Art, Craft and Me for Classes A to 8

Description

Blueprint’s Art, Craft & Me is a graded series of 11 books (Parts A, B, C and 1 to 8) that conforms to the art assessment guidelines and recommendations for art education in schools.
Art and Craft stimulates creativity and imagination. It provides visual, tactile and sensory experiences. It enables learners to communicate what they see, feel and think through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern, different material and processes. Art plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich by reinforcing our cultural heritage. It stimulates different parts of our brains with a whole range of emotions and also broadens our knowledge horizon.
Art, Craft & Me aims at providing a unique platform to the learner that will help enable experiential learning for free expression of ideas and emotions. Emphasis has been laid on a participative and interactive approach to the teaching of art and craft, which is both methodical and active.

Salient Features of this Book

• The entire content has been created to record first-hand experience from imagination.
• The books have been appropriately designed to improve the learner’s ability to control material, tools and techniques.
• Learners are able to foster an enjoyment and appreciation of visual arts and a knowledge of artists, craftspeople and designers.
• The life and work of Indian and global artists including folk art, under the aegis of heritage education, have been showcased to acquaint the learner with masterpieces in art work.
• A wide range of dynamic craft activities, based on 3 Rs — Recycle, Reuse and Reduce, focusses on issues and ideas that are of particular interest to a learner in the middle school.

Notes for teachers will facilitate instructing learners in a concise manner.

About the Author

Papiha Saha is a communications designer, teacher, author, artist, and art and design enthusiast. After a postgraduate degree in visual communications, she has spent 16 years working in domains of e-learning (for the K-12 segment), design-research projects, and publication and education design. She has designed and illustrated books for various eminent publishers and teaches undergraduate students at renowned design institutes in India.