3 sessions; 40 minutes per session

SWBAT understand the difference between postive and negative space.

SWBAT understand the difference between geometric and organic shapes.

Paper
Pencils
Erasers
Rulers
Colored pencils
Color wheel
Finished examples

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Class 1
TTW introduce the lesson by reviewing the difference between organic and geometric shapes.

TTW demonstrate how to cover the page with a shape (or multiple shapes, for more advanced students). Shapes should be solid and not overlap. Review positive and negative space with the students.

Once the shapes are drawn, students will use a ruler to create horizontal lines across their page. They may space them evenly or they may vary the width.

Class 2

TTW review warm vs. cool colors and how to use the color wheel to find them. TTW also remind students that making a tint or shade of a color does not change whether a color is warm or cool (pink is a tint of red, so is still warm, etc.).

Students will begin filling in their shape. They should decide whether they want their shapes to be warm or cool. TTW remind the students that once they have made this decision, they must carry it through the entire artwork. Students will use the colored pencils to color in the bars that make up their shapes, switching to a different color when they reach each ruler line.

Once all the shapes have been filled in, the student will switch colors to address the negative space. If their shapes are warm, the negative space will be cool. If the shapes are cool, negative space will be warm. They will use the colored pencil to fill in the rest of the page in this way. (This can take two classes to complete.)

Rubric
self assessment
teacher observation

[K-4] Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses

[5-8] Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

[K-4] Students know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

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

[5-8] Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks

[K-4] Students understand and use similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines

[5-8] Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract Art

Space, Shape, Color/Value

Colored Pencil

Math