Lesson Description:
"Today we are all going to be artists that observe. We are all going to observe differences and similarities in human-made outdoor spaces and natural outdoor spaces. Your mission is to use your viewfinders to master looking for a variety of compositions and observe your findings in these spaces through photographs and drawings. Then you will report back similarities and differences that you discovered between human-made and natural environments to your peers for further discussion. We are also going to consider and discuss connections between your art and other practicing artist’s artwork."
Essential Understandings:
Artists observe and record their environment which inspires art.
Artists communicate observations of their environment with composition.
Artists communicate observations of their environment with composition.
Inquiry/ Learning Targets
“I can observe and record my environment which inspires my art.”
“I can communicate observations of my environment with composition.”
“I can communicate observations of my environment with composition.”
Key Concepts
Observing
Recording
Communicating
Composition
Environments
Recording
Communicating
Composition
Environments
Skills
Using a camera
Observing and recording
Communicating
Observing and recording
Communicating
Art Focus
Photography
2D Contour Design
2D Contour Design
Literacy Focus
Contour, composition, viewfinder
This student chose to draw a plant from a close distance that had flowers and leaves, in a garden behind the fence. They said they thought about all the individual pieces of the plant, how they leaves overlapped each other sometimes and the spaces in between the leaves that happened. The student was very focused on the individual details of the large flower made up of many tiny flower pieces and all the individual veins in the leaves.
This student decided to draw a tree because their connection to knowing how different trees can have a specific smell in their bark, and spends time exploring this with their sibling. They chose to draw this one because it was the biggest one they could see. They thought about the the different textures of the bark, where the tree met the ground, and the leaves, and how they could show those different textures with different marks from their marker. This student explained how they really looked at the gaps of where the sky was showing through the foliage and how they incorporated that into their drawing. When this student felt their drawing was finished they exclaimed that "this is the best tree I've ever drawn!", they explained that "it's the best tree I have ever drawn because of the way I got the different textures in the bark, leaves, and ground, and how the tree looks full of leaves and you can see where the sky shows through".
This student chose to draw a tree that they saw in the backyard next to Polaris. They added the squirrel in the bottom right corner as another part of nature. In their next drawing, they chose to combine human made subject matter from last week (a house) with nature from this week (a tree).
This student created a new process for drawing using a view finder that the student explains in the video below. The student also found a discovery of using a wood chip to make texture in the drawing. The student would color on the wood chip and then use the textured surface to make marks on their drawing with. This student thought a lot about the spacial location of wood chips, plants, and insects throughout their drawing process.
This student was engaged in their drawing of a tree and explains their depiction of cracks in tree bark.
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This student explains why they chose to draw a tree and their discovery of adding moisture to a marker drawing to create texture.
Contour Line
Students drew on prior knowledge from last week's contour drawing of a playground and again this week students practiced how to find the edge of forms with contour line. Each student had a handout where they used a marker to follow the contour of a leaf as Angela demonstrated on the SmartBoard. Students then created a second drawing of the leaf while looking though their view finder with their non dominant hand. |
Student Photography Gallery
"Today we are all going to be artists that observe. We are all going to focus on nature and observe differences and similarities in human-made outdoor spaces and natural outdoor spaces. Your mission is to use your viewfinders to master looking for a variety of compositions and observe your findings in these spaces through photographs and drawings. Then you will report back similarities and differences that you discovered between human-made and natural environments to your peers for further discussion. We are also going to consider and discuss connections between your art and other practicing artist’s artwork."
Photography Discoveries
"I learned how to zoom in and out"