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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

MINI LESSON: HENRI ROUSSEAU ART STATIONS & PAINTINGS

Henri Rousseau Art Stations & Paintings


Day One, Art Start

  1. Retrieve Sketchbook
  2. Find A writing utensil 
    • Examples:  pen, pencil, colored pencil
  3. Write Name and Hour on Blue Paper
  4. Read Blue Paper (Find Out about Henri Rousseau)

 Lesson Activities:

  1. Art Station Expectations
  2. Review the Different Art Stations 
  • I-Pad Station
  • Video Station
  • Henri Rousseau Research Station
  • Building a Landscape Station
  • Art Style Station
      3. Complete at least TWO Stations!

Exit Ticket: What did you learn about Henri Rousseau today?

Day Two, Art Start


1. Retrieve Sketchbook
2. Find a writing utensil
  • Examples: pen, pencil, colored pencil
 3.Retrieve Blue Paper  

Lesson Activities:

1. Review Art Station Expections
2. Review the Different Art Stations
  • I-Pad Station
  • Video Station
  • Henri Rousseau Research Station
  • Building a Landscape Station
  • Art Style Station
 3.Complete at least TWO Stations

Exit Ticket: What did you learn about Henri Rousseau today?
  • What did you learn about landscape paintings today?


Day Three, Art Start 

1. Retrieve your Sketchbook
2. Get out your reference materials
  • Examples: pictures, magazine clippings, smart device images

Lesson Activities:

1. Take out other reference material and cut out things you want to put on the landscape
  • Examples: animals, balloons, planes, plants
  • Four to Six Reference Pictures (sky; ground-base; animal or figure)
2. Photomontage Demonstration
3.Retrieve additional resources at different stations 
  • Example: pictures, magazines, devices  
4. Glue cut out images onto the photo resource image where you want them
5. Place photo resource image in your art journal

Day Four, Art Start

1. Retrieve your sketchbook
2. Retrieve photo resource image 
3. Pull out smart device 

Lesson Activities 

1. Finish cutting and gluing photomontage resources
2. Retrieve Ipad or Smart Device
3. Photo Editing Demonstration

  • Examples:contrast, brightness, saturation 
  • SAVE and EMAIL image to yourself 

Day Five, Art Start 

1. Retrieve Sketchbook
2. Retrieve Photo Resource Image

Lesson Activities

1.Landscape Painting: Format and Drawing Tips Video 
2. Use Tracing Paper to draw an outline of your landscape 

  • Practice drawing photo resource image in sketchbook
  • 4X - 4 boxes to edges 

3. Approval for painting resources and planning resources

  • Transfer sketches to canvas 
  • Use pencils provided when transferring

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