Elements Pictures

1. Lines: A line is a mark made using a drawing tool or brush. There are many lines: thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, zigzag, diagonal, curly, curved, spiral, etc., and are often very expressive.

2. Texture: Texture is the perceived surface quality of a work of art. It may be perceived physically, through the sense of touch, visually, or both.

3. Movement: Creates the impression of action in artwork.

4. Unity: (Flowers) creates a sense of harmony and wholeness by using similar elements and placing them in a way that creates a feeling of “oneness.

5. Contrast: Differences between art elements like color, value, size, texture, and so on can intensify the elements used.

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My Peer Taught Lesson: Picture Puzzle

My Picture Puzzle: Summary: For this project, we drew four different symbols or objects that impact our lives. Students had to use colored pencils, crayons, and markers. In the background of each picture, they had to include lines to express how that object made them feel. For example, I drew active lines in the background of my soccer ball picture to express how I'm always moving in soccer. Then, we had our students write a sentence for each object they drew explaining why it's important to them. We cut out each picture and glued it on a bigger piece of construction paper. Extension Activity: In higher-level elementary classes, students could extend this project by writing a short narrative essay about these symbols. Within this essay, they could tell stories about how these symbols or objects impacted their lives. Then, they could read their essay to the class and show their creations. Whole Classes Projects:

Dot Day Project

Description: I enjoyed this art project and enjoyed working with multiple types of supplies. My favorite part was watching the water bleed into all the colors and seeing how they all blended together. I decided to make my dot into a heart for Valentine's Day and I gifted it to my boyfriend. We used a coffee filter for the dot and used markers, sharpies, crayons, and other materials. Extension Activity: Another activity you could have elementary students do is creating multiple different dots with stamps. Each student would get a piece of construction paper and they could use different stamps to create their artwork.

Vincent Van Gough Project

Description: For this project, I used acrylic paint to glue different colors of tissue paper onto my construction paper. I chose warm colors to create my sunset inspiration because it's taking place in a desert and I attached a couple cactus. Then, I used oil pastels to create lines in the ground to show the wind through the desert and I drew spikes on each cactus. Ultimately, I took a lot of time on this project and enjoyed it a lot. Extension Activity: Students could paint and black construction paper to paint swirls on the paper to represent movement like Vincent Van Gough. They also could use glue and pastel crayons to draw the swirls.

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