Project Description:
Students will be imagining their own pirate adventure. They will imagine the place they are traveling to to find their treasure and will design and paint their own pirate ships!
Essential Understanding:
Artists can create a two-dimensional composition with three-dimensional elements through the use of shapes and patterns.
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Students can use art to tell an invented story.
Key Concepts:
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Color
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Shape
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Pattern
Skills:
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Planning in sketchbook
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Painting
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Describing art
Art Focus:
Exploring to practice using acrylic paint
Literary Focus:
Students are filling out lesson menus to help them come up with an idea
Documentation:
Students focused on painting backgrounds for their pirate ships that will be added later. Below shows documentation of discoveries through this process.
Before painting, students made observations of famous artworks and shared their interpretations.
Several students noticed that there are houses in the background of the painting. By observing that there are houses students made interpretations by telling stories. One student explained that there is, "A village and maybe this is sailing to the houses to park." Another student came up with a story about the painting that "they could be finding another land." One student made an observation that the red pattern could be fish. Through questioning, students made observations to interpret the painting because art tells stories, just like they are creating their own story about a ship through visual representation.
To begin, some students used a pencil to outline before painting without being told to do so. This shows that students used their prior art knowledge to create a painting.
These students continued to experiment with the magic of color mixing. The two students in the left video discovered that there can be a variety of colors mixing even though they were mixing the same three colors. They both mixed red, white and blue and one student's color came out more purple and the other was pinker. The student in the right video played with color mixing to make a grayish pink.
These students who are shown in the videos above discovered different mark-making techniques. The student in the left video made bullets by dabbing his paintbrush on the paper. The student in the middle video discovered that the metal part of the paintbrush could make scratches "I think the edge of my paintbrush just scratched." The student in the right video discovered that sometimes mistakes can be "happy accidents" she accidentally made a mark but noticed that it looked interesting.
These students made their artworks by imagining that they are princesses and the painting is their land. "We are a queen in our imagination land." They created these compositions by planning where certain elements will go.