Lesson Plan:
In this lesson students learned about sketchbooks and their multifaceted uses and purposes. There were many materials available at student tables for them to use. Such as, watercolor, markers, oil pastel, glue, leaves, pencil, and pen/sharpie. Students used the variety of materials at their tables, in their sketchbook explorations. Students made a sketchbook page of their nameplate for the discovery board, and created a sketchbook page of an image that depicted a place that they connected with, inside or outside.
Essential Understanding
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Objectives
Students will be able to discuss artistic intention.
Students will be able to manipulate a sketchbook.
Students will be able to create a depiction of a place they connect with.
Students will be able to manipulate a sketchbook.
Students will be able to create a depiction of a place they connect with.
Sketchbook Explorations
Nameplates
Students created individual nameplates, to be added to our classes Discovery Board (a place for students to record their reflections on discoveries in concept, materials, process, etc. from each lesson). For their nameplates students used their interests to accentuate the images they made. Students made these images personally significant by choosing colors, materials, artistic processes and imagery that reflected their artistic intentions for their outdoor/indoor spaces.
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This student was interested in turning each letter of their name into trees. They began depicting this with oil pastel and then decided to include a sunset behind the trees because they love sunsets. After creating the oil pastel image, they used glue to attach leaves into the image, and then experimented with using watercolor on the leaves.
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This student's image was centered around the idea that their name would be the sun. They experimented with materials to show this artistic intention, and made the oil pastels look as if they were shining onto the mountains by smearing them. This student felt a connection to making images of mountains and lakes, they explored this in both of their creations in the class.
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Indoor/ Outdoor Space
In the next sketchbook prompt students created a sketchbook page of an image that depicted a place that they connected with, inside or outside. Students made these images personally significant by choosing colors, materials, artistic processes and imagery that reflected their artistic intentions for their outdoor/indoor spaces.
This student made a drawing of a space outdoors that they connect with. They used colored pencils to draw their reading tree at Roger's Park. They explained how it is an Evergreen tree that has many little branches that act as a ladder that they climbs with their book to read. The light blue circle is a peep hole where they can see the sky through the tree branches. This drawing reflects their experiences reading outdoors in their designated reading tree.
This student depicted an area in nature that represented various emotions. They describe their artistic intention in the video above.
This student drew their Dad's house on a mountain. They describes their artistic intention in the video above.