Lesson 3 – Look for Lines: Drawing the Unfamiliar
Lessons 1 and 2 in this unit introduce the concept of art through brainstorming and play.
Lesson 2 – More Talk About Art: Collaborate to Draw Lines
Developing artists will have several opportunities to create line-based art using a variety of materials and techniques.
Lesson 1 – Mind Mapping: Personal Connections
This lesson introduces a method for brainstorming modified for this developmental stage and extends on previous lessons about how artists get ideas for their work.
Lesson 8 – Capstone 1: Silhouettes
Students will combine everything they have learned about how artists use their materials in order to create their first self-portrait.
Lesson 7 – Negative Space: Seeing Beyond Objects
This lesson is an introduction to the concept of negative and positive space in art, which describes the space around the subject of an art piece (negative) and the subject itself (positive).
Lesson 6 – Collection Expedition: Experiment for New Ideas
As you likely know by now, this first unit is all about how artists get ideas through experimentation with their art materials and brainstorming.
Lesson 5 – Five-Value Chart: Replicate Value
In this lesson, we introduce a new art idea that students discover through experimenting with their art materials.
Lesson 4 – Making Opposite Marks to Music: Quick-Write
This unit is about how artists get ideas as an important part of an artistic process.
Lesson 3 – Goal Setting: Opening Up to New Ideas
In this lesson, students will do a brainstorming exercise on their personal goals as an artist.
Lesson 2 – Let’s Talk! Idea Bank & Impact of Visual Components
This unit is about how artists get ideas as an important part of an artistic process.