Watercolor Zentangle

 Flower Mixed Media

Objective - To create a mixed media design with watercolor paint and pen zentangle.

Materials - White paper, pencil, watercolor paints, water, paint brushes, sharpies

Steps:

1. Idea search flower pictures. Choose one to draw. 

2. Draw the flower in pencil on the white paper. The flower should be large and detailed.

3. Outline the flower in bold sharpie.

4. Paint the flower with watercolor paint.

5. Fill the negative space (background) with zentangle designs. The zentangle should be traced with a sharpie. 

5. space (background) with zentangle designs. The zentangle should be traced with a sharpie. 

Student Work...

Cubist Clover

What is Cubism?

Cubism is an art style that uses geometric shapes to depict

three-dimensional subjects on a flat canvas. 

Examples of Cubism…

Self Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1912

PABLO PICASSO 'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 

Cubist Clover Design

Materials: White paper, pencil, ruler, colored pencils,

markers, heart stencil

1. Draw four hearts connected in the center to create a clover.

2. Add a stem.

3.With a ruler, draw random straight lines through different parts

of the clover to create a “cubist” effect.

4. Use different colored green markers and colored pencils to

color in all of the sections of the clover, you may also use

analogous colors to green. 

5. Use a contrasting color scheme for all of the negative space

(the background). Color each section individually.

Plan out your colors.

Crayon Resist / Watercolor Holiday Ornaments

 

Vocab: overlap, wash, resist, highlight, balanced, shadow, composition  

Materials:

Paper, watercolors, paint brush, water, crayons, pencil, circle template

1. Complete a pencil drawing of holiday ornaments using circle templates,

overlapping circles. Include a highlight, top and hook on each ball.

Be creative with your design (the ornaments could be in a bowl, on a

table top, forming a wreath etc.) You can add to the design

(evergreen, holly, words, lights etc) Be Creative!

2. Trace over the drawing with a crayon. 

3. Watercolor each of the ornaments with bright colors.

Leave the highlight white on each one.

Do not paint wet by wet with the watercolors.

The crayon outline should resist the paint.

4. Finish painting all ornaments and the extras.

You may add details with the crayons, as well. Be creative!

Treasure Map Drawings

Materials: pencil, paper, ruler, sharpie, chromebook for ideas

Objective: Students will create a treasure map of an imaginary island.

Please draw in pencil and then outline with a sharpie.

The island can take on the contour of an object.

The map criteria is listed below. Have fun and be creative!

Include the following: 

A detailed border (outside edge), 

1 rose compass (N,S,E,W) 

4 land feature symbols, 

1 key for the symbols, 

2 landmarks, 

2 water symbols in the water, 

1 sea monster or 1 ship 

Use your chromebook to research ideas and pictures.

When you are finished drawing everything in pencil,

your map should be inked with a sharpie or markers.

You may use color (markers or colored pencils) on your map.

Student Examples...

 One Point Perspective Shapes Design

Objective: Students will learn how to draw one point perspective

shapes and create a design with perspective shapes.

One Point Perspective…a mathematical system for representing

three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional

surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically

and horizontally and that radiate from one point on a horizon line…

Example...‘Bedroom in arles’ by Vincent van Gogh – identifying perspective lines

Example...‘Bedroom in arles’ by Vincent van Gogh

Please watch a one point perspective demonstration…

Mrs. Miller's Demonstration for One Point Perspective Shapes

The demonstration drawing, finished…

Steps:

l. Draw a dot around the center of your paper.

2. Draw eight - ten shapes on the paper. Vary the sizes of

your shapes. Spread the shapes out, around the center dot.

3. With a ruler, draw lines from the corners of each shape to the dot.

4. Outline the final drawing with a sharpie or colored marker.

5. Color the shape a dark shade of color.

6. Color inside the drawn lines with a lighter shade of the same color. 

Add shading–darker toward the dot and lighter as you move closer to the shape.

One Point Perspective Shapes Design…

Op Art Warm Color / Cool Color Design

 Op Art Cool Color/Warm Color Design 

Materials: white paper, pencil, ruler, markers, colored pencils

Instructions: Mrs. Miller's Demonstration Design Demonstration

1) Using a ruler, locate the center of the page (corner to corner) - draw a dot with a pencil. 

2) Still using the pencil, draw 6-8 straight lines through the center. When finished, you should have an EVEN NUMBER of sections. (12, 14,16)

3) Still using the pencil, draw "happy face" curved lines in alternate sections. 

4) Using the pencil again, draw "sad face" curved lines in the leftover sections. 

5) Please Watch...Warm Colors / Cool Colors

Choose one warm color and one cool color. 

Warm Colors - Red, Orange, Yellow 

Cool Colors - Blue, Green, Violet 

6) Color in every other section with a warm colored marker, alternating every other one. (Example below, yellow marker in every other sad face section) 

Next, pick one cool color. Alternate sections by warm and cool. Please refer to the picture below. Purple for happy faces and red for sad faces. 

7) After every other section is filled in with marker, shade the leftover sections with the same color, colored pencil. Try to leave a highlight in the middle of each section. 

8) Outline with a Sharpie.