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Look Below: Mark-Making Creatures

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will place heavy emphasis on mark making through various levels of scoring, hatching, and cross-hatching to create a textured and valued creature of the sea while working with transparency paper and oil pastels.

Level

Advanced

Areas of Study

AnimalsNatureOil PastelAcrylicValue

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Under the Sea

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn how to apply various mark-making techniques to create value.

Students will visually represent personal responses to aquatic environments.

Students will research aquatic environments and animals.

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Teaching Strategies

  • Introduce students to traditional scratch art.
  • Facilitate a review of principles of design, focusing on contrast, value, and variety.
  • Assist students as they consider their ideas and research aquatic environments and animals.
  • Demonstrate the use of a variety of mark-making techniques and tools.

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National Standards

Create

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

VA:Cr2.1.IIa

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

20 minutes

Demonstration Time

20 minutes

Student Studio Time

2 hours and 55 minutes

Supplies and Materials

  • Sketchbook or sketch paper
  • Pencil and eraser
  • Transparency sheets
  • Oil pastels
  • Pointed stylus or paper clip
  • Black and choice color acrylic paint
  • Cotton swabs and tissue

National Standards

Create

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

VA:Cr2.1.IIa

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Steps

Discuss and Analyze Value Mark Marking

Review how artists have created art using the scratchboard technique. Practice making value using layers of lines, hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling.

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Creating Value

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Jerry Pinkney

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