Ancient Sinhala Decorative Designs by T. U. de Silva
Grade 9 · ART · Traditional Decorative Art
A scanned copy of T. U. de Silva's book on traditional Sinhala decorative art (fifth edition, Lake House Investments Ltd). It covers a short history of Sinhala art, traditional methods of line drawing and painting, the geometry behind motifs such as pala peti, annasi mal, nelum mal and liya vel, up-country designs, female figures, birds and lions in Sinhala art, Kandyan period wood carving, and how to enlarge a design using a grid.
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"Ancient Sinhala Decorative Designs by T. U. de Silva" is a lesson presentation for Grade 9 Art, filed under Traditional Decorative Art, prepared by Nilmini Jayasekara.
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Slides work best as revision after the lesson rather than instead of it: read the matching pages in the reading book first, then use these to check what you remember. For Grade 9 this is usually a single topic per file.
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