OBJECTIVES

 To explain an artistic process
 To articulate written and pictorial language
 To enrich the technical repertory

SKILLS

 Being able to a chart
 Being able to elaborate and fill in a visual Arts notebook.- Being able to achieve a painting project featuring vegetables from the garden.

MATERIALS

 Vegetables
 Cardboard covered in white drawing paper
 Gouache, brushes, pastels, paper plates

REFERENCES

Gérard Gasiorowski « peintures de fleurs en pots » (paintings of flowers in pots )

PROCEDURES

Before the session, explore, describe, elaborate charts about the texture, the colours and the shapes of the vegetables.

 1) Make a list of the associated ideas originating from this exploration : healthy food, a feast for the senses, a commercial for the brand mark of soups or fertilizers, or a tale like « Jack and the magic bean » or on the contrary of the « Snow White » type, with poison in the apple…

 2) Present the project : how to stage a vegetable so that it expresses an idea, a slogan, a story ? Elaborate individual researches and projects on the notebook.

 3) Look for a gouache palette (see « a trip through a coloured vegetable garden » in relation with the painting by Gérard Gasiorowski). Draw each project with pencils, then paint it in gouache on large cardboards.

FOLLOW-ON-ACTIVITIES

 Work on the theme of the scientific herbarium. Create a giant herbarium of the vegetable garden.
 Write down short poems about vegetable gardens.
 Display the boards in an exhibition….

TRANSPOSITION

These activities can be transposed in classes of any age.

ASSESSMENT

It will check the pupil’s ability to :

 Reuse the pictorial (colour, drawing…) and written (lexical filed linked to vegetables) vocabulary.
 link up or oppose the artistic or scientific process.

Françoise Jon Les Violettes Elementary school, Mareil-Marly, Yvelines , France