5th Grade 'Tags'- Street Art/ Graffiti Art Name Project

Objective(s)—SWBAT (Students will be able to)…

• Identify the difference between graffiti and murals.
• Explain why/where graffiti is legal and where it is not.
• Locate analogous colors on the color wheel.
• Recognize which elements of art will be used in the tag design.
• Design at least 3 different tag designs using fonts.
• Color the name design neatly using one direction of coloring marks.
• Blend analogous colors on tag design with colored pencils.
• Differentiate between primary, secondary, and intermediate colors.

Fifth graders are wrapping up a project where they created 'tags'. They learned about graffiti as an art form (and had an extensive discussion about how it is typically illegal except for in certain cities walls are designated as legal graffiti walls). We looked at legal graffiti or street art and learned that tags are how artists sign their names in a very artistic way. Students drew sketches in various styles of fonts to see which they liked best or which they felt represented them. They chose one style and drew it larger on good drawing paper.

Next, students learned about analogous colors, chose an analogous color scheme that they liked, learned to blend colors of colored pencils, talked about coloring neatly in one direction, and finally outlined their names with sharpie. Their projects look fantastic. :O

'Tag' example