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Middle [6th-8th] Lesson Plan

Landscape in Oil Pastel

Created on July 18, 2013 by paintpeace



Students will complete an oil pastel drawing of a landscape with the emphasis on a small thing drawn large in the foreground. They will work with develping a composition, simple perspective, overlapping drawn elements, color mixing and finishing touches.


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THE PLAN
5 sessions; 40 minutes per session

1. SWBAT identify emphasis in Georgia O Keefe's paintings.
2. SWBAT develop a composition of a landscape using perspective in the background, and emphasis in the foreground.
3. SWBAT apply oil pastels in layers, mixing color, adding values and creating a rich, painterly effect.

12" x 18" paper, 80# weight
Pencil
Oil pastels

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1. View a variety of Georgia O Keefe paintings and discuss how she used space, emphasis, contrast and meaning.
2. Demonstrate how to draw hills or mountains in the background.
3. Demonstrate how to add elements which overlap and block views, but also add depth and emphasis to the composition.
4. Demonstrate how to use oil pastels, peeling paper wrapper, working with broken pastels, blocking in color, working with layers of pastel, mixing color on the artwork
5. Demonstrate how to finish by using the edge of the pastel to define clear outlines on edges of emphasized object in foreground.

1. I have filled the paper with a landscape composition creating a background, middle ground and foreground.
2. I have emphasized a small object in the foreground by making it large and overlapping objects in the landscape behind it.
3. I have added layers of oil pastel color for a painterly effect.
4. What I learned........

5. What I liked........

Reproductions of art by Georgia O Keefe. Displaying posters or calendar pages on classroom walls or display board throughout the project is helpful to set mood.

Students were engaged, especially with the step by step process of how to draw hills in the background. Also important to show students how to work with coloring mistakes, and learn the forgiving nature of oil pastels.

AFTER COMPLETION, all students should display their work on their desk and QUIETLY everyone walks around and looks at EVERYONEs work SILENTLY.

THE STANDARDS

Visual Arts Standard 1:
Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes


[5-8] Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas

Visual Arts Standard 2:
Using knowledge of structures and functions


[5-8] Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas

Visual Arts Standard 3:
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas


[5-8] Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks

Visual Arts Standard 4:
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures


[5-8] Students analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

Visual Arts Standard 5:
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others


[5-8] Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art

THE FEATURES
Georgia O’Keeffe

Contemporary Realism

Balance, Color/Value, Emphasis, Form, Proportion/Size, Space

Pastel

  • jennteal 08/29/2014 at 06:31am
    I like the emphasis on an object in the foreground. It adds that extra something to make it more individualized.