Ms. Edwards' Art Room

This lesson was inspired by two separate ideas, the first involving the use of pattern and texture, and the second, applying color theory to create a focal point. The discussion started with the concept of texture and visual texture and how one can create different textures. I held a contest where each table was challenged to write down as many examples of textures they could think of. The winning group had over sixty different textures!!! We then talked about how to draw these textures and practiced by repeating lines and/or shapes. The next part of the lesson was selecting an animal to be the focal point of the piece. The students were asked to create emphasis through their use of a color scheme demonstrating their understanding of color relationships from the color theory unit. A critique was held to view and talk about the finished product. Check them out below...

In the perspective drawing unit, students learned how to draw boxes in one point perspective and buildings in two point perspective. After practicing from various vanishing points and different horizon lines, students were given the challenge of creating a scene where they demonstrate master of one and two point perspective. The finished work was drawn on black construction paper and colored with colored pencils. Students were encouraged to be creative with their scene, and some amazing pieces were completed!!

Finishing up our drawing unit, students were challenged to create two miniature still life arrangements. Each arrangement had to follow the Rule of Thirds. In the finished compositions, students added an appropriate light source and shaded all objects.