Drawing Emotion and Reason
This unit is the first unit in Art I. It explores using technical and intuitive methods of drawing, drawing materials, and is intended to be the foundation which underpins the painting, printmaking, and art history units. Give it a try for yourself and your students!
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Drawing Emotion and reason Lessons in Sequence
1. Five by Two
Content Objective: I can begin to form ideas about works of art.
Language Objective: I can attach a concept to a work of art and consider how that concept fits into a framework of thought.
Culture Objective: I can look at art from different cultures and make an intuitive assessment.
Thinking Skill Questions
Symbolic: What do I see that I can identify with?
Flow: What does the imagery remind me of?
Epistemological: What is the artist trying to communicate?
Look at and image and write down the first five things that come to mind. Look away, take a breath, then look at the image again. Write down five more things that come to mind. Chose one or two words from your lists, and plot them on the Observation - Interpretation - Analysis continuum.
For example, any word that is a direct observation, like 'person' would be plotted closer to Observation. Any word in which you add meaning, like 'isolation' would go closer to the Interpretation end. Plot the word vertically near the top, closer to Analysis depending on how much time it took you to think of the word.
Teaching protocol adapted from Project Zero's Ten Times Two
Content Objective: I can begin to form ideas about works of art.
Language Objective: I can attach a concept to a work of art and consider how that concept fits into a framework of thought.
Culture Objective: I can look at art from different cultures and make an intuitive assessment.
Thinking Skill Questions
Symbolic: What do I see that I can identify with?
Flow: What does the imagery remind me of?
Epistemological: What is the artist trying to communicate?
Look at and image and write down the first five things that come to mind. Look away, take a breath, then look at the image again. Write down five more things that come to mind. Chose one or two words from your lists, and plot them on the Observation - Interpretation - Analysis continuum.
For example, any word that is a direct observation, like 'person' would be plotted closer to Observation. Any word in which you add meaning, like 'isolation' would go closer to the Interpretation end. Plot the word vertically near the top, closer to Analysis depending on how much time it took you to think of the word.
Teaching protocol adapted from Project Zero's Ten Times Two
Media Testing
Content Objective: I can learn the nature of media through experimentation.
Language Objective: I can attach adjectives to the experience I had.
Culture Objective: I can better understand how I connect emotion and image.
Thinking Skills
Flow: What is my intuitive response to the media? How can I put it into words?
Activating working memory: What do I discover by using this media? How can I be deliberate with it?
In your sketchbook play around with different kinds of drawing material such as various grades of pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, marker, etcetera. You can draw or sketch anything you like and each drawing should be small. Under each write an adjective that describes your experience and feeling towards the material. Feel free to be creative and lighthearted with this part. Adjectives may be written in English, Chinese, or Korean.
After you have completed at least twelve, choose at least five of the materials and write your name in a variety of different ways with those materials.
Include a photo of at least one page of your media testing, your name art, and answer the following questions:
Upon reflection, how accurate are the adjectives I wrote under each term?
Select three mediums you like and/or feel the most comfortable with. State them in this screen. Write two more adjectives for each.
Content Objective: I can learn the nature of media through experimentation.
Language Objective: I can attach adjectives to the experience I had.
Culture Objective: I can better understand how I connect emotion and image.
Thinking Skills
Flow: What is my intuitive response to the media? How can I put it into words?
Activating working memory: What do I discover by using this media? How can I be deliberate with it?
In your sketchbook play around with different kinds of drawing material such as various grades of pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, marker, etcetera. You can draw or sketch anything you like and each drawing should be small. Under each write an adjective that describes your experience and feeling towards the material. Feel free to be creative and lighthearted with this part. Adjectives may be written in English, Chinese, or Korean.
After you have completed at least twelve, choose at least five of the materials and write your name in a variety of different ways with those materials.
Include a photo of at least one page of your media testing, your name art, and answer the following questions:
Upon reflection, how accurate are the adjectives I wrote under each term?
Select three mediums you like and/or feel the most comfortable with. State them in this screen. Write two more adjectives for each.