Project/Unit description/Expedition.
In this week’s lesson, kindergarten artists will build on the skills and knowledge, which they began to develop during last week’s art exploration. The students will using what they learned about identifying and utilizing simple shapes within complex shapes, such as that of a human figure or face, to create a representation of their own face through art. The students will learn about the placement, shape, and proportion of the facial features as an exploration of personal identity and individuality in artistic representation.
Students will use colored pencils during this lesson, in continuation of their exploration of various art media. The artists will also use printed images of themselves to observe and identify the unique characteristics and shapes that make their own face unique.
Essential Understanding
Artists make observations and simplify complex problems in order to create art.
Inquiry/Learning Target
How shape, size, color, and placement of facial features in art communicate information about the identity of the subject?
What are the properties of colored pencils and how can I use them to make art?
Key Concepts
Observe
Create
Problem Solve
Shapes
Proportion
Spatial Relationship
Identity
Skill(s)
Identification and simplification of simple shapes within complex shapes and formsThe placement and scale of facial features within the human face. The use of colored pencils in the creation of art Reflection and analysis of one’s own artwork and the artwork of others
Art Focus
Students will focus on the recognition of similarities and differences of facial features, the shapes within the human face, and the use of colored pencils in the creation of art.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their own artwork, that of their peers, and historical fine art examples during demonstrations, discussions, and reflective activities.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the use of shapes as they relate to the features and characteristics of the human face. The kindergarten artists began the lesson by engaging identifying and discussing the facial features and shapes within examples of fine art. Students then worked independently to make observations and graphic notations about the size, shape, color, and position of their own facial features using a printed photograph of themselves as a reference. Upon completion of this exercise, students used colored pencils in order to create personal interpretations of their own facial features based on their observations. The students reflected on their own work and that of their peers as a group, before returning to their workstations to explore ideas about how to adorn and disguise the human face for an upcoming mask making project.
In this week’s lesson, kindergarten artists will build on the skills and knowledge, which they began to develop during last week’s art exploration. The students will using what they learned about identifying and utilizing simple shapes within complex shapes, such as that of a human figure or face, to create a representation of their own face through art. The students will learn about the placement, shape, and proportion of the facial features as an exploration of personal identity and individuality in artistic representation.
Students will use colored pencils during this lesson, in continuation of their exploration of various art media. The artists will also use printed images of themselves to observe and identify the unique characteristics and shapes that make their own face unique.
Essential Understanding
Artists make observations and simplify complex problems in order to create art.
Inquiry/Learning Target
How shape, size, color, and placement of facial features in art communicate information about the identity of the subject?
What are the properties of colored pencils and how can I use them to make art?
Key Concepts
Observe
Create
Problem Solve
Shapes
Proportion
Spatial Relationship
Identity
Skill(s)
Identification and simplification of simple shapes within complex shapes and formsThe placement and scale of facial features within the human face. The use of colored pencils in the creation of art Reflection and analysis of one’s own artwork and the artwork of others
Art Focus
Students will focus on the recognition of similarities and differences of facial features, the shapes within the human face, and the use of colored pencils in the creation of art.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their own artwork, that of their peers, and historical fine art examples during demonstrations, discussions, and reflective activities.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the use of shapes as they relate to the features and characteristics of the human face. The kindergarten artists began the lesson by engaging identifying and discussing the facial features and shapes within examples of fine art. Students then worked independently to make observations and graphic notations about the size, shape, color, and position of their own facial features using a printed photograph of themselves as a reference. Upon completion of this exercise, students used colored pencils in order to create personal interpretations of their own facial features based on their observations. The students reflected on their own work and that of their peers as a group, before returning to their workstations to explore ideas about how to adorn and disguise the human face for an upcoming mask making project.
Students began by observing shapes of the face and helping to play a 'pin the tail on the donkey' sort of game by placing the correct objects onto where they fit on the face. Included was a larger eyeball. Students asked about it and said "it's too big to fit on the face" making a good observation that the smaller eyes looked better proportionally on the face cut out.
Next they practiced again with art posters that showed portraits and drew out shapes they could identify on the artwork.
Next they practiced again with art posters that showed portraits and drew out shapes they could identify on the artwork.
Students then went to their desks and worked with images of themselves and colored pencils to pick out shapes they could see on their own photo to help draw their own face. One student's image included her headband and she said "I can include those shapes in my image to show my headband." This was a great observation to show how she decided to make her image more personal.
This student made an observation on his own photo about his teeth. "They look like little rectangles!" He closely observing all the shapes he could see on his face even ones as detailed as the shapes that made up his teeth. Can you see his rectangle teeth in his drawn portrait from his first observation? |
This student also made an interesting observation. When drawing his ears onto his portrait, he drew little swirls inside the circles that represented his ears. When asked about them he said "well your ears have little spots that go in in them." It was an interesting observation he made and he used it to show that his ears were not flat shapes but had 'swirls' to show depth. |
While we did not limit the students on color choice when drawing their images with the colored pencils, one student made an observation about the colors he used. He said "most of my face is brown... my eyes, eyebrows, hair" he did well observing that not only the shapes on personal portrait he was looking at were important, but also the colors of his own features could help show what he looked like.
In this video, the student was asked about the shapes he saw and used for his portrait. He was asked about the placement of his shapes and what determined where the features should fall on his portrait. |
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The student in this video was also asked to describe the different shapes she used in her portrait and how and where she decided to use those shapes. |
Here are some final portraits created by the students in the lesson. The class did well really observing shapes seen in the picture of themselves provided and thinking about those observations when drawing their own version of their portrait. Can you see their uses of shapes and placement that helped them depict themselves and their features?