Thinking and Working as Artists-Natural Materials

Artists work with Natural Materials

Virtual Assignment: 

Week August 31 - September 4

1. Go on a nature walk and collect some rocks from your yard, a park, or your neighborhood. (If you can't do that, the dollar store sells stones for crafting)
2. Watch video lesson, and sort and arrange your stones!

    

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

                                        

         original lesson 8/24/16

                Artmaking Using Natural Materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are natural materials? 

Can you tell what natural materials these artists used to make their art?

Arranging Stones

Explore the Materials:

• Special stones
• How many ways can you think of to sort the stones?
• Describe arrangement and title work.

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

Did you work alone or with a  partner/ as a table?

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

What can you do with a Purple Crayon?

 What can you do with a Purple Crayon?

 Harold The Artiste

What kind of adventure will you have while drawing with your purple crayon?

 

Share: What did you make with your purple crayon?

Week 1: Intro. to Art/ Draw a Person 2020-21

Assignment: Draw a picture of a person from head to toe.

We do this activity at the beginning and end of each year so we can see how our our drawings change as we practice and grow as artists.

Beginning of Year

End of Year 

Supplies Needed:

1. Pencil and eraser

2. Studio Practice Book or 1 piece of white paper

3. Crayons (if you choose to color)

 Instructions:

1. Write your first and last name at the top of the paper in pencil
2. Using pencil, draw your person from head to toe (the whole body) and draw big enough so that you can add details. 
3. Add a background to go with your person. 
4. If you want to color, color lightly in crayon. Otherwise all of your details will get hidden under the color.

VA: Cr, Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Teacher's Notes:

Greeting/Introduction:

Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery
and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, make sculpture. We are going to learn
what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist, because we are all artists.

Who here is an artist?

Expectations:

Take care of people

Take care of stuff

Behave like an artist

Remember...

You are the artist.
The art room is your studio.

1. Assigned Seats (when students enter room)
2. Draw a Person with pencil /Name already written by teacher
Draw 5 minutes (timed, pencils only)
3. Collect Papers

Paper #2 Writing name on paper-this one is for you to take home
Think about something beautiful (Envision)
-think about something you love
-what do you think is really cool?
Can you draw a picture of that ?
Materials:
Pencils, crayons, Markers

Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:

1. Silent/no talking

2. Everyone should help clean up their table

3.Put your head down

At the end of class we meet at the carpet to discuss what we did during studio time.

This is our meeting spot and our thinking spot.

How did that go for you?
What drawing materials did you use?
Raise your hand
Done early
Not done

Remind students to raise their hand and wait to be called on .

In school we are respectful by raising our hands when we have something to say.

Thank individual students for being respectful and raising their hands.

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward