Art 6

Welcome to Art 6! During 6th grade Art class we will develop skills, knowledge, techniques and experience with materials as we review and learn about the elements and principles of Art.

Students have choice when art-making, including imagery, and compositional organization to personalize the experience.

Art class at McCracken can be described as a semi-TAB classoom (TAB = Teaching Artistic Behaviors).

Projects continually evolve and vary from class to class dependent upon pacing and student interest/input. Scroll down to see a sampling of projects that have been presented.

Unit: Still Life - Illusion of Form

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Unit: Illusion of Form - Contour lines and Shading

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Unit: Illusion of Form - Reflect and Revise work

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Unit: Illusion of Form - Shading - Creating the illusion of form with value

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Unit: Illusion of Form - Contour Line Drawing - Complex Object(s)

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Unit: Illusion of Form

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Respond to Art: Mood

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Unit: Negative Space

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Unit: Shape - Design, Creating with Shapes

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Respond to Art - Mini-Masterpiece

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Respond to Art - Who is the Artist?

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Unit: Coloring - Practice Quality Craftsmanship

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Remote Learning Directions:

Still Life - Illusion of Form

For your final project, you will use the skills and knowledge you have developed in art. Follow these steps to success...

Watch the Still Life Presentation video.
Plan a still life and create initial drawings to determine the arrangement of still life objects, and style.
Seek advice with a post to the Still Life Feedback document (not required for final project)
Complete a wonderful, original work of art using your best craftsmanship and creativity.

Your final work:

5. Post a photo of your final project in Artsonia and add an artist statement to describe your process and artwork using visual art vocabulary and concepts learned during the unit.

As always, you are being evaluated on your planning, creating, reflecting, revising, presenting and responding to art.

Contact Mr Mac if you have any questions.

Illusion of Form - Contour lines and Shading.

1) Continue practice: create the illusion of form using contour lines and/or shading. Create multiple drawings for practice.

2) Develop ideas: find objects around your home that are meaningful and/or have interesting form.

3) Experiment with placement of objects to create a "still life". Practice drawing them. Or, take photos of "accidental still life" ~ a grouping of things that just happened to be together in your home ~ to use as a drawing guide

3D Lettering - Reflect and Revise work

1) Review feedback given in the Shading Feedback document.

2) Read the feedback given to others (and give feedback to classmates).

3) Reflect on feedback, and use it to revise and improve your work.

4) Post any revisions with a second photograph inserted into your slide on the Shading Feedback document.

Illusion of Form - Shading

In this lesson, you will practice creating the illusion of form. For our activity, you will turn shapes into forms with shading:

circle = sphere
square = cube
rectangle = cylinder
triangle = cone and/or pyramid

1) View Shading - Creating the Illusion of Form video tutorial on Youtube.

2) Practice creating the illusion of form using a shading technique

Start with a LIGHT outline of each shape (circle, square,
Identify light source - where is the light coming from in your drawing?
Keep previous contour line work in mind - artists imagine contour lines when creating the illusion of form with shading
Eliminate the outline of your shape with shading.
Create a core shadow, highlight, midtone, and cast shadow to create the illusion of a sphere, cone, cylinder, and cube.

3) Post results to Shading Feedback (be sure to add your name to your slide & artwork)

Contour Lines Drawing - complex object(s)

1) Review complex objects in Contour Lines handout.

- Study the more complex contour line drawings of an apple, a banana, a hand, and shoes in the handout

2) Choose a 'complex' object, or a set of objects from your home or from your imagination

3) Create a contour line drawing of the object(s) you chose.

4) Post a photo of your work in Contour Lines Feedback

5) Comment on artwork posted by your classmates; check back for feedback

Creating the Illusion of Form Introduction: Contour Lines

The image you see to the left is drawn on a flat piece of paper, and this unit will help you understand how to create that illusion - the illusion of form. To begin, we will start with a lesson - learning about contour lines.

Contour Lines

1) Review Contour Lines handout.

2) Draw objects using contour lines: Complete the tasks described on page 3 of Contour Lines handout

When drawing use a piece of unlined paper, if possible.
You may complete multiple tasks on one piece of paper
Complete Task 5 on a seperate sheet of paper - developing this attempt into a wonderful, original work of art

3) Take a photo of your contour line drawings; insert this photo into Contour Lines Feedback

4) Comment on your classmate's artwork; check for feedback.

Respond to Art: Mood

During our class meeting on May 13, we discussed 'mood' in artwork. Those who joined us have completed this assignment. If you were unable to join us during the class meeting, complete the following tasks:

1) View the "Respond to Art: Mood" presentation

2) Answer questions on slides 2, 3, 4, 14 and 15

3) Create a copy of the Respond to Art: Mood google doc

4) Complete your answers; share with Mr Mac

Negative Space Artwork

1) Reflect on feedback provided previously via Negative Space feedback Document, and/or in Artsonia.com

2) Revise and improve your drawing and artist statement

Use feedback to revise and improve your artwork and artist statement - Check Artsonia for feedback.
Eliminate white area in negative space. This means you are coloring or shading (solid fill, pattern or additional imagery) in the negative space (background).
Practice Quality Craftsmanship . Take time and put forth effort to produce your best work.

3) Post a photo of your revised work in Artsonia.com (place in "6th Grade Positive/Negative Space" folder), and use feedback to edit your artist statement

Reflect and Revise Artwork

1) Review feedback provided in Negative Space feedback document

2) Reflect on feedback and use it to revise and improve your work

Practice Quality Craftsmanship and Creativity
You may continue working on the work you started, or begin a new version of your work

3) Post a photo of your work to Artsonia.com, (post to "6th Grade Positive/Negative Space" folder)

4) Also in Artsonia, write an artist statement using visual art vocabulary to describe the concepts you learned and used to create the artwork.

Planning/Creating - Negative Space Artwork

1) View the Positive-Negative Space presentation

2) Plan and create artwork - Shade, color and/or create designs in Negative Space so that a recognizable image appears without touching Positive Space with you pencil (marker, or paint brush) - see presentation slides 17-22 for examples.

3) Share artwork with Mr MacBeth by posting a photo of your work to the Negative Space feedback document. Deadline: Wednesday May 6 at 3pm

Negative Space

View this handout...

The Power of Negative Space

Printing handout is not required - you may complete your work on a seperate paper - used unlined paper if you have it.

1) Read page 1

2) Complete tasks on page 2

Artist Statement: Shape Design

Add your artist statement for Shape Design assignment to Artsonia.com

Reflect/Revise your Shape Design

Create a new version of your design that you will color

1) Reflect on feedback received from your classmates and Mr Mac

2) Revise artwork - focus on shapes and balance - color your best work

shapes: should be flat, and colored using quality coloring techniques - even consistent coloring
balance: the design should feel evenly weighted side-to-side - this includes shapes and color choices

3) When you have finished your Shape Design, post a photo of it in Artsonia.com - Shape Designs folder

Shape - Creating with Shapes

Plan and create an abstract design focused on shape:

1) View Shapes in Art Presentation

2) Plan and create a design of your own

When drawing use a piece of unlined paper, if possible.
Sketch: use light pencil marks to develop your design - be open to creating several options/ideas before you start coloring
Choose a color scheme and add color to your artwork (you may also work in black/white). When coloring, practice quality craftsmanship

3) Take a photo of your Shape Design Drawing; insert this photo into the Shape Design Feedback

4) Comment on your classmate's artwork; check for feedback.

Respond to Art: Mini-Masterpiece

Mr Mac uploaded a photo of your Mini-Masterpiece, which is the intuitive artwork we created during the first week of Term 3.

Today, you will revisit that work in Artsonia.com - add a title and artist statement.

Go to Artsonia.com
Enter the access code: RMSH-RHCZ
Enter your first name and PIN
Add a title and artist statement to your Mini-Masterpiece

Some of the visual art vocabulary words I will be looking for in your statement include: intuitive drawing; composition; the 'rule of thirds'; shape and quality craftsmanship.

Who is the Artist?

Learn something new about a very famous artist.

Try to identify the artist before you get to Slide #6!

1) View the "Who is the Artist?" presentation

Try to identify the artist before you get to slide #6.
Look at the work of art on Slide 8, it is called "Guernica"
Go to classroom.google and tell us what you think Guernica is about...

2) Go to your classroom.google page:

6th grade class code: apdo4ft
Give your opinion about the artwork "Guernica".
Comment on your classmate's opinions

What Do Artist Do?

- Over the past week, we created an Imaginary Friend, and did so using the artistic process every artist applies when artmaking. One can identify six steps in the artistic process...

Your task:

review the steps you completed during the Imaginary Friend unit
create a google doc entitled What Do Artists Do?
- In this document, list the six steps of the artistic process
view What Do Artists Do? presentation
- click the screen to reveal one step of the artistic process
- repeat until you see the six steps of the artistic process
Compare this list with the list you made, correct your list if necessary
Brainstorm and record specific tasks that an artist might use during each step. Here is a hand-written example of this assignment
Share your completed google doc with Mr Mac for credit
- set 'share setting' to allow comments

Unit 1: Coloring

This is a warm up for our class. It will give you practice developing fine-motor skills and practicing quality craftsmanship. You will also use the technology that will be required throughout the class.

You will be evaluated on the following standards:

Planning
Creating
Reflecting/Revising
Presenting
Responding
Task Completion

Coloring - Directions:

1) Planning - Go to https://www.justcolor.net/ You will meet the planning standard by selecting an image

2) Creating - If you don't have a printer, read * below. If you do have a printer, select image and print. Color your selection** Focus on quality craftsmanship

3) Reflect/Revise - when you finish coloring, look at what you have done. Ask yourself what can be improved, or what needs to be changed. If you would like feedback from Mr Mac, post a photo of your work to Artsonia in "Mid-Unit Feedback" folder

4) Presenting - Complete artwork. Meet the deadline. Post a photo of your work to Artsonia in "Projects (Completed Work)" folder - Due Thurs, April 2 at 3pm

5) Responding - Write an artist statement telling us about the process and your work, including what you did to achieve quality craftsmanship

*if you are unable to print documents at home, place paper on top of screen and use a pencil to lightly trace the image.

**if you don't have color pencils, markers or crayons at home, use a pencil or pen

Finally, if tracing a design doesn't seem logical to you, you may create your own design. The learning is focused on shape and quality craftsmanship. Strive to develop something that demonstrates understanding of those concepts.

This assignment should take <60 minutes.

The Artsonia.com access code is RMSH-RHCZ

An email has been sent with your Artsonia PIN

Password - during day one in art class we practiced using art vocabulary

Password 6

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