Oil Pastel Apple
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Winslow Homer’s Snap the Whip and learn about his Realist style. They identify how details of clothing and nature show the time period, describe how highlights and shadows give form and how converging lines show distance, and discuss how complementary colors and diagonal lines create a feeling of action and tension. They draw detailed apples in four stages of being eaten and color realistic apples using oil pastels with blended colors to show highlights and shadows.

Quilt Square
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze the double story in Ringgold’s quilt Dancing in the Louvre and learn about the significance of quilts in American history. They identify symbolic colors and designs used in quilts as codes for the underground railroad, identify the diagonal lines and geometric patterns in Ringgold’s quilt, and describe the use of flip, slide, and turn patterns. They draw the Flying Geese and Crossroads patterns and create their own symmetrical quilt squares using symmetrical and balanced patterns.

Charcoal Portrait
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Copley’s Boy with a Squirrel and Stuart’s George Washington and identify the textures, attributes, and expressions that tell about them. They compare the style and techniques of the two portraits, describe the techniques of shading used to create the illusion of form, and draw self-portraits using charcoal. They create portraits with charcoal, using shading to create depth and form.

Charcoal and Tempera Still Life
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Harnett’s My Gems and identify the elements of trompe l’oeil painting and how it appeals to our senses. They identify the textures and the clues that tell when this painting was made, mix primary colors to get secondary colors, and create form and volume by painting highlights and shadows. They draw 3-D objects using charcoal to show volume and paint a trompe l’oeil still lifes showing objects with shading.

Pop Art Print
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Warhol’s 100 Cans and learn about the Pop Art style. They identify elements of Pop Art and how the style reflects consumerism and describe the way the elements of art and principles of design are used in Warhol’s art. They sketch graphic images and icons and print and mount a series of objects representing popular culture.

Clay Food
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Oldenburg’s Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything and learn about Oldenburg’s Pop Art sculptures. They identify how the artist used color to add to the realism and describe how artists can convey humor through their art. They sketch foods and create sculptures of ordinary, everyday consumable objects.

Tempera Figure
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Young Boy with a Dog by a Colonial Limner artist, and learn about the portraits painted by itinerant colonial artists in New England. They identify attributes that tell about the boy and describe the natural colors and repeated patterns. They sketch figures in proportion, draw figures in colonial clothing and with attributes, and paint the figures using mixed complementary colors.

Marker Pen and Collage Poster
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Bradley’s Victor Bicycles poster and discuss how art can be used to influence buyers. They identify how Bradley used the principles of design to create an appealing composition and describe how image uses contrast and repetition to send a message. They design posters advertising vehicles and create balanced compositions using design principles.

Watercolor Landscape with Horses
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Remington’s The Apache and learn about how he captured the feelings of Native Americans as settlers moved into Indian territory. They identify how line creates a feeling of movement and describe how Remington arranged his composition to convey an attitude, or point of view, about the subject. They draw horses using basic shapes and use water colors to paint landscapes with moving horses.

Interior Perspective Drawing
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Lawrence’s The Studio and learn about his expressionistic style depicting the lifestyle of the African-American community. They identify the vanishing point and converging lines, describe Lawrence’s use of color, line, and perspective, and draw interiors of a room using one-point perspective with a vanishing point. They create and color rooms with realistic objects in a one-point perspective drawing.

Chalk Pastel Bird
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Audubon’s Wild Turkey and learn about how Audubon observed and painted birds. They identify the techniques he used to make the bird appear realistic, describe the use of patterns to create texture, and sketch birds using a picture as a model. They color birds realistically, blending colors to create undertones and adding details using chalk pastel.

Watercolor Stain Painting
Fifth Grade Artist

Students analyze Frankenthaler’s Blue Atmosphere and learn about Color Field painting. They identify moods created by the colors, describe the balance and flow of the painting, and experiment with different techniques for adding paint to wet paper. They create non-objective watercolor compositions by blending colors on wet surfaces.