STANDARD TRACK
Duration: 12–14 weeks | Frequency: 1–2 sessions per week | Session length: 60–75 minutes
Program Objective
To introduce children to the foundations of drawing and painting through observation, mark-making, colour exploration, and guided image-building, while developing confidence, attention, discipline, and an early understanding of how visual ideas are created and communicated.
Curriculum
Stage 1: Foundation
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Tool awareness and safe handling through pencils, erasers, crayons, coloured pencils, markers, brushes, palettes, and paint containers
- Mark-making readiness through straight, curved, repeated, and controlled lines and brush strokes
- Early observation skills through looking before drawing, noticing size, and seeing simple shapes and outlines
- Material familiarity through dry vs wet media, paper behaviour, and basic brush and water control
Conceptual Knowledge
- What art is as seeing, making, expressing, communicating, storytelling, reflection, and worship
- Elements of art at child level through line, shape, colour, texture, space, and early value
- Shape and object awareness through simple forms found in everyday life
- Colour awareness through primary and secondary colours, warm and cool colours, and beginner colour mixing
Applied Theories
- Guided drawing exercises through line drills, shape-based drawing, outlines, patterns, and textures
- Introductory painting exercises through brush control, flat colour work, and simple colour mixing
- Beginner fine art projects such as shape-based still life, colourful object paintings, nature studies, and texture work
Stage 2: Formation
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Drawing development through contour work, shape-to-form building, simple shading, spacing, and correction habits
- Painting development through secondary colour mixing, brush choice, smooth and textured application, and simple layering
- Observation and proportion basics through object comparison, height-width awareness, placement, overlap, and depth
- Studio discipline through planning, step-following, careful work, and cleaning up properly
Conceptual Knowledge
- Design thinking in fine art through asking what is being made, why it is being made, and how visual choices affect meaning
- Value, form, and volume through light, shadow, and the illusion of three-dimensionality
- Composition awareness through placement, foreground/background, balance, spacing, repetition, and variation
- Visual storytelling through characters, settings, objects, mood, and message
Applied Theories
- Structured drawing projects such as still life, nature drawing, storytelling sketches, and simple portrait work
- Structured painting projects through colour-based paintings, light-and-shadow studies, and simple landscape work
- Design-to-image exercises through sketching before painting, comparing colour choices, and adjusting plans during making
Stage 3: Mastery
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Drawing accuracy and control through proportion, contour, shading, texture, and clearer edges
- Painting technique refinement through better layering, colour matching, brushwork variation, and cleaner transitions
- Observational development through more patient looking, noticing light changes, and correcting inaccuracies
- Work refinement habits through revision, composition checks, neatness, and display preparation
Conceptual Knowledge
- Expanded design thinking through mood, theme, subject purpose, and connected visual decisions
- Elements and principles in use through line, shape, colour, value, texture, form, space, balance, emphasis, rhythm, contrast, unity, and movement
- Style and visual language through realistic, imaginative, decorative, and observational approaches
- Creative problem-solving through revision and thoughtful change in colour, shape, placement, or process
Applied Theories
- Guided independent art projects such as refined still life, simple portrait, theme-based painting, and nature/environment work
- Personal idea development through choosing theme, subject, colour, and arrangement with more intention
- A multi-step art process of observe, plan, sketch, build, refine, and present
Stage 4: Purpose & Application
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Completion discipline through timelines, review, final improvement, and display preparation
- Presentation readiness through mounting, naming the work, and speaking briefly about it
Conceptual Knowledge
- Art with purpose through making for a person, place, message, or occasion
- Reflection and visual language through describing learning, choices, and growth
- Stewardship and joy through recognizing creativity as a gift to develop and share
Applied Theories
- Final capstone project through one or more completed drawings, paintings, or a small body of work
- Mini presentation or showcase through class, parent, or internal academy viewing
- Service and purpose connection through optional gifting, display, or themed presentation work
Materials for Instructions
Core Equipment
- Drawing pencils, erasers, sharpeners, rulers, sketch paper, child-friendly paint sets, palettes, brushes, water containers, easels or drawing boards, and aprons
Teaching Demonstration Materials
- Shape and line demonstration sheets, value scales, colour charts, sample still lifes, and process demonstration pieces
Student Practice Materials
- Sketchbooks or drawing pads, cartridge paper, watercolour or mixed-media paper, beginner paints, colouring tools, brushes, palettes, and simple practice objects
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