Grade 6 Outline
Note: This is a "starting place" for projects that help us reach our curriculum goals. The list and projects may change based on available time and spontaneous creative happenings!
1. ATC's: Artist Trading Cards!
Get to know your classmates and your creative self while experimenting with quick and fun creative mini-compositions.
2. Element-Tree
Learn the ART ELEMENTS that make up everything visual, and create an original interpretation of a tree using multiple types of each element and your choice of art materials.
3. Contour Drawing Basics
How do we draw what we really see rather than what we *think* is there? Learn techniques to help draw accurate shapes and practice your skills.
4. "Inner Animal" Painting
If you were an animal, what would you be, and why? Create an original composition of your symbolic "Inner Animal" by creatively interpreting a visual resource using wax resist and watercolor techniques. Learn about the PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN and use them to create an expressive effect with your page layout.
5. Mythical Creature Project
Learn about mythical creatures from the ancient world and create your own myth of a creature that solves a problem.
a) Creature Design
Use symbolic features and descriptive shapes to create a creature who has a form that illustrates its function.
b) Rendering: Value and Color
Learn how to use shading and color blends to develop a sense of realistic three dimensional form in a drawing.
c) Clay Relief Sculpture
Learn about clay techniques and sculptural forms, and create a stela sculpture featuring your mythological creature.
6. Figure and Gesture
Examine figurative proportions and experiment with drawing and sculpting action figures in clay.
7. Egyptian Perspective
Learn about the connection betyween art style and cultural needs through exploring the perspective techniques used by ancient Egyptian society.
8. Pastel Still LIfe: Roman Color!
Use color and pastel painting techniques to create the illusion of three dimensional depth while looking carefully at an organic object.
Get to know your classmates and your creative self while experimenting with quick and fun creative mini-compositions.
2. Element-Tree
Learn the ART ELEMENTS that make up everything visual, and create an original interpretation of a tree using multiple types of each element and your choice of art materials.
3. Contour Drawing Basics
How do we draw what we really see rather than what we *think* is there? Learn techniques to help draw accurate shapes and practice your skills.
4. "Inner Animal" Painting
If you were an animal, what would you be, and why? Create an original composition of your symbolic "Inner Animal" by creatively interpreting a visual resource using wax resist and watercolor techniques. Learn about the PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN and use them to create an expressive effect with your page layout.
5. Mythical Creature Project
Learn about mythical creatures from the ancient world and create your own myth of a creature that solves a problem.
a) Creature Design
Use symbolic features and descriptive shapes to create a creature who has a form that illustrates its function.
b) Rendering: Value and Color
Learn how to use shading and color blends to develop a sense of realistic three dimensional form in a drawing.
c) Clay Relief Sculpture
Learn about clay techniques and sculptural forms, and create a stela sculpture featuring your mythological creature.
6. Figure and Gesture
Examine figurative proportions and experiment with drawing and sculpting action figures in clay.
7. Egyptian Perspective
Learn about the connection betyween art style and cultural needs through exploring the perspective techniques used by ancient Egyptian society.
8. Pastel Still LIfe: Roman Color!
Use color and pastel painting techniques to create the illusion of three dimensional depth while looking carefully at an organic object.