3rd Grade - Lesson 7 : Creating Attention with Scale and Size
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Description of Project
Students create a drawing with color wash, and direct the viewer’s eyes using size to exaggerate scale and emphasize one element of a work of art. (Teach in multiple sessions.)
Washington Masterworks
The Builders by Jacob Lawrence
Seascape with Figures by Nikolai Dubovskoi
Photos courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Art and the Frye Art Museum.
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.
- 2.3.a Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are a part of everyday life.
- 3.a Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
- 7.2.a Determine messages communicated by an image.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form and mood.
- 10.a Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.
Common Core ELA
- 3.W.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources.
- 3.SL.2. Determine the main idea and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively and orally form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Common Core Math
- 3.OA.C.7. Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division or properties of operations.