WATERCOLOR RESIST SNOWFLAKES

Watercolor Resist Snowflakes

Learning Targets

I Can...

• Create a watercolor resist snowflakes using techniques learned in class
• Use cool colors (blue, green, purple), geometric shapes (rectangle, triangle, circle), and space (positive, negative)
• Use design principles (variation, proportion, contrast) and mathematical connections (symmetry, trigonometry, intersecting lines) to discuss American Photographer Wilson Alwyn
• Define Pattern (repeated decorative design)

Lesson One

Day One, Art Lesson

1. Wilson Bentley Quote "Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."

2. Read "Snowflake Bentley" by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
3. Discussion Questions "What is a snowflake? How can they inspire our art making? What makes snowflakes look like stars? Why do snowflakes have six points? How do snowflakes get their patterns? What two things can tell us what a snowflake looks like? Why does the book reference to snowflakes as crystals?"

Lesson Activities:

1. Use Colored Crayons to add five different six point snowflakes
2. Add Five Invisible Snowflakes around the four corners of the paper
3. Outline & Trace over the Ten Snowflakes four times

Reminder:

• Initials & Home Teacher on Back of Paper

Day Two, Art Start

1. Retrieve Watercolor Resist Snowflake for Assigned Table
2. World's Largest Snowflake 15" (January 1887) Fort Keogh, Montana
3. Pattern- is a repeated decorative design. How many different snowflakes do you think American Photographer Wilson Alwyn discovered in his life time?

Lesson Activities

1. Outline & Trace over the Ten Snowflakes four times
2. Use Cool Colors (green, blue, purple, pink) to fill in the background
3. Add sprinkled salt for a finished implied texture of "frost"

Day Three, Art Start

1. Retrieve Watercolor Resist Snowflake for Assigned Table
2. Set Up Studio Area (water bucket, paintbrush, paint palette)

Lesson Activities

1. Finish using Cool Colors (green, blue, purple, pink) to fill in the background
2. Finish adding sprinkled salt for a finished implied texture of "frost"
3. Outline & Trace Over any covered Watercolor Resist Snowflakes

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