Lesson Description:
For one year, humans will not be permitted outdoors to give the earth some time to heal. Today you will be a designer responsible to decide what elements of nature will come inside with you and create drawings to express your ideas. You will identify and select a variety of nature place that you connect to. As a designer, you will consider the scale, and perspectives of bringing these inside. In your drawings, you will consider use of color when depicting your desired indoor experience. Your peer artist and the polaris community will be interested to see your designs and drawings.
Essential Understandings
Artists develop personal relationships to their surroundings.
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Inquiry/ Learning Targets
“I can identify my relationship to my surroundings.”
“ I can use form, structures, materials, technique to communicate concept and ideas”
“ I can use form, structures, materials, technique to communicate concept and ideas”
Key Concepts
Relationships
Skills
Planning
Art Focus
Painting
Literary Focus
Tint, Shade
Objective
Using colored pencils, pastels, and paint TSWBAT create preliminary drawings and paintings with birds eye view perspective.
Bringing the Outdoors Indoors
Sketching
“This week we will continue with your ideas from last week. We want to remind you that humans will not be able to go outside for one year in order to allow the earth to heal. Your job is to design your dream bedroom for this year and bring the elements from nature that are most important to you indoors. Review your element brainstorming sheets to refresh your memory.
The first part of class we will create a birds eye view sketch of your finalized bedroom idea with the elements you listed on your ideation sheets. These drawings will turn into paintings so make sure to think about your use of space on the paper.”
The first part of class we will create a birds eye view sketch of your finalized bedroom idea with the elements you listed on your ideation sheets. These drawings will turn into paintings so make sure to think about your use of space on the paper.”
This student explains their oil pastel bedroom drawing in the video below. They include a koi fish pond with a special bridge next to their study desk. They integrate nature elements like their water garden organically with gaming electronics and other aspects of the indoors. Their room includes trees and ponds with legos and a special location for their pet cat. This student thought out navigating their space with paths and special walkways,“There’s grass everywhere with a path to the meditation area”. In the video below they explain all the elements of their room
When it was time for this student to choose a color for their bedroom floor, they decided to cover the whole surface with sand. To represent this in their preliminary drawing, they coated the area with peach pastel. This way they could play volleyball anywhere in their room.
The student above discovered that they would need to add detail and color into areas that they had been labeling with words in their and colored pencil drawing. They realized that they wouldn’t be including labels in their final painting so they decided to plan the detail and color in their preliminary drawing so they would have an idea how to use the paint in their final painting
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The student above was very insightful about creating their preliminary drawing from a bird's eye view. For the trees in their image they started by drawing the branches with colored pencils and then added the foliage on top. This student designed their garden in rows of differently colored flowers. They said that the large flowers in the garden were “sunset flowers” because they were big and sunset colored. In the video below this student explains the different elements of their bedroom
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Student Gallery of Sketches
“This week we will continue with your ideas from last week. We want to remind you that humans will not be able to go outside for one year in order to allow the earth to heal. Your job is to design your dream bedroom for this year and bring the elements from nature that are most important to you indoors. Review your element brainstorming sheets to refresh your memory.
The first part of class we will create a birds eye view sketch of your finalized bedroom idea with the elements you listed on your ideation sheets. These drawings will turn into paintings so make sure to think about your use of space on the paper.”
The first part of class we will create a birds eye view sketch of your finalized bedroom idea with the elements you listed on your ideation sheets. These drawings will turn into paintings so make sure to think about your use of space on the paper.”
Paint Exploration
“For the next 15 minutes you will have time to experiment with paint. Pick one item from each of your four elements on your ideation worksheets and paint an image of what it would look like for all of these elements to interact.”