Unit Overview: Students will create op art using line, rhythm, and color. Students will choose an object to use as their op art illusion and create their op art based on an everyday object.
This is a fourth grade unit I taught about Op Art. Students learned about the history of Op Art and looked at the art of artists Victor Vassarly, Bridget Riley, and M.C. Escher. Students then learned how to create their own op art design by using continuous line. Students were given various tools to choose from to make their Op art design. Students then discussed how certain colors and color schemes emphasize visual rhythm. Students reviewed monochromatic and complementary color schemes. However, students were given creative freedom to color their Op art design in any way that created visual rhythm.
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Unit Overview: Students will create an underwater collage using oil pastels and watercolor paints. Students will understand warm colors, cool colors, collage technique, wet-on-wet technique, contour line, pattern, and space.
This is a first grade lesson I taught about collage. Students started by learning about underwater environments and coral reefs. Students then looked at various types of tropical fish in order to design their own fish for their underwater environment. Students learned oil resist by drawing their fish using warm color oil pastels and painting with cool color watercolor paints. Students finally designed their underwater environment using torn and cut paper to create coral. Students combined all the elements of their underwater environment to create a multimedia collage. Unit Overview: Students will understand how to create Aboriginal-inspired dreamtime paintings using pointillism (dot painting), shape, line, and iconography. Students will learn about the history of Aboriginal dreamtime paintings and will choose a theme animal for their painting.
This is a second grade lesson I taught focusing on pointillism. Students learn about the history of Aboriginal dreamtime paintings and looked at original works of dreamtime paintings. Students then chose an Australian animal as a theme animal for their dot painting. Students learned how to layer primary colors to create secondary colors using pointillism. Students were taught Aboriginal symbols and their meaning. Students paired symbols with their animal and painted symbols on and around their Australian animal. Students also learned how artists finish a work of art by framing it. Students decorated their frame using Aboriginal iconography and attached their artwork to the frame individually. Unit Overview: Students will understand how to create 3-D sculpture using the method of deconstructing a book. Students will understand how experimentation, creativity, and self-expression are important elements in creating a work of art that is original and successful.
This is a fifth grade lesson I taught about deconstructed books. Students learned about the Green Art movement and Recyclable Art. Students looked at artwork by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Bernard Pras to see how artists have recycled materials to create works of art. Students were shown multiple methods of deconstructing a book and the techniques of using tools and materials to achieve certain effects. Students were encourage to experiment with media and form to create original 3-D sculptures from within the book. Students discussed the difficulties, successes, and things they learned from this process at the end of the unit. Unit Overview: Students will understand how to create animal collage using overlapping shapes to create form. Students will understand the difference between visual and actual texture.
This is a Kindergarten lesson I taught about visual and actual texture. Students drew pictures of African animals using contour line and simplified shape. Students then cut their fabric into shapes to create the form of their animal. Students used texture plates and oil pastels to create a background for their African animal collage. Unit Overview: Students will learn about the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria in order to create a stacked composition using line and shape. Students will create their own stacked house composition using line, shape, and space. Students will create stacked houses that demonstrate the use of a limited color palette and unity.
Students in third grade learned about Friedensreich Hundertwasser and the history of the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria. Students were encouraged to make their own "dream home" that included personalized amenities and features. Just like Hundertwasser, students were also encouraged to design their own architectural styles for doors and windows, using their self-expression and creativity to make personally meaningful works of art. |
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