Name of Project: Water Color Techniques
Classroom, School: Drawing and Painting 2 at Hill-Murray High School in Maplewood
Cooperating teacher:
Pat Benincasa
Grade Level:
10-12th grade
Presenter's Name:
Joe Weaver
Subject and Curricular Link:
The class teaches different types of painting techniques and projects designed to explore the different techniques, I'm going to be adding another technique and medium for the students to explore.
Overview of Project
The project is going to focus on the techniques of water color, rather then the subject, so I intend to bring in a simple shape, spheres (balloons) of the primary colors. This way they will learn the different types of painting techniques on simple shapes to work on mixing colors and applying those colors to paper
Essential Question(s)
How does working with water color differ from the acrylics the students have been working with?
How do the different techniques change the way the paint reacts to the paper.
Prior Knowledge
The only prior knowledge needed is experience in painting with other mediums, so they have a basic knowledge in how to paint.
Timeline
-Meet with Lynda to discuss the project
-Retrieve materials (bought or if available, receive from Lynda)
-Revising lesson plan
-Email lesson plan to Pat
-Practice lesson plan at home(and then tweak it)
-Teach to students
Examples of student or artist work
I will be doing the lesson plan at home so I can bring in some examples of how it should look, and I will have an example sheet of how both wet on wet looks as well as wet on dry.
Assessment
I will know they understood the project by looking at their work. I will hope to see both wet on wet and wet on dry exploration.
Materials
17 water color brushes
-at least 17 pages of water color paper
-7 spray bottles (optional)
-enough tubes of primary colored water color paints (probably a few bigger sized tubes, the students don't need a whole lot)
-2 water cups per table (so roughly 12 water cups)
Teacher Vocabulary
"Wet on wet" and "wet on dry" techniques.
Procedures
1. Have the materials passed out before the class starts.
2. Then I will discuss the overview of the project (introducing the materials and what they will be learning.
2. Then I will hang up the demonstrations as well as the step by step procedure of the project
3. Demonstrate in front of the students the different techniques.
4. Explain what it is they should focus on (the exploration of the techniques rather then getting the subject matter correct)
5. Let the students begin to explore while I walk around and give feed back
6. Once the students have finished, I will take the projects home to document
Teacher Reflection
What problems are anticipated with this lesson?
The biggest problem I can foresee is the time, only 46 minutes to do everything.
How does this project fit into overall curriculum planning for this subject areas?
It works great with their course description, it teaches them a new medium and painting techniques.
How will your students work be shared with the community?
They will be photographed and put on the teaching artist website, and some work may be hung up at the school.
How will you receive feedback on your teaching methodology and quality of student work?
I plan on talking to Pat afterwards to see how everything went in her eyes, she has a long history of teaching and can provide much needed reflection.
Feedback Activities
The Students will write on a separate piece of paper answering the question, "How does the water color paints differ from the acrylics the have been using?"
Materials
-17 water color brushes
-at least 17 pages of water color paper
-7 spray bottles (optional)
-enough tubes of primary colored water color paints (probably a few bigger sized tubes, the students don't need a whole lot)
-2 water cups per table (so roughly 12 water cups)
Focusing Attention
I'm hoping that the students focus on experimenting with the paints as well as the techniques they can use with them.