Sixth Grade

Course Overview

During sixth grade art, students will make multi-cultural connections and use prior knowledge from other subject areas to influence their art making. With a strong connection to art history, students will view art from various cultures from around the world to inspire architectural drawings, landscape paintings, found object sculptures, clay relief designs, and scratch art illustrations. Students will continue to review the Elements of Arts through a variety of mediums and learn to express themselves and their own ideas through art.

SKills and Concepts

  • Watercolor Landscape Paintings

    • Connection to Science Unit on Weather Patterns

    • Perspective (foreground, middle ground, background with size variation)

    • Watercolor Techniques (Flat Wash, Dry Brush, Wet on wet, Wax resist)

    • Textures found in nature


  • Clay Relief Slabs

    • Connection to Social Studies unit on Egyptian Culture

    • Slab Construction and design transfer

    • Relief Carving and texture making

    • India Ink/Painting Techniques/or Underglazing


  • Found Object Sculpture/Self-Portraits

    • Multicultural Mask making based on historical examples from various cultures

    • Paper folding/construction

    • Mixed Media Exploration

    • Design based on theme and motif development

    • Self-Portrait drawing with proportions of the face


  • Scratch Art Illustrations

    • Connection to ELA Unit on Greek or Egyptian Gods/Goddesses

    • Positive and Negative Space Drawing

    • Greek Pottery study for shape/design focus

    • Scratchboard techniques through the exploration of patterns and textures



  • Architectural Drawing

    • Designing and researching various types of architecture

    • Incorporation of a small Color Wheel with color theory studies

    • Mixed media exploration