Jackie Barnett
2nd Grade
Art
Using Warm and Cool Colors Expressively
Standard: 2.3-Depict the illusion of depth (space) in a work of art, using
overlapping shapes, relative size, and placement within a picture
2.4-Create a painting or drawing using warm or cool colors expressively
Objective: To learn depth by using warm and cool colors. Closer objects will be
lower and larger. Warm and cool colors make the objects stand out.
Materials: White computer paper, projector (if available), color pencils, slightly
used sand paper.
Procedure:
1. Explain to the students what warm and cool colors are by telling them
that warm colors are the reds, oranges, browns, and yellows and that cool
colors are the greens, blues, and purples.
2. Explain to the students that the closer the object is the bigger it looks and
that the farther away an object is the smaller it looks.
3. Have students create two different pictures one using mostly warm colors
and the other one use mostly cool colors.
4. The warm picture will be a garden where they will use more warm colors in
the picture and less cool colors.
a. Tell the students when they are drawing their garden that they need
to make the closer objects bigger and the further away objects
smaller.
b. Using colored pencils, students could use cool colors for grass,
leaves and stems and warm colors will be used the rest of the time.
c. The students can put whatever they want in their garden as long as
it’s appropriate and use the warm colors however they want.
5. The cool picture will be a water scene.
a. The students can draw underwater sea life, a beach by the water,
or boats on the water. Tell the students to make the closer objects
bigger and the further away objects smaller.
b. This picture will be where the used sand paper comes in. The
students will place the sand paper under their computer paper
after they have drawn their picture and color the picture with the
colored pencils. Having the students color their picture over the
sand paper gives the picture a neat looking texture when it is
completed.
c. When the students are coloring they will be using mostly cool colors
in their picture by coloring the water, sky, and whatever plants the
draw in the picture.
d. The students will only use warm colors for fish, boats, sand, rocks,
and if they included the sun.
6. End the lesson by going over what they had just done by asking the
questions:
a. What did you notice about the warmer colors?
b. What did you notice about the cooler colors?
Evaluation:
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Did the students use more warm colors in the garden picture?
Did the students use more cool colors in the water picture?
Did the students make the closer objects bigger?
Did the students make the further away objects smaller?
Did the students use a limited amount of cool colors in the garden
picture?
6. Did the students use a limited amount of warm colors in the water
picture?
7. Did the students use the used sand paper in the water picture?