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The Fortune: Evocative Still Life

Lesson Plan

Description

Using a fortune cookie and a Chinese food takeout box, students will create an individual still life with symbolic correlations to a cookie fortune. Students will use subtractive drawing on a toned surface to support their artistic vision.

Level

Advanced

Areas of Study

Still LifeGraphiteDrawingContrastValue

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Basic Still Life

Lesson Objectives

Students will create an observational drawing based on a still life arrangement. 

Students will create an illusion of depth using subtractive methods on a toned ground.

Students will synthesize knowledge of cultural, historical, and life through a personal artistic vision.

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Teaching Strategies

  • Provide a selection of still-life objects for students to select.
  • Demonstrate how to tone paper using powdered graphite.
  • Model subtractive value shading.
  • Assist in developing ideas and discuss generalities seen in fortunes: numbers, dates, change, adventure, love, reward.

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National Standards

Create

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

VA:Cr2.1.IIIa

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

VA:Cr3.1.IIIa

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

45 minutes

Demonstration Time

30 minutes

Student Studio Time

4 hours

Supplies and Materials

  • Chinese takeout box, chopsticks, fortune cookies
  • Ebony pencils and drawing pencils
  • Kneaded and pink erasers
  • Powdered graphite
  • 18” x 24” and “24 x 36” drawing papers
  • Newsprint
  • Pencil sharpener
  • Blending stumps, cotton balls, paper towels
  • Lapboards or standing easels
  • Optional: colored media for spot use
  • Hot glue and glue gun

National Standards

Create

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

VA:Cr2.1.IIIa

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

VA:Cr3.1.IIIa

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Steps

Draw Fortune Cookie

Draw a series of fortune cookies. Students each get two cookies: one to eat and the other to draw.

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Still LifeSpace

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Basic Still Life

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Observational Drawing

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Creating Value

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Basic Drawing Vocabulary

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DrawingLiteracy

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Expressive AbstractionApplied Color TheoryExploring my CommunityEmotion and IdentityMixed-Media SculptureSketching to ShadingSimple LandscapesLine in Everyday LifeAdvanced Math ConceptsMovement and MeOil Pastel TechniquesDesigning with PatternExploring Pop ArtInspired by Cave ArtShape CompositionsExploring Space Through ShapeBasic Still LifeMulti-Media TextureMonochromatic ValueWatercolor and Everyday Life

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5 Steps to an Interesting Still Life

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Still Life

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Acrylic Still LifeShape CompositionsSketching to ShadingBasic Still Life

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The Three Essentials of Still Life Drawing

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Formative

Graphite Techniques Pre-Test

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Self-Evaluation for Still Life

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Areas of Study

IdentityStill LifeSocial and Emotional

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Shape CompositionsSketching to ShadingBasic Still LifeApplied Color TheoryAcrylic Still Life

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