Great American Portraits
Create a gray scale painting of a famous Great American – learn and use start up skills, like tracing to start, and blocking in.
Resources
- Large Photos of Great Americans (students have already selected who they are researching)
- Paper
- Carbon Paper
- Pencils
- Acrylic paint (pre-mixed into 6-7 grayscale values)
- Paper Plates
- Water Bowls
- Paper Towels
- Paintbrushes
Fine Art Standards
- OBJECTIVE 1: Explore a variety of art materials while learning new techniques and processes.
- a. Simplify the beginning of a work of art, using start-up skills; e.g., blocking-in, gesture drawing, stick figures.
Integrated Standards
SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARD:
- Identify explorers who came to the Americas and the nations they represented.
- Analyze contributions of American Indian people to the colonial settlements.
- Profile citizens who rose to greatness as leaders. Identify the key ideas, events, and leaders of the Civil War using primary sources.
- Identify leaders of social and political movements.
Objectives
Students will…
- Identify and research a Great American
- Create a Gray Scale Portrait of their Great American to be displayed during their singing performance
- Learn start up drawing skills like using carbon paper to trace and get a good likeness.
- Learn painting skills like using blocking in to start, and how to create texture