Lesson 1
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Class Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience abstract art through observation and manipulating the muti-media to create abstract forms in trading cards.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Understand the purpose and how to create artist trading card
2) Understand that personalize themes can be incorporated in artwork
3) Recognize that abstraction can happen by altering images and shapes
4) Produce art with non traditional material
Materials:
· Card stock paper
· Pencil/ erasers
· Newspapers
· Magazines- flyers- old post cards, pictures or greeting cards
· Scissors
· Glue sticks (1 per student)
· Other material ribbon, yarn, string and q-tips (anything else with texture)
Activity 1
Students will reflect on posted paintings on the smart board, we will discuss as a class to start.
What is the subject of this picture and what materials were used to make it?
What effects does using the different mediums (text, print and solid colors) have on this composition?
What else could you add or remove to this Painting?
· We will look various cards found online or with exemplars on the smart board, and we will look at the gallery and see various cards from other countries and some Canadian cards.
· As a class we will discuss what makes and effective trading card, and things that we could put on trading cards. We will discuss Background, middle ground and foreground. Also what makes a card interesting? We will look and review the elements and principle of art.
· Students will measure and cut card stock 2.5X 3.5 inches to make the base of the trading card. Student will cut out to ten cards to start. Students will keep one and write TEMPLATE on it. They will continually be cutting cards more cards throughout the lessons so students will need the template to keep the measurement consistent.
· Students will complete “Interest Survey” for ideas.
Activity 2
Students will receive 5 minutes to answer a brief survey of their interests, we will do this as a class. They will write down the answers and then hand them into the teacher.
Students will then explore creating trading cards based on their personal theme written in the interest survey. The personal theme could be either hobbies, activities or collection.
· Students will create a least 3 artist trading cards using magazines, flyers, and pictures and any material that represents the student. Students need to state how their interest is shown through the artist trading cards.
· Refine the Artist Trading cards by drawing on card or altering images to complete a finished artist trading card.
Sign and date the back of your cards!
Students need to make extra cards so that they will be able to trade cards will fellow students. So that every student could build their own collection of trading cards.
**You can also get into a group, or as a class, guess whose card it is based on their picture of their interest.
**You could also get students to try and find someone with the same interest on their trading card, without using words, the students go around the room displaying their cards and people stand with each other once they find their match.
Activity 3
Altering Images – Exaggeration
Abstraction can be created by Exaggeration or alerting shapes. Students will take a picture from a magazine and add or delete something to the image to alter it and make abstract. Students will create 3 trading cards based on altering the image and exaggeration from magazine pictures.
· Students will use material ribbon, yarn, string and q-tips (anything else with texture)
· Refine and the trade cards with classmates
Lesson 2
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Lesson 2: Acrylic Trading Cards and Painting Class Length: 1hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience acrylics paint through observation and manipulating acrylic paint to create abstract forms in trading cards.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Understand mixing primary colours
2) Recognize a way of abstraction through simplification
3) Understand concepts of tints and shades
4) Learn Acrylic painting techniques
Materials:
· Acrylic paints
· Paint brushes
· Sketchbook
· Gesso paper/ Canvas
· Card Stock
Introduction
Students will look at various painting and we will discuss them as a class.
Describe what you see?
Describe the colors, shapes and brush strokes?
What mood do you feel from this painting?
How do you think the artist create the abstract image?
What shapes do you see?
Do you think the image would change if colors were altered?
Exploration Activity
This is a great activity to do when you first introduce acrylic paint, allow students to explore the different brushes and the the different colours as they wish, but encourage them to use the brushes in different ways, turning them on their side, bouncing them up and down, see what kinds of lines and shapes they can make. This is also a great opportunity to incorporate critiquing, students can switch paintings with their peers and describe them, as well as inquire about how they made certain shapes and lines, and colours that they may like. This activity will allow students to feel more comfortable with the paint when they use it for other assignments, as well as it will help lead to the different ways you can use a paintbrush, and the different types of brushes.
**The students will add to their trading cards from the previous lesson using some new painting techniques that they have learned and discovered
Graffiti Board
Students will receive sheets of letter sized paper where students will draw lines on the paper to spit the paper into six parts and label each part 1-6. In each section students can respond to an emotion or a feeling posted on the SMART board. They may respond with a drawing, sketch, point form or mind map. Students will have 10 minutes to answer the questions. The Graffiti board will not be used for marks so they do not need to worry if it correct just put down information that applies to painting. Once students have finished the six questions, students will adjust each section using paint they can add to it, but they can't erase anything. The emotion or feeling will be on the back of that section. For certain squares see if there is a way to not use words or symbols. Encourage different colours, mixing colours, and using the paintbrush in different ways.
*Students will practice mixing primary colours to create other colours on a separate canvas.
Lesson 3
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Lesson 2: Acrylic Painting- Abstract Class Length: 1hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience acrylics paint through observation and manipulating acrylic paint to create abstract forms in small notes.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Recognize a way of abstraction through simplification
2) Understand concepts of tints and shades
3) Learn Acrylic paintings techniques
4) Understand concepts of lines
Materials:
· Acrylic paints
· Paint brushes
· Sketchbook
· Gesso paper/ Canvas
· Post it notes
· Card Stock
Activity 1
Mixing colors- Abstraction through simplification
Post it note activity
· Students will watch a short demo and look at some examples of the teachers post it note drawings
· Students will be given a post-it-note pad or students will draw 20 boxes in their sketchbook where they draw lines and shapes to form a variety of simple abstract composition. Students should consider space, shape, line and balance when drawing on the post-it-notes.
· Students will need to follow guidelines for the post it note drawings
o Students must complete a minimum of 20 post it note drawings or boxes in their sketchbook
o There should be no images only abstract shapes and lines
o Time limit of 10 minutes
· Students will take the abstract sketches and draw them onto three the artist’s trading cards. Then students can paint the shapes with colors mixed form primary colours.
Parameter for cards:
o Students should do one card by mixing colors on a pallet and another by panting the color wet on wet right on the trading card. Students should explore with mixing a variety of colours together
o The cards should have two colours on each card and they could be complimentary colours.
Activity 2
Students pick a final design for a trading card, either one of their best card or a combination of their work and ideas from classmate’s artists’ trading cards. Students will learn that by working with trading cards this will help create ideas for a project or for a painting. Student will need to sketch out ideas for painting in sketchbook, encourage students not to pick their first sketch but to explore options of combining trading cards as well as collaborating with others and seeing what they are doing.
Students will turn the trading card image into an abstract image through enlarging or simplifying the images into abstract shapes. Students will paint their image to making an abstract painting on” 8 ½ x 11” gesso paper or canvas.
Other Activity Ideas
Painting a photo.
The chosen photo will be graphed out into squares, there will be one square per student.
Students will receive a square portion of the graphed photo. If there are extra square student teacher can paint a square or a student can do two squares. Students will be given five minutes to trade their picture square with other students. Once everyone has their square of the pictures. Students will paint the image on gesso cardstock 6X6”. Students will need to sit beside the person who has the square beside them. This will allow students to discuss and figure out measurement of shapes that interact images both in the squares. This will help there to be harmony and flow within the paintings pieces.
Abstract Collaboration
I will give student a small piece of an image of a large image, and students will have to blend colors to complete the abstracted image. Then as a class they will combine all the images in order to create a larger whole image as a class.
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Class Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience abstract art through observation and manipulating the muti-media to create abstract forms in trading cards.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Understand the purpose and how to create artist trading card
2) Understand that personalize themes can be incorporated in artwork
3) Recognize that abstraction can happen by altering images and shapes
4) Produce art with non traditional material
Materials:
· Card stock paper
· Pencil/ erasers
· Newspapers
· Magazines- flyers- old post cards, pictures or greeting cards
· Scissors
· Glue sticks (1 per student)
· Other material ribbon, yarn, string and q-tips (anything else with texture)
Activity 1
Students will reflect on posted paintings on the smart board, we will discuss as a class to start.
What is the subject of this picture and what materials were used to make it?
What effects does using the different mediums (text, print and solid colors) have on this composition?
What else could you add or remove to this Painting?
· We will look various cards found online or with exemplars on the smart board, and we will look at the gallery and see various cards from other countries and some Canadian cards.
· As a class we will discuss what makes and effective trading card, and things that we could put on trading cards. We will discuss Background, middle ground and foreground. Also what makes a card interesting? We will look and review the elements and principle of art.
· Students will measure and cut card stock 2.5X 3.5 inches to make the base of the trading card. Student will cut out to ten cards to start. Students will keep one and write TEMPLATE on it. They will continually be cutting cards more cards throughout the lessons so students will need the template to keep the measurement consistent.
· Students will complete “Interest Survey” for ideas.
Activity 2
Students will receive 5 minutes to answer a brief survey of their interests, we will do this as a class. They will write down the answers and then hand them into the teacher.
- List your hobbies. ( example: sewing, model cars, sketching, fixing cars)
- What activities do you do in your free time? (example: sports, musical instruments, camping)
- What do you specifically collect? Or what would you want to collect if you had to collect something? (Example: stamps, coins, cars, hockey cards, tea cups, bottle caps)
Students will then explore creating trading cards based on their personal theme written in the interest survey. The personal theme could be either hobbies, activities or collection.
· Students will create a least 3 artist trading cards using magazines, flyers, and pictures and any material that represents the student. Students need to state how their interest is shown through the artist trading cards.
· Refine the Artist Trading cards by drawing on card or altering images to complete a finished artist trading card.
Sign and date the back of your cards!
Students need to make extra cards so that they will be able to trade cards will fellow students. So that every student could build their own collection of trading cards.
**You can also get into a group, or as a class, guess whose card it is based on their picture of their interest.
**You could also get students to try and find someone with the same interest on their trading card, without using words, the students go around the room displaying their cards and people stand with each other once they find their match.
Activity 3
Altering Images – Exaggeration
Abstraction can be created by Exaggeration or alerting shapes. Students will take a picture from a magazine and add or delete something to the image to alter it and make abstract. Students will create 3 trading cards based on altering the image and exaggeration from magazine pictures.
· Students will use material ribbon, yarn, string and q-tips (anything else with texture)
· Refine and the trade cards with classmates
Lesson 2
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Lesson 2: Acrylic Trading Cards and Painting Class Length: 1hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience acrylics paint through observation and manipulating acrylic paint to create abstract forms in trading cards.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Understand mixing primary colours
2) Recognize a way of abstraction through simplification
3) Understand concepts of tints and shades
4) Learn Acrylic painting techniques
Materials:
· Acrylic paints
· Paint brushes
· Sketchbook
· Gesso paper/ Canvas
· Card Stock
Introduction
Students will look at various painting and we will discuss them as a class.
Describe what you see?
Describe the colors, shapes and brush strokes?
What mood do you feel from this painting?
How do you think the artist create the abstract image?
What shapes do you see?
Do you think the image would change if colors were altered?
Exploration Activity
This is a great activity to do when you first introduce acrylic paint, allow students to explore the different brushes and the the different colours as they wish, but encourage them to use the brushes in different ways, turning them on their side, bouncing them up and down, see what kinds of lines and shapes they can make. This is also a great opportunity to incorporate critiquing, students can switch paintings with their peers and describe them, as well as inquire about how they made certain shapes and lines, and colours that they may like. This activity will allow students to feel more comfortable with the paint when they use it for other assignments, as well as it will help lead to the different ways you can use a paintbrush, and the different types of brushes.
**The students will add to their trading cards from the previous lesson using some new painting techniques that they have learned and discovered
Graffiti Board
Students will receive sheets of letter sized paper where students will draw lines on the paper to spit the paper into six parts and label each part 1-6. In each section students can respond to an emotion or a feeling posted on the SMART board. They may respond with a drawing, sketch, point form or mind map. Students will have 10 minutes to answer the questions. The Graffiti board will not be used for marks so they do not need to worry if it correct just put down information that applies to painting. Once students have finished the six questions, students will adjust each section using paint they can add to it, but they can't erase anything. The emotion or feeling will be on the back of that section. For certain squares see if there is a way to not use words or symbols. Encourage different colours, mixing colours, and using the paintbrush in different ways.
*Students will practice mixing primary colours to create other colours on a separate canvas.
Lesson 3
Grade/Subject: Art/ Grade 10
Unit: Acrylic painting Lesson 2: Acrylic Painting- Abstract Class Length: 1hour and 30 minutes
GLO: Students will be able to work as artists by developing ideas through a sequence of steps to encounter art and acquire skills.
SLO: Students will be able to experience acrylics paint through observation and manipulating acrylic paint to create abstract forms in small notes.
Learning Objectives: Students will:
1) Recognize a way of abstraction through simplification
2) Understand concepts of tints and shades
3) Learn Acrylic paintings techniques
4) Understand concepts of lines
Materials:
· Acrylic paints
· Paint brushes
· Sketchbook
· Gesso paper/ Canvas
· Post it notes
· Card Stock
Activity 1
Mixing colors- Abstraction through simplification
Post it note activity
· Students will watch a short demo and look at some examples of the teachers post it note drawings
· Students will be given a post-it-note pad or students will draw 20 boxes in their sketchbook where they draw lines and shapes to form a variety of simple abstract composition. Students should consider space, shape, line and balance when drawing on the post-it-notes.
· Students will need to follow guidelines for the post it note drawings
o Students must complete a minimum of 20 post it note drawings or boxes in their sketchbook
o There should be no images only abstract shapes and lines
o Time limit of 10 minutes
· Students will take the abstract sketches and draw them onto three the artist’s trading cards. Then students can paint the shapes with colors mixed form primary colours.
Parameter for cards:
o Students should do one card by mixing colors on a pallet and another by panting the color wet on wet right on the trading card. Students should explore with mixing a variety of colours together
o The cards should have two colours on each card and they could be complimentary colours.
Activity 2
Students pick a final design for a trading card, either one of their best card or a combination of their work and ideas from classmate’s artists’ trading cards. Students will learn that by working with trading cards this will help create ideas for a project or for a painting. Student will need to sketch out ideas for painting in sketchbook, encourage students not to pick their first sketch but to explore options of combining trading cards as well as collaborating with others and seeing what they are doing.
Students will turn the trading card image into an abstract image through enlarging or simplifying the images into abstract shapes. Students will paint their image to making an abstract painting on” 8 ½ x 11” gesso paper or canvas.
Other Activity Ideas
Painting a photo.
The chosen photo will be graphed out into squares, there will be one square per student.
Students will receive a square portion of the graphed photo. If there are extra square student teacher can paint a square or a student can do two squares. Students will be given five minutes to trade their picture square with other students. Once everyone has their square of the pictures. Students will paint the image on gesso cardstock 6X6”. Students will need to sit beside the person who has the square beside them. This will allow students to discuss and figure out measurement of shapes that interact images both in the squares. This will help there to be harmony and flow within the paintings pieces.
Abstract Collaboration
I will give student a small piece of an image of a large image, and students will have to blend colors to complete the abstracted image. Then as a class they will combine all the images in order to create a larger whole image as a class.