Program Outline

Introducing:

(Assembly)

“LEARNING FROM”:

(Learning Packet)

“WORKING WITH”:

(Classroom Activity)

No Assembly

(See Implementation Guide, Section 7)

Introduction to Learning Packets

Visual exercises

Line analysis

All Levels: Introduction to classroom activities;

portfolio is made to hold student artwork for the year (lamination is recommended)

French

Line, Texture, Color

Beg. Level: Animal realism, texture

Int. Level: Realism, texture, symmetry

Adv. Level: Realism, texture, symmetry

Oil Pastels and Crayon

Beg. Level: Cats

Int. Level: Dogs

Adv. Level: Big Cats

American

Shape, Balance

All Levels: Abstract shapes; shapes for mobiles; the expressive quality of shape

Beg. Level: Stabile, black paper base, colored paper, wire top

Int./Adv. Levels: Mobiles, Calder style; wire, colored paper

American Impressionism

Color, Line

All Levels: Drawing hats, portraits, contrast

All Levels – Pastel strokes

Beg. Level: Hats (cut and mounted pastel)

Int./Adv. Levels: Portrait with hat (cut and mounted pastel)

French

Shape

All Levels: Using shape instead of pictures to show meaning

Int./Adv. Levels: Cezanne’s use of shape

All Levels: Still life tissue collage (cut shapes) using Cezanne’s basic shapes

Russian

Line, Color, Pattern

All Levels: Sketches for art activity; color

value, pattern feeling

All Levels: Village outline on colored paper with oil pastel (Chagall style), shapes filled with pattern

Italian

Line, Value

All Levels: Outline aided drawing, simple line copying, looking closely

Adv. Level: Mirror image drawing

All Levels: Botanical string print

Int./Adv. Levels: Cut, fold, staple to add dimension

French

Line

Beg. Level: Drawing practice

Int./Adv. Levels: Showing depth using perspective, overlapping, location, line

Right Brain Drawing

Beg. Level: Bow with colored chalk/pencil

Int./Adv. Levels: Ballerina or horseman with colored chalk and pencil

Dutch

Pattern, tessellation

All Levels: Patterns and coloring shapes that become tessellations

All Levels: Drawing a tessellation with abstract shapes, staining with dry tempera paint

French

Color

All Levels: Colors, South Sea subject matter

All Levels: Oil pastel on black background

Beg./Int. Levels: Palm trees

Adv. Level: Tahitian landscape

& the Asian Brush

Japanese

Line, composition

All levels: Chinese writing, bamboo drawing, simple composition

All Levels: Bamboo brush strokes (black tempera “ink”), bamboo composition on white paper

American

Value

Beg. Level: Value scale, color value

Int. Level: Line value, crosshatching

Adv. Level: Inventing value with line

Beg./Int. Levels: Cut paper and crayon seascapes using black and white values

Adv. Level: Value with drawing pencils from Homer small prints

American

Line

Beg./Int. Levels: Directional Lines

Adv. Level: Lines in composition, drawing boats

Paint and Paper Collage

Beg./Int. Levels: Seascape with beach umbrellas

Adv. Level: Seascape with sailboat

Mexican

Color, Texture

All Levels: Drawing parrots, leaves and fruit with texture. Emphasis on composition.

Oil Pastel on Colored Papers

Beg. Level: Parrot and leaves

Int./Adv. Levels: Parrot, fruit, leaves

Swiss

Line, Color, Texture

All Levels: Movement of the eye through shape, line, color, texture, and pattern

Black Crayon Resist with Tempera Wash

Beg. Level: Fish

Int. Level: Neighborhoods

Adv. Level: Tree houses

Austrian

Pattern

All Levels: Abstract patterns

Beg. Level: Dot-to-dot

All Levels: Embossing foil paper with pencil

Beg. Level: Kimono

Int. Level: Tree of Life

Adv. Level: Abstract

American

Shape

Beg./Int. Levels: Tool shapes; flat and shaded shapes, overlapping, and depth

Adv. Level: Composition; overlapping, color balance, and depth

Beg./Int. Levels: Tool shape paper collage with marker

Adv. Level: Cityscape collage using tissue and starch

Native American

3-Dimensional Shape

All Levels: Native American symbols and patterns and their meanings

All levels: Working with clay and paint

Beg. Level: Plate

Int. Level: Pinch pot

Adv. Level: Coiled pot

French

Shape, Color

Beg. Level: Abstract sea shapes

Int./Adv. Levels: Positive and negative shapes, abstract shapes, creating sea shapes for art activity

All Levels: Paper cutouts with sea life motif; drawing with scissors

Int./Adv. Levels: Emphasizes positive and negative shapes

Italian

Form

All Levels: Renaissance detail, architectural form and elements

Chalk and Paper

All Levels: Marbleizing paper, composition of architectural model

Spanish

Shape, Line

All Levels: Simplifying details, combining abstract shapes, drawing, and imagination

All Levels: Abstract drawing (marker) with paper cutouts

Int./Adv. Levels: Tempera powder background with abstract shapes

Dutch

Balance

All Levels: Shape, color, and line combine to balance designs

Adv. Level: Repeated texture added to create rhythm and movement

Paper Collage

All Levels: Primary colors and cut shapes combine with lines to form abstract compositions

French

Color

Beg. Level: Primary and secondary colors

Int. Level: Color wheel, color feelings

Adv. Level: Color wheel, color schemes, color vocabulary

Tempera, paper plate palette, and Q-tips

All Levels: Impressionistic color wheels and trees

American

Color, Value

Beg. Level: Color value, hill drawing (practice for art activity)

Int./Adv. Levels: Color value, scaling technique, shading

Beg. Level: New Mexico hills; black crayon, and paint crayons

Int./Adv. Levels: Enlarged flower drawing in black crayon, paint crayon values

Spanish

Composition

All Levels: Use line, shape, color, and texture to create musical, cubist compositions

Black Marker and Chalk Stain

All Levels: Cubist composition of musical instrument right-brain drawing

Dutch

Value, Space

Beg. Level: Light and dark, shadows

Int./Adv. Levels: Highlights, shading, and shadows on the basic forms

All Levels: 17th Century Holland Landscape

White chalk on black paper with oil pastel details

American

Detail

Beg. Level: Drawing desert plants

Int./Adv. Levels: Backgrounds, foregrounds, drawing desert plants (preparatory for activity)

Colored chalk and paper

Beg. Level: Desert sky background with torn mountain silhouette, black crayon details

Int./Adv. Levels: Desert plant from Learning Packet on chalk desert; black pencil details

French

Color

Beg./Int. Levels: Color contrast, landscape drawing, reflections

Adv. Level: Color contrast, reflections

Impressionist shading technique

All Levels: Impressionistic landscape with reflections in rainbow colors using paint crayons

African-American

Patterns

All Levels: Quilt designs inspire a geometrical look at symmetry and balance using color and shape.

Oil Pastel with Cut Paper Shapes

All Levels: Visual story telling combined with cut-paper quilt design, and patterning

American

Detail

All Levels: Drawing on a grid, seasonal symbols, lettering, fonts, layouts

Oil Pastel

All Levels: Illustrations, lettering, layout

French

Shape, Value

All Levels: Drawing jungle foliage and animals

All Levels: Paint crayons on colored backgrounds

Beg. Level: Snakes

Int. Level: Lions

Adv. Level: Tropical Birds

French

Color

Beg. Level: Light and dark, warm and cool colors

Int./Adv. Levels: Preparatory boat sketching for classroom activity

All Levels: Sandpaper & paper

Beg. Level: Boat

Int. Level: Boat/reflection

Adv. Level: Landscape/seascape

French

Line

Beg./Int. Levels: Horizontal and vertical line design; using line instead of pictures to show meaning

Adv. Level: Lautrec character sketch

All Levels: Lautrec-type character using water-color wash and crayon resist technique

Dutch

Texture

Beg. Level: Drawing with texture

Int. Level: Drawing, inventing, and using texture

Adv. Level: Drawing and creating movement with texture

Oil Pastels

Beg. Level: Textured spirals & foreground

Int./Adv. Levels: Textured spirals, foreground, middle and background

Adv. Level: Adds a village

American

Color

All Levels: Explore “pop” art with repeating shapes and contrasting colors

Int./Adv. Levels: Practice graphic art lettering

Beg. Level: Tissue collage

Int./Adv. Levels: Campbell’s Soup Portrait with paper and pens

American

Perspective

All Levels: Agricultural patterns, texturing

Int./Adv. Levels: Showing perspective with size, placement, and clarity.

All Levels: Agricultural landscapes, texture rubbings, patterning with crayon, tempera paint with round sponge brushes