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Crayon Resist Bug Painting

Submitted by: Elisa H. Michael, Calvary Baptist Day School
Unit: Drawing
Lesson Plan: It's a Bug's Life - Crayon Resist
Grade Level: K through 2
Elisa also posted her lesson on KinderArt

 

Instruction/Motivation:

Class Session 1- Introduction to project. Discuss how to plan out compositions (types of bugs, sizes and placement of bugs on the paper, possible bug environments, use of scale). Demonstrate how to draw bugs by simplifying the shapes and patterns of bugs and other objects. Emphasize to students that their composition needs to fill up most of the page.

 

Class Session 2 - Review of drawing compositions. Tell students to outline their entire drawings in black sharpie marker. Discuss crayon coloring procedures (using heavy pressure, repeating colors, limiting number of colors used).

 

Class Session 3-4: Review of coloring procedures

 

Class Session 5: Discuss crayon resist procedure. Demonstrate how to paint with watercolor over finished compositions using 1 or more colors.

Objectives: Students will...

1) Create an original crayon resist painting of a bugs life. (Possible motivation would be scenes of the movie, A Bug's Life (Two-Disc Collector's Edition).)
bug resst2) Choose 1 or more bugs to draw in composition
3) Simplify objects into simple shapes, forms, and patterns
4) Draw objects with spontaneity and imagination
5) Plan and organize composition
a) Space the bugs out across the paper
b) Vary the sizes of the bugs (small, medium, huge)
c) Vary the placement of the bugs. Have some bugs turned in different directions
d) Plan out a background environment for their bugs (e.g. picnic table, leafs, grass, flowers, repeating the patterns on bugs in the background)
e) Use scale in composition (grass and flowers will be much larger from a bugs perspective)
6) Outline pencil drawings in black sharpie marker
7) Color in compositions with crayon using heavy pressure.
8) Limit number of colors and repeat colors throughout composition
9) Brush watercolor paint over the top of finished composition.

Materials:

White Drawing Paper., Drawing Pencils., Kneaded Rubber Erasers., black Sharpie Fine Point Markers., Crayons, Oil Pastels., Prang Watercolor Pan Sets., Brushes, water containers.

 

Resources:

Art prints of work by Rousseau,.Japanese woodcuts showing close-up of nature, Vincent Van Gogh's Irises. and Sunflowers. (showing close-up)

Assorted pictures of bugs (from National Geographic. and National Geographic Kids. magazines.

 

Procedures/Independent Practice:

Class Session 1: Students will begin drawing bugs life compositions using pencil.

Class Session 2: Students will finish drawings and outline them with black sharpie marker. Students will begin coloring in compositions with crayon.

Class Session 3-4: Students will continue coloring in compositions.

Class Session 5: Students will finish coloring. Students will paint with watercolors over the top of their finished compositions.

 

Closure:

Ask students how they planned out their compositions. Encourage students to name their bugs or make up a story about their bugs life pictures.

Evaluation:

  1. Did student create an original composition from a bugs point of view -- close up of nature?

  2. Did student draw one or more bugs in their environment using simplified shapes, forms and patterns?

  3. Did student plan an execute an organized composition -- utilizing principles of design?

  4. Did student plan colors -- and color heavily so resist would work?

  5. Did student brush over a wash of color and discover the resist properties of crayons and oil pastels?




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