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37. Big Box Painting - KidsART

Students will cover a large cardboard box with butcher paper and masking tape, and then paint it as a group, making up things along the way but collaborating so the box has a theme. Then we finish with artists’ choice in watercolors or oil pastels.

Grades k-2

Week of May 14-18

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement working as a team

Understanding how 3-D art is different than 2-D

Accomplishment in working on a team project

Fulfillment by artists’ choice time

ART WORDS

Collaborate – When artists work together on a team project, we call is collaborating, or a collaborative work. 3-D art (or sculpture) –  Sometimes sculpture is painted. Sometimes it is not. Either way, when an object is art but stands out on it’s own instead of on a wall, it is 3D art.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup (15 minutes)- Artists’ Choice in markers with copy paper 2. It’s a Wrap (10 min) – Wrap boxes with butcher paper 3. Brain Storm (10) – Explain project & come up with ideas 4. Drawing  (10) – Draw guidelines – – – – – – Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions 5. Set Up (10) – Set up for painting 6. Paint! (15) – Have fun painting boxes! 7. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps 8. Artists’ Choice (10) – Early finishers get Artists’ Choice 9. Art Show (5) –  Display box art, have an art show!

PREVIEW

Week 38: Party Animals May 21 – 25

Our last class of the year has students going to an animal party. Using blank masks to pretend they are animals, then everyone finds reference and paints their mask to match a chosen animal. Pretend play and a game take the middle of the class time, and then there is a marker drawing project of animals having a Summertime party.

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36. Lizards & Desert

36. Journal Painting 1

A Desert scene is created using oil pastel resist with watercolors. Then the students will draw and color a lizard using a mock bark-painting technique using kraft paper (brown paper bags) black marker, and oil pastels. They have a choice of placing the lizard cutout on the painting, or leaving it as two separate artworks.

Grades k-2

Week of May 7 - 11

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using reference, watercolors, & oil pastels

Understanding how oil and water resist works

Accomplishment in finishing 2 color artworks

Fulfillment by color and design choices

ART WORDS

Texture – Visual texture is when you make small marks or lines that look a lot like things that have real texture that you feel with your fingers. Lines on a drawing can seem like the ridges on a potato chip, for instance. Resist –  When you put oil pastel on paper and then go over it with watercolor, the oil will push away, or resist the water. This creates a neat effect we’ll use today by making light oil colors and darker watercolors.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup (20 minutes)- Artists’ Choice 2. Draw 2 Parts (10 min) – Draw outlines for the desert 3. Oil Pastel (15) -Add sky and texture with oil pastels – – – – – – Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions 4. Watercolor (15) – Make resist paintings. Display lizard slideshow. 5. Lizard Bark (5) – Students make “bark” out of brown Kraft paper. 6. Lizard Drawings (5) – Draw lizard outline 7. Zen Doodles (15) – Make doodle designs inside the lizard shape 8. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 35: Big Box Painting May 14 – 18

Students will cover a large cardboard box with butcher paper and masking tape, and then they paint it as a group, making up things along the way but collaborating so the box has a theme. Then we finish with artists’ choice in watercolors or oil pastels.

Week 36: Party Animals May 21 – 25

Our last class of the year has students going to an animal party. Using blank masks to pretend they are animals, then everyone finds reference and paints their mask to match a chosen animal. Pretend play and a game take the middle of the class time, and then there is a marker drawing project of animals having a Summertime party.

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36. Journal Painting 1

Combining a sketch, writing, thinking, and painting, all on one canvas, this technique appeals to everyone. Students will draw and sketch on the canvas with their colored pencil (other colors may be used if available, but we use a dark gray that mimics graphite.) Anything can be drawn or written, just like in the page of a journal or sketch book. Washes of color are added for a soft visual effect. This lesson will continue and be finished next week.

Grades 3 - 12

Week of May 7 - 11

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using acrylic paints and composition

Understanding how to combine elements and media in new ways

Accomplishment in creating a sketch/painting combination work

Fulfillment by choice of subjects and personal expression

ART WORDS

Mixed media – using more than one kind of media on one art surface, such as paint, pastels and pencil, and pasted items, such as we’re doing on this project

. Canvas Pencil –  a gray colored pencil. Most colored pencils are wax-based. Black or dark grey mimics a regular graphite pencil but doesn’t mix into paints or stain the canvas like a graphite pencil will. We use Prismacolor Premier Warm Gray 90%

LESSON PLAN

1. Warm Up (15 minutes)- Discussion Time

2. Set Up (10 min) – Get ready for painting, don’t get paints out yet

3. Demo (15 min) – Demo journaling technique

4. Begin (12)- Visualize and collect reference

B R E A K

5. Sketching(25 min) – Students enjoy building sketches

6. Painting (22) – Add color without using white

7. Clean Up(5) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 37: Finish Journal Painting May 14 – 18 Several techniques are used to complete the journal paintings, including adding oil pastels to the final surface if desired. Early finishers get to do some Artists’ choice. Week 38: Group Project! May 21 – 25 A Bunch O’ Boxes project is a fun way to teach collaboration. Everyone must work together as a team and combine a few boxes into a 3D sculpture. It must have a theme, and incorporate everyone’s work on the one object. Classes can be divided into teams of smaller groups so that everyone can work at once. Boxes are gessoed and painted for display all summer or for an art show. It’s also a fun day for an end of year party, however, there is one more lesson for the year if needed.

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35. Creative Collage - Foundations

Students will use pages and clippings from magazines to create collage images that tell a story about themselves. They are also given the choice to work on a detailed pencil drawing with freedom to choose their subject matter.

Grades 3 - 12

Week of April 30 - May 4

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement working on creative composition

Understanding how to think outside of conventional boundaries

Accomplishment in creating original artwork

Fulfillment by self expression in collage or pencil

ART WORDS

Thumbnail – Artists tend to jump right into their work and then modify it over and over because it was not composed before they began. Only by drawing tiny thumbnails (about 1″ across), can you work on the big shapes and the overall design of a piece without getting pulled into the drawing. Once you begin drawing, your mind enters a completely different mode of thinking in details.

Big Shapes – Every work and reference can be divided into just a few very large areas. If an artist works on getting these shapes accurate, then the details can be worked on afterwards without having to modify or begin over.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warm Up (10 minutes)- Students draw from life 2. Describe (15 min) – Explain choices for the day & show pinboards 3. Plan & Practice (15 min) – Students explore ideas. 4. Start the Work (12)-Everyone gets started B R E A K 5. Finish the Work (47 min) – Continue until finished 6. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 36:  Journal Paintings

May 7 – 11

A Journal painting is part sketch book, and part acrylic painting. Students use a colored pencil to draw sketches and add shading, lettering, text, and even pasting items to a canvas. Then paint is applied in glazes at first, allowing the drawings to show through, and finished with some amount of opaque paints and possibly some oil pastels as well.

Week 37: Finish Journal Painting

May 14 – 18

Several interesting techniques are used to complete the journal paintings. Early finishers get Artists’ choice.

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35.  Starry Nights - KidsART

35. Starry Night - KidsART

Students enjoy working with two fun ways to create stars. Realistic star patterns are made by splattering white paint on a dark paper background, and expressive stars are made with thick paint and by copying Van Gogh’s Starry Night. If time, early finishers get to make a star logo for themselves.

Grades k-2

Week of April 30 - May 4

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement painting with deliberate brush strokes and control

Understanding what impasto means and how to use thick paint

Accomplishment by creating a finished work of colorful art

Fulfillment with artist’s choice and fun splattering

ART WORDS

Impasto – Paint that is left thick and pasty on the painting so that you see ridges, globs and brush strokes. You can hear the same kind of word sounds in pasty and impasto.

Technique –  The way you move and work when creating art is what makes an artistic technique. Using a lot of paint and not pressing down with your brush, will leave thick stokes and will create an impasto technique. Using many short brush strokes is a technique that Vincent Van Gogh used.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup (15 minutes)- Artists’ Choice

2. Splatter Scatter (15 min) – Make Realistic Stars

3. Thick Paint (15) – Teach talk on impasto technique

– – – – – –

Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions

4. Painted Swirls (30) – Paint Van Gough swirls on paper

5. Star Logo (10) – Everyone makes their own name and star logo!

6. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 37: Big Box Painting

May 7 – 11

Students will cover a large cardboard box with butcher paper and masking tape, and then they paint it as a group, making up things along the way but collaborating so the box has a theme. Then we finish with artists’ choice in watercolors or oil pastels.

Week 38: Party Animals

May 14 – 18

Our last class of the year has students going to an animal party. Using blank masks to pretend they are animals, then everyone finds reference and paints their mask to match a chosen animal. Pretend play and a game take the middle of the class time, and then there is a marker drawing project of animals having a Summertime party.

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33. Layered Landscape - KidsART

Students will use lots of layers of colored papers to create a wonderful landscape collage. Circles can be stacked for colorful clouds and hills. Cutting and pasting is always a great art project.

Grades k-2

Week of April 16-20

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement choosing and planning color schemes that are expressive, not realistic

Understanding how branches of trees grow and of color schemes

Accomplishment by creating a finished work of colorful art suitable for framing

Fulfillment in choosing their colors and picture

ART WORDS

Concentric – when a shape such as a circle is surrounded by the same shapes in larger versions. All share the same center point. A target is made up of concentric circles. A donut and its hole are concentric circles.

• Color Scheme –  when you have a set of main colors for your art, that is your scheme, or plan. 2, 3 or 4 colors make great color schemes, while only one, or more than five, are not usually as nice to look at.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup (15 minutes)- Artists’ Choice 2. Teach (10 min) – Demo clay tree, talk about branches 3. Color Schemes (5) – Pick colored paper, explain color schemes – – – – – – Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions 4. Sky and Ground (13) – Use long paper to create sky and ground 5.Branching Out (10) – Paint tree. Make branches smaller as they go. 6. Tree Circles (20) – Cut concentric circles, paste to tree 7. Clean Up (2) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 34: Freaky Flowers

April 23 – 27

In this lesson we’ll do several things backwards! Students begin by making their paper gray with charcoal, and then “drawing” light lines using a kneaded eraser. After a fun table-poster, they will draw flowers in pencil, and then use oil pastels – to do the background and leave the flowers white. Finally they’ll finish in the flowers too.

Week 35: Starry Nights

April 30 – May 4

In this lesson the students learn how stars are not orderly but grouped in odd ways. We also use splatters to make stars look more random and natural. Then we look at expressive work and copy the starry night of Vincent Van Gogh in a tempera painting on colored paper.

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33. Mid-tone Still Life - Foundations

Students will create a painting of a still life with shiny colorful peppers. After underpainting, they will fill each object with local color and finish by adding shadows, then light areas, and finally highlights.

Grades 3-12

Week of April 9 - 13

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement mixing opposites to create shadow colors

Understanding an easy technique for painting in acrylics

Accomplishment in finishing a colorful still life

Fulfillment most students will be proud of this work

ART WORDS

ON Shadows – Shading that is ON the dark side of an object, usually with a soft edge where the light side meets the dark side.

OFF Shadows – The shadow underneath or near an object – it is made by the object but not ON it. It is also shaped like a silhouette of the object but may be stretched and/or squashed..

Local Color – The main color of an object if there were no variations, no shadows, and no light areas. For instance, if you had a wooden model of an apple, the local color would be the red color you would use to paint over the wood and turn it into a red apple. If you then made an acrylic painting of this same apple, you would mix many different variations of red, pink, orange, brownish colors and even black, but you could begin by painting it the same local color, red, that you used to paint the wooden model. Then you would add all of the other colors to make it look realistic…

Highlight – A small bright spot on an object that is a reflection of the light source and is white or almost white. On a shiny object it will have a sharp edge but on a soft object it will be fuzzy.

Reflected Light – Light that bounces off of a surface and shines back onto an object, brightening the edge of the ON shadow. Reflected light is very important for showing roundness.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup(15 minutes)- Set up & do an underpainting 2. Practice (20 min) – Create still life in charcoal 3. Draw with Paint(17 min) – Paint guidelines on canvas B R E A K 4. Demo (10 min)- Teach talk and demo 5. Paint (40 min) -Paint still life 6. Clean Up (I2 min) -Everyone help

PREVIEW

Week 34: Finish & Color

April 23 – 27

Everyone should work to finish their mid-tone still life painting, and then if there is time, move into the last color journal of the year – neutrals. Some students will be finished with the journal before class is over, so there is also an exercise for early finishers.

Week 35: Creative Collage

April 30 – May 4

Students will use pages and clippings from magazines to create collage images about themselves. There are two ways to use magazines. 1) Use the colors as small mosaic pieces for creating larger images; 2) Use the photographic images and combine them in new ways. Artists may choose to combine the two methods.

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32. Near and Far - KidsART

To understand the basic idea of drawing from a viewpoint (perspective), artists need to learn how to look. Students are introduced to the ideas of viewpoints using a viewfinder tube (Frame-O-Scope). Then we introduce two artist’s tricks to show near and far. One is demonstrated with circle puppets, and shows how things look farther away if they are smaller, and the other is how things that are closer, are lower on the paper. It’s a great lesson of artistic discovery, and most kids are very excited with the work they do.

Grades k -2

Week of April 9 - 13

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement drawing from looking at real life

Understanding how to draw near and far objects

Accomplishment by using new skills to show depth in drawings

Fulfillment by creating several works of art

ART WORDS

Viewpoint –  The one spot where an artist is sitting or standing and looking at something while drawing it.

Depth – Something artists try to do in their work to make it look like real life, and like some things are near, while other things are far away.

LESSON PLAN

1. WARMUP –15 Minutes – Let students decorate Frame-O-Scopes & Glue 2. FEET OF THE GIANT – 15 Min – Everyone draws “giant feet” . Talk about bird’s eye view. 3. DISCUSS – 5 Min – Talk about feet drawings 4. DEMO – 10 Min – Use prepared blue and orange circle puppets. Learn about depth – – – – – – Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions 5. TRANSITION – 5 Min – Put out toys, pass out sketchbooks 6. PREP & TEACH –10 Min – Show lineart drawings, explain artist tricks for depth 7. EXPRESS – 10 Min – Draw toys 8. EXPRESS SOME MORE! – 18 Min – Draw landscapes using references 9. CLEAN UP –2 Min – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 33: Layered Landscape

April 16 – 20

Students will use lots of layers of colored papers to create a wonderful landscape collage. Circles can be stacked for colorful clouds and hills. Cutting and pasting is always a great art project.

Week 34: Freaky Flowers

April 23 – 27

In this lesson we’ll do several things backwards! Students begin by making their paper gray with charcoal, and then “drawing” light lines using a kneaded eraser. After a fun table-poster, they will draw flowers in pencil, and then use oil pastels – to do the background and leave the flowers white. Finally they’ll finish in the flowers too.

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32. Robots vs Skeletons -Foundations

Students will learn about the skeletal system and how it affects the way an artist draws the human form. There is also a fun game as well as a robot project that helps them understand the proportions of the human figure.

Grades 3 - 12

Week of April 9 - 13

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using proportions of the body

Understanding how the bones fit into and shape the body

Accomplishment from drawing a skeleton and a robot

Fulfillment iby inventing a robot character form

ART WORDS

Proportion – This is how one part is either smaller or larger than another part of the same thing. Proportion is about exactly how MUCH different two parts always are. One example is that your legs are always going to be long enough to cross in front of you so you can sit cross-legged. If you had longer legs in proportion to the rest of you, they wouldn’t fit in front of you! Sometimes cartoons have exaggerated features, like a really large head, or large eyes. That means it is not in proportion realistically. Today we are using realistic proportions.

Redraw – when you trace, you just follow a line, and no matter how well you do, there will always be a difference. If you trace a trace of a trace, the effect will be a drawing that is mushy. It doesn’t look good. Redrawing is much better. When artists redraw, they don’t just follow lines, they draw them fresh. It’s much less important to follow closely than it is to draw well. You do that by thinking about what you are drawing. For instance, if you are drawing a foot, you think about the feel and shape of the whole foot, not just one small tiny bit of line, all by itself.

LESSON PLAN

1. Proportion Game (15 minutes)- Fun drawing game using printout 2. Robot (25 min) – Make pipe-cleaner Robot 3. X-Rays (12 min) – Present bones slideshow, read captions B R E A K 4. Bones 1 (25 min)- Draw skeleton from reference 5. Bones 2 (25 min) -Draw a stick-skeleton guideline from reference 6. Early Finishers (If Time) -Trace robot model and make a cartoon character 7. Clean Up (2 min) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 33: Mid-tone Still Life

April 16 – 20

Students create a still life painting using an acrylic technique that begins with a mid-tone of a warm neutral color. Then they will paint the dark shadows throughout, before finishing with the light areas. It’s a fast and easy method that yields awesome results!

Week 34: Finish & Color Journal

April 23 – 27

Everyone should try to finish their mid-tone still life painting, and then if there is time, move into the last color journal of the year with neutrals.

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31. Treasure Hunt - Foundations

Everyone gets a chance to use learned skills and freedom to choose what to do with an exciting “Treasure Hunt” for different elements of art. It’s also a great day for finishing existing works such as the complimented animals or palette knife paintings.

Grades 3 - 12

Week of April 2 - 6

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement making decisions about artwork

Understanding how an artist combines media and ideas

Accomplishment in finishing up old works

Fulfillment in all kinds of choices today

ART WORDS

Realistic – When a work of art looks as much like real life as possible – reference and one viewpoint is essential to create a realistic work. The most realistic work usually does not have an evident technique, or call attention to the media being used.

• Surrealistic – When a realistic work shows something that would be impossible in real life.

• Expressive – A work of art where the artist shows off their technique and materials instead of trying to make them invisible.

LESSON PLAN

1.SetUp(5minutes)-Setup for paint- watercolor or acrylics 2. Work in Progress (45 min) -Finish works in progress, or Artists’ Choice 3. Clean Up (2 min) – Put away finished paintings

BREAK

4. Treasure Hunt (40 min)- Treasure Hunt PDF 5. Expression in word (10 min) – Write small note about their works 6.Clean Up (2 min) – Everyone Helps

PREVIEW

Week 32: Robots & Skeletons

April 9 – 13

Students will learn about the skeletal system and how it affects the way an artist draws people. There is also a fun robot project using pipe cleaners and foil that helps them understand the proportions of the human figure.

Week 33: Mid-tone Still Life

April 16 – 20

Students create a still life painting using an acrylic technique that begins with a mid-tone of a warm neutral color. Then they will paint the dark shadows throughout, before finishing with the light areas. It’s a fast and easy method that yields awesome results!

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31. Stacked Up Art - KidsART

Students will make an art sculpture by cutting and pasting to create a 3D stack of shapes and color. They’ll be using paper they’ve colored and drawing on themselves. They’ll also have time for a fun artist game today.

Grades k-2

Week of April 2 - 6

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using scissors & glue, and planning

Understanding how visual texture is made

Accomplishment in making 3-D artwork

Fulfillment self-expression in color and shape

ART WORDS

3-D Art – Artwork that is not flat. Sculpture is 3-D, which stands for 3 dimensions. Paper only has 2 dimensions, until you stack it up or fold it.

Texture – Real texture is when you can feel bumps or ridges on something with your fingers. Visual texture is when a surface in a drawing or painting looks like things that have real texture. One way to do this is by making many small marks all over an area on your artwork.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warm Up (15 minutes)- Artists choice 2. Crazy Demo (5 min) -Demo Crazy Creature 3. Crazy Creature (10 min) – Drawing game 4. Textures (15 min)- Choose colored paper & make patterns & textures. B R E A K 5. Spring Time (10 min) – use 2 fans to cut into springs 6. Base & Level 1 (15 min) – Glue paper to cardboard base. Then cut first shape an attach springs to both objects. 7. Level Up- Keep making smaller and smaller shapes and attaching 8. Early finishers – If Time – Color your crazy creature with markers 9. Clean Up (5 min) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 32: Near and Far

April 9 – 13

To understand the basic idea of drawing from a viewpoint (perspective), artists need to learn how to look. Students are introduced to the ideas of viewpoints and then cover up one eye and use their table to see how the horizon edge is behind a toy figure instead of beneath it. The idea of near and far also shows students how drawing small makes things look like they are farther away. It’s a great lesson of artistic discovery, and most kids are very proud of the work they do.

Week 33: Layered Landscape

April 16 – 20

Students will use lots of layers of colored papers to create a wonderful landscape. Circles can be stacked for colorful clouds and hills.

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30. Colors Under the Knife - Foundations

Continuing with painting, students will learn how to use the palette knife technique before working on a landscape. There are specific colors that must be mixed and used side by side. This helps artists see how expanding your colors to several variations enhances the final painting.

Grades k-2

Week of March 19 - 23

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using a palette knife with acrylics

Understanding how colors look best when there are variations

Accomplishment in creating a loose painting technique

Fulfillment by choice of subject

ART WORDS

Harmony – When a work of art has different areas that still look like they go together, it looks like it has visual harmony. One way to make this work is to use some of the same colors in all the areas.

Split color – When a color is split, you choose the colors on either side of it on a color star or color wheel. Red is split to Red-orange and Magenta. Yellow-green becomes Yellow and Green.

Scumble – Any technique that uses a layer of opaque paint over other paint, that is broken up in bits and pieces so that the under layer shows through. Using a very light touch is essential for a scumbled look.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warm Up (10 minutes)- Charcoal sketches on large paper of chosen reference photo. 2. Prepare(5 min) -Setup for acrylic painting 3. Guidelines (5 min) – Use the canvas pencil to create guidelines 4. Air Knife (2 min)- Practice palette knife painting 5. Slideshows(10 min) – Color Splitting 6. Split Colors (5 min) – Make own sky colors 7. Paint the Sky (10 min) – Patches of Colors 8. Scumble (5 min) – Use Palette Knife to mix colors

BREAK

9. Continue Art (40) – Continue creating colors 10. Final Scumbling (7) – Use palette knife, make more harmony 11. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps!

PREVIEW

Week 31: Artists’ Choice

April 2 – 6

Everyone gets a chance to use learned skills and freedom to choose what to do. It’s also a great day for finishing existing works such as the complimented animals or palette knife paintings.

Week 32: Robots & Skeletons

April 9 – 13

Artists learn proportions of the body and how the skeletal system affects the way we look. Understanding what the bones are doing inside the body helps us draw more accurately.

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30. Self Portrait Collage - KidsART

Students will use magazines and catologs, as well as their own picture, to make a cut and paste collage. They will use lots of smaller pictures to create a new picture of themselves in a fun place they’d like to go.

Grades k-2

Week of March 19 - 23

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement designing, & working with collage

Understanding how to cut easily

Accomplishment in making an awesome picture

Fulfillment because it’s a self-portrait of their own design

ART WORDS

Contrast – When things are different from each other they have high contrast. Black is very dark, so on a white paper, black has a lot of contrast. Low contrast is when two colors are both the same as far as light and dark, if you have a really light blue, and a really light orange, they won’t have much contrast even though the color blue is very different from orange.

Montage –  Using lots of pictures together in a group, that creates a picture all together.

LESSON PLAN

.

Warmup

(20 minutes)- Artists’ Choice & photoshoot

2.

Color Dancing

(5 min) - Color dance with 3 bright oil pastels & colored paper

3.

Demo & Practice

(10) - Review scissor cutting methods & practice

4.

Choices

(10) - Provide face prints & magazine pages

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Break - end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions

5.

Demo

(5) - Show how to glue collage

6.

Cut & Paste

(25) - Make artwork!

7.

Finish

(10) - Early finishers help clean up or make 2nd collage

8.

Clean Up

(5 min) - Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 31: Stacked Up Art

Students will make an art sculpture by cutting and pasting to create a 3D stack of shapes and color. They’ll be using paper they’ve colored and drawing on themselves. They’ll also have time for a fun artist game today.

Week 32: Near & Far

To understand the basic idea of drawing from a viewpoint (perspective), artists need to learn how to look. Students are introduced to the ideas of viewpoints and then cover up one eye and use their table to see how the horizon edge is behind a toy figure instead of beneath it. The idea of near and far also shows students how drawing small makes things look like they are farther away. It’s a great lesson of artistic discovery, and most kids are very proud of the work they do.

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29. Bones & Bodies - KidsART

Students will have tons of fun creating a full-body selfie in markers. Then they learn all about the skeleton and body proportions, with an interactive art project using oil pastels, markers, cut paper and interchangeable parts that reveal the bones in the body

Grades k-2

Week of March 12 - 16

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using pastels, scissors, and visualization

Understanding the proportions of the body

Accomplishment in making a very cool interactive project

Fulfillment by making a self portrait and expressive designs

ART WORDS

Proportion – This is how one part is either smaller or larger than another part of the same thing. Proportion is about exactly how MUCH different two parts always are. One example is that your legs are always going to be long enough to cross in front of you so you can sit cross-legged. If you had longer legs in proportion to the rest of you, they wouldn’t fit in front of you! Sometimes cartoons have exaggerated features, like a really large head, or large eyes. That means it is not in proportion realistically. Today we are using realistic proportions.

Interactive artwork – Sometimes art can be something that the person looking at it can change. This is called interactive artwork. You’re going to make some interactive work today.

LESSON PLAN

1.

Warmup

(20 minutes)- Artists’ Choice and Photo Shoot

2.

Art Selfie

(15 min) – Provide body printouts

3.

Introduction

(10) – Bones Slideshow

– – – – – –

Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions

4.

Dem Bones!

(10) – Create base of interactive art & add bones

5.

Expressive People

(15) – Make second person, this time with patterns

6.

People Pocket

(8) – Staple paper to make pocket & place people

7.

Finish it Up

(10) – Add Backgrounds & Finish

8.

Clean Up

(2) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 30: Self Portrait Collage

Students will use magazines and catologs, as well as their own picture, to make a cut and paste collage. They will use lots of smaller pictures to create a new picture of themselves in a fun place they’d like to go.

Spring Break

March 26 - 30

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29. Complemented Finish - Foundations

This week everyone will continue on their animal paintings using the complementary color schemes and mixing opposites for shadow colors. Paintings should be finished this week. There is a fun drawing in the round game for early finishers.

Grades 3- 12

Week of March 12 - 16

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using acrylic paint & mixing colors

Understanding how complements create darker and duller colors

Accomplishment in finishing a painting

Fulfillment from choosing colors & animal subject

ART WORDS

Complementary color scheme – When colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel or star, they make a nice visual color scheme.

Opposites mixing – Perfect pigment opposites (using the color star) will create duller and darker colors when mixed.

LESSON PLAN

1. Set Up (7 minutes)-  Practice animal drawings from reference 2. Painting (30 min) – Students work on complement animal paintings 3. As They Finish…(5) – As they finish practice palette knife paintings B R E A K 4. Complete Painting (35) -Everyone works to complete their painting 5. Crazy Creatures (15) – Early Finishers can form groups for a drawing game 6. Artists’ Choice (Extra) – Any extra time may be filled with Artists’ Choice 7. Clean Up! (2) -Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 30: Colors Under the Knife

Continuing with painting, Students will learn how to use the palette knife painting technique before working on a landscape. There are specific colors that must be mixed and used side by side. This helps artists see how expanding your colors to several variations enhances the final painting.

Spring Break

March 26 - 30

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28. Different Drawings- KidsART

Different Drawings

Students learn about 2 important, yet different types of drawing: expressive work from memory, and more realistic work using observation. The main point is that these are both valid directions to take, but that they don’t tend to mix well in one piece of art. Other work involves layering oil pastels in a contest and then using the technique on an animal drawing they made earlier using observation.

Grades K-2

Week of March 5 - 9

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement in drawing and blending oil pastels

Understanding how memory drawing is different than observation

Accomplishment in drawing an animal using observation

Fulfillment by having personal choices throughout the projects today

ART WORDS

Cheasel – A cardboard stand for holding up reference. Any copy stand will work.

Observation Drawing –  Drawing realistically by looking closely and often at your subject.

Reference Image – Any photo that is used for observation drawing or painting.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warmup (15 minutes)- Artists’ Choice 2. Insight (10 min) – Explain different types of art

3. Memory Drawing (5) – Draw house from memory

4. Space Pastels (15) – Slide show of planets

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Break – end of part one if dividing into 2 sessions

5. Realistic Drawing (10) – Photo reference of animals

6. Layer Cakes (15) – Practice pastel layering

7. Animal Layers (5) – Layering pastels on animal drawings

8. Clean Up (5) – Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 29: Bones & Bodies

Students will have tons of fun creating a full-body selfie in markers. Then they learn all about the skeleton and body proportions, with an interactive art project using oil pastels, markers, cut paper and interchangeable parts that reveal the bones in the body.

Week 30: Self Portrait Collage

Using photos of themselves that were made the week before, students will have a blast cutting and pasting photos from magazines and catalogs, and adding in their own faces to make a picture.

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Complemented Animals - Foundations

Complemented Animal

Complementary colors are used for a 2-week project: a colorfully expressive animal painting in acrylics on canvas. Students will choose an animal, draw it, and will then use expressive complementary colors to paint a bright and unusual work. The colors may be natural complements, such as a brown (orange) animal and a blue sky, or unnatural complements, such as a red and green zebra.

Grades 3--5

Week of March 5 - 9

OBJECTIVES

Practice and improvement using acrylic paints on canvas

Understanding how to use color schemes in artwork

Accomplishment in creating an animal painting

Fulfillment by choosing subject and design elements

ART WORDS

Complementary colors – Any two colors that are on the opposites sides of a color wheel. There are 2 reasons for pairing opposite colors.

Perfect opposite pigments will dull and darken each other. Use them together to create vibrant shadow colors. The ArtSquish Color Star helps to find perfect opposites. See the PDF in Step 3.

Generally opposite visual colors tend to look good together. This is a complementary color scheme.

Guide Lines – Drawing very lightly, and without details or shading, allows an artist to erase, modify, and define the biggest shapes as a guide for where to paint. Using what we call a canvas pencil (colored pencil that is dark gray), we don’t have the problem of messy graphite mixing with our colors or staining the canvas surface.

LESSON PLAN

1. Warm Up(25 minutes)-  Practice animal drawings from reference 2. Steps for Painting (10 min) – Painting tips 3. Complements(5) – Teacher talk 4. Color Practice (12) -Small color study with oil pastels Break 5. Setup (5) – Create a neat work area 6. Guide Lines (10) – Big shapes with canvas pencil 7. Art! (35) -Paint 8. Clean Up (5) Everyone helps

PREVIEW

Week 29: Complementary Finish

This week everyone will continue on their animal paintings using the complementary color schemes and mixing opposites for shadow colors. Paintings should be finished this week. There is a fun drawing in the round game for early finishers

Week 30: Colors Under the Knife

Continuing with painting, Students will learn how to use the palette knife painting technique before working on a landscape. There are specific colors that must be mixed and used side by side. This helps artists see how expanding your colors to several variations enhances the final painting.