Objectives
•
Students use a variety of values (lights and darks).
• Students use accurate
sizes of facial features in portraits.
Identify
(Analyze) visual/tactile characteristics of artworks
from diverse cultures,
different places or time.
Anticipatory Set:
1.
Show “Animal Portraits”
PowerPoint
2.
Share photographs or
printouts of a variety of animals. You might invite students to bring to class
their own photos of pets or favorite animals.
3.
What animals do you
like? What makes you like them? (fly, run fast, bright colors, camoflogue)
Activities
Review
the theme in life that “groups
of people often share ideas, yet each individual makes his or her own personal
choices”
and the theme in art that “artists’
styles are both personal and influenced by the world around
them.”
Also review the unit’s three key questions:
1.
How do artists use value (light and dark)?
2.
How do parts of a face fit together to make a portrait?
3.
What are the distinctive characteristics of an individual artist’s style?
Assignment:
1. Student are to select the animal they will be drawing.
2. They will sketch their animals portrait.
3. When that is completed, with teacher approval, students will retrieve large white paper and sketch their portrait.
4. Once that is completed, we will stop as a class for a mini lesson the use of and mixture of paints.
5. Students will continue on to paint their portraits.
6. Closure: Students will name their animal and title their artwork.
Materials:
Animal
Portraits PowerPoint
Collection of photographs or printouts of animal images.
Pencils
Sketch paper
Erasers
18'x24' paper
Oil-based paints
Vocabulary
Portrait,
Profile, Vertical, Individual, Angled View, Middle-tone, Expression, Direction
Full
Face, Horizontal
Extension Idea
SCIENCE: Animal species
STUDENT SAMPLE
