6th Drawing Unit
6th Drawing Unit
How do different drawing techniques enhance our ability to observe and represent the world around us?
Adaptive Perseverance: Students will practice contour drawing techniques, adapting to challenges and feedback to refine their skills.
Learner’s Mindset: Students will approach the drawing exercises with curiosity and openness, setting personal goals for improvement.
Critical Thinking: Students will analyze their drawings and the objects they observe, making detailed distinctions to inform their artistic choices.
How does practicing contour drawing improve our observation skills?
In what ways does eye-hand coordination affect our ability to draw what we see accurately?
How can enhancing our drawing skills contribute to our confidence as artists?
Students will demonstrate improved observational skills by accurately capturing the form and details of objects through contour drawing.
Students will show enhanced eye-hand coordination by translating their observations into drawings with increased precision.
New Hampshire Middle School Art Standards:
NH.VA:Cr2: Demonstrate the ability to develop artistic ideas and techniques to create expressive works of art.
NH.VA:Re7: Analyze how responses to art are influenced by understanding the context of the artwork.
National Art Standards:
Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Presenting: Interpret and share artistic work.
Responding: Understand and evaluate how the arts convey meaning.
Connecting: Relate artistic ideas and works with personal meaning and external context.
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