Submitted by: Elisa
H. Michael, Calvary Baptist Day School
Unit: Drawing
Lesson Plan: It's a Bug's Life - Crayon Resist
Grade Level: K thru 2
Elisa also posted her lesson on KinderArt
Objectives: Students
will
1) Create an original
crayon resist painting of a bugs life
2) Choose 1 or more bugs to
draw in composition
3) Simplify objects into
simple shapes, forms, and patterns
4) Draw objects with
spontaneity and imagination
5) Plan and organize
composition
a) Space the bugs out across the paper
b) Vary the sizes of the bugs (small, medium, huge)
c) Vary the placement of the bugs. Have some bugs turned in
different directions
d) Plan out a background environment for their bugs (e.g. picnic table, leafs,
grass, flowers, repeating the patterns on bugs in the background)
e) Use scale in composition (grass and flowers will be much larger from a bugs perspective)
6) Outline pencil drawings in black sharpie marker
7) Color in compositions with crayon using heavy pressure.
8) Limit number of colors and repeat colors throughout composition
9) Brush watercolor paint over the top of finished composition.
Materials:
White drawing paper,
pencils, erasers, black sharpie markers, crayons, oil pastels, watercolors,
brushes, water containers
Resources:
Art prints of work by
Rousseau, Japanese woodcuts showing close-up of nature, Vincent Van Goghs
Irises and Sunflowers (showing close-up)
Assorted pictures of bugs
(from National Geographic and National Geographic World magazines.
Instruction/Motivation:
Class Session 1-
Introduction to project. Discuss how to plan out compositions (types
of bugs, sizes and placement of bugs on the paper, possible bug
environments, use of scale). Demonstrate how to draw bugs by simplifying
the shapes and patterns of bugs and other objects. Emphasize to
students that their composition needs to fill up most of the page.
Class Session 2 - Review
of drawing compositions. Tell students to outline their entire
drawings in black sharpie marker. Discuss crayon coloring procedures
(using heavy pressure, repeating colors, limiting number of colors used).
Class Session 3-4: Review
of coloring procedures
Class Session 5: Discuss
crayon resist procedure. Demonstrate how to paint with watercolor
over finished compositions using 1 or more colors.
Procedures/Independent
Practice:
Class Session 1: Students
will begin drawing bugs life compositions using pencil.
Class Session 2: Students
will finish drawings and outline them with black sharpie marker.
Students will begin coloring in compositions with crayon.
Class Session 3-4:
Students will continue coloring in compositions.
Class Session 5: Students
will finish coloring. Students will paint with watercolors over the
top of their finished compositions.
Closure:
Ask students how they
planned out their compositions. Encourage students to name their
bugs or make up a story about their bugs life pictures.
Evaluation:
- Did student create an original composition
from a bugs point of view -- close up of nature?
- Did student draw one or more bugs in
their environment using simplified shapes, forms and patterns?
- Did student plan an execute an organized
composition -- utilizing principles of design?
- Did student plan colors -- and color
heavily so resist would work?
- Did student brush over a wash of color
and discover the resist properties of crayons and oil pastels?
