5th Grade Portrait Drawing

5th Grade students learned the basics in proportion and placement of features related to portrait drawing. This was a mini lesson that was the precursor to the wire portrait project. Students were asked to draw a portrait first without any instruction, then we drew on together, step-by-step. The improvement in their drawings was amazing!

5th Grade Wire Portraits

Lesson Objectives—Students will be able to....

• Identify who Alexander Calder is and two artworks he has created.
• Identify what a self-portrait is.
• Create a self-portrait drawing with incorrect proportions using simple outlines of features.
• Create a self-portrait drawing with correct proportions using simple outlines of features.
• Create a simple wire portrait using Twisteez wire.

Click here to see the full album of Wire Portraits on Artsonia.

 

 

 

 

6th Grade Graffiti Name Design

Lesson Objectives—Students will be able to....

• Identify street art.
• Identify the difference between graffiti and murals.
• Explain why illegal graffiti is not acceptable.
• Identify the graffiti ‘style’.
• Create a brick background using sponge stamping.
• Create a name ‘tag’ design using bubble letters in a selected style.
• Apply a 3D shadow behind name.
• Apply a set of analogous colors creatively inside the ‘tag’ with oil pastels.
• (optional) Apply splatters of paint with matching analogous colors to name on top of project.

Click here to see the full gallery of Graffiti Name Designs on Artsonia.

 

  

 

  

 

 

5th Grade Paper Molas

Lesson Objectives—Students will be able to....

• Identify a Mola and recall basic information about how the Kuna Indians create them.
• Select an animal that symbolizes personality traits of your choice.
• Use simple shapes to draw a contour line outline of an animal.
• Identify analogous and complementary color schemes.
• Apply an analogous color scheme inside the focal point of your mola  using oil pastels and blending.
• Sew a simple running stitch around the outside of the mola focal point.
• Create an abstract design using complementary colors with oil pastel for the background of the mola.

Click here to see the full gallery of Paper Molas on Artsonia.

 

 

 

6th Grade Radial Color Wheels

Lesson Objectives—Students will be able to....

• Identify and create a design with radial symmetry.
• Identify the primary colors and mix those to create the secondary and intermediate colors.
• Identify what a hue is.
• Identify and create tints and shades of various colors.
• Neatly paint a radial design as a color wheel with a hue, tint, and shade in the 12 colors of a color wheel.
• Modify an image of the color wheel using the apps Wordfoto and Percolator.

View the entire gallery of student work on Artsonia here.