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Submitted by: Amy
Lychock Upper Perkiomen High School, Pennsburg,
Pennsylvania
Unit: Drawing
Lesson Plan: Drawing emotions
Grade Level: K thru 12
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Objectives:
Students will examine how artists have expressed emotion thru use of line,
color and shapes.
Students will show awareness and understanding on non-objective art.
Students will explore how lines and shapes can express emotions.
Students will communicate a variety of emotions using line, shape and
values to create form.
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Materials:
12"x 18" white drawing paper,
pencils (a variety of thickness and hardness levels), markers (and
any variety of tools to created line ie: sticks and ink, brushes and ink)
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| Resources:
A variety of non-objective art: Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock
Selections from Abstract
Expressionism.
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Instruction/Motivation:
- Discuss art prints (or slides) selected. How do these works show
emotion? What emotions do you feel in viewing these works?
- Brainstorm on different kinds of emotion. Some
emotions discussed before the students begin: Happy, sad, mad,
confused, lonely, overwhelmed, etc. Discuss how line weight and types
of line can convey an emotion.
- Demonstrate a couple of ways to
show emotions listed through use of line, shape and values.
- Remind them they are not to
draw any hearts, smiling faces, volcanoes, tear drops, etc. This
causes them to think more on their line weight.
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Procedures:
- Have students fold a 12X18 piece of white drawing paper so it has
four sections.
- Have the students draw two
"upbeat" emotions and two "downbeat" emotions in
the four sections on the paper without using any recognizable objects. Students
are only allowed to use line, shape and form (shading to show 3-D
form). Show at least five different values for each
emotion.
- Critique works - How do these
exercises show emotions? What emotions did you represent? How
effective are they?
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Evaluation:
- Did student recognize and interpret emotions in various works of
art?
- Did student effectively use line, shape and values (a minimum of
five for each emotion) to communicate emotion?
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