Unit Information
Grade Levels
For: 3rd Grade
Objective
What: Students will create a cubist inspired artwork.
What: The artwork will show memories of their childhood and where they come from.
What: The students will use oil pastels and watercolor paint to create the illustrations and then collage them into a final artwork.
Standards and Indicators
AR.300.70. - Develop the ability to discuss an artwork’s meaning
AR.300.35.b - Style
AR.300.25. - Discuss and identify the ways in which works of art express ideas about self, other people, places and event
Essential Vocabulary
Style, cubism, collage
Materials
Presentations, oil pastels, watercolor paint, pencils, paper
Resources
Introduction
This unit will allow students to reflect on where they come from and create an artwork that communicates ideas and experiences from this part of their identity.
Day 1
Introduce unit by looking at and discussing Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village.”
Complete Brainstorming worksheet.
Day 2-3
Students will draw their selected memories on separate sheets of paper. Eventually these will be cut and reassembled into a complete artwork.
They will initially be drawn in pencil.
Students may use the body shapes guides to help them draw different people that they might want to include.
Figures should not be too small as they will be traced over using oil pastels.
When a drawing is complete, cut out the section into an interesting shape.
Day 4
Trace over pencil lines with oil pastels. Patterns may be selectively added but the entire piece should not be colored in.
Day 5
Demonstrate use of watercolor paint.
Use watercolor paint to fill in the background spaces and areas not filled in with oil pastels. The watercolor will be repelled by the oil pastels so those lines will still show through.
Day 6
Assemble the pieces into a final composition.
Students may use paint and pastels to retouch their final piece.
Complete self-evaluation of grading rubric.