5th Grade - Lesson 3 : Color Dominance in Still Life
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Description of Project
Students create a still life making one object dominant through the use of color. (Teach in multiple sessions).
Washington Masterworks
Seeing by Karen Yurkovich
Rialto by Alfredo Arreguin
The Builders by Jacob Lawrence
Photos courtesy of 4Culture and the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Arts GLEs
- 1.1.a Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for artmaking.
- 1.2.a Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
- 2.1.a Experiment and develop artistic ideas and work.
- 3.a. Create artist statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.
- 7.1.a Compare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed. *10.a Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.
Common Core ELA
- 5.W.5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach. (Students engage in a parallel artistic process.)