Government of Manitoba
Art Language and Tools

Art Language and Tools (A-L2) »
Students demonstrate understanding of and facility with visual art media, tools, and processes.

 

Students who have achieved expectations for this grade are able to

Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
demonstrate safe and appropriate use and maintenance of a wide range of art media, tools, and processes

5-8 V-L2.1
demonstrate facility with a variety of techniques for using art media (e.g., blending chalk pastels, painting wet on wet, hand-building with clay)

5-8 V-L2.2
integrate knowledge of different art media to create multimedia or mixed-media images and/or objects
(multimedia artworks: a wide range of visual and non-visual media are combined in works such as installation art, performance art, kinetic sculpture, and works using technology
mixed-media artworks: more than one art medium is used in a finished artwork, such as a work that combines painting and sculpture)

5-8 V-L2.3
demonstrate understanding of oral, written, graphic, and modelled instructions to develop practical knowledge of and skills in a range of two- and three-dimensional media

5-6 V-L2.4

 extend and refine artmaking skills in personally selected media (e.g., pracitsing techniques, exploring graphics software potential, conducting research about particular art media, tools, and processes)

7-8 V-L2.4
Appendix D: Art Media, Tools, and Processes

 

Go Back Section
Suggested Art Media
All Grades
  • Oil and chalk pastels
  • Pencils, crayons, markers
  • Wash drawings (water-soluble markers and water)
  • Finger Paints Tempera paint/brushes and rollers on various surfaces (different papers, fabric, etc.)
  • Crayon and paint resist
  • Collage (tissue paper, fabric, natural and/or made objects); building patterns, images, paper mosaics
  • Texture rubbing
  • Printing: Stamping, imprinting, monoprints
  • Clay and clay tools: thumb pot, “pulling” (as in legs of an animal), modeling, decorating
  • Modelling clay: commercial or homemade
  • Assemblage (found object sculptures)
  • Photography: proper handling of camera; view-finding; taking digital
Grade 2 and up
 
  • Printmaking: Styrofoam tray relief printing; rolling ink and “pulling” prints
  • Clay and clay tools: joining, slab and coil building, care of (safety, storage, clean-up)
  • Papier Mache techniques
  • Photography: managing digital files
  • Acrylic Paint: mixing colour gradations; proper care of permanent media/brush cleaning
    and/or conventional photos
Grade 3 and up
 
  • Drawing: pen and ink, use of calligraphic lines
  • Water colour: use of transparent and opaque colours
  • Painting: background treatment
  • Photography: editing digital images; story-boards
  • Fabric and fiber: sewing and weaving

 

Close