High School Art Teacher Lessons

Abstract Still Life Painting, a lesson plan for Art II (Preview)

I am going to show you a Preview of another lesson plan from out Art II download that can be found on (artteacherplans.com).  Remember the additional features that you will get with the first semester  Art II download:

• The Elements of Art

• The Principles of Composition

• The Modes of Design

• The Eight Color Schemes

The Abstract Still Life Painting project has 11 pages of step-by-step of lesson plans and 37 PowerPoint step-by-step slides that will take you through the assignment:

• 13 student artwork examples.
  
• 15 slides shows how to take the students through drawing the subject matter in an abstract Mode of Design.  There are two separate drawing techniques to show them.
• 6 slides will discuss and show how to select from the Principles of Composition and create an abstract composition.
• 8 slides will show how to created 4 different color charts representing 4 different color schemes.
• 8 slides will take you through the step-by-step painting process

A great advantage of this assignment are the 15 PowerPoint slides that takes you through drawing the subject matter in an abstract Mode of Design.  These will show two different approaches.  One of the two approaches will help a student to create an abstract drawing even though he/she finds it difficult to draw in an abstract manner.  This drawing technique can be used in other abstract projects that you may present to your students.

The following is a Preview of Abstract Still Life Painting:

This is my example that will take you through 8 step-by-step slides.

The following is the first page of the lesson plan:

ABSTRACT STILL LIFE PAINTING

 IDEA:

Subject matter can be drawn using an abstract mode of design, arranged into a composition and painted using a controlled color scheme.

 MODE OF DESIGN:  Abstract

 COLOR SCHEME:  Three Analogous and a Complementary, Split Complementary, Double Complementary and Triadic Colors

 OBJECTIVES:  The students will be able to:

1. Understand an overview of the assignment.
2. Receive art history related to abstract art.
3. Receive a glossary of terms, related to this assignment.
4. Draw subject matter for their project in an abstract mode of design.
5. Arrange a composition and transfer it onto chipboard.
6. Understand several color schemes, select one and practice color mixing.
7.  Start and finish their painting.
8. Answer questions related to the National Standards for Art Education.

 MATERIALS:

Student artwork examples
Art history information, Master artworks, examples
Note taking paper
Chipboard, double thick (.1000”), approximately 30 ply, 22”x 28” or 28”x 44”
Subject matter, food items
Newsprint 18”x 24”
Pencil 2 HB
Eraser
Carbon paper
Tempera paint or acrylic paint
Palette
Water jar
Water
Brushes, #4, #6 and #10 round
Spray Fixative, Crystal Clear spray
White glue
Brush 1 ½” all purpose, flat
Colored pencil, red
Masking tape
Color scheme charts, four different ones
Bulletin board display
Scissors
Shellac, spray can
Safety mask
Questions for the National Standards for Art Education

 THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE:  (approximately 5 weeks)

The time line is based on a 55 minute class period.  It includes 5 minutes for preparation and 5 minutes for clean up, leaving 45 minutes of actual class work time for each class period.  The class will meet 5 times a week.

 HINTS/TIPS:  There will be HINTS/TIPS throughout this lesson plan.  They will be highlighted in yellow.  They are intended to be informative and help to make the teaching process easier.  If the information is known or already understood, skip over these areas.

Let's say you want to see Activity 6, The students will be able to understand several color schemes, select one and practice color mixing.  Here is Activity 6:

ACTIVITY 6:  (3 days)

The students will be able to understand several color schemes, select one and practice color mixing.

MATERIALS;

Tempera paints or acrylic paints
Small brushes, #4 or #6 round
Palette
Water
Color scheme charts, seen in the PowerPoint presentation on this topic

1.  The teacher will produce, on white paper, 8 ½”x 11”, multiples of four different color chart hand-outs.  They will have a series of drawn rectangles, appropriate for the different color schemes, for the students to paint.  (See the PowerPoint presentation on this topic)
2. A controlled color scheme will help the students establish unity in their paintings.  There are eight color schemes.  Without discussing all eight, I will suggest several that can produce harmony and contrast in a painting.  The PowerPoint presentation on this topic will show the color wheel and the color schemes.  After a teacher demonstration, the students will select which color scheme they want to use for their project from among the following:

•  Three analogous colors and one complementary color, (yellow-orange, orange and red-orange with blue)
• Split complementary colors, (yellow-orange and yellow-green with violet)
• Double complementary colors, (yellow-green and yellow with red-violet and violet)
• Triadic colors, (blue-green, red-violet and yellow-orange) Black and white will be used with all of these color schemes to tint and shade the hues.There are many color combinations that could be used within each of the above four color schemes.  I stated only one color combination within each color scheme. 

 I will use the triadic color scheme for my example: blue-green (turquoise), red-violet (magenta) and yellow-orange.        

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I have shown ONLY a portion of Activity 6.  There are still 3 more student activities in this section.

The following is the PowerPoint presentation on this topic:

This is only one color scheme, the Triadic Color Scheme.  The PowerPoint presentation shows three more different color schemes, that are just as informative as the one above.

The PowerPoint presentation will have 13 student artwork examples to view.  The following are 4 student artwork examples:

The Art II, semester and year course is available at artteacherplans.com

A Surrealistic Drawing, a lesson plan for Art II (Preview)

  I am going to show you a Preview of another lesson plan from our Art II download that can be found on (artteacherplans.com).   Many additional features can be found in our Art II download.  These will add to the success of your instructional presentation to your students.   The extra features included in the first semester Art II download are: 

• The Elements of Art
• The Principles of Composition
• The Modes of Design
• The Eight Color Scheme

This Surrealism project has 11 pages of step-by-step lesson plans and 22 PowerPoint step-by-step slides that will take you through the assignment.  There are 15 student artwork examples.  You will see 7 student artwork examples in this Preview.

 The following is a Preview of A Surrealistic Drawing:

This is my drawing that takes you through the PowerPoint presentation.

The following is the first page of the lesson plan:

A SURREALISTIC DRAWING

 
Let's say that you are interested in Objective 7 above.  Each Objective becomes an individual Activity.  So, I will show you Activity 7: The students will be able to draw and shade a Pure Value Scale using graphite.

  The following is the accompanying PowerPoint presentation on the same topic:

The above Objective and Activity, To be able to have the students create a Pure Value Scale, is important so the students are aware of the full value scale when they are starting the shading portion of their project.

The next slide shows the beginning of the shading process  for my example.  I have kept in mind the above Pure Value Scale and will attempt to use the full scale as I continue shading.

This Preview, A Surrealistic Drawing, a lesson plan for Art II will end with student examples.  I did this project every year with my Art II students.  They always looked forward, at the beginning of their Art II school year, to this assignment.

 

Embossing, a lesson plan for Art II (continued)

In the last posting (10, 4, 2011) , I showed you a page from the lesson plan and went to (Activity 5:  The students will be able to number and letter the levels for their design).

The folling will show you some pages from the accompaning step-by-step PowerPoint presentation:


 

The above is the finished example for the step-by-step PowerPoint presentation on Embossing.  There are 37 slides that will take you through the entire process.  The first few slides will display student embossing examples.  Eight slides will discuss the Principle of Composition, with examples.  During these slides there is discussion, and visuals on finding and selecting the subject matter for this project.

Activity 5:, in the lesson plan discusses how to Number and Letter the design in preparation for  cutting out the template.  The following two slides, from the PowerPoint, makes visual the written section in Activity 5, in the lesson plan.

Slide #13

This slide #13  discusses reversing the image and numbering and lettering the design.

The following is slide #14:

This slide #14 discusses the relationship of the numbered and lettered design to the various levels that will be cut out in the template.  The next twelve slides show how to transfer the design onto the chipboard, how to cut out the template and the process for gluing it together.

This Embossing preview has given you some idea of the lesson plan format and the thorough visual step-by-step process of the PowerPoint presentation.  If you purchase the download and have any difficulties understanding the lesson plan or PowerPoint, do not hesitate to write to me, and I will help to answer your question.

I am going to end this blog with the following student embossing examples:

 
 
 

Getting to Know Me

Hello, and I hope your day is going great.

I'm Bob Capitolo, or as my students called me "Mr. C".  I live in San Jose, California with my wife of 45 years, Rosemary.  In high school, I had a dedicated Art teacher, Mr. Bauer.  I still find it hard to call him Carl.  I had Mr. Bauer for four years.  I was a typical, moody teenager, but Mr. Bauer saw my potential and worked with me.  It was very rewarding.  In my Junior year, I went to the San Francisco Art Institute for a summer class.  My mother was a great influence on me to continue with my art.  She was an art  and music major, in college.  She helped arrange for the summer art class at the S.F. Art Institute.   My teacher was Frank Lobdel.  I did not know how privileged I was for the instructional experience.  At the time, I lived 55 miles away in San Carlos and took the train from San Carlos to San Francisco, of course carrying a huge metal box every day.   Packed in it were my art supplies.  The walk from the train station to the bus stop was not very far.  I know that I carried a 2'x 3' note pad, but right now I have forgotten how a canvas got up the City.  That Canvas holds a secret.  The class was titled 'Drawing and Painting'.  After several drawing exercises,  the class was told to have a canvas ready the next day and we were going to start a painting.  I was the youngest person in the class. I came to class with the metal box and a canvas.  The model came out.  It was going to be a 'life drawing/painting'.  The people in the class sat in a circle around her.  Some how I found myself facing the back of her ( O.K., I was young).  The canvas was 3'x 4 1/2'.  We spent several days working on our paintings.  My canvas had a lot of long flowing hair and a seated torso.  That is the secret of the Canvas because our next painting was a free choice and I painted Gesso over the long flowing hair, etc.  I still have the Canvas on the wall in our vacation home at The Sea Ranch, California.  It was once again painted over and now a third painting (a nonobjective) can be seen.  After that summer class, I had a good Senior year with the help and instruction from Mr. Bauer.  In addition to the regular class art assignments, I sculpted a fountain.  It was about 2 1/2' wide and 5' tall.  It had two water catch reservoirs and water release area at the top.  It was seen in the round, as a sculpture should be seen, and had a Henry Moore type appearance.  At the time I did not know who Henry Moore was, let alone had I not seen any of his work.  The sculpture had a metal armature with a surround of metal mesh screen.  Magnisite, a cement like material, was mixed and added to coat the surface.  I did all this is Mr. Bauer's classroom.  The armature needed welding and brazing.  I was invited to his home on a Saturday and he did all joining of the pipes and support structures.   When I finally finished the sculpture, it took two strong people to lift the 300 pound creation.

When I went away to college at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Ca., I was in a Liberal Arts curriculum, with a major in Art.  I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But I remembered how influential my high school art teacher had been, and decided to go into teaching. 

 

It would be interesting to know what led many of you into the teaching profession.  More in the future about my life in the classroom.  I also want to share previews of the most successful lesson plans from my high school teaching days.

High School Art Blog www.artteacherplans.com

Welcome to my blog.  This is my first day of writing. 

  I wish to specifically write to high school art teachers.  I want to offer insights into my 35 years of teaching experience in Art I, II, III, IV, Commercial Art, Independent Art and  Advanced Placement Art.  I have coauthored (with Ken Schwab) and published an art book (in hardbound) ‘Drawing Course 101’ and (in softbound) ‘Start to Draw’.

I will discuss detailed lesson plans that have been the most successful for my students and the students of Ken Schwab. We have written, numerous lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations and wish to offer them to you (artteacherplans.com).

All in good time, I will tell you about myself.  But, right now your question should be:

What should I (you) be getting out of reading this site?

• You will read about some highly successful art assignments.
• You will see student artwork examples relating to these assignments.
• You will read about hints/tips, pertaining to the assignments.
• You will read about ways to write student based questions, on the assignments, toward the National Standards for Art Education.
• You will see portions of the lesson plans, providing a preview.
• You will be able to contact me and ask questions, if your understanding of the lesson plan/PowerPoint was not clear.  I will answer you and help to resolve these questions.
• You will be able to state if the lesson plans/PowerPoint presentations went well for you and become a part of the affirmation statements in this blog.

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