AE17.VA.1.3

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.1.3
Develop skills by following a sequence of steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Skills Examples

Work with a partner or small group to create an artwork.
Use the book Perfect Square by Michael Hall to help "thinking outside the box" skills.
Create two-dimensional artworks using a variety of gadgets for printmaking.
Use paint media to create paintings of family portraits or a favorite memory.
Create three-dimensional artworks such as clay pinch pots or found-object sculptures.
View a step-by-step demonstration of an artistic technique.
Properly clean and store art materials.
Use Mouse Paint book by Helen Walsh to teach color mixing of primary to achieve secondary colors.
Create a painting inspired by Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie.
Create a "Pop Art" inspired artwork of positive and negative spaces and shapes by using colored paper cut-outs and gluing to different background squares.
Make a color wheel and identify the complimentary colors (red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple).
Draw different forms in the school environment: cones in the gym, cubes in math center, and sphere used for a globe.
Create texture rubbings by placing paper over different surfaces and rubbing with a crayon or oil pastel. Use a rough brick wall, a smooth table, bumpy bubble wrap, or soft felt shapes.
Use repetition in art by looking at the designs on a shell or the stripes of a zebra for inspiration.