Painting
Lesson Plans
Incorporating
all three: Still Life Painting
To
introduce still life painting I brought in samples of my own still
life work. This is a great section to bring in art history, and
I will the next time I teach it. I think a PowerPoint with
information mixed with examples would work well.
I've
set up a still life in the middle of my classroom and placed many
signs asking students not to move anything. All tables were
turned so they had a view of the still life. Random dollar store
objects mixed with classroom items made up the still life. My
students complained so next time I think I may invite them to bring in
objects. We started drawing on matte board that was donated to
the art room from Sweeney's gallery and framing here in Grand Falls
(Thanks!).
I
had stipulated at the outset that I was looking for the following
elements:
Texture,
Value, Local colour, and a good representation of the still life in
their drawing.
Evaluation
is as follows:
20%
drawing
10%
value
30%
texture
30%
colour mixing
10%
neatness/effort
We
started with a warm-up of creating real and implied textures with
paint. I've selected tempera for ease of clean up. I asked
for 6 different textures - a mixture of real and implied. They
could use the brush (also toothbrushes, sponge brushes worked great)
to create implied texture, or, create real texture by gluing paper,
pencil shavings, hand towels, etc. to their paper. I'll post
some samples of these asap.
Once
completed this task, they had to pick (minimum) two of these created
textures to represent two elements in the still life. I had them
focus on one object at a time, looking at texture, value, and colour.
I'll post some examples of my grade nines' work when they are
finished!
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