• Learn the colour wheel and how to recognize and name the primary and secondary colours;
• Learn the complementary colours and how to use them in colour mixing (i.e., red/green, orange/blue, yellow/purple);
• Identify the intensity of a colour (i.e., how bright or dull a colour is and how to mix bright and dull colours.)
• Identify the value of a colour (i.e., distinguish between lighter and darker tones of a colour and learn how to mix them using our three primary colours plus white);

Painting Process/Application:

• Identify art tools, materials, and techniques, used in the painting process and demonstrate understanding of their proper and safe use and how to take care of them;
• Produce two-dimensional works of art that communicate thoughts and feelings, identify characteristics of a variety of lines ... and how to create them with a brush and paint;
• Identify types of lines in art works (e.g., horizontal, vertical, diagonal);
• Identify and describe a variety of textures as we use the paint application process to create them;

 

Suggested Paintings for Step-by-step

Curriculum Connections Specific Expectations:

Claude Monet , "Impressionist Sunrise"	This is a great painting to teach students about the Impressionists and their unique approach to art and painting. Students will learn about how the Impressionists were striving to capture the quality of light at a given time of the day and how they would paint outside in order to do that. We will discuss how these paintings were not well received by the people living at that time because they didn't think that they were 'realistic' enough. This painting is an excellent one to use to introduce the concept of atmospheric perspective, or colour perspective (how we can use colours to create a feeling of depth in a painting.)
Hugh G. Rice, "Prairie Rust"	Through recreating this painting step-by-step, students will recognize and name the warm and cool colours, and describe their emotional impact of each. Student will also get to learn the scrumbeling paint application technique and will have lots of fun playing with textures. Hugh G. Rice is a Canadian painter living and working in Winnipeg.
Georgia O'Keefe , "Canna Lily"	With this painting lesson, students will learn about abstraction and how to see patterns and shapes that are beautiful but not necessarily immediately recognizable. Students will learn about analogous colour schemes and how to make a focal point for a painting using colour and values. Other concepts this painting will cover will be symmetry and how the artist uses it to create pattern, rhythm and surprise. Paint application techniques will include glazing and how to vary the opacities of pigments using acrylic additives.
Claude Monet , "Water Lilies"	This painting will be used to teach the concept of horizontal perspective. We will observe that the water lily pads are larger and spaced farther apart. As the surface of the water recedes, the lily pads become smaller, more oblique and closer together. This concept will be reinforced with round objects that are seen straight on and then seen at the side. More discussion will focus on abstraction and how Monet's famous waterlines are working towards being more and more totally abstract works of art that rely only on shape, colour, line and placement to convey meaning and emotions.
Wassily Kandinsky, "Celestial Island Transfiguration"	Atmospheric perspective will also be discussed in the creation of this painting. Along with a discussion of artistic viewpoints, students will learn about Kandisky's life and his writings about art. They will learn scrumbeling painting techniques and how to make sense of the placement of weird objects.