Monday, February 28, 2011

P.S.19 3rd-5th grade - painting

Lesson 1 – painting with black and white tempera

Previous learning to build on - PS19 students have not had art this year, but may have prior experience painting

Activity – students will create paintings using black and white tempera paint.

Objectives – Students will learn how to make different marks using their brushes in several ways. They will become familiar with tempera paint, understand concepts such as, parallel, symmetrical, pattern, representational vs. abstract, layering. They will learn to create different shades of grey mixing black and white.

Materials & Resources : black and white tempera paint, palettes, brushes, 18x12 paper, water in containers.
Resources: Kandinsky paintings or watercolors with variety of uses of marks. (printed in black and white)

Procedure – Introduction/Discussion & Demonstration (10 minutes)
Ask students about their experience with paint…have they used tempera paint? Can they tell you anything about it. Show students example of a Kandinsky painting. Ask students to describe what they see… Discuss how many different themes/lines/brushstrokes, and representation vs. abstract.
Describe today’s activity and demonstrate making a painting…showing how to hold brush and clean properly, and asking students to help you create different tones, marks, brushstrokes, layering details on dry paint. Show how water can affect...opaque vs. transparent.

Art Making - (45 minutes)
Students will make their paintings. Encourage them to use variety of tones, lines.





















Reflection – (15 minutes)
Do a walk around the tables together looking at work, have students share and discuss ask each other about aspects of their work. Could discuss foreground and background if any students have included them.

Lesson 2
– painting with color tempera

Previous learning to build on - students previously painted using only black and white

Activity – Students will color mix and create paintings using color paint.

Objectives – Students will review/build on what they worked on last week. They will understand primary and secondary colors and color mixing.

Materials & Resources : brushes, white, black, blue, yellow, red tempera paint, palletes, 18x12inch paper, water in containers.
Resources: students’ work from last week, color wheel, Mondrian broadway boogie woogie and/or Paul Klee castle

Procedure – Introduction/Discussion & Demonstration (10 minutes)
Ask students to recall what they did last week. Can review/look at a student's painting to help discuss. Introduce today’s lesson, painting with color tempera paint. Show students broadway boogie or castle by Paul Klee. How does the color effect the painting.
Ask students about their experience color mixing. Demonstrate (asking students if they can help you) mixing primary colors to create secondary colors on palette or directly on paper. Have students help you come with several techniques of mark making.

Art Making - (45 minutes)
Students will create their paintings. Can have students mix secondary colors before letting them start on paper.
















Reflection – (15 minutes)
Do a walk around the tables together looking at work, have students share and discuss ask each other about aspects of their work. Can ask them about their color choices and how they made them, what was most difficult for them, how they might do it differently next time.

Lesson 3
– landscape tree paintings

Previous learning to build on - students have now painted and color mixed with tempera paints

Activity – students will begin creating paintings of trees in a landscape. They will incorporate color while thinking about what type of weather they want to portray in their painting. They can start by doing quick studies of different weather patterns

Objectives – Students will use the skills they have learned in the previous lessons to create and describe their subjects.

Materials & Resources : brushes, tempera paint, palettes, 18x12inch paper, water in containers. Smaller divided paper for studies.
Resources: images of trees. Artists who have painted trees…Mondrian again, Van Gogh

Procedure – Introduction/Discussion & Demonstration (10 minutes)
Ask class to review what they did last class. Introduce today’s lesson. Show class a tree by Mondrian. How does the color describe the mood, weather of subject.
Have class name some different types of weather. Demonstrate divided paper in 4 sections painting different types of weather…cold, rainy, snowy…tornado…etc… How can brushstrokes and color be used to describe weather?
Have students do quick studies of weather (10 minutes) on their own and then re-group to demo again. Describe again today’s lesson - painting trees in a landscape. Demo painting a tree and its climate, discuss foreground and background (scale) demo painting details using a small brush to describe tree and adding color to further describe its setting. Leave examples of trees and artists trees for students to use as reference.

Art Making - (45 minutes)
Students will begin their landscape tree paintings after their weather studies. Encourage/help them to use appropriate size brushes and using color with their theme.
















Reflection – (15 minutes)
start next class with reflection.

Lesson 4
– finishing landscape tree paintings.

Previous learning to build on - students began their paintings last class.

Activity – students will finish work on their paintings.

Objectives – Students will understand and make choices about how color can effect and describe their landscape/tree paintings

Materials & Resources : paintings from last class, brushes, palettes, tempera paint, water in containers.
Resources: same as last class, student work, a finished painting done beforehand by teacher.

Procedure – Introduction/Discussion & Demonstration (10 minutes)
Start class by showing/sharing student work from last class. Have students recall what they did and how they did it and think about what they are going to do this class. Review foreground and background. Demonstrate again adding details to further describe your tree and its surroundings/climate.

Art Making - (45 minutes)
Students will continue painting their landscapes/trees.









































Reflection – (15 minutes)
Do a gallery walk, encourage questions about how they described their tree and weather using brushstrokes and color.

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