Lesson Plan
Chalk and Glue Still Lifes
This lesson is a beautiful twist on the classic still life with contrasting colors and bold outlines!
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Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Draw from observation.
- Familiarize themselves with chalk pastels and the chalk and glue technique.
- Discuss their work and others with constructive feedback.
This art lesson corresponds to California Visual and Performing Arts Standards:
- 2.4 Create a work of art based on the observation of objects and scenes in daily life, emphasizing value changes.
- 4.2 Identify successful and less successful compositional and expressive qualities of their own works of art and describe what might be done to improve them.
- 4.3 Select an artist's work and, using appropriate vocabulary of art, explain its successful compositional and communicative qualities.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell students that today we will make an art project of objects called a still life. We will spend time observing before and while we draw.
- Tell students we will complete this project on black paper and add bright colors for contrast.
- Ask students to make observations about shapes and colors of their still life arrangements with students sitting near them (pair share or groups), then share out.