3rd Grade - Lesson 3 : Exaggerated Textures for Still Life
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Description of Project
Students observe and record the shapes and lines seen in still life objects and use exaggerated descriptive language. Students paint exaggerated surface textures and create a still life collage. (Teach in multiple sessions.)
Washington Masterworks
A Wooden Basket of Catawba Grapes by William Michael Harnett
Plums by Mary Kinkson
Seeing by Karen Yurkovich
Photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum and 4Culture.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Visual Art
- 1.1.a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
- 1.2.a Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies through art making.
- 2.1.a Create personally satisfying artwork, using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
- 2.2.a Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
- 3.a Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
- 7.1.a Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.
- 10.a Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.
Common Core ELA
- 3.SL.1.d. Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
- 3.L.1.g. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
- 3.L.5.b. Identify real-life connections between words and their use.