Lets Create!

Lesson Summery and Rationale: Students will learn about effects on art after the invention of the camera, and will learn about PA Dutch folk art. Students will then find a photograph with value to them, and along with a shape and object related to the photo will transfer and draw there images and photograph on paper along with its mirrored image. Then they will use sharpie shading to color in all the small shapes created within the overlapping images. 

​Unedited photography furthers the dissemination of information. Photography can make the organization of our lives a bit easier and can help us remember special moments in our lives. Photography meets our deep need for visual communication. Billions of pictures are taken and shared every day. Most of our photographs live on our phones and never get printed or take on a life of their own.

Students will learn how artists use mixed media and collage to visually communicate. Students will learn about identity and fill out a sheet of their favorite things to find parts of their personal identity. Students will learn briefly about collage, compositions and how to cut/paste with magazine. Then students will receive the list of another student from the same grade and be asked to make a collage about that students identity.

All people have identity that can relate and differ from others. We can visually share our identities with others.

Students will discover all people feel and express emotion. Students will see the meaning of colors in different cultures around the world. Students will learn and be able to create complementary and monochromatic color schemes, as well as create and identify a standard color wheel. They will look at portraits by artists Pablo Picasso and Elaine DeKooning. They will use facial expression and color to create a painted self portrait.

Color is evident in all aspects of society, these colors are used to evoke certain thoughts/feelings within us.