Studio #2

The artwork that I created, for this assignment, is a picture of my family. We are at my lake house eating dinner. This is a birds eye view of my back deck and yard of the house. The materials that were used for this project were a piece of heavy white paper, oil pastels, a giant paint brush, and water colored paint. We drew our picture, with the oil pastels, first and then painted over them with the secondary color of our choice. I decided to combine blue and red to make purple as my secondary color. I have seven people in my family, including myself. I drew us all sitting around the table on our deck. Unfortunately I got a little ahead of myself and drew everyone as a blonde girl. However, in my family, this is not the case. I also realized after I started drawing that I needed to have done it in a different way. I needed to draw the picture looking at it in front of me instead of as a birds eye view. I should have done this so that I could have the different depths to the picture. If I were to have done it this way you would have seen my family up front where the table would have been. From then, you would have seen the house behind us, the roof of the deck above us, and the other items on the deck next to us.

This studio project is definitely age appropriate for first graders. I say this because it goes just beyond what they would have learned in kindergarten and expands on it. It allows them to take what they already know and develop their knowledge further. I particularly liked that the lesson include not only a multitude of different vocabulary words for the kids to learn, such as, above, below, beside, behind, in-between, etc.. But just as well, it required them to experiment to make their secondary colors. Finally, this activity is great for further talking about detail and how to expand on your descriptive skills. The children can observe what has happened to the oil pastels now that they have been painted over and what the picture now looks like. 

The standards state:

LT: Identifies and shows a main idea in a work of art.

AC: Describes and draws family members and setting for art.

LT: Identifies locations in a composition.

AC: Describes parts that are above, below, behind, and in-between in a work of art and own art.

LT: Creates an oil pastel resist with secondary color.

AC: Mixes orange, green or violet watercolor wash over oil pastel drawing.

I believe that every single one of these standards were clearly met in this particular lesson. Just as well, I believe that were not only met but expanded on and well presented.

I honestly do not really see many issues with this lesson. The only thing I can really think of is how irritating it was to continuously remake the color I wanted to use. It ran out really quickly so I kept needing more. this made things difficult because every time it was a different shade of purple and that was making me very angry. I could definitely see children being angry about this aspect of the lesson.