membranous wings, the four wings are transparent and the wing lines are clear. When it is not moving, its front wings overlap its rear wings, and when it is flying, its four wings spread out. The wings of cicadas are almost transparent. As the most vivid part of cicada, it tests the painter's painting skills. Among the famous cicada painters, Mr. Qi Baishi's Singing Cicada is very delicate and vivid. In painting, through observing and appreciating the photos and cicadas written by artists, we can feel the shape and details of cicadas, refine and summarize the body structure and lines on wings of cicadas with the expression of lines, embody the beauty of cicadas, and make the images of cicadas vivid and vivid.

2. Understand the life habits of cicadas, show the big trees where cicadas live, skillfully use markers and alcohol drops to show the lush and mottled leaves, and make the picture full of the vitality of nature.

Cicada likes to eat the sap of trees. They stick their mouths into the trunk to suck juice and suck a lot of nutrients and water into the body to maintain their lives, so we often see them on the trunk. Through the understanding of cicada's life habits, I began to create a background to describe the big tree of cicada's life. When representing a big tree, we should learn to observe the growth characteristics of the tree, show the stretching relationship between the trunk and branches, and learn to show details such as bark, tree tumor and nodule with rich lines to make the tree more distinctive and interesting. In the performance of leaves, try to use green markers with different shades to express the harmonious and fresh colors of leaves. Through the combination of markers and alcohol drops, the picture will have a mottled texture, which will add charm to the picture and stimulate children's creative interest.

Video reference

Children's Art Museum

Xia Chan video reference

Graphic reference

Prepare two of the same size.

Round kraft paper and white cardboard

Consider the composition of a circular frame

Draw trunks and branches on kraft paper with a marker.

Cut the painted trunk and stick it on the white cardboard.

Use a marker to add details such as bark, tree tumor and tree tumor.

Prepare green markers with different shades.

Colour the leaves around the trunk.

On the green square marking the strokes.

You can spray some alcohol to make mottled textures.

Under the influence of alcohol

The color blocks drawn by Mark's brush show rich texture.

Like mottled sunlight through leaves in summer.

Draw the shape of cicada on another piece of white paper.

And carefully handle the lines of wings and decorate the patterns on the body.

Cut off the painted cicada.

Paste and fix it in the appropriate position of the picture.

You can also add some fluttering notes and staff.

Make the picture more vivid and interesting.