ART PROGRAM

BICYCLES

STAGE 1
OUTCOMES VAS1.2
VAS1.3
VAS1.4
INDICATORS  focuses on details of subject matter and areas of interest
 seeks to investigate traditions in art
 emphasises or exaggerates certain qualities of subject
matter by focusing on details
 expresses opinions about how well subject matter is
represented and appreciates the skills involved.
SUBJECT BICYCLES
MATTER
FORMS Drawing, Painting, Zines
RESOURCES ARTIST: Henri Rousseau, Robert Klippel, pushbike,
motorbike, wire model
MATERIALS: paper, oil pastel, watercolour paint, texture
plates, graphite pencil, artline pen, wax crayons
APPRECIATION  talks and writes about the meaning of artworks in terms
of how the subject matter realistically represents things in
the world
 sees themselves as artists
PERSPECTIVES Literacy
LINKS Science and Technology
ASSESSMENT Students were able to:
 draw likenesses from observation
 identify qualities of objects
 see themselves as artists
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE : 1
SUBJECT MATTER : BICYCLES

1. BIKE DRAWINGS DURATION: Four Lessons

Students will-
- Carefully look at an actual bike and discuss its properties
- Focus on details of the bike
- Use black oil pastel on large format paper to draw the bike
- Include all the details on the bike including brake cords, gears, lights
and tyre profile
- Use one colour and white oil pastel to give shade for solidity of the
bike
- Draw the road under the bike and a street sign eg giveway, stop
- Spray blue edicol as a background

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. BIKES, BIKES, BIKES DURATION: Two Lessons

Students will-
- Observe certain details of a motorbike and discuss its similarities and
differences to the pushbike previously drawn
- Recognise the complexities and acknowledge that their drawing will
not include all of the details
- Use artline pen on artpaper with a board underneath to draw the
motorbike in situ
- Look at the large shapes and draw these first
- Continue the drawing with all of the large components before going on
to the details
- Consider which details to include and which are unnecessary
- Use the artline to black areas of intensity eg, tyres
- In the classroom use texture plates and coloured wax crayons to fill in
a background that is reminiscent of machinery
- Discuss the different techniques in each artwork and the effect caused
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment
 3. LA TOURE DE FRANCE IN ZINE DURATION:Four Lessons
Students will-
- Discuss the topical Toure de France and view newspaper photos of bike
riders and the French countryside
- Verbalise facets of the tour eg. race within the race, Australian
involvement, cycling as a sport
- Look at their own involvement in bike riding
- Storyboard a sequence that involves bikes or bikeriding or the Toure de
France
- Layout their story in pictures and text
- Learn to fold a zine and discuss it as a means of communication, as a
publishable medium and as an art medium
- Research other zines and what they are made from
- Use a variety of tools and media including collage, watercolour, artline,
acrylics and found objects to embellish their story
- Transfer the storyboard over to the zine fine tuning on the way
- Share the zine with other class members
- Undertake critical reviews of their own and classmates work
- Verbally extend the ideas suggested into future zines eg. a smelling
zine , an enlarged zine

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment