Project Description/Expedition:
"You are a painter who focuses on trying to capture figures in motion. Sometimes you paint people swimming and other times you paint them playing tennis! You have decided that you want to focus on yourself and make a painting that shows what you love to do."
Students were given the above prompt to help them to start thinking about how they would pint a figure in motion.
Essential Understanding:
By exploring our body movements and positions, students will create two-dimensional art work that captures a figure or abject in motion.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can create a painting showing a figure in motion.
Key Concept(s):
Motion
Movement
Color
Skill(s):
Students will discuss different ways they move during different activities. Students will make decisions about how they want to use paint to describe a figure in movement or doing an action.
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring acrylic paint, large paint brushes, and 18 x 24 pieces of paper.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: two-dimensional, discovery, movement
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process.
Below are images and videos of the lesson:
"You are a painter who focuses on trying to capture figures in motion. Sometimes you paint people swimming and other times you paint them playing tennis! You have decided that you want to focus on yourself and make a painting that shows what you love to do."
Students were given the above prompt to help them to start thinking about how they would pint a figure in motion.
Essential Understanding:
By exploring our body movements and positions, students will create two-dimensional art work that captures a figure or abject in motion.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can create a painting showing a figure in motion.
Key Concept(s):
Motion
Movement
Color
Skill(s):
Students will discuss different ways they move during different activities. Students will make decisions about how they want to use paint to describe a figure in movement or doing an action.
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring acrylic paint, large paint brushes, and 18 x 24 pieces of paper.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: two-dimensional, discovery, movement
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process.
Below are images and videos of the lesson:
A student explains how his painting is showing him dancing, while playing guitar, and swinging a bunch of ropes around. |
The class is engaged in their painting, using big brushes on big pieces of paper. The class explored mixing colors and were only provided with primary colors: blue, yellow, and red. They painted on white paper first, then after they were done chose between dark blue or green to experiment with how the paint looked on dark paper.
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A student draws himself riding a scooter and describes that his wheels are turning, which makes a clicking sounds on the sidewalk.
A student explains that he used the color green to depict trails because it is more realistic. Though it is hard for the viewer to see where things are in the painting, this student is envisioning and story telling about where everything is. While working on his next paintings, he stuck with his theme of trails, but tried different brush strokes to show monsters walking on the trail since he only wanted to paint with one color and did not want to paint a figure. |
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These students are investigating color mixing after they are done with their paintings. They mostly have blue paint left, but also have mixed in red and yellow. |
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One student explores color. In his painting, he is outside so he added a lot of red and yellow to show how sunny it is. He is painting himself writing a tricycle and explains that his arms and legs are out because he is pedaling.