Lesson Title: surrealism collage grid drawing
Grade Level: 8th Grade
Standards:
2B.
3. Use a variety or sources to generate original ideas for art making.
4B.
3. Discuss personal beliefs, values, feelings, and assumptions when explaining their own
perspectives on artwork and connect their responses to what they see in their work.
1C
4. List sources of visual culture in society (TV, museums, malls, internet, theaters)
1D
6. Create a visual product that reflects current, cultural influences.
Essential Questions:
What is surrealism?
How do you collage?
How does a grid drawing work?
How do you use watercolors properly?
Content:
Surrealism
Gridding
Watercolor painting
Objectives:
1. Students will learn about surrealism and how to create a surreal image using collage
2. Students will learn about the grid method to drawing
3. Students will use and understand vocabulary as well as techniques when using
watercolors.
Vocabulary :
Surrealism: Dream like paintings that look real but are obviously thinks that couldn’t happen such as
Dali’s melting clocks.
Watercolor: a painting medium based on a transparent wash system of painting which uses the white
of the support, paper, as highlights. Sometimes opaque paint is appled for accents; however, the
essence of watercolor is transparency.
Cold Press: paper which is passed through a cold press druing the drying process. A medium
surface, slight tooth.
Tint: the addition of white
shade: the addition of black
resist: preserving the white of the paper or lightly tinted areas by adding a material which protects the
paper from further development during the painting process. rubber cement, liquid Frisket, alcohol,
salt.
Dry brush: created by painting with a brush with is damp with color. hard/fuzzy edges & lines created
by brush hairs.
Wet on wet: The application of wet paint to a wet surface. the result is soft fuzzy edges and bleeding
color
Wet on dry: a wet paint loaded brush applied to a dry surface. the end result is hard crisp controlled
edges and forms clearly defined.
Lesson Plan/ Activity/ strategies:
Instructional Strategies/Activities:
Students will be looking at surrealism and using the collage technique to create a surreal image. They
will do this on 4x6 paper. Student will then begin learning about grid drawings and hoe the grid
method works. They will be use 12x18 paper and will be gridding up from one inch squares on their
collage to 3 inch squares on their drawing paper. Once they have completed their drawing and
erased the grid lines students will begin to paint their images.
Accommodations/Differentiation:
Visual Learners: Demonstrations will be presented to students for all work that is to be
done. Visual examples of good work and bad work will be shown to students. Key parts
of lesson will be written or drawn on board, and remain there for the duration of the
lesson.
Oral Listeners: All directions will be told to students with repetition of key parts by
students recited back to me.
I will observe all students for other problems that may need assistance.
Assessment:
This Project will be a total of 200 pts.
50 pts – Collage
50 pts – grid drawing
10 pts – Clean up and care of materials
10 pts – Participation
50 pts – use of watercolor techniques
30 pts – Craftsmanship