Grade 9 feature articles
In-depth articles and study notes tagged for this grade.
Understanding the Colour Wheel: Primary, Secondary and Complementary Colours
Every colour decision you make in an art paper comes back to the colour wheel. Here is how it is built, what each group of colours does, and how to use it in your own work.
4 min readComposition: Arranging a Picture That Holds Together
Two students can draw the same scene equally well and get very different marks. The difference is usually composition - where things sit on the page, and what the eye does when it arrives.
3 min readHow to Set Up and Draw a Still Life
A still life is marked on how well you observed, not on how many objects you fitted in. This walks through choosing the objects, arranging them, and working from first block-in to finished colour.
4 min readTraditional Sri Lankan Motifs: Liyavel, Nelum and the Creature Forms
The same handful of motifs runs through temple murals, brass work, textiles and school design briefs. Knowing how each one is built makes design work far quicker and far more convincing.
4 min readWatercolour for Beginners: Washes, Water and Working Light to Dark
Watercolour is unforgiving in one specific way - you cannot paint light over dark. Everything else about the medium follows from that one rule.
3 min read