Sarah DeWitt Brooks- Artist Teacher
First Grade- Under the Sea Watercolor Resist
Curriculum Connection: 1st Grade Science
1.3 The student will investigate and understand how different common materials interact with water.
1.7 Simple ways to classify animals are whether they are wild or tame and whether they live on land or water.
Standards:
Category: DRAWING/PAINTING
Concept: Visual Awareness
Components: Color, Line, Texture, Pattern, Composition
Objectives
1. Focus on the Reproductions- Directed Looking: Displaying one image at a time, starting with photograph of scuba diver drawing underwater, describe how this special artist uses resist technique to create drawings while observing underwater creatures in their natural habitat. Describe to students how wax and oil-based art materials such as oil pastels, oil paints and crayons do not mix with water, allowing the artist to create drawings under water. Display reproductions of the artist's drawings and ask students to describe what the artist has included to give clues to the animals habitat- point out coral, plants, other fish, etc.
2. Present the Problem- Review Checkpoints: Encourage students to create a drawing of sea creatures in their natural habitat. The drawing should be a seascape- illustrating the animals within the landscape of the ocean. Remind students to include many details of the animals' surroundings. Students should include plants, rocks, coral, fish and any other objects or creatures they imagine might live at the bottom of the ocean. Draw attention to the bright colors used in contrast to the blue-green background. Encourage students to use colors from the opposite side of the color wheel to create strong contrast in their own drawings.
3. Guide Students' Work- Independent Practice Time: Students should create a balanced composition including a variety of details about the underwater creatures habitat under the sea. Encourage students to use a variety of crayon techniques, and remind students that they must press down hard with the crayons to get the best effect with the watercolor resist technique. As students finish their crayon drawings, they may begin to paint their background with the watercolor paints. If necessary, a separate watercolor table can be set up separate from students' regular tables.
4. Clean-up- Direct clean-up: Students should put drawings/ paintings on the drying rack as they finish, then clean their table area and tidy the paint station area. All materials should be placed at the center of the table, where they were found at the beginning of the class period.
5. Closure- Sharing Student Work: When students have all finished their work, the class can take turns sharing their work, or a Lip and Hip gallery walk can be taken quietly around the room so that students may view each other's work.
Evaluation Criteria:
1.3 The student will investigate and understand how different common materials interact with water.
1.7 Simple ways to classify animals are whether they are wild or tame and whether they live on land or water.
Standards:
- The student will create art from real and imaginary sources of inspiration.
- The student will develop hand/eye coordination by drawing and constructing.
Category: DRAWING/PAINTING
Concept: Visual Awareness
Components: Color, Line, Texture, Pattern, Composition
Objectives
- Students will create a drawing of an underwater seascape.
- Students will learn about how watercolor and crayon reacts together in the crayon resist technique.
- Students will learn about artist Nick Peters and how he uses the resist technique underwater to create drawings of sea creatures while scuba-diving.
- 25 boxes of crayons
- 12" x18 " paper (drawing or bogus)
- watercolor paints, brushes and jars of water
- Reproductions of Nick Peters artwork from: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/aquascapeart/
- Crayon Resist
- Watercolor Resist
- Texture
- Pattern
- Composition
1. Focus on the Reproductions- Directed Looking: Displaying one image at a time, starting with photograph of scuba diver drawing underwater, describe how this special artist uses resist technique to create drawings while observing underwater creatures in their natural habitat. Describe to students how wax and oil-based art materials such as oil pastels, oil paints and crayons do not mix with water, allowing the artist to create drawings under water. Display reproductions of the artist's drawings and ask students to describe what the artist has included to give clues to the animals habitat- point out coral, plants, other fish, etc.
2. Present the Problem- Review Checkpoints: Encourage students to create a drawing of sea creatures in their natural habitat. The drawing should be a seascape- illustrating the animals within the landscape of the ocean. Remind students to include many details of the animals' surroundings. Students should include plants, rocks, coral, fish and any other objects or creatures they imagine might live at the bottom of the ocean. Draw attention to the bright colors used in contrast to the blue-green background. Encourage students to use colors from the opposite side of the color wheel to create strong contrast in their own drawings.
3. Guide Students' Work- Independent Practice Time: Students should create a balanced composition including a variety of details about the underwater creatures habitat under the sea. Encourage students to use a variety of crayon techniques, and remind students that they must press down hard with the crayons to get the best effect with the watercolor resist technique. As students finish their crayon drawings, they may begin to paint their background with the watercolor paints. If necessary, a separate watercolor table can be set up separate from students' regular tables.
4. Clean-up- Direct clean-up: Students should put drawings/ paintings on the drying rack as they finish, then clean their table area and tidy the paint station area. All materials should be placed at the center of the table, where they were found at the beginning of the class period.
5. Closure- Sharing Student Work: When students have all finished their work, the class can take turns sharing their work, or a Lip and Hip gallery walk can be taken quietly around the room so that students may view each other's work.
Evaluation Criteria:
- Students will create a crayon drawing of an underwater seascape.
- Students will include a variety of crayon techniques to show texture and pattern within their seascape.
- Students will use the watercolor crayon resist technique to finish their drawing/painting.
- Students will understand that the wax and oil based art materials resist water.