From an ordinary people to an artist: Create an animal partner that belongs to you
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Summary
Animals are one of human's best friends. Different animals often represent different roles and carry different emotions. This toolkit will guide you to observe, imagine and create with your hands like an artist, and teach you to make animal themed handicrafts by using some common materials. It enables you to create an animal companion of your own like an artist.
Do you want to be an artist?🧑🎨
Do you want to have a pet partner?
Let’s go!!!
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Unit1: What is it?
——This toolkit will guide you to easily complete an animal artwork of your own in just 20 minutes.
——You can choosecair clay to shape cute animals. The entire process is very simple and interesting. Just follow the following few steps and you can create an animal partner that belongs to you.
——The materials needed for the activity are cheap and easy to find. The creative methods are free and open. We also encourage you to be bold and exaggerated, play with colors and shapes, and express the personality and characteristics of your favorite animals in the most intuitive way! Hurry up and join us to make artistic creation a relaxing and surprising thing!
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Unit2: Time &Goals
Recommended time allocation
Select an animal (1 minute)
Observation (2 minutes)
Creation (12 minutes)
Naming and taking photos (2 minutes)
Sharing and Reflection (3 minutes)
Total time: 20 minutes
Learning Goals
1. Create an animal themed artwork within the limited time.
2. Expressing the “characteristics” and “personalities” of animals through exaggeration, simplification or color selection.
3. Give a brief description and reflection on your own artwork.
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Unit3: Prepare Materials
Air clay
🪡 Needles
✂️Scissors
🖋️Marker pen
🎨Acrylic pigment
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Unit4: Making Steps
1.Think about what kind of animal you want to create.
2.Observe the skeleton of the animal’s body you have chosen.
3. Select a big piece of air clay of the corresponding color and mold it into a ball, oval or cylindrical shape as the body of the animal to shape the main body.
4. Take small pieces of air clay to make the head, ears, legs and tail, and gently press them together to fix all the parts in place.
5. When creating, one can appropriately exaggerate a feature (key point). For example: very big ears, extremely long tails, huge eyes or very small feet, etc.
6. Gently press the texture (fur, scales, feathers, etc.) with a pen cap or needles to add texture and details and make it more realistic.
7. After that, start coloring the model with pigment.
8. After the pigment dries, use marker pen to draw the details of the animal. For example: eyes, nose, mouth, hair, spots, etc.
9. Give your animal partner a name and briefly describe your creative motivation and the significance of your artwork.
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Unit5: Sharing and Reflection
——Take photos of your animal partner and show this artwork to others to get feedback.
——You can also reflect on yourself after receiving feedback. What aspects of this artwork are still worth improving?
What will you get?
✅ confidence
✅ sense of achievement
✅artistic voice
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This toolkit is especially important for every learner:
Through this toolkit, learners can create their own artworks.
These works help them know themselves and also allow others to see them.
