Lesson 7: Mood Portrait

Objective: To have children create a portrait using facial expression, story elements, and a dominant color to show mood.

Vocabulary:

dominant color - The color a viewer sees most in an artwork.

expression - A look on a person's face that tells the viewer what the person is feeling.

facial features - Parts of the face, such as eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

mood - The way an artwork makes you feel or emotion the artist is trying to make you feel.

portrait - An artwork that shows a person, a group of people, or an animal as the main subject matter.

Warm and Cool Colors

How does each painting make you feel? Colors can make us feel certain ways. Red, orange, and yellow are warm colors. Blue, green, and violet are cool colors.

La Era by Diego Rivera

The Waterlily Pond by Claude Monet

Cool colors can help make pictures feel cool and calm. Warm colors give art more energy and can make pictures seem hot.

Studio Time: Mood Portrait

Materials:

White Paper, Tempera Paints, Paint Brushes

Plan

Think about the way you feel when you are doing activities.
Choose one activity to show and the mood you feel during that activity.
Choose a color to match the mood or your feeling.
Check list:
- Choose an activity to show.
- Draw a person with an expression on the face.
- Choose if warm colors or cool colors would be best to show that mood you feel during the activity.

Create

Day 1

Draw a face that shows and emotion.
Add a body that matches the emotion.

Day 2

Include why or what is making the person fell this way.
Show a setting (a place) where this is happening.
Choose a dominant color to show the mood of that feeling.

Day 3

Color with watercolor pencils.
Use water wash to blend.

Challenge: Sand Painting

Create a sand painting with colored sand and a clear vessel (baby food jar) using a pencil to poke the sand to make various types of lines.

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