Lesson Overview:
Based on the theme of transportation and personal experience, students will create prints of their shoes. Sharing their prints and using tissue paper and construction paper, students will focus on the elements of line, tone, shape, texture, and color as well as on the principles of repetition, movement and balance and create a collage.
Length of Lesson:
Two 45-minute periods
Notes:
This lesson is particularly suitable for grades 3-4.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
- create meaningful images with a variety of media, using personal experience as a context.
- employ the principles of repetition, movement, and balance in a collage.
- utilize the elements of line and tone in drawing.
- utilize the elements of texture, shape and color in torn paper work.
Supplies:
- Pencils
- White drawing paper
- Variety of colors of construction paper and tissue paper
- Glue
- Water
- Paintbrush
- Tempera paint
- Wide brayer
- Sponge
- Printing ink
Instructional Plan:
Have students look at their shoes and determine the shapes of their footprints. Have them quickly draw these on scrap paper. Next have students look at the soles of their shoes and identify lines and shapes that create the texture of the treads on the soles. Have them quickly sketch these onto the rough shape of the footprint.
Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Explore the concepts of shape, color, texture and repetition with students.
Development
Have students choose light colored construction paper and tear out forms of the footprints that their shoes make. They are to collage the treads onto these shapes. Have the students tear out the repeated shapes for the treads in tissue paper and add them to footprints using a paintbrush and a 1:1 solution of water and glue. Instruct students to paint the glue mixture onto the construction paper and lay the tissue paper down. Students may be repeat this process a number times, to create multiple footprints that may vary in size. The treads may be added to the construction paper using other colors of construction paper. Leave these shapes to dry and add them to the final collage.
Evaluation Activity
Students may evalute themselves and their peers by responding to the footprints and identifying the shoes that created them. Ability to identify and reproduce shape and pattern is thus reinforced.
Assessment:
The finished collage may be displayed or entered into the student's portfolio. Note the extent to which the student is able to respond to their artwork and:
- identify and describe the effectiveness of the lines.
- discuss the tone in the shading of the shoe drawing.
- identify the shape and color of the footprints, and the way the texture of the sole was recreated.
- identify the concept of movement created through repeating images and the use of a broken line.
- discuss the success of the balance of the composition.
Extensions:
Have students explore The Tech Museum of Innovation’s Online Color exhibition in pairs. Have
students find and define the following terms: hue, brightness, and saturation. You may wish to progress to the next lesson, Drawing from Observation.
Sources:
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Authors:
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Helen Robertson
Hawthorne Elementary School, University of British Columbia
, British Columbia Canada
