Author: Katrina Bowles

CMS Lesson Plan Oil Pastel Unit/ Impressionist Artist
Teacher: Mrs. Katrina Bowles Lesson Date: Week of 10/12—10/16/2015
Subject: Visual Art 6th, 7th & 8th Grades

GSE Assessment Limits/Standards: (What are the skills being taught? Which standards are being specifically addressed in this lesson?) / VA6CU.2—Investigates and discovers personal relationship to community, culture, and the world through making and studying art. / VA8PR.2– Creates artwork reflecting a range of concepts, ideas, subject matter. / VA8PR.7.f.: The student understands and applies media, techniques and processes. (Oil Pastels) / Elements of Art– Review of the Elements of Art and Design vocabulary and further practice using the oil pastel medium. / Gestural Sketches— A gesture drawing is a laying in of the action, form, and pose of a model/figure. / John Carrington rep with Sax clay supply company	Please indicate whether this plan is Monday, or Block specific plan. You will need a plan for Monday and one for your Block A days and your Block B days each week. / Monday– No School. / Tues./Wed.– Students will review the Principles and Elements of Art and Design through answering a series of questions. / Afterwards, students will view a brief instructional video, on VirtualInstructor.com about blending colors using the oil pastel medium. Students will be given a small piece of manila paper to re-create their own small oil pastel of a red apple for practice. / Thurs./Fri.— PowerPoint presentation on the Impressionist Artists, including Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and Cassatt. / After the PowerPoint, and in-class discussion of who the Impressionist artists were, students will be given a choice of reference handouts featuring the artist Cassatt, with a mother and small child, or a Degas, featuring two ballerinas. / Students will be given additional choices of other Impressionist style artists to re-create over the Projector Board.
Lesson Objective/Learning Intention: (What will my students KNOW by the end of the lesson? What will they DO to learn it?) / Monday– Students will review definitions of both the Principles and Elements of Art and Design through a series of questions.. Students will practice drawing sample gestural sketches from a reference sheet. / Tues./Wed.— Students will continue finish up their rendition of the selected subject matter for each grade level. / Thurs./Fri.- Students will be posing for one another and using the gestural drawing skills that they learned on Monday to capture the poses and movement of one another using graphite pencil and manila paper.