Animal Portraits

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