Cool Colored Portraits

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will examine cool colors. Students will create a hand-drawn and digitally drawn self-portrait made of cool colors. Students will discuss the similarities and differences between an artwork using traditional media and digital media.

Level

Intermediate

Areas of Study

Portrait Digital Color Media Arts

Collections

Innovating with Digital Color

Lesson Objectives

Students will examine cool colors.

Students will sketch ideas for a self-portrait.

Students will take a photograph as inspiration for a self-portrait.

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Teaching Strategies

Lead discussion about cool color schemes.
Facilitate the sketching of self-portraits.
Aid in the photography of self-portraits.
Facilitate use of the digital drawing application.

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National Standards

Create

Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.

VA:Cr2.1.8a

Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

VA:Cr1.1.8a

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

40 minutes

Demonstration Time

45 minutes

Student Studio Time

3 hours and 40 minutes

Supplies and Materials

Digital device (tablet or computer)
Digital drawing application
Digital camera (device or phone)
Sketchbook
Pencil
Eraser

National Standards

Create

Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art- making or designing.

VA:Cr2.1.8a

Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

VA:Cr1.1.8a

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