3 sessions; 40 minutes per session

SWBAT - select a color scheme (primary, secondary, warm, cool etc.)

SWBAT - Use a viewfinder to select successful areas of their art.

SWBAT - use marker to outline places of shape and overlapping

watercolors
watercolor paper
brush
eyedropper
permenant marker
black paper for matting
glue for matting
scissors

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1. Students research color schemes and select one for their work.
2. Students practice making drops/drips.
3. Students use their selected color scheme to drop watercolor on their paper using eyedroppers/brushes.
4. Students use a viewfinder to select successful areas of their work.
5. Students outline the drops in permanent marker.
6. Students mat work.

Students followed a rubric for this project. Using successful views and color schemes were stressed.

[9-12 Proficient] Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use

[9-12 Proficient] Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks

[9-12 Advanced] Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

[9-12 Advanced] Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium

[9-12 Proficient] Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions

[9-12 Proficient] Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

[9-12 Proficient] Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art

[9-12 Proficient] Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works

[9-12 Proficient] Students describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts

[9-12 Advanced] Students correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions

Abstract Art

Balance, Color/Value, Space, Unity/Harmony, Variety

Marker, Watercolor