5th Grade
Week 1:
Introductions. Goals for the year. What Is Art? What is a critique?
A history of the pencil. Linear Perspective.
Week 2:
Linear Perspective - Technical Skills. 2 Point and 1 Point Perspective. Drawing a simple house.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 3: Drawing Skills.
Value Drawing
Technical skills - Using a pencil, eraser, and blending tool to create values.
Compositional skills - Developing a nonrepresentational drawing using lines (straight and curved), shapes (straight-sided and round), and values (changing gradually from dark to light).
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 4: Still Life Drawing
Observational skills - Drawing what you see.
Size, placement, overlapping - Compositional Skills.
Still Life Drawing - Observational Skills.
Week 5: Color.
Color in Art. Color Wheel. Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
Complementary Colors. Warm and cool colors.
Creating contrast with color.
Painting a watercolor color wheel.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Art History: The Renaissance.
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation of Christ
Raphael, The School of Athens
Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Watercolor or tempera fruit painting using complementary colors for shading.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 7:
Watercolor or tempera fruit painting using complementary colors for shading.
Week 8:
Art History: The Baroque and Rococo
Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus
Rembrandt, The Night Watch
Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas
Jan Vermeer, The Art of Painting
Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Watercolor or tempera fruit painting using complementary colors for shading.
Week 9:
Oil pastel fruit drawing.
Looking at a variety of fruit (red and green apples, oranges, bananas, pears, and grapes), we will draw them as a still life and use oil pastels to add the colors that we see. We will work with complementary colors to create the shadows on our fruit and white to create highlights.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Value Sheet.
We will learn about different shading skills and practice those skills with a pencil. The skills include blended shading (with a blending stump), stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 10:
Value Sheet (finish).
We will learn about different shading skills and practice those skills with a pencil. The skills include blended shading (with a blending stump), stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching.
An Autumnal View from Above
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
In order to make this piece, we will use colored construction paper, watercolors or tempera paints, colored pencils, scissors, and glue.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 11:
An Autumnal View from Above
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
In order to make this piece, we will use colored construction paper, watercolors or tempera paints, colored pencils, scissors, and glue.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Week 12:
An Autumnal View from Above (continued)
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
An Autumnal View from Above (continued)
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
An Autumnal View from Above (continued)
For this piece, we will create a unique perspective: A View from above a branch looking down at a ground covered with colorful Fall leaves.
Art History: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Marie Antoinette and Her Children
Jacques Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans
Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair
Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Week 16:
An Autumnal View from Above (finish)
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.1.a Develop ideas using a variety of materials.
FA 5.2.1.b Use observation, imagination and interpretation in creating artworks that reflect a variety of styles, themes, and subjects.
FA 5.2.1.e Apply various techniques to develop craftsmanship skills.
FA 5.2.1.f Demonstrate respect for accepted procedures regarding responsible care of equipment and materials.
Art History: Impressionism
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Art History: The Aesthetic Movement and Portraiture
James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 or Whistler's Mother
John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Week 1:
A Portrait with Meaning
We will look at a variety of portraits and self-portraits and talk about how we might add color to the pencil portraits that we drew. We will talk about lines, shapes, and patterns, and we will talk about symbolism. Then we will add color to our own portraits while thinking about the meaning behind our decisions.
Week 3:
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Week 4:
A Portrait with Meaning
We will finish these drawings.
Calligraphy
For this activity, we will practice calligraphy using a Renaissance Italian calligraphic script. Calligraphy means beautiful writing, so we will also be working on our handwriting or penmanship skills. Before practicing our own calligraphic skills, we will watch a short video about Jake Weidmann, a Master Penman who incorporates calligraphy into his artwork.
Week 5:
Calligraphy
For this activity, we will practice calligraphy using a Renaissance Italian calligraphic script. Calligraphy means beautiful writing, so we will also be working on our handwriting or penmanship skills.
Week 6:
Ruling Lines for Cursive
For this activity, we will talk about the idea of ruling out space between lines for text. Then we will talk about and begin practicing cursive.
Art History: Pablo Picasso
The Fisherman
First Communion
The Old Guitarist
Still Life with Chair Caning
Guernica
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Week 7:
Cursive
We will practice writing a basic cursive script.
Week 8:
Cursive
We will practice writing a basic cursive script.
Pouring out Your Thoughts
For this drawing, we will drawing a bottle to look round by starting with an ellipse for the top of the bottle and giving the bottom of the bottle a curve. We will draw the bottle to have its own unique form while drawing it at an angle near a corner of the paper. Finally, we will shade the bottle using a blending stump to give it a highlight and a gradual change in value (light to dark) to make it appear round.
When we turn our paper, we will see that our bottle appears to be angled as though it is pouring something out. We will decide what it is pouring. Is it pouring a liquid? Is it pouring out solid items? Is it pouring out something that we would expect or is it pouring our something unexpected?
Week 9:
Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Glue Bottle Still Life
We will briefly return to drawing a glue bottle from real life, something we did near the beginning of the school year.
Week 10:
Sunset with Silhouette
Using watercolors, we will paint a sunset and then add a silhouette of a tree to look like it is overlapping the sunset. We will talk about the colors that we would see in the sky during a sunset and then try to create those colors using a wet-on-wet technique. Then, we will add the ground with black as the colors of the sky dry. Finally, we will add our tree(s) using a wet-on-dry technique as well as a dry brush technique to imitate leaves on branches.
Week 11:
Watercolor Flower
Using a pencil to draw flowers and watercolors to add color, we will create a piece that might remind viewers of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. We will use a wet-on-wet technique and complementary colors to create depth with values and to make our flowers visually pop.
Week 12:
Art History: Modern Art
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Kay Sage, Tomorrow Is Never
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Edward Hopper, Room in New York
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
Week 13:
Architecture
We will sketch some of the basic features found on Classical and Neoclassical architecture, including Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite column capitals. Then we will look at photographs of actual buildings to find these features.
Week 14:
Watercolor Resist Flower
For this piece, we will use crayons as a wax. We will draw the outline of a flower with a stem and leaves with violet and green crayons. We will then draw a series of curved lines in the background or negative space with yellow crayons. Once our crayon lines are done, we will use watercolors to add color to flower, stem, and background. The crayon will resist - push away the watercolor - so that it is still visible alongside the watercolor.
Architecture
Writing an Artist Statement
For this activity, we will talk about an artist statement and we will look at the soft pastel drawings of Zaria Forman, a contemporary artist who creates stunning photorealistic images of glaciers, icebergs, and waves while raising awareness of climate change.
Using appropriate words and sentence structure, we will write our own artist statements. In our statements, we will try to express who we are as artists. What subject do we prefer to work with in our artwork? What medium (or media) do we prefer to use? What ideas or stories or emotions do we prefer to communicate?
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 5.2.2.a Communicate artistic statements (glossary) using art terminology (e.g., product, process).
Week 15:
Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art
Andrew Wyeth
Bridget Riley
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
Barnett Newman
Chuck Close
Audrey Flack
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
A Series of Work
We will also begin a series of pieces connected to our artist statement.
Week 16:
A Series of Work
Week 17:
Earth Day:
We will look at four pieces of Land Art by Andy Goldsworthy.
A Series of Work
Week 18:
Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art
Audrey Flack
Judy Chicago
Cindy Sherman
Marina Abramovic
Nebraska Visual Arts Standards:
FA 2.2.3.a Identify and describe a piece of art (e.g., subject matter (glossary), use of color).
FA 2.2.3.b Identify use of elements and principles (glossary) in works of art (e.g., recognize use of pattern, symmetry).
FA 2.2.3.c Interpret mood or feeling in a work of art.
FA 2.2.4.d Identify how images and objects are used to convey a story, familiar experience, or connection to the world.
A Series of Work
Week 19:
Clay Form
For this piece, we will use air dry clay to create a 3-dimensional form.
Week 20: