Oil Pastel with Tempera Wash
First Grade Artist

Students analyze Chagall’s painting, I and The Village, and learn about his fantasy and realistic images. They identify Chagall’s use of primary and secondary colors, geometric shapes and abstract images and describe the colors, shapes, and lines and how they unify the composition. They compare the design of everyday objects in Chagall’s painting with similar objects in their culture. They sketch faces and basic objects, mix and paint with secondary colors and create still life pictures using oil pastel showing objects and figures that tell stories about themselves.

Paper Mask
First Grade Artist

Students analyze an African tribal mask and learn about masks from various time periods and cultures. They identify curving and angular lines, rough and smooth textures, natural colors, and geometric shapes repeated in patterns. They describe geometric patterns found in nature and in the decoration of the mask, sketch faces, and create symmetrical masks with paper sculpture using lines, patterns, and abstract marks inspired by real tribal masks.

Fingerpaint Underwater Scene
First Grade Artist

Students analyze Klee’s Sinbad the Sailor and discuss realistic and abstract design as well as patterns in nature and in this painting. They identify the use of vertical, horizontal, curving, and angular lines and geometric shapes, describe how contrasting colors create mood and identify the ways movement is shown with diagonal lines. They sketch fish and sea creatures and fingerpaint underwater scenes using expressive jagged and curving lines and patterns.

Print Design
First Grade Artist

Students analyze a Tapa cloth from Fiji and feel its rough texture. They learn about how tapa cloth is made and identify symmetrical patterns and geometric shapes in a sample of real tapa cloth. They sketch symmetrical designs and print patterns with positive and negative shapes based on Polynesian designs.

Tempera Pointillism
First Grade Artist

Students analyze The Circus and discuss Seurat’s use of optical color mixing and use of color to create a mood. They identify how Seurat shows the illusion of distance using size and placement and discuss repeated patterns in nature, the environment, and Seurat's painting. They sketch symmetrical butterflies and paint still-life butterflies using Seurat’s pointillist style.

Oil Pastel Winter Landscape
First Grade Artist

Students analyze Bruegel’s Winter Scene and discuss life in Holland during the 16th century. They identify line, color, shape, and texture in Winter Scene and in nature, describe how size, placement, detail, foreground, background, and middle ground show the illusion of space and identify horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. They sketch houses, trees, birds, and figures in action poses and color and paint winter landscapes showing people engaged in wintertime activities.

Clay Animal
First Grade Artist

Students analyze a Tlingit rattle and learn about Native American sculpture, including the materials and techniques used to create them. They identify the use of color, line, shape, and texture in the Rattle, describe how the artist carved realistic features on its composite animal and sketch Arctic animals. They sculpt animals from clay using the pinch-pull method to make the head, legs, and tails and give their animals actual texture.

Tempera Landscape
First Grade Artist

Students analyze Monet’s use of small brush strokes and bright colors to show texture and light. They identify the way color, line, texture, and patterns are used in this painting, learn about Monet and the Impressionists, and discuss how an artist uses foreground, middle ground, and background to show distance. They sketch landscapes and paint Impressionist landscapes with actual and visual texture using tempera paint.

Paper Collage Figure
First Grade Artist

Students analyze She-Ba and discuss how Bearden combines collage and paint, giving rhythm to figures to tell a story. They identify Bearden’s use of color, line, shape, and texture, describe his use of positive and negative space, angular lines, and geometric shapes and sketch figures in proportion. They create abstract figure collage using different textures of paper and fabric for torsos and clothing to communicate rhythm through repetition.

Oil Pastel Contour Figure
First Grade Artist

Students analyze an Egyptian stone stela with an Egyptian-style portrait, a still life on an offering table and hieroglyphics.  They identify the use of line, color, shape, and texture, learn about stylized Egyptian portrait painting and how Egyptians carved pictures in stone, and describe and compare Egyptian stylized views with realistic profiles. They sketch Egyptian-style figures and draw an Egyptian-style stelae with hieroglyphics using variations in line, color, shape, and texture to tell their stories.

Automatic Chalk Drawing
First Grade Artist

Students analyzeMiro's abstract composition People and Dog in the Sun and the expressive use of line and color to show feelings and ideas. They identify the use of line, color, shape, and texture and discuss Miro’s use of positive and negative space. They draw from their imaginations to create automatic designs in the style of Miro and create abstract works of art using chalk pastels.

Abstract Tempera Drip Painting
First Grade Artist

Students analyze how the expressive lines in Jackson Pollock’s Composition show movement and describe the way colors create the appearance of depth. They decribe how shapes are balanced by lines and colors, identify primary colors and overlapping shapes and lines and paint expressive lines to show movement. They overlap colors to show depth and create non-objective compositions.