Quarter 4

7th Grade Art

(2 Day Rotation: B Day)

Days: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Activities:

  1. Watercolor: Each class session students will learn and practice each of the following techniques:

  • Bands of color

  • Thick & thin

  • Wrist flick

  • Painterly strokes

  • Texture

  • Cutting edges

  • Wet-on-wet

  • Dry brush

  1. Watercolor: practice for final project.

Homework: None.

Objectives: Students will learn about watercolor and develop techniques to create a final Watercolor project. The techniques they will acquire are: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Assessments: Students will demonstrate knowledge of watercolor by using the following techniques in their final project: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 32, 33, 34, 35

Activities:

1. Watercolor Final Project Tutorials:

Wild Flowers Daffodils Seascape Sunset Sky & Mountains Hummingbird Summer Stream

Homework: None.

Objectives: Students will learn about watercolor and develop techniques to create a final watercolor project. The techniques they will acquire are: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Assessments: Students will demonstrate knowledge of watercolor by using the following techniques in their final project: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 36, 37

Activities:

1. Glaze Clay Culture Jewelry.

Homework: None.

Objectives: Use color theory and elements and principles of design to chose colors and design elements when glazing their clay coil vessel. Use of three layers to create glaze that is evenly dispersed.

Assessments: Color theory, elements and principles of design, layers of coating for glaze.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44

1. Native American Dream Catchers

2. Native American Dream Catcher History.

Homework: None.

Objective: Understand the visual arts in relation to history and the Native American Culture.

Assessment: Students will interpret and express the Native American Culture by creating a personalized Dream Catcher.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect