Drawing and Painting Bootcamp
- Description
- Curriculum
- Reviews
The Drawing & Painting Bootcamp is a practical creative arts training designed to help children and young people discover, develop and express their artistic abilities through drawing and painting.
Learners progress from basic mark-making, lines, shapes and colour exploration to observation drawing, shading, composition, painting techniques, creative illustration and original artwork.
The training emphasizes learning by doing, with learners creating individual and group artworks, participating in creative challenges, documenting their progress and presenting their completed work through exhibitions and portfolios.
The Bootcamp is designed to complement Kenya’s Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach by developing creativity, imagination, communication, collaboration, self-efficacy, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Bootcamp Goal
To equip learners with practical drawing and painting skills while nurturing creativity, observation, imagination, self-expression, confidence, artistic appreciation and entrepreneurial awareness.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Bootcamp, learners should be able to:
- Explain the meaning and importance of drawing and painting.
- Identify common drawing and painting materials and tools.
- Demonstrate safe and responsible use of art materials.
- Use lines, shapes and forms to create drawings.
- Demonstrate basic sketching techniques.
- Use proportion and scale in drawing.
- Apply shading to create light and dark effects.
- Create the illusion of three-dimensional form.
- Understand basic colour theory.
- Mix and apply colours effectively.
- Create simple compositions.
- Draw objects from observation.
- Create nature, landscape and imaginative drawings.
- Explore portrait and figure drawing at an age-appropriate level.
- Apply different painting techniques.
- Develop original artworks.
- Critique and improve their own work
- Create an individual creative arts portfolio.
- Display and present artwork confidently.
- Understand how artwork can be developed into products and creative enterprise opportunities.
