Artists Reveal Nature
Microdrawing in Watercolor
Enduring Understanding - Artists use ideas and material from nature
Why do artists depict the world around them?
How do they do it?
Content Knowledge:
Explain how watercolor and colored pencil can be used to describe colors and textures found in nature
Explain how and artists can gain a new understanding of the world around them through intensive observation and recording.
Tree leaves
Plants
Bugs!
Wax-resist Watercolor
Standards:
Understands what makes different art media, techniques, and processes effective (or ineffective) in communicating various ideas
Knows some of the effects of various visual structures (e.g., design elements such as line, color, shape; principles such as repetition, rhythm, balance) and functions of art
Distinguishes among multiple purposes for creating works of art
Activities:
- Think pair share - 1. Why do artists record the world around them? 2. How do they record it?
- Frottage assignment
- discuss the rubbings. How well do they record? Are they realistic?
- Read the following:“Macro in photography means that an image of the whole object on the photo is bigger than the object in real life. Micro means showing something that can't be seen with the naked eye, like when you look through a microscope. The surface of an organic form, photographed in micro, would appear considerably larger than the original object. This might mean the details of the inside of the object would be so large that only part of the object would appear in the photo.”
- Review micro/macro
- Take 10 pictures of nature
- Watercolor Intro
Viewfinder 101
Pencil in your approved composition
Go over last 3 H2O techniques
practice using 3 different techniques on your mini-comp
Complete mixed-media watercolor micro drawing
- reflect and critique