SKILL BUILDING
Skill Building choice lessons are designed to help students review concepts and to continue to develop their craft as an artist. Choose one, choose them all! Have fun and be creative!
Every work of art contains at least one of the seven elements of art, but they are also found in the world around us.
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Go on a scavenger hunt around your home and find and draw examples for each of the seven elements.
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Line
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Shape
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Color
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Texture
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Space
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Value
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Form
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Materials:
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Paper
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Pencil
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Crayons/markers
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Elements of Art Scavenger Hunt
Warm & Cool Color Drawings
Color is often viewed in temperatures such as warm and cool. Warm colors, RED, YELLOW and ORANGE give the feeling of warmth as they often remind us of the sun or fire. Cool colors, BLUE, GREEN, and VIOLET give a cool and calming feeling as they often remind us of water and grass.
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Make two similar drawings and use warm colors in one drawing and use cool colors in the second.
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Take note of how or if the change in colors changes the way you feel when looking at your picture.
Materials:
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Paper
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Pencil (optional)
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Crayons/Markers or watercolors
Line Drawings
Line is an element of art defined as the path of a point moving through space. There are many types of line in art. Lines may be continuous or broken and can be any width or texture. Some common lines are, straight, wavy, curved, broken, dotted, zig-zag and spiral.
Practice Drawing Lines:
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Draw a variety of lines. Fill your paper with examples of straight, wavy, curved, broken, dotted, zig zag and spiral lines.
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Line Challenge: Draw a picture using only straight lines.
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Practice drawing lines as expression. Listen to music while drawing different types of lines.
Materials:
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Paper
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Pencil
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Crayons/markers