Powdered Tempera Animal
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze a Lascaux cave painting and discuss the ways in which prehistoric paintings represent reality. They identify the use of line, color, shape, texture, and space used in cave paintings and as seen in real scens of animals. They learn about prehistoric art and cave paintings, practice sketching animals using basic shapes, draw the contours of prehistoric animals on a paper "cave wall," and paint and shade their animals in the manner of the cave artists, using powdered, chalklike, natural pigments.

Cut Paper Mask
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Klee’s Senecio (Head of a Man) and compare realistic and abstract facial features. They identify the use of line, color, shape, texture, and space in Klee's painting, find the geometric shapes and symmetry used to build an abstract head, discuss how color creates mood, describe how Klee showed expression, and try to identify these expressions. They practice sketching faces and create paper collage portraits, using cutting-and-folding techniques to add details and depth.

Tempera Tree Drawing
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Li T’ang’s painting Old Man and Child on Buffalo and compare Chinese and western painting styles. They identify the use of line, color, texture, and space, discuss the way repitition and balance occur in nature and in this painting, identify tones of black from light to dar, and find the foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line. They practice sketching trees and branches and paint trees in the Chinese style, using twigs dipped in different tones of black paint.

Oil Pastel Abstract Design
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Nellie Mae Rowe’s painting and learn about her Folk Art style. They identify organic and geometric shapes and patterns, find the viewpoint and profile view of the figures, describe the use of warm and cool colors, and identify contrasting warm and cool colors and curving lines. They sketch bugs and small animals, draw patterns in and around writings of their names, and use oil pastels to create compositions with lively moods.

Colored Marker Figure Drawing
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Kirchner’s Hockey Players and his techniques for showing action. They identify the diagonal lines that show action, describe how overlap shows distance, describe the figures' attributes and how they help tell the story, and learn to mix secondary colors with tempera paint. They practice sketching figures in action and print figures in action.

Fingerpaint Self Portrait
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze van Gogh’s Self Portrait and discuss the expressive lines and bright colors that are typical of his style. They identify the use of line, color, shape, texture, and space and learn about how van Gogh became a painter and how he used art to express his emotions. They practice sketching faces using basic proportions and finger paint portraits of heroes or someone they admire, using expressive lines and colors to show personality and create mood.

Tempera Landscape Monoprint
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze the Currier & Ives landscape painting Across the Continent, identify the vanishing point and artists' techniques for showing distance, and describe the story told in this painting. They practice sketching landscapes with vanishing points, paint landscapes on foil with foregrounds, middle grounds, and backgrounds, and create monoprints showing depth.

Clay Portrait
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Ruben’s Portrait of Nicholas and discuss his techniques for creating rounded forms from flat shapes. They identify the correct placement of facial features, describe the character of the boy using clues in the drawing, and practice sketching faces. They use slip to attach clay, carve details with tools, and sculpt clay portraits, placing features in correct proportion.

Tempera and Paper Collage
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Cezanne’s Still Life and the composition of fruits and objects. They identify the use of line, color, shape, texture, and space, learn about Cezanne’s Post-Impressionist style and his desire to show the forms of the fruits, practice sketching fruits and vegetables, and draw fruits and vegetables using basic shapes and observing details. They color fruits in primary and secondary colors, using oil pastel and showing highlights and shadows to show form, and arrange still lifes in balanced compositions using cut-out vegetables and fruits.

Chalk Pastel Landscape
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze El Greco’s landscape, View of Toledo, and the mood created by color and line and describe ways he showed the illusion of distance by the size of objects and their placement in the foreground, middle ground, and background. They practice sketching landscapes, draw landscapes, using color expressively to show mood, and create chalk pastel landscapes, using color and line to give unity to their compositions.

Torn Paper Collage
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Picasso’s Three Musicians and discuss his use of abstraction, geometric shapes, and balance. They identify the use of line, color, shape, texture, and space, learn about Picasso and his style called Cubism, and practice sketching figures based on geometric shapes. They draw figures using geometric shapes and create cubist collages of musicians using shapes to build figures and bright contrasting colors to show mood.

Tempera Abstraction
Second Grade Artist

Students analyze Kandinsky’s Color Study and learn about the non-objective style he called Abstraction. They identify the use of line, color, and shape and learn new painting techniues and how to mix secondary colors. They draw concentric circles and paint non-objective compositions with concentric circles, using mixed colors of tempera paint.