Since ancient times, people have tried to make the world more beautiful around themselves. Therefore, they adorned everything that surrounded them: the walls of the dwellings, clothes, household items. The simplest were the patterns on the dishes, consisting of repeating geometric shapes, segments, dots. Gradually, plant elements symbolically close to geometric elements began to interweave in the ornaments.
Geometric ornaments on dishes
Ornaments are drawings in which one (main) part is repeated. Typically, patterns on dishes have ornaments in a strip that either surround jugs, glasses, vases, or circle the edges of plates, saucers, trays, bowls, pots, and other kitchen utensils.
However, today the art of decorating dishes has stepped far forward. Artists painting plates and services no longer want to be limited only to geometric ornaments. Such a technique as bas-reliefs, when decorating dishes, is used together with patterns in a strip. Thus, it becomes clear that the patterns on the dishes are made not only by paints.
The plot painting of dishes
Everyone knows the “Shepherdess” coffee sets, painted with plot pictures of a romantic date between a nobleman and a young shepherdess - each item is painted differently from the others, illustrating one of the plot of the meeting. Patterns on the dishes “Shepherdess” in the form of a geometric ornament can be seen only at the edges of the cups and saucers. This method of painting is used today by many companies, famous modern brands that make dishes.
Designing in the second grade
Today, the curriculum often uses such a teaching method as designing. For example, second-graders in a mathematics lesson are offered the following project: “Patterns on dishes and ornaments: shape, alternation of elements, the rule of their arrangement one after another”.
First, the student must define the words “pattern”, “ornament”, “geometric shapes”, “bas-relief”. Then it is explained what ornaments can be.
Outlining the material further, children distinguish patterns from combinations of dots and solid, zigzag or curvy lines. Describing certain patterns on dishes, photos of which are provided in the project, the child notes whether they are made with paints or have the appearance of a bas-relief.
Master class in the project
You can also include in the project a master class on decorating dishes with geometric patterns. To do this, you need a camera and didactic material: a paper circle imitating a plate, and multi-colored geometric shapes: circles, triangles, rhombs, squares.
- 1 photo should capture all the material prepared for work.
- 2 photos - the first step, for example, sticking diamonds on a plate at the same distance from each other.
- 3 photos - the second step, for example, the location between the rhombuses of the circles.
- 4 photos - the third step, during which the distribution is made between the circles of triangles.
- 5 photos can be the final one, on which the final product is captured - a finished decorated plate.
Since the patterns on the dishes can be in the form of solid lines (straight, waved or zigzags), it is appropriate to use this method of painting in the master class.
Under each photo in the master class you need to make an exhaustive description of the action performed.