Art Quarter Unit:
Elements of Art
We will be covering line, shape, space, value, form, texture, and color.
Day 1
Warmup: Do you consider yourself a good artist? Why or why not?
Discuss
What is art?
Turn and share/discuss
Pictionary game: each team sends up one artist, all draw the same on the board, first team to guess gets a point:
Exit slip: does being good at pictionary make you a good artist why or why not? Share
Day 2:
Warm up How does art affect your life? Pair and share
Classroom expectations, supplies
My Letter 9 block activity
Day 3: warm up
Why was drawing a self-portrait difficult?
Finish self portrait
Day 4: Predict what are the 7 elements of art.
Elements video and notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPIbqDFLI8
Day 5: Describe one element of art we went over yesterday.
Continue with element of art notes
Day 6: Describe one element of art we went over yesterday.
Color group notes on butcher paper: what do you already know
Go over color notes
Start watercolor on color wheel
Day 7: What is a secondary color?
Continue painting color wheel
Let dry
Free sketch practice
Day 8: what is a tertiary color?
Color pencil “types of colors top ½ of worksheet
Color Wheel with tempera paints. Label the primary, secondary, and tertiary. Discuss use and clean up of paints. Stress they can only use the primary to mix the rest of the colors.
Day 9 What problems are you having while creating the secondary and tertiary colors.
Finish color wheels
Free sketch
Day 10 Predict: what is a complementary color?
Types of color ws read bottom ½ and do back
Color schemes note
Day 11 How do you make a tint? A shade?
Tint, shade, hue rose
Day 12: What is “reduced intensity”?
Finish rose activity
animal free sketch
Day 13: Get rose, scissors, cut carefully to create class bouquet
Divide vase handout into 5 sections using a ruler. Create patterns on the vase. Color vase using some of the color ideas we've talked about in class so far.
Day 14: name the complementary colors for blue, red, yellow.
Finish vase, cut, glue rose, put on bulletin board free scetch
Day 15 whats the difference between an organic shape and a geometric shape
Complementary color animal portrait
Day 16 what’s your favorite color and why?
Finish complementary color animal portrait
Day 17
List what emotions you think go with the following colors: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple
Colors and emotion video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItNMWHYZVI
Warm and cool color still life
Day 18: what do you think Pop Art is?
Roy Litchenstein background and images
Pop art mini
Day 18 why do you think popart relies so heavily on the 3 primary colors?
Complete pop art mini, turn in
Watch: is your red the same as my red?
Pop art inspired by popular culture
DAy 19 What is the most fun aspect of popart to you?
Continue with Pop art inspired by pop culture
Day 20 Describe a scavenger hunt
Color scavenger hunt
Day 22-25 paper towel art
Day 26 Zen Art with listening to chrome books
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/arts-culture/zentangle
Day 27 zen art make your own with zen music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqu0GoomXjI
Intro to lines
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPzwGkL8zY
How to hold your pencil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPzwGkL8zY
Read and activity
Lines show emotion ws
Day 29
Contour drawing: safety glasses
Repeating lines ws
Day 30
Repeated line design large scale with color
Day 31
Contour lines hand prints
Day 31-36
zen doodles
Worksheets
Snake
Monogram
Day 37
Jackson Pollock bio
Landscape contour drawing with color
Day 37
About shape and form in art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMr6eimcolc
Portraits:
Prezi
https://prezi.com/g2vb_1xwfxjk/8th-grade-portrait-project/
http://artfulartsyamy.blogspot.com/2011/11/lesson-plan-lichtenstein-pop-art-self.html