Lesson 3 – Collage: Adjacent & Complementary
Students will explore complementary colors by collaging found paper.
Lesson 2 – Color Wheel: Primary & Secondary
Though we lightly introduced the relationships between colors in the previous lesson, the color wheel is one of the most effective ways to visualize this concept for student artists.
Lesson 1 – Color Mixing: The Basics Plus Partner Observation
Color mixing is a great way to help students explore the art element of color.
Lesson 5 – Museum
Completing a virtual class museum trip is recommended at least three times over the course of the year to ensure a well-rounded art experience for the students.
Lesson 4 – Working Together to Make Lines with Found Objects
One of the objectives for our DYIA art kit is for students to embrace the “oops.”
Lesson 8 – Capstone 1: Silhouettes
Students will combine everything they have learned about how artists use their materials in order to create their first self-portrait.
Lesson 7 – Negative Space: Negative or Positive?
This lesson is an introduction to the concept of negative and positive space in art, which describes the space around the subject of an art piece (negative) and the subject itself (positive).
Lesson 6 – Collection Expedition: Art in the Environment
As you likely know by now, this first unit is all about how artists get ideas through experimentation with their art materials and brainstorm.
Lesson 5 – Light and Dark: Shout Talk Whisper! With Pencil
In this lesson, we introduce a new art idea that students discover through experimenting with their art materials.
Lesson 3 – Working Together to Look for Lines
This lesson introduces a method for brainstorming modified for this developmental stage and extends on previous lessons about how artists get ideas for their work.