Radial Design Art Ideas – I wanted to share this idea with you because not only is it a great lesson for any classroom, but the results are amazing! We had an Arabic calligrapher visit the 6th and 7th class students. All the children practiced writing their names and in the next art lesson they were ready to work on their blanks which would later become the radial design.
The steps were simple: divide your portion into three parts. The upper part of your name in English, a large middle part in Arabic for your name using a technique taught by the calligrapher, and the lower part for a geometric design.
Radial Design Art Ideas
Each part was brightly colored using pencils, crayons and markers. Once the piece was finished, it was copied eight times in color.
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Finally, each student arranged all of their pieces and when they all came together, there was a bang! If you’ve ever played Kaleidoscope and loved the way it creates new designs every time, this was a similar experience. Each plate was glued and the resulting image was glued onto the colored plate to bring out the color.
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Radial Balance Square
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These steps were used to create interesting and varied radial designs on paper plates for our simple model magic painting. Now kids can use these steps to make their own radial designs on plates, circle paper, or any other circular material (like cardboard).
Drawings In Radial Symmetry
Balance is one of the art principles of design. The best way to explain to children is to think about it. They understand that if the adult is on one side and the child is on the other, it will not balance.
Now you can relate it to art by saying what if the big man in the picture is only red. Will that create a balance? When artists create balance, they try not to let some parts of the art cover other parts. In this case, red will be too strong and will not create balance.
Symmetry helps create balance through repetition on the page. Moreover, the radial symmetry is centered. Radial symmetry can be seen in natural and man-made objects and artifacts.
You can certainly use this radial symmetry drawing tutorial on your own. However, we used this plate design in our Model Magic graphic design project. If you’re not using this plate for a project, feel free to add color to make it your own. You can turn this image into mandala art.
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Before making a plate, students need to understand that they will only be making black and white. If not, the kids will surely ask, why don’t I use color?
Step 3: Turn the plate over and draw another line dividing it in half again. Don’t be afraid to talk about fractions. We love when art and math go together!
Step 4: Rotate the plate to see the “X”. Again draw a line touching the point. Rotate the plate to complete the guide so there are 8 equal areas.
Step 5: Start designing the plate. If you draw a shape or line in one triangle, you must repeat it in each triangle.
Origami Radial Designs
Step 6: Encourage children to add thick lines and colors in different shapes to create different variations of their radial design.
Step 7: Each child can draw their plate like this, then outline with a sharpie pen.
Encourage children to create variations in their plate designs by adding color to other shapes or adding color to the negative space (the area around the shapes) of their final design.
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Radial Symmetry Printmaking
This art lesson is intended to help children understand the concept of radial symmetry. Your results won’t be 100% perfect, but you’ll still have a great image.
As a former art teacher, artist, and mom, Erin knows how important it is to express your creativity. Even young children can enjoy the process of making pictures with their families. Last year I made circles to teach my 4th graders about radial symmetry, but this year I wanted to draw them (for their Square 1 art project.). So to start this lesson I showed the following video clip (we watch at 2:20) to give the students an idea of what a mandala is.
After watching the first video clip I switch to the next video which shows a Tibetan monk making a sand mandala (something mentioned in the first video). We watch the first few minutes.. then I move on with another part in the middle and finally we finish with the monks sweeping their images and bringing lots of water to throw them.
My students love this video! The fact that pictures are made by slowly pouring sand. added Explore.
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But the biggest reaction I get is when the nuns start sweeping their pictures – “NOOOOO! What are they doing?!?!”
Then, I quickly show my students a PowerPoint that shows the difference between linear symmetry and radial symmetry. After doing that I’ll show you how to make your own mandala (sorry guys – not with sand).
Once the students drew the pencil lines, I had them trace their lines with a Sharpie. Then use a marker to draw it.
Abstract Advocate Architecture Art Club Art Game Art Show Autumn Centers Cityscape Room Color Management Integrating Depth Flower Foil Foil GAEA Format Holiday Landscape Line Literacy Monster Multicultural NAEA Education Non-Objective C Education Day One Owl Perspective Model Pop Art Radial Symmetry Self-Shaping Science Social Integration Studies space spring still life street style portrait symmetry texture Contrast Quality Color Schemes Warm/Cool Winter Writing Combinations Radial Symmetry is an exceptionally rewarding project for middle school students. Even basic designs are repeated in ways that produce eye-catching results. My impression is of type printed using foam printing plates – easily applied with a ballpoint pen – and a mixed oil pastel background. To add the “wow” factor, I also gave my students the option to cut out parts of their printing plate, revealing most of the colored paper. We printed with Speedball brand water-based printing ink, which cleans up easily with just warm water.
Radial Symmetry Prints On Oil Pastel
If you want to try this with your students, you can find my INSTRUCTION PACKET or read on to see pictures in action of all the steps in this lesson. Be sure to check out the bonus project options at the bottom of this post – great for your first finishers or your superstars!
Getting Started: Students begin by making an even design on a 6” square of folded paper. By folding the paper in half diagonally, and drawing on one side only, they completed the picture using a light table, leaving half of the folded unit empty. Symmetry at the same time!
Next, students transferred their image to a foam printing plate. That’s a lot of steps that require patience and precision! See the instruction packet linked above for more information on how to do this successfully. Once the printing plate was complete, each student and I discussed what parts of their design they wanted to cut out, and I finished this job with an Xacto knife.
Once there was a printing plate