Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Silhouette Lesson Plan: Willow Plate


Willow Plate

Grade Level: 8th grade

9.2 D. Analyze a work of Art from its historical and cultural perspective.

Nets Standards: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity.

Objectives:

· Students will choose a theme for their porcelain plate landscape with at least one character in their theme to be portrayed in their landscape.

· The students will make an artwork that demonstrates a theme and use of aerial perspective and monochromatic color in a landscape.

· The students will choose symbols to represent their theme and a landscape background.

Goal:

§ The Students will understand how to use elements of design to create an aerial landscape using monochromatic color and a theme using symbols.

§ The students will understand what a porcelain willow plate is and how it was valued in European trade.

Materials Needed:

  • A pencil, eraser, ruler, pastels, colored pencils
  • blue tempera blocks, paintbrushes, trays, water containers and plastic table covers.
  • 18x24 paper, sketchbook, tracing paper, tracing pencils, magazines
  • Understanding Art Book
  • Step by step directions for project, and step by step example
  • Chinese Calligraphy words worksheet, blue willow worksheets
  • Student notebooks
  • Resources: Mock up of Porcelain landscape plate with theme step by step. Three power point slides on Western and Eastern landscape. And work sheet explaining vocabulary and procedure for project, PowerPoint projector and computer for PMA slides
  • Resource Books: World Views: Topics in Non-Western Art, Understanding Art.
  • Graphic organizers: Word Wheel, KWL, Who, What, Where, When, Why; tag it: open-ended response.
  • Silhouette Websites:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Monet+London

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5122615

http://www.henri-matisse.net/cut_outs.html

Step by Step Directions for Porcelain Plate Design

1st Choose a theme explain why it is important: tag it: in notebook

2nd Draw a 9 inch circle using template in your new sketchbook (write name on front of sketchbook)

3rd Look in magazines for symbols of theme that you have choosen.

4th Trace small size symbols onto tracing paper around outline of object

5th Choose one small character for your design: trace onto tracing paper around outline of object

6th Put name & section on trace paper

7th Landscape pictures: look at art textbook and resource worksheet examples.

8th Choose simple shapes in landscape to outline using trace paper

9th Choose Asian calligraphy symbol for theme add to design

Step by Step: Add different shades of Blue:

1st Shade darkest blue in front of picture design

2nd Shade medium blue in middle of picture design

3rd Shade light blue in background of picture design

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