During this course, students will:

• Have the opportunity to explore and experiment with different materials, such as pencils, pastels and different types of paint, paintbrushes, palette knives, collage and clay.

• Realise that art can be created on diverse types of surfaces and not only paper. Such surfaces will include canvas, ceramics, fabric and different types of paper. Students will also be able to paint/draw on easels.

• Learn to draw, paint and model his/her surroundings from different perspectives, including: still life, imaginative, landscape and seascape, abstract art, creating a poster, copying from a picture, portraiture and human figure drawing.

• Acquire artistic concepts, namely: the colour wheel, primary and secondary colours, complimentary colours, colour tones, blending, light and shadow, proportion, juxtaposition and shape and form.

• Grow familiar with the history of art. Students will be given the opportunity to learn about, observe and discuss the work of famous artists from numerous eras in the history of art. This will help the child understand that people have always sought to express themselves in art and hence learn art in different contexts.

• Be inspired and encouraged to create their own artwork. Although children will receive guidance by the tutor, we believe that an artwork should have the artist’s own mark in it.

Although at Budding Artists we believe that the process is more crucial than the ending artwork itself, more emphasis on the final piece of art is placed in the Tweens class. Because of this, students will understand thatthe message they are expressing through art, needs to be portrayed in a clear and neat manner. This will make it possible for the viewer to ‘read’ and translate the artwork, even if the viewer may interpret this in his/her own perspective.