This unit focused on observational drawings, tints and shades, and creating an interesting composition. Some of the final products were featured at the HCPSS art show (yes, pictured above is third grader's work, they did an amazing job).
I brought in four small bikes for the students to observe. My first lesson was on zooming in to smaller parts of the bike (to create an interesting composition), and about drawing contour lines.
This is an example of the way I demonstrated how to draw the outside of a shape, not the inside, in order to simplify it. Using the marker over what I'd drawn helped them see parts of the bike I drew.
After I demonstrated, students did five minute drills where they moved around the room to each different bike and drew only a part of it (zooming in). Below are two student examples.
I continued to reiterate how to create interesting compositions. Below is a drill they did before working on their final product.
Next they chose their background color (either red, blue, yellow, green, or purple) and began to draw their "zoomed-in" composition on the bike (student example below). The process of drawing their final product took about 2 1/2 class periods.
We then talked about tints and shades. Students were to create tints and shades using only their background color. We practiced by making gradients first, then we talked about where was best to put the different colors created. The painting process took about 2 class periods.
Completed student work pictured at the top of this post.
My example pictured below (background is very light blue).
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