Hillcrest Intermediate Art Website

Lesson Info

5th Grade Lesson: Abstract Expressionism Monotyping	6th Grade Lesson: Landscape Silhouettes
Vocabulary: abstract expressionism action painting (Willem de Kooning) drip technique (Jackson Pollock) color field painting (Mark Rothko) hard-edge painting (Frank Stella) monotype	Vocabulary: analogous colors silhouettes positive space negative space organic shapes geometric shapes foreground, middle ground, background wet into wet (watercolor technique)

	Sixth graders were given the privledge of working with xacto knives. Safety was a main focus for working with these art tools as students cut out their landscape silhouettes out of black construction paper. They also painted skies with watercolors to go behind their silhouettes. Students used an analogous color scheme of their choice.

	Sixth grade students worked on drawing sketches of landscapes to be turned into silhouettes. They focused on placing objects on the horizon line. They learned about positive and negative space. They drew two sketches and labeled their positive and negative space.

	Sixth graders learned about analogous colors. They are two, three, or four colors next to each other on the color wheel. Each grade completed the worksheets pictured below. Fifth grade worked with colored paper, and sixth painted theirs. These methods go along with their next projects.

	6th graders reviewed the parts of a landscape. Here is a clear example showing the four main parts. These parts are the foreground, middle ground, background, and horizon line**.


**Both 5th and 6th grades are reviewing and learning about color. They completed a color wheel using only primary color paints. They also completed a written worksheet on color (6th) or fill in the blank (5th).
Color Wheel	Color Information Sheets

Open House Project: Gyotaku Fish Printing
Both 5th and 6th grades are working with Gyotaku fish printing for their first project. Make sure to check them out hanging throughout the school during Open House on September 13th and 15th.
Objectives (Students Will Be Able To): create multiple prints of a rubber fish know and use printing terminology understand the history behind Gyotaku fish printing understand the printmaking process design a print to be added to part of the class’s school of fish	Vocabulary: Gyotaku fish print (Japanese) Printmaking Print Burnishing Brayer Ink Print
History: Traditional form of Japanese printmaking. Dates to the mid-19th century. Form of 'nature printing' used by fishermen to record their catches. Used before the age of the camera. Still recognized as a form of art by both Japanese and Western cultures.




Gyotaku Fish Print Sketchbook Page-	*Sketchbook assignments are given in class and time is alloted for their completion. If a sketchbook assignment is not completed in class or a student is absent, they can look here under lesson info for what they need to complete to make up their work.*
Your sketchbook page should include the following: First Name Last Name and Room Number A traced outline of your fish print, cut it out leaving a little white space around the print. A fish print glued onto page. (If you were absent this day, draw the outline of a fish and use a washable marker to stamp your finger print inside of it until it's all filled in.) List 5 Facts about Gyotaku fish printing All vocabulary words (listed above) The Element of Art: Line "A line is a dot that went for a walk." Any other facts you would like to add that you learned from the lesson.	Here are examples of what your sketchbook page can look like. It doesn't have to look just like this, set it up in your own creative way.
If your fish print cannot fit on one page, you may put it on one side of your sketchbook page and the traced outline and line drawing on the other side.

Beginning of Year Review: Color and Color Mixing

A Color Mixing Game

Color In Motion

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