Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Cool and Warm Colors

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

2

Overview

Students will identify cool colors (blue, green, violet) and describe cool settings.  They will use oil pastels to draw a cool setting from a story. They will fill the page using strokes, layers, and blends.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.  

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.2.2

    Explore personal interests and curiosities with a range of art materials.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.2.2

    Vocabulary

    • Principles of design
      • Balance
    • Brainstorming
    • Composition
    • Concepts
    • Characteristic
    • Elements of art
      • Space
      • Value
    • Expressive properties
    • Foreground
    • Middle ground
    • Neutral colors
    • Resist

    Essential Questions

    EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
    EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

    Skills Examples

    • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
    • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
    • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
    • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
    • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
    • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
    • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
    • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
    • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
    • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
    • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.2.4

    Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for cleaning, utilizing, and maintaining materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.2.4

    Vocabulary

    • Principles of design
      • Balance
    • Brainstorming
    • Composition
    • Concepts
    • Characteristic
    • Elements of art
      • Space
      • Value
    • Expressive properties
    • Foreground
    • Middle ground
    • Neutral colors
    • Resist

    Essential Questions

    EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
    EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

    Skills Examples

    • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
    • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
    • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
    • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
    • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
    • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
    • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
    • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
    • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
    • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
    • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.2.11

    Categorize images based on expressive properties.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.2.11

    Vocabulary

    • Principles of design
      • Balance
    • Brainstorming
    • Composition
    • Concepts
    • Characteristic
    • Elements of art
      • Space
      • Value
    • Expressive properties
    • Foreground
    • Middle ground
    • Neutral colors
    • Resist

    Essential Questions

    EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
    EQ: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?

    Skills Examples

    • Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.
    • Discuss how artists make choices that communicate ideas in works of art.
    • Discuss how artists use familiar symbols to express and create artwork.
    • Discuss how the artistic process can lead to "happy accidents" discovering something new.
    • Use basic self-assessment strategies to improve their artworks.
    • Discuss the difference between assessing the quality of an artwork and personal preference for the work.
    • Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist.
    • Discuss and recognize how artists use different materials and processes to create art.
    • Recognize patterns and textures that can be found in many places in and around the school and community.
    • Use statements that include artistic terminology such as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks I see."

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
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    ArtsEd Washington
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